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Bruce Barringer
Bruce is an Associate Professor at UCF, with a doctorate from the University of Missouri.  His research interests include corporate entrepreneurship, firm growth, and business alliances. Bruce serves on the editorial review boards of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice and the Journal of Small Business Management.

Carl Blencke
Carl taught in the Management department at Valdosta State University in Georgia before joining the University Central Florida in 2006. Carl is teaching several undergraduate management classes and is the most recent addition to our entrepreneurship teaching faculty. A former entrepreneur, Carl can bring first hand experience to the classroom.

Cameron Ford
Cameron earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Penn State University before joining UCF. Cameron’s scholarly interests are technological entrepreneurship and organizational creativity.  He is especially interested in how creative ideas, social networks, and resources interact during the emergence of new business ventures. 

Kathie Holland
Kathie has been an instructor for the College of Business Administration at UCF since 1986 and is currently a full time visiting instructor.  In addition, Kathie is the Associate Director of UCF’s Institute for Certified Business Consultants, the only university-supported training and certification program for consultants in the U.S.

Tom O'Neal
Dr. O’Neal is the Associate Vice President for Research and the Director of the Office for Research and Commercialization at UCF. Tom was a key member in the establishment of the UCF Technology Incubator, which was recently named the Incubator of the Year by the National Business Incubator Association. Tom also serves on the Florida High Tech Corridor Council.

Richard Quinn
Richard received his MBA from the Rochester Institute of Technology.  He teaches Cornerstone, Management Strategy, Management Internships, Entrepreneurship, New Venture Finance, and Business Plan Development, as well as graduate level applied strategy and business policy.

Benjamin Rockmore
Benjamin is a faculty member in the Management department at UCF. Benjamin currently teaches several management courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

MB Sarkar
MB is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Management department. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University and his research interests lie in technology & innovation management and inter-organizational collaborations.

Daniel Tzabbar
Danny is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy with a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.  His research incorporates related interests such as exploring the ways that firms’ human and intellectual capitals interact to affect entrepreneurial firm competitive viability, strategic alliance formation, R&D team knowledge diversity, and decision-making processes leading to strategic change.