Presenter

KENNETH P. MORSE

Managing Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Chair in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Competitiveness, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands
Serial Entrepreneur

Ken Morse is a serial entrepreneur, having played a key role in launching several high-tech start-ups, including 3Com Corporation, Aspen Technology, an expert systems company, and a biotech firm. As head of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, he is responsible for inspiring, training, and coaching new generations of entrepreneurs from all parts of MIT. Ken has been profiled and quoted in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Economist, and Red Herring.

Since Ken joined the MIT Entrepreneurship Center in 1996, the number of students taking Entrepreneurship Courses has increased from 220 to 1,500 per year while the number of professors and lecturers has grown from two to thirty. He serves as an advisor to several VGF around the world and he has been an instructor in sales at the Munich Entrepreneur Academy for several years and has taught a global sales strategies workshop in several European cities. He is a co-founder of the Corporate Venturing Consortium (CVC) which includes Danfoss, Hewlett-Packard, IHI, Intel, Motorola, and others.