Brief bios of faculty teaching entrepreneurship courses.

Terry Baker is the Pricewaterhouse Coopers Associate Professor of Accountancy with the Wayne Calloway School of Business and Accountancy at Wake Forest University. Dr. Baker received his Ph.D. from Kentucky University. His teaching interests include Introductory and Intermediate Financial Accounting, Global Issues in Financial Reporting, and Entrepreneurial Accounting and Finance. His research interests include political influences on accounting standard and setting and overall quality of financial reporting to investors.

Bernadine Barnes has been teaching art history at WFU since 1989. She has also taught at American University in Washington, D.C. and at Syracuse University. Dr. Barnes received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. She is a specialist in Italian Renaissance art, particularly the art of Michelangelo. She has published many articles and books that focus on how Renaissance viewers responded to art. Her most recent book, to be published by Ashgate in 2008, deals with prints that copy Michelangelo’s work—how they were produced, sold, collected, and influenced people’s reaction to his work. She has also taught courses that focus on patronage and how important art centers like Florence, Venice, and Rome manage their artistic heritage. She will teach a course this fall entitled Artists Inventing Markets.

Lynn Book, Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance, Faculty Fellow in Creativity. Lynn Book is an innovative educator, internationally recognized performance artist and creativity consultant who recently relocated from New York City to Winston-Salem, North Carolina to accept a position as Faculty Fellow in Creativity for the Kauffman Initiative at Wake Forest University. She has contributed to the development of groundbreaking programs that foster innovations in new media in Chicago: The School of the Art Institute (1985-95), in New York City: The Sidney Kahn Kitchen Summer Institute (2000-05) and in Austria at the Transart Institute, Europe’s first low-residency MFA program for new media, where she continues as an associate since 2005. She has a BFA in sculpture and an MFA in performance art and media studies. Her performance career has included citations, fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and MacArthur Foundation. Her most recent projects include notes on desire, an evolving concert framework for a collection of voice/text compositions. Ms. Book premiered Running Skywards, a new interactive performance media project at Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in March 2007 and received the Archie Fund for Faculty Excellence at Wake Forest to support research for the project. Ms. Book founded Voicelab, an educational and cultural center, in New York City in 1999 through which she taught, coached and produced multifaceted events featuring innovative approaches to performance and new media. One of the programs she initiated included R & R (Release and Regenerate), an on-site service for internet and other small business start-ups in New York City. Ms. Book’s foray into the field of commercial voice work has included creative voice production for Steven Spielberg’s Men in Black. Lynn teaches Creativity and Innovation and Border Crossings: Creativity in the Mix and Margins.

Steven Boyd is the J. Allen Easley Professor of Religion, and Chair of the Department of Religion. Dr. Boyd received his Masters of Divinity and Doctorate from Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of several books including The Men We Long to Be: Beyond Lonely Warriors and Desperate Lovers (Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 1997.); The Men We Long to Be: From Domination to a New Christian Understanding of Manhood (New York: Harper San Francisco, 1995.); and Pilgram Marpeck: His Life and Social Theology (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, & Mainz, Germany: Philipp von Zabern Verlag, 1992.). His interests include the History of Christianity, Historical Theology, Early Modern and Modern European Christianity, and Gender, Race, Religion & Public Life. He teaches a course entitled Religion and Public Life that encourages students to use entrepreneurial principles to solve community problems.

Anne Boyle received her Ph.D. from Rochester. Her areas of interest include 19th and 20th Century American Literature, Composition, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing & Technology, and Women's Studies. Dr. Boyle received the Reid-Doyle Award for Excellence in Teaching from Wake Forest University in Spring 1989. She also received a NEH Grant for Postdoctoral Studies in Modernism and Afro-American Literature in 1985. Dr. Boyle taught Women Entrepreneurs in Literature and Life.

 John Ceneviva -- Mr. Ceneviva joined The University Center for Entrepreneurship in 2009 where he will be responsible for implementing many of the Center’s programs designed to foster entrepreneurial thinking and action among students from all academic disciplines. He also guides independent studies (ESE 391), internships (ESE 350) and provides ongoing mentoring for our many student entrepreneurs.
Mr. Ceneviva is a marketing and sales executive with over 30 years experience with leading packaged goods companies such as Johnson and Johnson and Sara Lee Branded Apparel (currently HanesBrands).  At Sara Lee, Mr.Ceneviva held numerous executive positions including the Senior Vice President of Marketing  for the $3.0 Billion Hanes and Hanes Her Way, the Corporation’s largest  brand asset. Mr. Ceneviva is currently an associate with Piazza Investment Holdings LLC, a firm with the mission of identifying and developing new business ventures that utilize innovative, proprietary technology to create breakthrough consumer products. He is also a partner with Piedmont Web Solutions, a firm focused on creating and managing eCommerce platforms for companies looking to develop a profitable direct to consumer distribution channel.  Mr. Ceneviva has a BA in Economics from Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia and an MBA from the University of North Carolina.
 
Tom Clarkson. Currently, Mr. Clarkson is an Adjunct Professor and Director of the New Venture Incubator at the Wake Forest University Babcock School of Management. Previously, he was CEO of Otothera (a medical device company startup in the hearing area) and VP Marketing/Business Development at startup Kalon Semiconductor (an ultrawideband wireless semiconductor new venture). Before that, Mr. Clarkson was VP Marketing at Coradiant, an early stage manufacturer of real user monitoring equipment for data centers. Prior to those positions, he participated in Strategic Planning in the Intel Wireless Networking Group (WNG) responsible for planning in the 802.11 Wi-Fi and 802.16 WiMax markets. While at Intel, Mr. Clarkson was also responsible for 802.11 external marketing at the division level, third party business development, GM for an internal startup in the consumer electronics area, and director of marketing for the Network Equipment Division. Before being acquired by Intel, he was VP Marketing at startup IPivot. Prior to IPivot, Mr. Clarkson was founder and VP Marketing of joint venture between Microsoft and QUALCOMM (Wireless Knowledge), VP Business Development for Wireless Data and VP Marketing/Sales for Eudora at QUALCOMM. Prior to QUALLCOM, he was VP Multimedia Marketing at Brooktree and was founder and Chairman of Graphic Software Systems (GSS) in Portland Oregon. Mr. Clarkson has also been a software engineer at Tektronix and was for a time lead programmer on the Galileo Command and Data subsystem at JPL. He has a BA in Physics from Wake Forest University, and a MS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Clarkson teaches ESE115 New Venture Planning.

Bill Conner, Ph.D. Dr. Bill Conner is a Professor in the Department of Biology where he teaches an introductory course in Comparative Physiology and upper-level courses in Animal Behavior and Insect Biology. He has also taught seminars entitled Life's Devices, Environmental Leadership and Ethics, Biological Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Biomimetics: Nature's Way. His research interests include Chemical Ecology, Insect Chemical Communication, Insect Acoustic Communication, and Bat-Moth Interactions. He is interested in entrepreneurship because he believes that innovations are frequently made at the interfaces of disciplines where new paradigms can lead to discovery. He and his students are currently funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society.

Jan Detter has worked in the field of visual arts for over 30 years. She received her BFA at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Design. She has worked as an artist in residence, an executive director of two different visual arts organizations, owned a design gallery for 7 years, and founded an annual fundraising event 13 years ago for a local non-profit that raises over $50,000 per year. She is a self -employed visual artist and arts/design consultant. She also teaches as an adjunct at Wake Forest University Divinity School on issues related to art and spirituality. She recently collaborated with the sculptor, Dempsy Calhoun, on a large sculpture that will commemorate Habitat's 20th anniversary in Forsyth County. This native of Catawba County, North Carolina, loves gardening, reading, and collecting art. Ms. Detter teaches Creativity and Innovation (ESE100).

Jonathan Duchac is the Merrill Lynch and Co. Professor of Accounting and Diretor of the Program in Enterprise Risk Management at Wake Forest University. He holds a joint appointment at the prestigious Vienna University of Business and Economics in
Vienna, Austria. Dr. Duchac earned his Ph.D. in accounting from the University of
Georgia and currently teaches intermediate and advanced courses in financial accounting and risk management. He has received a number of awards during his career, including he Wake Forest University Outstanding Graduate Professor Award, the T.B. Rose Award for Instructional Innovation, the University of Georgia Outstanding Teaching Assistant award, and was recently awarded the 2008 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Business at the Vienna University of Business and Economics.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Duchac is actively involved in the business community. He is currently a retained speaker by the Certified Financial Analyst Institute, where he is invited to speak around the world on financial accounting and risk management issues. Dr. Duchac has served as Accounting Advisor to Merrill Lynch Equity Research, where he worked with research analysts in reviewing and evaluating the financial reporting practices of public companies. He has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and the Securities and Exchange Commission on a variety of financial accounting topics, and has worked with a number of major public companies on financial reporting, risk management, and accounting policy issues. In addition to his professional interests, Dr. Duchac is Treasurer of The Special Children's School of Winston-Salem, a private, nonprofit developmental day school serving children with special needs.  Dr. Duchac teaches Renewable Energy Entrepreneurship (ESE335).

David Finn has worked as a artist for thirty years and has had over 16 solo exhibitions of his sculpture, including shows in New York, London, Milan, Hong Kong and Sweden. The recipient of Fellowship grants from New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and most recently, the North Carolina Arts Council, Finn’s interests include stone and metalworking, organizational theory, creative thinking, and industrial design. Finn has taught art, creativity, and sculpture at Wake Forest University since 1995. He collaborated with students on two recent public art projects in Winston-Salem: a handicap accessible chess table and a 25 foot tall steel and ceramic ‘Diggs Tower’ at the Diggs Magnet School for the Visual and Performing Arts. David Finn teaches Creativity and Innovation (ESE100).

Daniel S. Fogel received his B.S. and M.A. from the Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He has held academic positions at the University of Houston, Tulane University, and the University of Pittsburgh and has been a senior manager at two oil companies and a hospital system. His international research and teaching had been conducted in several different countries in South America, Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. He was Dean of the International Management Center, Budapest, Hungary; Dean for the Czech Management Center in Prague, Czech Republic, and Associate Dean at the University of Pittsburgh and Tulane University. He was Professor of Business Administration and Director of the Institute for Industrial Competitiveness at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. He was Associate Dean Working Professional Programs and is currently Executive Professor of Strategy at the Wake Forest University Schools of Business.

Dr. Fogel's research and teaching areas are in international business and strategy including strategy development in firms in emerging and transition economies and innovation for large organizations. His current focus is on how organizations adopt sustainability practices and principles as part of their core strategies. He has published in behavioral studies, education, health care, psychology, sociology, economics, and management journals, and has written several book chapters, books, cases and popular press articles. His books include Managing in Emerging Market Economies (Westview) and Firm Behavior in Emerging Market Economies (Avebury). He teaches Renewable Energy Entrepreneurship (ESE335).

Bob Fly is an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Calloway School of Business and Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University. He currently teaches three classes – Intro to Marketing, Marketing Communications and New Product Introductions. Mr. Fly received his M.A. Degree in Communication Theory from Michigan State University, and B.B.A Degree from Texas Tech University. Mr. Fly is a partner in the Fly/Fisher Marketing Consulting Firm working with various clients on general marketing and new product introductions. He previously held positions at Long Haymes & Carr Advertising (now Mullen Advertising) as Partner, President, and COO. Professor Fly teaches Marketing for Entrepreneurs (ESE111).

Elizabeth Gatewood. Dr. Gatewood leads Wake Forest's efforts to instill entrepreneurial thinking and action across campus. Previously, she was the Jack M. Gill Chair of Entrepreneurship and Director of The Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Indiana University. Prior to her role at Indiana University, Dr. Gatewood was the Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Small Business Development Center Network, an organization providing training and consulting services to entrepreneurs and small business owners in the greater Houston region. Dr. Gatewood also founded and served as director of the Center for Business and Economic Studies at the University of Georgia. Entrepreneur magazine recently named Dr. Gatewood one of the top ten entrepreneurship center directors in the country. She has written more than 70 articles, book chapters and monographs on entrepreneurial processes, women entrepreneurs and economic development. She is also a past recipient of the Academy of Management's Advocate Award for outstanding contributions to the field of entrepreneurship. Dr. Gatewood is a member of the Diana project, a research study of women business owners and equity capital access. In 2007, the Diana project members won the FSF-NUTEK Award, a prestigious international award given annually in recognition of outstanding entrepreneurship and small business research. Dr. Gatewood is a graduate of Purdue University where she earned a bachelor's degree in psychology. She received her masters in business administration and her doctorate from the University of Georgia.

Jennifer Gentry is a Wake Forest University alumna with a BA, Honors in Art. She has also studied in Florence, Italy and at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art. Jennifer holds a Masters in Arts from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in medical and biological illustration. In 1999, Jennifer began designing external breast prosthetics with Coloplast/Amoena in Atlanta, GA, developing a paradigm for soft tissue customized prosthetics. Her company Gentry Visualization, founded in 2002, is an illustration and design firm specializing in the visual presentation of medical, scientific, and technical subjects. Jennifer Gentry taught Creativity and Innovation (ESE100).

J. Daniel Hammond, is the Hultquist Family Professor of the Department of Economics at Wake Forest University. Dr. Hammond is presently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, and he is on the Advisory Board of the History of Economics Working Paper Series. Dr. Hammond received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1979. He is the author and/or co-author of numerous books, articles, and book reviews. Dr. Hammond has been teaching at Wake Forest University since 1978. Dr. Hammond teaches Entrepreneurship in Commerce, Philanthropy, and Politics.

M. Scott Jackson is an adjunct faculty in the Entrepreneurship & Liberal Arts Department at Wake Forest University. He teaches the foundational entrepreneurship course and his research interests include the relationship between social institutions and the entrepreneurial ecology, the arts/experience economy, sustainable development and international relations. He graduated from George Mason University’s School of Public Policy with a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (2008), holds an MPA from Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Comparative International Affairs and Economic Development (2003), and a BS in Chemistry from the University of Evansville (1987). Dr. Jackson has worked in international business and regulatory affairs for Eli Lilly and Company, in city planning consulting for Development Concepts Incorporated and in environmental testing for Waste Management Incorporated.

A. Daniel Johnson is Lecturer in Biology and Core Curriculum Coordinator. Dr. Johnson received his B.S. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (1985) and Ph.D. from Wake Forest University (1992). He received Research Fellowships from Texas Heart Institute (1993-1995); and University of Virginia (1995-1998). Areas of interest include Cell Biology of Blood Vessels, Cell Death Control, and Stress Proteins. Dr. Johnson taught Building a Better Biology Textbook: The Accessible Textbook Project.

Charles H. Kennedy has been in the Department of Political Science at Wake Forest University since 1985. Previously he taught at Duke University and Bowdoin College. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1979. He also holds a Masters in Public Policy from Duke. Professor Kennedy has written about South Asian comparative political and governmental systems since 1975 and has conducted field research in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. He served as the Director of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies from 1988-2001; and was the institute’s Secretary from 1982-1988. He has written or edited eleven books, which deal with South Asia. His most recent include: Pakistan: 2005 (Oxford University Press, 2006); Pakistan at the Millennium (Oxford University Press, 2003), and Government and Politics in South Asia 5th edition (Westview Press, 2002). Professor Kennedy also has a long-standing teaching interest in the issues of political Islam, and in US foreign policy with respect to the Middle East and South Asia. During his career he has been the recipient of three Senior Fulbright Research awards. He is a member of the Kashmir Studies Group. Dr. Kennedy taught Professional Baseball: The Entrepreneurial Globalization of a National Past Time.

Benjamin T. King, Jr. Ben King’s 18-year career in private industry included general management, sales and marketing, business venturing and strategy, supply chain management, and human resources responsibilities. Most recently, he served in executive positions for York International, a global Fortune 500 manufacturer of heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration units. These executive assignments included Vice President of the Aftermarket Group and Vice President of Human Resources as well as serving as Executive Champion for York’s Diversity Council.

He also served as Chairman of the State Board of Community Colleges for the Commonwealth of Virginia, a 23 college system with 225,000 students. In 1994, as a member of the Citizen’s Empowerment Commission, he worked to radically improve Virginia’s welfare system. He served Oklahoma Governors Frank Keating and Brad Henry as a member of the Governor’s Business Advisory Roundtable.

Currently, Ben King teaches at Wake Forest University. His areas of teaching include entrepreneurship, management, and negotiations. He holds an MBA with Distinction from Wake Forest University and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Virginia. Ben teaches two courses in the Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise minor, Foundations of Entrepreneurship and New Venture Planning.

Troy Knauss, fund executive for the Piedmont Angel Network (“PAN”), a committed capital angel fund with $10 million under management and located in Greensboro, North Carolina, has over 15 years of experience in family and start-up businesses. Troy's current involvement with PAN focuses on angel investments in high-growth, high-technology seed and early-stage firms with deal sizes between $500,000 and $2.5 million. In addition to the fund activities, Troy is an exited entrepreneur and an active angel investor in emerging technologies. In 2007, Troy was named one of the Triad’s Impact Entrepreneurs by Business Leader magazine. He is an active international speaker on angel investing and is a faculty member for the North Carolina Small Business and Technology Development Center’s Investor-Ready Entrepreneur seminar series.

Troy holds an undergraduate degree in business administration from Susquehanna University and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Wake Forest University. Troy will teach Financial Knowledge for Entrepreneurs in Fall 2008.

Dilip Kondepudi is Thurman D. Kitchin Professor of Chemistry. His doctoral work in non-equilibrium thermodynamics was done under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine. During the last two decades, his research has focused on the highly interdisciplinary field of left-right asymmetry in nature. His research has been published in prestigious journals such as Nature and Science as well as major journals in chemistry and physics. He is a reviewer for over 20 scientific journals in physics, chemistry and engineering and is on the editorial board of the journal, Chirality. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Belgium, Japan and France. His text, Modern Thermodynamics, which he coauthored with Ilya Prigogine, has been published in 5 languages other than English and is currently used in over 20 countries. At Wake Forest University, he has taught courses in general chemistry, physical chemistry and physics and chemistry of the environment. His growing interest in sustainable economies and the elimination of global poverty has drawn him to teaching courses that encourage creativity and entrepreneurship. Dr. Kondepudi will teach Values and Environmental Sustainability Entrepreneurship.

Raymond E. Kuhn is William Louis Poteat Professor of Biology. His area of interest is the immunobiology of host-parasite relationships. For the past fifteen years he has concentrated his research efforts on experimental cysticercosis, a disease that affects large numbers of people in Third World Countries. Most recently, Dr. Kuhn has begun studies to examine the immunology of chytridiomycosis. Chytridiomycosis is caused by an unusual fungus that infects frogs and salamanders and is the cause for the global decline and extinctions of amphibians. Dr. Kuhn teaches Immunology and Cell Biology as well as a first-year seminar entitled "The Black Box in Biology and Medicine." He is interested in entrepreneurship because he sees this enterprise as allowing an expansion of creativity and learning for students. He is scientific advisor to a student-initiated biotech company and is advising a student interested in starting a company producing innovative and educational books for young children. Dr. Kuhn taught Starting a Biotech Company.

Jed C. Macosko is an assistant professor of biophysics at Wake Forest University. He graduated from MIT in chemistry with the Merck award for outstanding scholarship and earned a Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 for his work on the molecular machinery of influenza, HIV, and nerve cells. As a graduate student he developed new techniques to functionalize proteins and nucleic acids. From 2000 to 2002 his research on molecular machinery continued as an NIH postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Carlos J. Bustamante and then as an adjunct assistant professor working with David J. Keller at the University of New Mexico in 2003 and 2004. During this postdoctoral work, his skills in protein/DNA expression and modification allowed AFM and single molecule TIRF studies of HIV reverse transcriptase to be successful. Since August of 2004 the Macosko Lab at Wake Forest has used fluorescence and motion enhanced differential interference contrast (MEDIC) microscopy to study cellular transport machinery in living cells and in vitro, and has used standard chemical and molecular biology methods to developing enabling bead technologies for aptamer and small molecule selection. Macosko was a salaried consultant for Burstein Technologies, Inc. leading their bead-based HIV diagnostic project, and continues to use his AFM imaging and surface modification expertise to consult for Apieron Inc. as they develop a protein embedded sol-gel for monitoring nitric oxide in the management of asthma. Dr. Macosko teaches Harnessing Life’s Molecular Machines: From AIDS Tests to Hydrogen Cars, a course that encourages students to look at the molecular level of cells for new product and process ideas that can be developed into entrepreneurial ventures.

Mary Martin Niepold received her BA from Wake Forest University and is currently a visiting instructor for the department of English/Journalism. Ms. Niepold is also a free-lance writer for several publications including The Associated Press, Copley News Service, Winston-Salem Journal, and Theater Critic. She teaches Writing For a Purpose, a course that uses writing as a means to further social entrepreneurship.

Herman Rapaport is Reynolds Professor of English and began teaching at Wake Forest University in the winter of 2006. Prior to that he was chair professor of English at the University of Southampton in the UK, De Roy professor of English at Wayne State University, and Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of Iowa. His main field of specialization is critical theory, and he has written books in a number of areas: Renaissance studies, psychoanalysis and literature, aesthetics, philosophy, and critical theory. His most recent book is Later Derrida: Reading the Later Work (Routledge), which appeared just before the philosopher Jacques Derrida's death in 2004. Professor Rapaport has often worked in numerous interdisciplinary contexts. In England he headed a project on reinventing the university which brought researchers from a number of different areas into collaboration in both the UK and USA. At the University of Iowa he co-taught courses with faculty in multimedia and music, and here at Wake Forest University he will be teaching an honors course on performance art with Lynn Book in the Theatre Department. He will also be teaching a team taught course focused on environment and entrepreneurship with Dilip Kondepudi and Akbar Salam of the Dept. of Chemistry.

Jeanne Simonelli (Ph.D., U. Oklahoma), an applied cultural anthropologist, is professor and chair of Anthropology at Wake Forest University. Her anthropological field experiences are united by the broad theme of change and choice in difficult situations. She works in areas of economic development and conflict resolution in Chiapas, Mexico and was 2005 Forchheimer Visiting professor at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace in Jerusalem. Dr. Simonelli uses an applied service component in classes and is interested in having students bring an anthropological perspective into the local community. Her principal publications include Uprising of Hope: Sharing the Zapatista Journey to Alternative Development (2005); Crossing Between Worlds: The Navajos of Canyon de Chelly (1997); Too Wet To Plow: The Family Farm in Transition (1992); and Two Boys, A Girl, and Enough! (1986). At Wake Forest, she directs the Southwest Summer Program, and is co-director of the University of Texas-El Paso/Wake Forest Chiapas Project. Dr. Simonelli teaches Free Trade, Fair Trade: The Independent Entrepreneur in the Global Market.

Cynthia J. Skaar received her B.A. in Journalism; a B.S. in Food Science and Nutrition from the University of Minnesota; and her Masters in Business Administration from the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University. Ms. Skaar is a senior executive with thirty years of management experience ranging from service companies to manufacturing environments, start-ups to mature businesses and small not-for-profit organizations to large corporate divisions. Her experience spans many brands and categories including Pillsbury packaged goods, L’eggs and Hanes pantyhose, Nautilus exercise equipment, Camel cigarettes, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and the Forsyth Humane Society. Currently she owns and operates a management consulting business, which she established in 1997. Her research interests include entrepreneurship and social enterprise management. Ms. Skaar’s teaching experience includes Database Marketing (Babcock Graduate School); Introduction to Business; Social Entrepreneurship; Foundations of Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise Management Seminar for Institute for Civic Engagement (Summer Session).

Ian Taplin. After spending a year studying art and architecture at Oxford College of Architecture, Professor Taplin went to the University of York (England) where he received his B.A. in sociology. He did postgraduate studies at the University of Leicester (M.Phil., 1976) and Brown University (Ph.D., 1986). He joined the Wake Forest sociology faculty in 1985. His current teaching interests include: Business and Society, Sociology of Work and Industry; Economic Sociology, and International Business. Dr. Taplin is the author of articles on the European and North American clothing industries and U.S. labour relations. His recent book [Understanding Organizational Evolution, Quorum Books/Greenwood Press, 2002] examines the link between managerial behaviour and organizational change as firms evolve. He is also engaged in research on restructuring, new technology and changing work practices in the U.S. clothing industry; and the recent rapid growth of wineries in North Carolina. He has held visiting appointments at the University of California-Irvine, ESC Toulouse and (currently) Bordeaux Business School. He holds a joint appointment in International Studies and is Research Associate at Babcock Graduate School of Management and is the North American Editor of the Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management. Dr. Taplin has taught Entrepreneurship from a Sociological Perspective.

J. Bren Varner is the Program Director of the University Center for Entrepreneurship where he manages the co-curricular initiatives for the Wake Forest entrepreneurship program. He advises students and student groups looking to further explore the field of entrepreneurship and start new ventures. Mr. Varner is also an adjunct faculty member in the Wayne Calloway School of Business and Accountancy, where he teaches classes in entrepreneurship and business communication. Prior to coming to Wake Forest, Mr. Varner worked with numerous entrepreneurial ventures and has provided merger and acquisition advisory services for companies in the software and IT industries. Mr. Varner received his bachelor's degree in business from Wake Forest University and his master's degree in business administration from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He teaches Foundations of Entrepreneurship, New Venture Planning, Financial Knowledge for Entrepreneurs, and Venture Capital: from the Entrepreneur's Perspective.

Emily Wakild earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Arizona in 2007. Her research interests include the social history of Latin America, the history of modern development, and environmental issues as they relate to inequality. She is currently writing a history of the creation of Mexico's national parks during the 1930s. She has recently published an article, "Naturalizing Modernity: Urban Parks, Public Gardens, and Drainage Projects in Porfirian Mexico City" in /Estudios Mexicanos/Mexican Studies. Professor Wakild's interest in environmental and economic issues led her to develop a first year seminar on issues in development and to design an upper-division history course on global environmental history. Professor Wakild will teach a first year seminar entitled “The Dirt on Development: Entrepreneurial and Environmental Approaches to Solving the World’s Problems in the fall 2008.

Page West is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at Wake Forest University's Wayne Calloway School of Business and Accountancy. Dr. West earned a B.A. in Economics at Hamilton College, MBA at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth, and a Ph.D. in Strategic Management at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He has taught entrepreneurship and strategy in both the undergraduate and graduate business degree programs. His research focuses on top management teams and the evolution of strategy in new ventures and small firms competing in rapidly-changing industries. He has published articles dealing with strategy and new ventures, appearing in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research and International Journal of Organizational Analysis.
During 2003 Dr. West organized and led a cross-campus team of faculty in the development of a major grant proposal to embed a culture of entrepreneurship at Wake Forest University. Focused on enhancing liberal arts educational goals by applying principles and perspectives from the field of entrepreneurship, the $2.2 million proposal was funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Dr. West spent 15 years in industry in new business development. He managed new product development for a division of General Mills Inc. and for Celestial Seasonings Herb Tea Company. He started up a food manufacturing company, raised venture capital and expanded the business to a national scale. He has consulted with and advised a number of companies on strategy and new business development issues, including Westinghouse, Alex Lee, and several entrepreneurial firms. Dr. West teaches Entrepreneurship in the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy.

Robert Whaples is professor and chair of the Economics Department. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1983 with B.A.'s in Economics and History, and earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. Dr. Whaples won the Allen Nevins Prize from the Economic History Association for his dissertation, "The Shortening of the American Work Week: An Economic and Historical Analysis.” He is the Director of EH.NET, which runs a website dedicated to making economic and business history accessible to the public – at www.eh.net - and edits EH.NET's online Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History. His course Modern Economic Issues, which includes 36 thirty-minute lectures, is available on CD and DVD from The Teaching Company. He will teach a First Year seminar entitled Entrepreneurs in American History.

Ulrike Wiethaus received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies at Temple University and is the author of numerous articles and books on medieval Christian mysticism, including Ecstatic Transformation (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995), Maps of Flesh and Light (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1993) and Dear Sister (coedited with Karen Cherewatuk, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993). Professor Wiethaus combines her interest in women’s spirituality with cross-cultural and interdisciplinary work on the arts, film, and cultural representations of the sacred. Her interest in Native American culture and economic development led her to teach American Indian Communities in Urban America: Toward Cultural and Economic Well Being through Entrepreneurship and Interdisciplinary Seminar in Cultural Diversity and Social Entrepreneurship.

John Wigodsky is an Adjunct Professor at the Babcock Graduate School of Management and the Entrepreneurship & Liberal Arts Department at Wake Forest University. He teaches New Product Introductions and works with undergraduates doing independent studies. Mr. Wigodsky received a M.S. Degree in Management from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management and a B.A. degree from Duke University. Mr. Wigodsky worked for 30+ years in executive, sales and marketing positions at several apparel companies including Fruit of the Loom and Hanes. Currently, he is working with two start up companies, Cleantechnics International and World Wide Notary.

Yue-Ling Wong received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992. Her specific interests encompass entertainment computing, interactive multimedia and science education. She is interested in investigating mathematical descriptions of human motion and expression which can be applied to 3D animation. She is also interested in interactive multimedia and stereoscopic viewing and their application to learning, computer games, and to live performance, such as dance. Digital media is a new and interdisciplinary subject. Her collaboration with a dance company in two dance performances has allowed her to experiment with stereoscopic animation and interactive multimedia in live performance. Dr. Wong teaches Games and Dreamers: The Rise of the Computer Game Culture.