Mark Searle is the Head of Mentoring Excellence, and Instructor at the Sutardja Center (SCET). He was formerly Senior Fellow for Global Programs at the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship in the Berkeley Haas School of Business. Outside the University, Mark is Managing Director of The Innovation Acceleration Group, and has over 20 years of experience as co-founder, CEO and COO of technology-driven start-ups and scale-ups across multiple industry segments.His formal education includes an MBA from Harvard, a Bachelor’s Degree from Princeton, and graduate studies toward an unfinished Ph.D. at UC Berkeley; he has won multiple teaching awards.