Colleen Cunningham has been a co-founder and co-organizer of the SIE Workshop since the Spring 2020. 

Colleen is an Assistant Professor of strategic management at the University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business.

She studies innovation, entrepreneurship, and corporate strategy. Colleen is interested in how established firms and new ventures access the resources necessary to commercialize new technologies, how firms construct and implement innovation strategies, and the relationship between innovation and performance. Her research is quantitative and typically focuses on the medical device, pharmaceutical, and energy industries.

Giada Di Stefano has been co-organizer of the SIE Workshop since the Fall 2021.

Giada is an Associate Professor of Strategy at Bocconi University.

Her general research interests are in the area of innovation, knowledge, and organizational learning. More specifically, she studies the creation and transfer of knowledge, with particular emphasis on creative industries and the role played by social and institutional forces, such as social norms.

Carlos Serrano has been a co-founder and co-organizer of the SIE Workshop since the Spring 2020. 

Carlos is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Economics at HEC Paris

His research interests are in innovation, strategy, entrepreneurship and the financing of entrepreneurial activity. More specifically, his research focuses on the market for patents, the venture capital industry, and the value and use of patents for technology startups.

Valentina Tartari has been a co-founder and co-organizer of the SIE Workshop since the Spring 2020. 

Valentina is a Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technology at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Her research focuses on the determinants of knowledge production and transfer, inside and outside academia. Specifically, she studies how academic researchers produce scientific knowledge and how this knowledge is transferred to industry and society at large. Valentina is also interested in the role universities have in stimulating local entrepreneurship.

George Chondrakis is a co-founder of the SIE Workshop, and co-organized it from Spring 2020 to Fall 2021. 

George is an Associate Professor of strategic management at ESADE Business School. 

He teaches and does research in corporate and technology strategy. His research interests center around ​supplier relationships, mergers & acquisitions and intellectual property rights. Before that he spent four years at the Department of Economics & Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. George got his PhD  from the Said Business School, University of Oxford. 

Nilanjana (Nel) is a co-founder of the SIE workshop, and co-organized it from Spring 2020 to Spring 2021.

Nel is an Associate Professor of Strategy at Bocconi University's Department of Management and Technology.

Her research primarily focuses on understanding patterns of change triggered by firm's problem solving activities.  I examine these activities across multiple contexts – renewable electricity, pharmaceuticals, and waste generation – with special emphasis on contexts of environmental significance. In a more recent secondary stream of research, she explores phenomena that capture nascent entrepreneurial activities – both in emerging and developed markets.