Tom Byers

Tom Byers

Title: Professor (Teaching); Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Department(s): Management Science and Engineering Affiliation(s): Co-Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program; Affiliated Faculty, Woods Institute for the Environment Location: Huang Engineering Center - Room 346 475 Via Ortega Stanford, CA 94305-4121 Mail Code: 4026 Phone: 650.725.8271        Fax: 650.723.1614 E-mail: tbyers@stanford.edu URL: http://stvp.stanford.edu/ http://www.stanford.edu/~tbyers/ Administrator: Yvonne J. Hankins

Research Statement

Tom Byers is an engineering professor at Stanford University where he focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship education. He is a founder and faculty co-director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), which serves as the entrepreneurship center for the engineering school. STVP includes the Mayfield Fellows work/study program, Entrepreneurship Corner website of videos and podcasts, and a set of global Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education conferences for educators. He is a co-PI for the National Science Foundation's Epicenter at Stanford. Tom is co-author of an McGraw-Hill entrepreneurship textbook called "Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise".

At Stanford, he has been the chairman of the Committee for Undergraduate Standards and Policies (C-USP) and deputy chair of the Management Science and Engineering department. He is an affiliated faculty member of the Woods Institute for the Environment and Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford. Tom is a faculty director of the annual Stanford Executive Institute. Tom has been a visiting professor at the UAE's Higher Colleges of Technology, London Business School, and University College London.

Tom has served on the governing boards of Flywheel Ventures, Thuuz, and other enterprises. In addition, he has served on advisory councils of the World Economic Forum, Harvard Business School's California Research Center, UC Berkeley's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, Conservation International, and Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). Before joining Stanford, Tom worked in Silicon Valley for over a decade including executive vice president and general manager of Symantec Corporation during its early years. Tom started his professional career at Accenture.

For his efforts at Stanford, Tom holds two endowed chairs: one in the engineering school regarding entrepreneurship education and another as a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Tom has received Stanford's Gores Award for teaching (the university's highest award) and its Tau Beta Pi Award for undergraduate teaching in the engineering school. In 2009, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) awarded Tom its Gordon Prize, which is the profession's highest honor recognizing innovation in engineering and technology education.

He is also the recipient of several other national teaching awards in entrepreneurship including the Olympus Innovation Award from the NCIIA, the ASEE Kauffman Award, the USASBE Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year Award, the Academy of Management's Innovation in Entrepreneurship Teaching Award, and the Leavey Award. He is a member of the Hall of Fame at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Earlier, STVP was named the NASDAQ Entrepreneurship Center of the Year and Tom was named Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year in Ernst & Young's competition.

Tom holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and an MBA from UC Berkeley. He also earned a PhD in Business Administration (Management Science) at UC Berkeley.

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