Prof. Vadim Grinevich
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Research Cluster Head, Transformative Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses
University of Bradford School of Management

Vadim Grinevich is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Head of the Research Cluster on Transformative Entrepreneurship at the University of Bradford School of Management. Vadim's key expertise is in the field of academic entrepreneurship, innovation and university-industry links. His research develops an inclusive approach which helps shed light on the nature and extent of entrepreneurial activities by academics with different intersectional profiles, from both STEM and non-STEM disciplines and across different types of universities. Vadim is also interested in digitally enabled sustainable entrepreneurship. He has published in top journals including Research Policy, Regional Studies, Small Business Economics, Journal of Technology Transfer, Technovation, Environment and Planning C, International Journal of Management Reviews, and Gender, Work & Organizaton. Vadim’s research has been supported by UK Research Councils, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship Fund, European Commission, NESTA and local and devolved administrations. 

Vadim was previously the Head of the Centre for Inclusive and Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Southampton Business School. He was also Faculty Director of Graduate School at Business, Law and Art & Social Sciences at the University of Southampton. Vadim holds a PhD in Management Studies from the University of Cambridge where he was a Cambridge Overseas Trust Scholar. He was a Regional Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at Washington, D.C., and held research positions at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge-MIT Institute and Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies.

Prof. Marc Goergen
Full Professor of Finance at IE Business School, IE University, Madrid, Spain

Marc Goergen is a full professor of finance at IE Business School. Previous appointments include UMIST and the Universities of Cardiff, Manchester, Reading, and Sheffield. He is a visiting professor at the University of Vaasa. Marc is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and a board member of the International Corporate Governance Society. He is an associate editor of the British Accounting Review, the British Journal of Management, the European Journal of Finance, and the Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting. He is a former joint editor-in-chief of Annals of Corporate Governance and a former associate editor of the Journal of Banking & Finance and the Journal of Corporate Finance.

Marc's research interests lie at the intersection of corporate finance and corporate governance. He has published in journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, the Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Business Ethics, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Intermediation, and the Journal of Corporate Finance. The second edition of his textbook on corporate governance was published in 2018.