Gerry George is Group Managing Director at International Medical University (Malaysia), an investment of the TPG Rise Fund where he was Senior Advisor. He continues as Academic Advisor to the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative while on leave from McDonough School of Business as the Tamsen and Michael Brown Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Previously, he served as Dean and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor at Singapore Management University. Before SMU, he was Professor and Deputy Dean of Imperial College Business School, Associate Professor at London Business School, and Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Syracuse University.

An award-winning researcher and teacher, Professor George has published extensively in innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability and tackling grand challenges in society, and achieved the Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher distinction for Cross-Field Impact. From 2013 to 2016, he served as Editor of the Academy of Management Journal, the flagship empirical journal in the field of management. At Imperial, he was Academic Director of the London Stock Exchange’s Elite Program, which supports ambitious private companies through their next stage of growth. At MSB, he teaches Growing Entrepreneurial Businesses across EMBA, MBA and UG programs.

Among other distinctions, he was awarded a prestigious Professorial Fellowship from the UK's Economic and Social Research Council to work on socially-inclusive innovation in healthcare, natural resources, and energy. His latest book Venture Meets Mission (with Arun Gupta and Tom Fewer) published by Stanford University Press in 2024. His other co-authored books include Handbook on the Business of Sustainability (Edward Elgar, 2022), Handbook of Inclusive Innovation (Edward Elgar, 2019), Managing Natural Resources (Edward Elgar, 2018), The Business Model Book (Pearson, 2018), Implausible Opportunities (Cambridge Press, 2012), and Inventing Entrepreneurs (Pearson, 2009).

Professor George received an honorary doctorate in economics from the University of St. Gallen for contributions to the fields of strategic management, innovation and entrepreneurship. He was conferred Fellowship of the City & Guilds of London Institute and Distinguished Alumnus Award from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (Pilani). He is Senior Global Fellow at University of Pennsylvania's Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies and Visiting Professor at Singapore Management University.

Adam J. Bock, MBA, PhD, is an award-winning academic, venture financier, and serial entrepreneur.

As an academic, he studies entrepreneurship, business models, and technology venturing. Adam is the co-author (with Gerry George) of The Business Model Book (Pearson 2018), Models of Opportunity (Cambridge 2012), and Inventing Entrepreneurs (Pearson Prentice Hall 2009). He has published peer-reviewed research on innovation and entrepreneurship in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management Studies, Venture Capital: An International Journal of Finance, and other journals.

Adam has co-founded four life science companies spun out of university research. Nerites Corporation commercialized a bio-inspired synthetic medical adhesive developed at Northwestern. Nerites was acquired by Kensey-Nash (Royal DSM) for $20 million in 2011. Stratatech Corporation commercialized an immortalized human keratinocyte cell line developed at Wisconsin. Stratatech was acquired by Mallinckrodt in 2016 for $187 million. Virtual Incision Corporation is commercializing miniaturized surgical robots developed at the University of Nebraska. His most recent venture, Cellular Logistics, was spun out of the University of Wisconsin in 2016. Adam managed multiple angel investing networks, facilitating more than $10 million into early stage technology firms. He mentors technology and social entrepreneurs around the world.

He has taught entrepreneurship at institutions including UW-Madison, the University of Edinburgh, Imperial College London, and Skolkovo Institute for Science and Technology. He provides executive education in strategy, entrepreneurship, and innovation through the Center for Professional & Executive Development at the Fluno Center. He developed a series of online entrepreneurship courses with Epigeum, LTD which was utilized at more than a dozen UK universities. Adam received the 2018 National 3E Award from the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) for the best experiential entrepreneurial classroom activity. 

Adam is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He was selected as a Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy in 2012. Adam served on the World Entrepreneurship Forum (Lyon, France) from 2011-2013. He was Deputy Director of the $9M EPSRC EPSRC and MRC Center for Doctoral Training in Optical Medical Imaging at the University of Edinburgh, an entrepreneurship training program linking the School of Business, College of Medicine, and School of Chemistry.

He holds Bachelors degrees in Quantitative Economics and Aeronautical Engineering from Stanford University, an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a PhD in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Imperial College London.