Globe Business
College Munich

Date with the Dean: The Interview Series

Dr Susan Walsh will talk with Mary McKenna and Dr Marc Ventresca on the topic of Innovation on Wednesday, 10th June from 5.30pm to 6.30pm (CEST).

Mary is a technology entrepreneur and these days angel investor. She co-founded wildly successful online learning company Learning Pool in 2006 on the back of a long local government career and a spell as a Silicon Valley dot-commer. Mary is interested in helping start & grow indigenous Irish & British tech companies and especially in working with young and female entrepreneurs. She is also a trustee of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). Mary sits on the London board of the Irish International Business Network and is proud to be a member of the Global Irish Network.

Dr Marc Ventresca is an economic sociologist and Senior Research Fellow. His research and teaching focus on innovation, institutions, and infrastructure, with empirical work on emerging technologies and nascent markets. He is an advisor to start-up ventures founded by recent Oxford alumni (digital transformation in banking, design consultancies) and on the Advisory Boards for Global Thinkers Forum and The Civic Foundry. He is Academic Director of the Oxford Fintech Lab. He works with the Global Agenda Councils of the World Economic Forum on long-term strategy. He was a founding member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council ‘Economics of Innovation’.

Join us for this extraordinary session to hear expert advice about Innovation from two different perspectives: one from a highly experienced tech entrepreneur and one from an economic sociologist with extensive research focused on innovation. You will be able to ask questions at the end of the session.

We will be sending you a link to Zoom platform (please see: https://zoom.us) before the meeting so you can dial in and join without any issues. You are required to have an internet connection, and a phone or laptop to be able to connect with video and audio.

Mary is one of Saïd Business School's (University of Oxford) Resident Expert, an Entrepreneur in Residence at Catalyst Inc (formerly the Northern Ireland Science Park) and a trustee of CAST (the Centre for Acceleration of Social Technology). In the 2014 New Year's Honours, Mary was awarded the MBE by HM the Queen for services to digital technology, innovation and learning.

Founder and Dean of Globe Business College Munich, Dr Susan Walsh is fostering Irish-Bavarian business relations, with revolutionary relationship-based learning.
Area of expertise: marketing, entrepreneurship and strategy.

Dr Marc Ventresca is an economic sociologist on the Management Faculty, University of Oxford and a Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson College since 2004. He is also Senior Research Fellow at the Technology and Management for Development Centre at Queen Elizabeth House and a member of the Management Committee, Centre for Technology and Global Affairs, DPIR.