Dr. Jerome Engel

Executive Director, Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, University of California, Berkeley, United States

Jerome Engel joined the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 to found the Lester Center. He serves as both the Center's Executive Director and the Director of the Haas School's Entrepreneurship Program. He is responsible for the creation of an institution that coordinates all of the university's activities in the areas of entrepreneurship and innovation. Mr. Engel is an adjunct professor at the Haas School in Entrepreneurship and instructs in both the School's MBA and Executive Education programs specializing in Entrepreneurship, New Venture Finance, Corporate Innovation, Venture Capital and Private Equity.

Together with Prof. John Freeman, he developed the Venture Capital Executive Program (VCEP), which is taught through the Haas Center for Executive Development. He is also the faculty co-director of various exec ed programs based on VCEP.

Mr. Engel is also Co-Founder and General Partner of Monitor Ventures, LLC, a venture capital firm organized in collaboration with the Monitor Group, a global strategic consulting and private equity management firm founded by Prof. Michael Porter of Harvard.