Advisory Board Member

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Bill Bellows is Professor Emeritus in Entrepreneurship at American University’s Kogod School of Business in Washington, DC, where taught classes in innovation, design thinking and entrepreneurship and helped develop the American University Center for Innovation. He has served as a business mentor to student teams in the center and to those in the National Science Foundation I-Corps programs.  He previously taught entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland MTECH program in the Clark School of Engineering.



Prior to his teaching career, Professor Bellows was an entrepreneur working in Silicon Valley and Northern Virginia after starting his career in the mainframe and customer marketing divisions at IBM. He was co-founder and managing partner of Copithorne & Bellows, a consulting firm that developed and executed strategy, competitive research, positioning and market outreach programs for Fortune 500 and emerging technology companies including Hewlett-Packard, Iomega, Xilinx, NeXT, Pixar, the Open Software Foundation and VeriFone. His company held close relationships with leading entrepreneurs, venture capital firms and national media and was twice named to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America, evolving from a two-person startup in Palo Alto in 1987 to a global company.