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Faculty
Sponsor
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Tina L. Seelig,
Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Tina Seelig
is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program
(STVP), the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of
Engineering. STVP is dedicated to accelerating high-technology
entrepreneurship education and creating scholarly research on
technology-based firms. STVP provides students from all majors with the
entrepreneurial skills needed to use innovations to solve major world
problems.
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Guest
Lecturers
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Tom
Byers.
Professor
Tom
Byers’
expertise
is on technology and high-growth entrepreneurship.
He is founder and a faculty co-director of the Stanford Technology
Ventures Program (STVP). He is also the chairman of the Committee for
Undergraduate Standards and Policies (C-USP) and deputy chair of the
Management Science and Engineering department. |
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Igor
Shoifot.
Igor Shoifot is the CEO at Shoifot.com. He was most recently a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of world’s largest independent photo site, Fotki.com, used by millions of customers to store billions of photos and videos. He was CEO of Microsoft WebTV’s largest site, Epsylon Games and founded start-ups in VOD, VoIP, biotech and document management, published articles and interviews at The Wall Street Journal, Venture Beat, San Francisco Examiner and other publications. Currently, he is working on the book “101 Viral Growth Tools” and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on viral marketing, communications and entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley, and previously taught at New York University for many years. He holds PhD, MBA, MA and BA degrees. |
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Alexandra
Johnson.
Alexandra
Johnson
is
a
Managing Director of DFJ VTB Aurora. She currently works
in the Silicon Valley where she focuses on early stage companies in
communications, media, and technology industries headquartered both
inside and outside of Russia. |
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JD
Schramm.
JD Schramm joined the GSB faculty in the fall of 2007 to create and
launch communication courses as part of the new GSB curriculum. In 2009
he led the development and launch of the Mastery in Communication
Initiative to help GSB students at all levels of expertise improve
their mastery of speaking and writing. He leads a team of writing
specialists who serve as coaches to the first year MBA students taking
the required Critical Analytical Thinking (CAT) course. He teaches
courses in Political Communication, Strategic Communication, Executive
Communication (Sloan only), and Communication Strategies for Scholars
(PhD only).
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Stephen
Ciesinski.
Prof.
Ciesinski
is
a
corporate officer with SRI International, as well as
Vice President of Strategic Business Development. He has responsibility
for SRI's commercial business development, international operations,
innovation programs, corporate energy and industrial sector
initiatives, strategic marketing and other corporate programs. His
professional experience includes: consumer products, semiconductor
capital equipment, telecommunications, mobile/wireless, applications
software, Web 2.0, open source, medical devices, and many others. |
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| Konstantin Bochkarev.
Konstantin Bochkarev
was
previously
a practicing intellectual property attorney in
Moscow at Lovells' Moscow office. His inspiration in coming to
study at Stanford Law School is to return to Russia to help build the
emerging Intellectual Property system. He maintains a great deal of
expertise in Russian intellectual property law. |
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