Tom Cassel is the director of the Engineering Entrepreneurship Program in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Tom joined Penn’s faculty in 1999 following a 20-year career of entrepreneurial business leadership. He received a full professorship appointment in 2002.
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Jeffrey Babin is Practice Professor and Associate Director of the Engineering Entrepreneurship Program. Jeffrey has been a lecturer in Entrepreneurship for the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania since 1993.
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Brian Halak, Ph.D. has been creating, investing into, and leading early-stage life science companies for over 20 years. He recently joined the Engineering Entrepreneurship Program and will be teaching EAS 545 in the Fall 2021 semester.
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Vanessa Chan is an Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Speaker and Educator. She is a leading thinker in innovation and entrepreneurship where she thrives at the interface of technology and business. Her specialty is translating technology/product assets to meet unmet needs for B2B, B2C and DTC companies.
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Linda Kurth is an Entrepreneur, Engineer, Patent Attorney and Educator. Linda is a co-founder and general legal counsel of Xpeed Turbine Technology, LLC. She is a Lecturer in Penn's Engineering Entrepreneurship Program where she teaches Intellectual Property and Business Law for Engineering.
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Stuart Diamond is one of the world’s leading experts on negotiation. His book, Getting More, has sold more than 1.5 million copies in 27 languages. His more than 40,000 students have ranged from country leaders to school children and disciplines from sales to mergers and acquisitions, technology, law, medicine, politics, the arts, labor-management and virtually every other major discipline.
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