Basil G. Englis is the Richard Edgerton Professor of Marketing and Chair of the Management, Marketing and Creative Technologies Department in the Campbell School of Business at Berry College. He is also a Research Fellow at the University of Groningen Centre of Entrepreneurship and NIKOS at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. Dr. Englis holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology with minors in Social Psychology and Statistics from Dartmouth College. His research and scholarly work have appeared in more than 85 publications. Dr. Englis is also Managing Partner of Mind/Share, Inc., and in that capacity, he has consulted with numerous organizations including American Airlines, Black & Decker, Caterpillar, Booking.com, E.I. DuPont de Nemours, eBay, Hasbro, Herman Miller, Proctor & Gamble, Under Armour, and VISA.

Denis A. Grégoire is an Associate Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at HEC Montréal. His research centers on the cognitive processes influencing the identification of innovative ideas for new entrepreneurial ventures, entrepreneurs’ decision to expand their firm’s activities to foreign markets, and the contribution of angel investors to the growth of high-potential ventures.

Denis obtained his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Colorado Boulder (2005) and worked in the USA for several years before returning to his native Canada ("HEC-Montreal has been a fantastic place where to develop new skills and pursue my career!"). Denis has received many awards for his work, including the Heizer Doctoral Dissertation Award in New Enterprise Development (2006) given by the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division, an IDEA Thought Leader Prize (2011) from the same organization, as well as numerous mentions for his manuscript reviews – notably from Academy of Management Discoveries, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, the Journal of Management Studies, and a few divisions of the Academy of Management.

In addition to pursuing his own research, Denis currently serves a three-year mandate as Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal. He is also a member of the editorial boards for Academy of Management Discoveries, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, the Journal of Business Venturing, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Management Studies, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and is on the Scientific Committee for the French Revue de l’entrepreneuriat. He was elected to serve a second term as Representative-at-large for the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division (2020-2022).

Denis contributes to two programs led by HEC Montréal’s Executive Education to support the growth of high-potential science- and technology-based ventures. He serves as Associate Director for CDL-Montréal and as Academic Director for NEXT AI – Montréal‘s business curriculum.

Denis is a proud father of two. He blames them for his increasingly gray hair but knows they will turn out ok, thanks to their mum! ("I love you!") Denis feels blessed to have had a chance to work with great Ph.D. students. They all do fantastically.

Magdalena Cholakova is an Associate Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship in the Department of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

Her research focuses on several topics, including: 1) Entrepreneurial learning and early-stage idea validation. She studies this topic by using experiments with entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial populations, as well as by collecting longitudinal qualitative data from early-stage companies; 2) Institutional complexity and strategic renewal. She focuses on the capacity of individuals within existing organizations to cope with change and pursue successful core innovations. She has addressed this topic by tapping into the microfoundations (cognitive and affective) of institutional complexity. Her work here is both conceptual and qualitative; 3) Effective decision making heuristics under Knightian uncertainty. She studies this topic in the context of angel investing (using verbal protocol analysis techniques) and crowdfunding (using quasi-experimental techniques); 4) Crowdfunding and the role of pecuniary and non pecuniary incentives in investment decisions.

Magdalena holds a PhD in Business Administration and Management from Bocconi University, a MPhil in Organizational Behavior from Trinity College Dublin and a MSc in Statistics from Trinity College Dublin. Her research has been published in the Journal of Management, Strategic Organization, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practrice Journal, and the International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior.

Paula Danskin Englis is Professor of Management at the Campbell School of Business at Berry College and is Research Fellow the University of Twente and at the University of Groningen Centre for Entrepreneurship. Dr. Englis' research focuses on entrepreneurship and knowledge management with an international emphasis including application in born global firms and family businesses. She has published more that 55 articles, book chapters and case studies in a number of leading outlets. Dr. Englis leads the Entrepreneurship Program at Berry College .

Dr. Yuval Engel is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. His main research interests are entrepreneurial decision-making under uncertainty, diversity and inclusion in startups, entrepreneurial networking, and meditation in the workplace. Yuval’s work appeared in outlets such as Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Journal of Small Business Management. His most recent project, supported by a prestigious Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), investigates how to debias startup hiring.

Susana C. Santos is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Rowan University. She received her Ph.D. from ISCTE-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal and completed her post-doctoral program at the University of Florida. Her main research interests are focused on the cognitive and psychosocial processes of entrepreneurship at the individual and team level. Other streams of research include poverty, women entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship education. Susana’s work has been published in journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Small Business Economics, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, among others. Susana is author of the book “Poverty and entrepreneurship in developed countries”, co-editor of the book “The emergence of entrepreneurial behavior: Intention, education and orientation”, and has published several book chapters. Susana serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Small Business Management, is part of the Editorial Advisory Board for Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy and Academy of Management Perspectives. She is currently a member of the USASBE Board.

Mark T. Schenkel is a Professor of entrepreneurship at Belmont University. His research and teaching interests focus on the roles that entrepreneurial cognition and strategic decision-making play in new venture creation, corporate venturing, and family business settings. His scholarship has appeared in academic journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Family Business Review, Academy of Management Review, British Journal of Management, Journal of Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, New England Journal of Entrepreneurship and the Journal of Small Business Strategy, among others. He has published work using quasi-experimental and experimental designs focused on channel impacts of advertising messaging (Harding & Schenkel, 2017), influences on entrepreneurial intentions (Schenkel, D'Souza, Cornwall, & Matthews, 2015; Schenkel, D’Souza, & Braun, 2014), and is currently co-authoring a manucript (with a co-guest editor) focused on the dynamics of regulatory focus on nascent entrepreneurial activity.

Schenkel currently serves as Associate Editor for Journal of Small Business Management and is on the editorial boards of Journal of Business & Entrepreneurship and Journal of Business & Entrepreneurship. He served as President of the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship in 2018 and was honored with the prestigious Justin G. Longenecker Fellowship in 2020 in recognition of his leadership efforts in entrepreneurship education and unwavering advocacy for start-up and small business development, in addition to his research. Schenkel earned his Ph.D. in Strategy and Entrepreneurship from the University of Cincinnati where he also served as the Assistant Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship Education and Research, building on more than a decade of entrepreneurial experience in a variety of leadership roles closely held family firms.

Antje Schmitt is an Assistant Professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow in Organizational Psychology at the University of Groningen. Her research focuses on self-regulation and occupational well-being in employees and entrepreneurs, proactive and adaptive work behavior, and daily energy regulation. Her empirical work covers field studies such as (daily and weekly) diary studies, longitudinal studies, as well as experimental research designs.

Her work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, among others.

Silke Tegtmeier is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at University of Southern Denmark. Currently, she is Immediate Past President of the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Her research focus is on cognitive perspectives of the individual in entrepreneurship. Among others, she investigates entrepreneurial opportunities, engineering entrepreneurship education and women’s entrepreneurship. Dr. Tegtmeier has published more than 30 articles and 3 books, e.g., in Small Business Economics, Business Strategy and the Environment and Journal of Small Business Management. She Initiated and hosted several conferences and has experience as section head. She previously co-edited a special issue in International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship and as well as “The Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Contexts: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research” (Elgar Publishing). Currently, is co-editing a special issue in International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing to be published in 2021. She is currently co-authoring a manucript entitled “Shifting Focus: An Examination of the Dynamic Role of Regulatory Focus in the Early Stages of Nascent Entrepreneurial Activity” which uses an experimental design and which was acceped for the 2020 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference.

Dominika Wach is researcher and lecturer in the department of Work and Organizational Psychology at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Her specialties are entrepreneurship and occupational health. Amongst others, she published her research in Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Small Business Management, and International Small Business Journal. Dr. Wach was a head of a Polish partner institution and research team in research projects on success factors of SMEs in Germany, Czech Republic, and Poland funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and she has published on the topic of entrepreneurial performance and well-being. Dominika Wach is a member of Academy of Management (AoM), European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB), and German Research Foundation (DFG).