Kathleen R. Allen, PhD

Professor of Entrepreneurship, Greif Entrepreneurship Center of the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

As a professor of entrepreneurship at the Greif Entrepreneurship Center of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, Dr. Allen is responsible for directing the new alliance of the Engineering School and the Marshall School of Business. She is also the Director of the Technology Commercialization Alliance. Dr. Allen is the author of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management 2nd ed., Launching New Ventures 2nd ed., and Growing and Managing an Entrepreneurial Business, as well as several other trade books. As an entrepreneur, Dr. Allen has been involved in commercial real estate development for the past ten years. She is presently the co-founder and CFO of Gentech Corporation, a technology-based manufacturing company that recently launched a line of patented, intelligent, power source machines.