J.P. Allen, Ph.D., Founding chair of the Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Department at the University of San Francisco
Professor J.P. Allen is a pioneering researcher and educator in the field of online/internet business, specializing in open technologies and the digital transformation of organizations and society. He is the author of Digital Entrepreneurship and Technology and Inequality: Concentrated Wealth in a Digital World.
As founding chair of the Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Department at the University of San Francisco, Dr. Allen pioneered the development of internet business classes, which guide non-technical management and entrepreneurship students through the process of creating their own online businesses, often using (free) open source technologies. He grew up in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and attended high school in Geneva, Switzerland and Athens, Greece. His first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 PC-1 Pocket Computer.
Geoff Desa, Ph.D., Professor of Management
Geoff Desa is a professor of management at the Lam Family College of Business. He is a member of the Sustainability Group within the Lam Family College of Business and teaches business and society, strategic management, and social entrepreneurship. Geoff's research examines resource mobilization and venture development in the technology and social entrepreneurship sector. He earned his Ph.D. in business from the University of Washington in Seattle with emphases in technology entrepreneurship, strategic management, and public affairs. Prior to that, Geoff worked at Novera Optics and at Hewlett Packard as an optical engineer. He earned his M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He is on the board of the Common Data Project, a technology social venture engaged in information technology privacy.
Doug Galen, Co-Founder and CEO, Rippleworks
Doug is Co-founder and CEO of Rippleworks and is focused on the needs of social ventures, providing the practical support entrepreneurs and their teams need to scale and improve more lives in the U.S. and around the world. Prior to Rippleworks, Doug built innovative and disruptive digital consumer startups including Shutterfly (SVP Business and Corporate Development), Shopkick (Chief Revenue Officer), eBay (VP and GM of New Ventures), and E-LOAN (part of founding team and VP Business Development). In addition to Rippleworks, Doug is a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and serves on the board of Heifer International.
Jen Gennai, Founder and Director of Responsible Innovation, Google
Jen Gennai founded, and now leads, Google’s Responsible Innovation team, which operationalizes Google’s AI Principles to ensure that Google’s products have fair and ethical outcomes on individuals and society broadly. Her team works with product and engineering teams, leveraging a multidisciplinary group of experts in ethics, human rights, user research, and racial justice to validate that outputs align with our commitments to fairness, privacy, safety, societal benefit, and accountability to people. Before she co-authored Google's AI Principles with a multi-disciplinary group of experts in 2017 and established the Responsible Innovation team in 2018, Jen led user research in Trust and Safety and founded the product fairness testing team. She has been in Google for 15 years.
Stefan Hoffmann, Ph.D., Director of the Institute of Business Administration, Professor of Marketing, and Co-Founder of Kiel Institute for Responsible Innovation, Kiel University
Stefan Hoffmann is Professor of Marketing at Kiel University (Germany) and he is co-founder of the Kiel Institute for Responsible Innovation (KIRI). He received a diploma in psychology from the University of Mannheim as well as a doctoral degree and a second promotion (habilitation) in business administration from the Technical University of Dresden. His research is founded in psychology and he is working with empirical methods. His main research interests are ethical, responsible, and sustainable consumption, digital marketing, and responsible innovation. He has published in several marketing journals, including the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Retailing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Service Research, and Journal of Consumer Psychology, as well as in journals about ethics and sustainability, such as the Journal of Business Ethics and Ecological Economics.
Melody Ivory, Founder of Thrivafy
Dr. Melody Ivory is the first Black woman to earn a computer science PhD from U.C. Berkeley and a former Google product manager and University of Washington professor. She is a scientist, poet, and passionate people champion with a Wharton MBA. Dr. Ivory believes that liberating the least among us elevates us all the most—and that is why she's committed to helping others achieve their highest potential in life, at work, and with tech. As someone who has battled ADD, imposter syndrome, alcoholism, perfectionism, and bias, she understands what it's like to feel like you can't succeed. And, she has overcome all of these challenges and more to become an influential voice on human, computer, and ethical technology today. After over 40 years in this industry, Dr. Ivory has become known as the Chief Thriving Warrior at Thrivafy™, the lifestyle technology and pending certified benefit company she founded. In her forthcoming book, "Why Tech Sucks," she shares her insights on how we can elevate tech wellness for everyone—and why it's so important that we do.
Zvika Krieger, Former Founder and Director of Responsible Innovation, Meta
Zvika Krieger was the first-ever Director of Responsible Innovation at Meta/Facebook, where he worked with product teams across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Whatsapp, Reality Labs, and more to help surface and address potential product harms and ensure responsible products. He currently works with industry-leading companies in social media, metaverse, gaming, enterprise/B2B, fintech, sharing economy, and venture capital/investing to develop Responsible Innovation strategies to effectively anticipate and mitigate potential harms in their products. He previously served on the Executive Committee of the World Economic Forum, where he launched Centres for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in 13 countries, working with governments, companies, and stakeholders from around the world to accelerate the adoption of new technologies in the global public interest. He has taught courses on design, technology, and policy at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and the Rhode Island School of Design. He formerly served as the U.S. Department of State's first-ever Representative to Silicon Valley, where worked with the technology and innovation sectors on tackling global challenges and planning for the international impacts of emerging technology, and created and led the State Department's innovation lab in Washington. He was previously a Senior Strategist in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where his portfolios included climate change, Middle East strategy, policy innovation, and emerging technology, and for which he received the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence. He contributed to the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review and was one of the lead authors of the Department's Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap. He began his career in the Pentagon as an advisor to then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. He previously served as Senior Vice President of the Center for Middle East Peace and created the "Is Peace Possible?" interactive website. Before joining government, Krieger spent almost a decade as a journalist, including as a foreign policy correspondent at The Atlantic, editor and writer at The New Republic, and Middle East correspondent for Newsweek based in Egypt and Lebanon and covering most of the Arab world. His work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Guardian, New York, and numerous other publications, and he has appeared as an analyst on NBC News, CNN, and Fox News.
Minu Kumar, Ph.D., Professor of Marketing and Founder-Director of the Responsible Innovation and Entrepreneurship (RI&E) Research Initiative
Minu Kumar is a Professor of Marketing at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and is the Founder-Director of the Responsible Innovation and Entrepreneurship (RI&E) Research Initiative. He also serves as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Product Innovation Management. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the Government College of Pharmacy (Bangalore University, 1996), a Master in Business Administration (Concentration in Pharmaceutical Marketing, 2002), and a Ph.D. in Marketing (minor: pharmaceutical marketing, 2008) from the University of Mississippi. His primary scholarly interest lies in the area of Innovation, New Product Design & Development, and Entrepreneurship. Professor Kumar has published in journals such as the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Psychology, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Product Innovation Management among others. His work has directly helped the university raise several millions of dollars for I&E programs. He has also worked for or consulted with firms such as Barilla, SAP, Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals, Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Schering Plough Pharmaceuticals, Medtronic, Glaxo Smithkline, among others on product design & development, sales, and marketing projects.
Ruby Lee, Ph.D., Professor and Director of International Programs, Florida State University
Dr. Ruby (Pui Wan) Lee is a professor in the Dr. Persis E. Rockwood School of Marketing at Florida State University’s College of Business. She also serves as the director of the college’s International Programs managing global student exchanges, faculty-led study aboard programs and the creation of international non-degree seeking student programs.
Over the past 10 years of her career, Lee has received numerous research awards from prestigious organizations such as the Marketing Science Institute, Penn State University's ISBM, and the American Marketing Association, and she has published her work in premier journals such as Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Decision Sciences, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of World Business and Journal of International Marketing, among others. Lee serves on multiple journal editorial boards, including the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of World Business, Journal of International Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management and among others.
Lee received her bachelor’s degree in social work from the University of Hong Kong and her master’s degree in marketing from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her Ph.D. is in marketing from Washington State University.
Chenwei Li, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Management and Associate Director of Engagement for the RI&E Research Initiative
Chenwei Li is the Associate Director of Engagement for the RI&E Research Initiative and is an Associate Professor of Management at the LFCoB. Previously, she served on the faculty of the Doermer School of Business at the Purdue University Fort Wayne for three years. Chenwei received her Ph.D. with a concentration in Organizational Behavior from the University of Alabama. Her primary research interests focus on leadership, employee voice and team creativity. Her work has been published in the management field’s premier journals such as the Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics, among others. Chenwei received the 2020 Ascendant Scholar Award from the Western Academy of Management. She has served as an ad-hoc reviewer for management journals such as Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Management and organization review etc. Chenwei teaches Leadership and Influence Skills as well as Human Resource Management courses for MBA and undergraduate programs. She has also led leadership training workshops for managers of different levels in various companies and cultural settings.
Phil Macnaghten, Ph.D., Professor of Technology and International Development, Wageningen University
Phil Macnaghten is Professor at the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation (KTI) Group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. His PhD is from Exeter and he has held appointments at Lancaster, Durham and Campinas before joining Wageningen in 2015. His research background is in science and technology studies (STS) and sociology. Over the last 10 years, he has published >30 peer-reviewed journal articles in journals such as Nature, Nature Energy, Research Policy, Science & Public Policy among others. With colleagues Richard Owen and Jack Stilgoe, Phil has been central to the conception, development, diffusion, and institutionalisation of the discourse of responsible innovation internationally, playing formative roles in the development of the UK research council EPSRC framework, in monitoring and evaluating its diffusion across research projects and programs, and in its development both in Brazil and mainland Europe. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Responsible Innovation and is the editor of the journal Plants, People, Planet.
Charles H. Noble, Ph.D., Jerry and Kay Henry Professor of Business, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Charles H. Noble (Ph.D., Arizona State University) is the Henry Distinguished Professor of Business and former Associate Dean for Research & Faculty in the Haslam College of Business at The University of Tennessee. In addition, he currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Product Innovation Management, the premier research journal in the areas of new product development and innovation. He is also a Research Faculty member with the Center for Services Leadership (Arizona State University) and an Advisory Board Member for the Snyder Innovation Management Center at Syracuse University. His research interests generally focus on front-end design and development processes as applied to both products and services. He has published in many leading journals, including the Journal of Marketing, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Sloan Management Review, and many others. He is on the editorial review boards of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the Journal of Product Innovation Management, and the Journal of Business Research. In his corporate life, Charles worked in strategic planning and corporate finance for leading retailers in the consumer electronics, home improvement, and warehouse club sectors.
Antoaneta (Toni) Petkova, Ph.D., Professor of Management
Antoaneta P. Petkova is a Professor of Management at San Francisco State University. She teaches senior-level strategy and entrepreneurship classes in the undergraduate and MBA programs. Dr. Petkova's research examines the processes of emergence and accumulation of organizational resources, such as reputation and legitimacy, which occur at the interface between institutions, organizations, and their stakeholders. Favorite research contexts include new and emerging markets, such as information technologies and clean energy. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Academy of Management, Organization Science, Journal of Management, among many others.
Carsten Schultz, Ph.D., Co-Founder of Kiel Institute for Responsible Innovation and Professor of Technology Management, Kiel University
Carsten Schultz is Professor for Technology Management at Kiel University since 2012. He is also a Co-Founder of the Kiel Institute for Responsible Innovation. From 2008 to 2011, he held the junior professorship for Management of Service Innovations and Technology Transfer endowed by Deutsche Telekom AG at the Technical University of Berlin. In 2004 - 2008 he headed the Siemens Center for Knowledge Interchange, the strategic partnership between Siemens and TU Berlin. He is committed to promoting knowledge and technology transfer as a member of the scientific board of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Kiel University, as a member of the supervisory board of the Kiel Science Center and as head of the Innovation Management sub-project of the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Schleswig-Holstein. Carsten Schultz is also member of the supervisory board of the University Medical Center Greifswald and a member of the scientific advisory board of the German Foundation for the Chronically Ill. He has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Health Policy, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, among many others. He is a member of the editorial review boards of the Journal of Product Innovation Management, the Journal Creativity Innovation Management and the Health Care Management Review. Carsten Schultz is the author of numerous publications in international journals and, among others, of the textbook Innovation Management (Hauschildt et al. 7th edition, 2022).
Ian Sinapuelas, Ph.D., Professor of Marketing and Associate Director of Research Programs for the RI&E Research Initiative
Ian Sinapuelas is the Associate Director of Research Programs for the RI&E Research Initiative and is a Professor of Marketing at the LFCoB. Ian was awarded a Ph.D. in marketing from Purdue University in May 2007. Professor Sinapuelas has published in journals such as the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Marketing, and Journal of Product and Brand Management among others. His teaching experience includes MBA-level marketing management at the German International Graduate School of Management and Administration in Hanover, Germany, as well as several business courses during his time at Purdue.
Jelena Spanjol, Ph.D., Head of Institute for Innovation Management, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Dr. Jelena Spanjol (PhD) is a Professor at the Munich School of Management, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, Germany, where she heads the Institute for Innovation Management (IIM).
Jelena's research pertains broadly to innovation motivations, capabilities, and behaviors among and at the intersection of organizations and customers/consumers. She is the Editor-in-Chief (with Charles Noble) at the Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM) and member of the editorial board of the Creativity and Innovation Management (CIM) journal.
Jelena’s research has been published in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Marketing Letters, Journal of Business Ethics, Creativity and Innovation Management, Health Psychology, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, and in various book chapters.