André Marquis

Andre Marquis is currently the Executive Director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley. At UC Berkeley, he and his team are building a scalable, global infrastructure to deliver leading-edge, hands-on training to hundreds of teams and thousands of entrepreneurs and corporate innovators and their Faculty and mentors. Though world-class programs including the Bay Area NSF Innovation Corps, Intel Technology To Market Accelerator (training startups across 15 time zones online), $1.3m Make It Wearable Challenge (driving corporate innovation on Intel’s computing platforms in 27 countries), Innovate for India, LAUNCH Startup Accelerator, Global Social Venture Competition and other Bay Area and international programs in dozens of countries, the Lester Center is redefining how to teach the process of evidence-based entrepreneurship and innovation while creating scalable enterprises and driving deep culture change simultaneously. Learn more at www.hypershift.org. Applications include technology commercialization, corporate entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and venture-backed startups.

Mr. Marquis has a long record of starting successful biotechnology and IT ventures with a particular focus on winning in markets where scalability is critical. Two Web companies Mr. Marquis helped start became publicly traded and a third was acquired by amazon for over $190 million. The Chorus Group at Eli Lilly which he co-founded is a significant business model innovation that has dramatically speeded up and lowered the cost of drug development. (Chorus runs 15 full drug development programs with a team of 29 people.)

Specialties: entrepreneurship, fund raising, venture capital, high technology marketing, software and information technology, strategy, imaging, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, product development