Audra Quinn

Audra is an Entrepreneurship PhD student at the Ivey Business School. Having had a diverse career and successful exit from her own entrepreneurial venture, she brings unique perspective to her research program. Her dissertation focuses on cofounder selection, satisfaction, and dynamics associated with meeting venture objectives. She believes these relationships offer fertile ground for novel theoretical insight and are highly consequential for the venture. In addition contributing to theory, she hopes her work will help entrepreneurs achieve better cofounder fit, satisfaction and new venture outcomes.

Education

• Master's of Business Administration, August 2013
• Emphasis in Entrepreneurship
• Pepperdine University

• Graziadio School of Business & Management

• Bachelor of Arts in English and Communication, May 2003

• Minor in Journalism

• Albion College, Albion, Michigan

Research Interests

• Entrepreneurial teams
• Cofounder selection & satisfaction
• Team innovation & creativity
• Decision-making

Professional Experience

• CEO, Co-Founder, Uncorked! Games, Los Angeles, California
• Content Marketing Managing Editor, Capital Group, Los Angeles, California
• Adjunct Professor, Pepperdine University, The Graziadio School of Business & Management, Los Angeles, California & California State Polytechnic University, The Collins College of Hospitality Management, Pomona, California
• Managing Editor, Graziadio Business Review, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California

Academic Awards and Honours

• Selected for the 2021 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference Doctoral Consortium
• Selected for the 2021 United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) Doctoral Consortium
• S. Chum Torno Scholarship
• Brock Scholarship
• John F. Rankin Scholarship