Andre Marquis
Executive Director, Innovation Acceleration Group at Haas School of Business
Schools
- Haas School of Business
Expertise
Links
Biography
Haas School of Business
Andre Marquis is the Executive Director of the Innovation Acceleration Group at the University of California Berkeley. He and his team have built a scalable, global infrastructure to deliver leading-edge, hands-on training to hundreds of startups and thousands of entrepreneurs and corporate innovators plus their Faculty and mentors. Though world-class programs including the reality TV show America's Greatest Makers, the Bay Area NSF Innovation Corps, Innovate for Digital India, Intel's $1.3m Make It Wearable Challenge, the Berkeley LAUNCH Startup Accelerator, Global Social Venture Competition and other programs delivered in dozens of countries, his team has redefined how to teach the process of evidence-based entrepreneurship and corporate innovation while creating funded, scalable enterprises and driving deep culture change simultaneously.
Mr. Marquis has a long record of successful startups with a particular focus on winning in markets where scalability is critical. Two web companies Mr. Marquis helped start became publicly traded and a third was acquired by Amazon for over $190 million. The Chorus Group at Eli Lilly which he co-founded is a significant corporate lean business model innovation that dramatically speed up and lowered the cost of drug development and his most recent company, Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, just raised $54m in venture capital.
Andre Marquis serves as Faculty Director for the following Custom Programs:
- Intel America's Greatest Makers Program
- HP Lean Launchpad
Education
- MBA, Haas School of Business
- BA, Cognitive Science, University of Rochester
Positions Held
- At Haas since 2010
- 2017 – present, Executive Director, Innovation Acceleration Group
- 2010 – 2017, Executive Director, Lester Center for Entrepreneurship, Haas School of Business
- 2009, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Innerscope Research, LLC
- 2006 – 2009, CEO, Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- 2006 – 2007, CMO, Log Savvy
- 2002 – 2005, COO, Eli Lilly
- 1998 – 2000, EVP Marketing and CTO, iPIX
- 1997 – 1998, Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Accept.com
- 1996 – 1997, Director of Marketing, CyberGold
- 1992 – 1994, Senior Software Engineer, MIT
- 1990 – 1992, Senior Software Engineer, Decision Systems Group, Harvard Medical School
- 1986 – 1990, Chief Designer, Eidetic Knowledge Systems
Honors and Awards
Haas School of Business Raymond E. Miles Alumni Service Award
Videos
Keynote Speech by Mr. Andre Marquis | Building Scalable Start-ups | ISBA Conference 2016
Finding Billion-Dollar Startups: Michael Baum and Andre Marquis in Conversation
Read about executive education
Other experts
Zilberberg Emmanuel
Biography Emmanuel Zilberberg has been an Affiliate Professor since 2000 and became Assitant Professor in 2014. . A graduate of ESCP, he completed a post-graduate DEA in Management and Administration. He teaches Accounting and is responsible for an elective course on “Pricing and Margin Optim...
Jay Nunamaker
Degrees Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1969 Areas of Expertise Collaboration technology Decision support and decision centers Courses MIS 429/565 Detection, Deception and Intent MIS 596A Special Topics in MIS MIS 696A Readings in MIS
Popular Courses
Leading Strategic Growth and Change
Columbia Business School
New York, New York, United States
Jun 10
Leading Digital Transformation
ESMT
Berlin, Germany
May 28
The Manchester Leadership Development Programme
Alliance Manchester Business School
Manchester, United Kingdom
Jul 1
The Positive Leader: Deep Change and Organizational Transformation
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Jun 23
Private Equity: Investing and Creating Value
The Wharton School
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Sep 8
Leading People and Teams
ESMT
Berlin, Germany
May 28
Looking for an expert?
Contact us and we'll find the best option for you.