Meet the Team
Teacher-scholars and practitioners on the leading edge of theory and practice.
Center Team
Daniella Reichstetter T’07
Clinical Professor of Business Administration; Faculty Advisor for the Center for Entrepreneurship
Daniella Reichstetter is the faculty advisor to Tuck's Center for Entrepreneurship and a clinical professor of business administration at the school. She has 20 years of experience running various divisions of early-stage companies. She was the founder and CEO of Gyrobike (a Thayer technology), and an early hire at Method, Jetboil, and Belcampo. Prior to working in entrepreneurship, she worked as an investment banker in equity private placements. She serves on the boards of several early-stage companies and non-profit organizations, and she is an active angel investor.
Daniella graduated cum laude from Georgetown University with a BS in Spanish and business. She received her MBA from Tuck, where she was the recipient of the Arnold F. Adams, Jr. Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship.
At Tuck, Daniella co-teaches Entrepreneurial Thinking, leads a Global Insight Expedition (GIX), and serves as faculty advisor to multiple First-Year Project (FYP) teams. She was the founding Executive Director of the Tuck Center for Entrepreneurship for which she is now Faculty Advisor.
Eileen O’Toole
Director, Center for Entrepreneurship
Gelsey Tolosa
Program Manager, Center for Entrepreneurship
Tuck Faculty
Ron Adner
Nathaniel D’1906 and Martha E. Leverone Memorial Professor of Business Administration
Ron Adner’s award-winning research and teaching introduce a new perspective on value creation and competition when industry boundaries break down in the wake of ecosystem disruption. His two books, The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss (2012) and Winning the Right Game: How to Disrupt, Defend, and Deliver in a Changing World (forthcoming, October 2021) have been heralded as landmark contributions to the strategy literature. Clayton Christensen (Innovator’s Dilemma) described his work as “Path-breaking,” and Jim Collins (Good to Great) has called him “One of our most important strategic thinkers for the 21st century.”
Trip Davis D’90
Adjunct Professor of Business Administration
Entrepreneur, executive, investor
Philip J. Ferneau D’84, T’96
Adjunct Professor of Business Administration
Areas of expertise: Venture capital, entrepreneurship
Peter N. Golder
Professor of Marketing; Faculty Director, TuckGO
Peter Golder teaches the marketing core course and an elective course in Global Marketing. His research on market entry timing, new products, long-term market leadership, and quality has won many best paper or best book awards including several of the most prestigious awards in the field.
Daniella Reichstetter T’07
Clinical Professor of Business Administration; Faculty Advisor for the Center for Entrepreneurship
Daniella Reichstetter is the faculty advisor to Tuck's Center for Entrepreneurship and a clinical professor of business administration at the school. She has 20 years of experience running various divisions of early-stage companies. She was the founder and CEO of Gyrobike (a Thayer technology), and an early hire at Method, Jetboil, and Belcampo. Prior to working in entrepreneurship, she worked as an investment banker in equity private placements. She serves on the boards of several early-stage companies and non-profit organizations, and she is an active angel investor.
Daniella graduated cum laude from Georgetown University with a BS in Spanish and business. She received her MBA from Tuck, where she was the recipient of the Arnold F. Adams, Jr. Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship.
At Tuck, Daniella co-teaches Entrepreneurial Thinking, leads a Global Insight Expedition (GIX), and serves as faculty advisor to multiple First-Year Project (FYP) teams. She was the founding Executive Director of the Tuck Center for Entrepreneurship for which she is now Faculty Advisor.
Morten Sorensen
Associate Professor of Finance; Paul E. Raether T'73 Faculty Fellow
Professor Sorensen conducts research in the areas of entrepreneurial finance, venture capital, and private equity and focuses on understanding the behavior, performance, and economic effects of venture capital and private equity in individual transactions and in the broader economy. His studies have investigated the risks, returns, and illiquidity inherent in venture capital, private equity, and other alternative investments; the effects of private equity and venture capital investments on individual companies and for industries; and the role of management in venture capital and buyout deals. His research has been presented at numerous universities and conferences, has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, CNBC, and BusinessWeek, and has been published in leading academic journals.
Dartmouth Faculty
Eric R. Fossum
John H. Krehbiel Sr. Professor for Emerging Technologies Director, PhD Innovation Program Associate Provost, OETT
Professor Fossum, a Queen Elizabeth Prize Laureate, is one of the world's experts in solid-state image sensors. He invented the CMOS active pixel image sensor used in almost all cell-phone cameras, webcams, many digital-still cameras and in medical imaging, among other applications. He worked at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was CEO of two successful high tech companies and is a serial entrepreneur, recently co-founding a new startup with two former PhD students, Gigajot. See his personal webpage for more information. His interests at Dartmouth are teaching and researching the next generation of solid-state image sensors for photon-counting and gigapixel cameras. He also coordinates Thayer School’s PhD Innovation Program and serves as Dartmouth’s Associate Provost for Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer. Read full bio.
Geoffrey G. Parker
Professor of Engineering Director, Master of Engineering Management Program
Andrew A. Samwick
Sandra L. and Arthur L. Irving '72a P'10 Professor of Economics Director, Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences