03/31/2015
2015 IGPS Keynote Speaker | Cleveland Justis, MBA
“The Power of Interdisciplinary Research and Action in Driving Innovation”
Cleveland is the executive director for the UC Davis Child Family Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship . In this role, Cleveland is responsible for helping students, faculty, and staff move ideas from the lab and into the world. Many of these research ideas have resulted in successful companies and life-saving inventions getting commercialized. Cleveland has a passion for interdisciplinary research – his current research projects include looking at entrepreneurial networks at the intersection of business, government, and nonprofit sectors.
Cleveland has taught and lectured about entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship at top universities including UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, Georgetown University, and the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Cleveland studied biology and environmental sciences at Swarthmore College and the University of California, Berkeley. He received his MBA in strategic management and finance at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, and is pursuing his PhD at UC Davis.
Formerly, Cleveland was the director and co-founder of the Institute at the Golden Gate. Prior to this position, Cleveland was the Executive Director of the award-winning Headlands Institute in Sausalito, California. Cleveland is an active volunteer in the community, currently serving as the board chair of the Marin Community Foundation, a large community foundation with over $1.6 billion in assets. He formerly served on the board of directors of Net Impact, an organization with a global network of over 15,000 leaders who are changing the world through business. Cleveland is an avid windsurfer, skier, sailor, and outdoor adventurer having led trips in remote areas of Alaska, Mexico, Chile, and the United States.
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