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Financial Times Professor of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mike Grandinetti is professor of entrepreneurship, innovation, marketing and management at\u00a0Hult International Business School<\/a>, where he has been awarded two global teaching excellence awards. He is also managing director of Southboro Capital Group. He joined Hult in September 2011.<\/p>\n

Prof Grandinetti was a C-level executive at five venture capital-backed start-ups, two of which had Nasdaq IPOs.<\/p>\n

He teaches corporate venturing at\u00a0Denmark Technical University. He also taught at\u00a0MIT\u00a0and served as judge in the MIT $100K entrepreneurship competition for 10 years. He has been active in a number of leading global mentor capital programmes, has been keynote speaker at innovation and venture capital events and is active on the TEDx speaker circuit.<\/p>\n

Prof Grandinetti worked at McKinsey and currently serves as adviser to businesses, universities and governments on a range of issues.<\/p>\n

He earned his MBA from\u00a0Yale School of Management, where he was named Jess Morrow Johns Memorial Scholar and was the first recipient of the Procter & Gamble Marketing Leadership award.<\/p>\n

He has chosen to define the term \u201csuper angel<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Written by\u00a0Emma Boyde for the Financial Times. Read the article in full here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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