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Gary Gibbonshas extensive professional experience in portfolio management, securities valuation, financial modeling, and financial planning and evaluation of entrepreneurial firms. His corporate and investment clients include the Bank of Bermuda, the Agyros Foundation, Imperial Mortgage, Kaiser Steel Resources, the New Kaiser VEBA, the Kaiser Steel Benefit Trust, and many other institutions and small firms. Additionally, he has served as an expert witness or expert consultant in numerous legal proceedings; he has provided opinions that have been used in support of specific civil, tax, or regulatory positions. He has worked on both civil and criminal litigation and in court, arbitration, or mediation proceedings. Dr. Gibbons has served on the board of directors of both public and private companies. When serving on these various boards, he has generally acted in the capacity of the chief financial officer or the chair of the finance committee. Dr. Gibbons earned his PhD in business administration—with emphasis in strategy and finance—at Claremont Graduate School, Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management. He is the Academic Director of the Thunderbird Private Equity Center at Thunderbird School of Global Management.Robert D. Hisrichis the Garvin Professor of Global Entrepreneurship and Director of the Center for Global Entrepreneurship at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He is also president of H&B Associates, a marketing and management consulting firm he founded. Dr. Hisrich received his MBA and PhD degrees from the University of Cincinnati and honorary doctorate degrees from Chuvash State University (Russia) and the University of Miskolc (Hungary). He has authored and coauthored 34 books, including Marketing for Entrepreneurs and SMEs: A Global Perspective (with Maja Konečnik Ruzzier and Mitja Ruzzier, 2014); Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship (with Claudine Kearney, 2014); Governpreneurship: Establishing a Thriving Entrepreneurial Spirit in Government (with Amr Al-Dabbagh, 2013); Entrepreneurship: Starting, Developing, and Managing a New Enterprise (9th edition; with Michael P. Peters and Dean A. Shepherd, 2013); International Entrepreneurship: Starting, Developing, and Managing a Global Venture (2nd ed., 2013); Corporate Entrepreneurship: How to Create a Thriving Entrepreneurial Spirit Throughout Your Company (with Claudine Kearney, 2011); and Technology Entrepreneurship: Creating, Capturing, and Protecting Value (with Thomas N. Duening and Michael A. Lechter, 2010). He has written more than 325 articles on entrepreneurship, international business management, and venture capital. He has instituted academic and training programs in Hungary, Russia, and China.Carlos M. DaSilvahas widespread experience in entrepreneurship and the startup ecosystem. He is the Director of the Founder Institute, Portugal, the world's largest early stage startup accelerator, with over 1,000 graduate companies across six continents. Dr. DaSilva is responsible for the mentoring of dozens of technology entrepreneurs every year. He is frequently invited to lecture on topics related to entrepreneurship, as well as participate in the jury of various startup competitions. Dr. DaSilva held the positions of visiting scholar at the Thunderbird School of Global Management and at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is a professor of entrepreneurship at the School of Business Administration in Fribourg, Switzerland, and lectures on topics related to entrepreneurial finance and business model innovation. Prior to obtaining his PhD in technology management at the University of Ljubljana, he worked for several years as a strategy manager at an Eastern European startup venture that was recently acquired by a large multinational group.