Dr. Steve Gedeon

Dr. Steve Gedeon (PhD, MBA, PEng)

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Steven A. Gedeon, has recently been nominated by TVO for “The Best Lecturer of the Year, 2009”. He is the Chairman of NAO’s Education Committee, has led or started over a dozen companies, VC firms and non-profit organizations. He has sat on over 30 boards and technical committees including the CEO Fusion Center, Academy for Tech CEOs (AceTech) and the Ontario Partnership for Innovation and Commercialization (OPIC).
Dr. Gedeon has his PhD from MIT, MBA from University of Toronto and is a licensed professional engineer in the US and Canada with over 100 publications and patents.

Steve was recently CEO of 3DNA Corp., a new media technology company where he raised 5 rounds of financing and created the number one download in its product category with over 20 awards and 80 magazine articles, as well as many fan sites and over a million users.

Dr. Gedeon is a professor of entrepreneurship in the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University where he judges the $25,000 Standard Broadcasting Business Plan competition. He is faculty advisor to Students in Free Enterprise and teaches the final capstone courses in entrepreneurship, strategy and eBusiness.

Passionate about entrepreneurship, Steve is active in helping students start up over a dozen companies, working with entrepreneurs and lecturing on goal setting, motivation and personal greatness.

Research

His research interests include analyzing and modelling success factors related to performance of high-growth, technology-based companies, including:

• Sources of competitive advantage including information, technology, convergence, innovation, positioning and new market experimentation
• Financing entrepreneurial ventures including seed capital, angel investing, venture capital, private equity and merchant banking
• Improving personal and corporate performance including goal-setting, efficacy skills, motivation, networking and teamwork processes

Teaching

Professor Gedeon teaches the following courses:
ENT 730- Entrepreneurial Organizational Appraisal I
ENT 830- Entrepreneurial Organizational Appraisal I
BUS 800- Strategic management