Adrian Magendzo, M.S.

Ruth Jones Lewis Faculty Scholar in Entrepreneurship

About Me

Adrian Magendzo has experience as an entrepreneur, having founded several companies in the technology, manufacture, and food industries. He has worked as an independent consultant for Interamerican Development Bank, World Bank, and ITIF in the design and implementation of public policy programs to foster innovation and entrepreneurial activity in Latin America, The Gambia, and Uzbekistan. Most recently, Adrian was a professor of management and entrepreneurship at Hofstra University in NY. Prior to this role, he served as an economic attaché to the Chilean embassy in Washington, D.C., and director and professor in the Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at the Universidad Adolfo Ibanez (UAI) in Santiago, Chile. He was also Executive Director of the High Impact Entrepreneurship Policy division at Innova-Corfo the Chilean government innovation and entrepreneurship promotion agency. He has an industrial engineer background from the University of Chile and holds a master’s degree in technology commercialization and innovation from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas Austin. Adrian will teach “Business Models for Innovation” and “Technology-Based Entrepreneurship.”