Jerome Katz
Jerome (Jerry) Katz is the Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship at the John Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University . Previously he held the Mary Louise Murray Endowed Professorship in Management at the Cook School , and prior to his coming to Saint Louis University he was an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School , University of Pennsylvania . Jerry holds a PhD in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan and other graduate degrees from Harvard and the University of Memphis .

Throughout the years he has worked in or advised his family's businesses including stints working in the family's discount department store, sporting goods wholesaling, pharmacies, auto parts jobbing, and secondary market wholesaling of frozen food. As a professor he has served as adviser to nearly 200 business plans developed by students at Saint Louis University , whose Entrepreneurship Program (which Jerry leads) has been nationally ranked every year since 1994. Earlier in his career he served as Associate Director for the Missouri State Small Business Development Centers. He has taught, trained or consulted on entrepreneurship education and business development services in Sweden , Switzerland , the United Kingdom , Brazil , Singapore , Israel , Croatia , and the West Bank . His consulting firm, J.A. Katz & Associates, has a client list including the Soros, GE, Kauffman and Coleman Foundations as well as the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, Sweden 's Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute, the International Labor Organization (ILO), and in America RISE business, the National Federation of Independent Business, the National Science Foundation, and the Committee of 200.

Inc. Magazine identified him in their 1995 and 2001 issues as one of the world's top small business researchers. He has done research and theorizing on career models of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship/small business education, as well as collaborating with others on topics as diverse as opportunity recognition (with Connie Marie Gaglio), the properties of emerging organizations (with William Gartner), Internet-based businesses (with Scott Safranski) and international entrepreneurship (with Sumit Kundu).

Jerry edits two book series, Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth (with Dean Shepherd, published by Elsevier) and Entrepreneurship and the Management of Growing Enterprises (published by Sage) and has edited over a dozen special issues on small business, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education for journals such as Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, and Simulation & Gaming. He has been a member of the founding editorial boards of Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Academy of Management Learning and Education, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, and the International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship. He has also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Small Business Management, and the Academy of Management Executive .

Following his parents' tradition of civic entrepreneurship, Jerry has served the profession working his way up to become Senior Vice President for Research and Publications of the International Council for Small Business and eventually as Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management . He was also one of only a handful of small business or entrepreneurship faculty to be elected to Academy-wide office, serving as a Governor of the Academy of Management from 2000-2003. He developed eWeb, one of the first websites dedicated to entrepreneurship education, and winner of top-tier ratings from Anbar, Argus, LookSmart and Studyweb. Other innovations in small business education in which he was involved included co-developing the Gateways to Entrepreneurship Research Conference, as well as becoming the first adjunct teacher's guide and first center director consortia in the field.

For these efforts, he has been a recipient of more than a dozen major professional awards professional including Babson's Appel Prize for Entrepreneurship Education, the Family Firm Institute's LeVan Award for Interdisciplinary Contributions to Family Business, and the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Academy of Management 's Entrepreneurship Division. He has also received Mentorship Awards from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management and from Saint Louis University 's Graduate Student Association. In 2004 he was elected the fiftieth Fellow of the US Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and in 2005 he received Saint Louis University 's Alumni Award for Outstanding Educator.

Richard P. Green
Richard Green is a successful serial entrepreneur who has started, built, and sold several businesses. His first business was an electrical sign repair company, which he began while an undergraduate student. Since that first business, Dr. Green has started two other sign companies, a structural steel business, a manufacturer of stainless steel products, and a real estate brokerage.

Dr. Green spent several years in the airline business, initially for Trans World Airlines, where he was a pilot, instructor, and check airman. Upon leaving TWA, he went to Mexico City , where he and his long-time associate, Richard Carter, conducted the startup of Lineas Aereas Azteca (Azteca Airlines).

A late-life Ph.D., Dr. Green is currently at Webster University in Saint Louis , Missouri . He is CFO of Celldyne Biopharma, LLC. He is the author of Investigating Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Due Diligence for Entrepreneurs (with James Carroll). Dr. Green maintains an active consulting practice.