SLU Entrepreneurship Teaching Team
SLU's Entrepreneurship Teaching Team has been recognized as one of the strongest in the nation, as identified by decades of top-50 rankings in USNews and Princeton Review/Entrepreneur Magazine . The program has three academic strengths: (1) Almost all classes are co-taught by highly-published academic experts and top-flight local entrepreneurs, (2) Classes grade ideas and accomplishments using real-world standards whenever possible, and (3) All classes are built on experiential learning as students develop the elements of entrepreneurship they will use in business.
Current Teaching Team - Introductory Classes
Teachers with asterisks (*) are SLU alums. Teachers with double asterisks (**) are ENT program alums.
Murray Endowed Professor, Scholar, Former State-Sanctioned Entrepreneur in Communist China
President EFK Moen
Medart Endowed Clinical Professor, Corporate VP, Private Consultant, Specialist in Family Business
Dave Finklang
Partner at Anders CPA, Baord President Friends of Arch Grants
Director, Chaifetz Entrepreneurship Center
Director of Innovation at DOT Foods, UMSL Accelerator mentor, brand strategist
Current Teaching Team - Advanced Classes
Civic Entrepreneur (Jazz St. Louis), Doyen of St. Louis Commercial Real Estate
COO of perennial Inc. 5000 firm Sapper Consulting
CEO The Catalyst Center, Lead Mentor Stadia Ventures, Express Scripts, Group360
Managing Partner Stadia Ventures, Detalus, Billiken Angels
Associate Professor, Lawyer, Director Aribis Consulting, Regional Growth Capital
Serial CFO for Startups & Growing Firms , Mentor at Stadia Ventures
Hall of Fame - Prior Teaching Team Members
NYTimes Bestselling Author,
THE Small Business Expert
Founder The Startup Within, Author, Boeing Ventures
General Partner Cultivation Capital & Yield Lab
Principal and Director Anders CPA + Advisors, Board Member Capital Innovators, Prosper
President Post Holdings &
AHM Financial Group
CEO Capital Innovators
Co-Founder Stadia Ventures, SLU Chaifetz Entrepreneurship
Center Director
Managing Director, Detalus
President American Marketing Group, Former Lieutenant Governor Candidate
President goBRANDgo!,
Co-founder Conflux
Caring Ministries, WU Skandalaris Center
Don Dent
Fractional CFO, ITEN Mentor
Founder UltraStar, Wines That Rock, Master of Social Media
Sr. Associate FedTech
President Wideman Management Group
Other Co-Teachers Over Over the Nearly 50 Years
Rob Berger, Michael Black, Jason Bockman, Anjali Dooley, Art Handman, Trey Goede, Liz Krus**, Sutton Lasater**, Tim Murphy, Jim O'Donnell, Kevin Rhoades*, Jim Rittenbaum, Tyler Sondag**, Paul Scheiter**, Dougan Sherwood, Deb Wagnon*, Larry Weiss, Thomas Cy Wong*