Carl Schramm - described by The Economist as "the evangelist of Entrepreneurship" - is a distinguished Professor at Syracuse University, Professor of Innovation at UC Davis, a fellow at the Institute for Business Innovation at Berkeley as well as a visiting scientist at MIT. Outside of academia he has founded six companies and co-founded Global Entrepreneurship Week with Gordon Brown and co-founded StartUp America with President Obama. He writes a blog for Forbes.com, and his work frequently appears in the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.