Business Management

Biography:

Steven A. Gedeon, PhD (MIT), MBA, PEng is a professor in Entrepreneurship & Strategy at the Ted Rogers School of Management. He has founded or led over a dozen private, public, venture capital and non-profit organizations; published over 100 articles, reports and patents; and delivered over 40 public speaking engagements and on-line videos on personal leadership, motivation, entrepreneurship and teaching.

Dr. Gedeon has won over 20 awards including the inaugural Ryerson Experiential Teaching Award, the Ryerson President’s Award of Teaching Excellence and the USASBE National Award for Entrepreneurial Experiential Education Best Practices.

Professor Gedeon teaches the year-long experiential capstone courses in entrepreneurship where 100 students created over $20M in new revenue for 19 site companies and started over a dozen new companies over three years.

As Faculty Advisor to Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), Steve provides experiential teaching to over 100 students from all five Ryerson faculties and coached the team to winning 19 Championships including the National Entrepreneurship Championship, the National Financial Literacy Championship and the overall Most Enterprising Campus National Championship. Over the last 3 years, SIFE has impacted over 1,000 high school and at-risk youth, 3,000 Ryerson students and helped 35 startup companies raise over $1M in financing.

As Director of the Ryerson Entrepreneur Institute (REI) – Canada’s only student run entrepreneurship centre – Steve finances, supervises and mentors approximately 30 work-study students during the year and 25 full-time summer experiential learning students. In 2010 REI won the Canadian Urban Institute’s Prosperity Leadership Award for the greatest impact on any city’s prosperity.

Steve was CEO of Ashurst Technology, a TSE and NASDAQ listed company with 26 subsidiaries in 15 countries and founded Jaycor’s $100M corporate VC program. More recently, Steve was Founding CEO of 3DNA Corp., a new media technology company that raised 6 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 currently Director of the Ryerson Entrepreneur Institute, Director of the Ryerson Angel Network, Managing Director of the Dobson Micro-Financing Seed Venture Fund, President and Chairman of CEO Fusion, Chairman of the Educational Committee of the National Angel Organization, Faculty Advisor to Students in Free Enterprise Ryerson, Faculty Advisor to the Digital Media Zone, Advisor to the Ontario Partnership for Innovation and Commercialization and Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurship & Strategy Department at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University.

2005 - Present  Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Ryerson University
2004 - Present  President, CEO Fusion
1995 - Present  President, Intelliaction Inc.
2001 - 2005  CEO, 3DNA Corp.
2000 - 2001  Venture Capitalist, Jaycor Inc.
1999 - 2000  Venture Capitalist, Primaxis Technology Ventures Inc.
1998 - 1999  Director of Corporate Finance and Strategy, Space Database Inc.
1997 - 1998 CEO, Ashurst Technology Ltd. (TSE & NASDAQ listed ASH.UN)
1996 - 1997  President, Impel Power Products and Mentalogic Systems Inc.
1995 - 1996  Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Toronto Micro Electronics
1990 - 1995  Adjunct Professor , University of Toronto
1990 - 1995  Adjunct Professor, University of Waterloo
1990 - 1995  Director of Research & Technology, Welding Institute of Canada
1988 - 1990  Advanced Materials Engineering Consultant, TEMAV, Centro Ricerche Venezia, Italy
1985 - 1988  Materials Engineer and Team Leader, U.S. Army Materials Technology Laboratory
1982 - 1987  Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Qualifications:

Academic Qualifications:
MBA University of Toronto, Faculty of Management 1997
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Materials Science & Eng 1987
MS Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Materials Science & Eng 1984
BS The Ohio State University, Industrial and Welding Systems 1982

Honors:

2006-Present ACE Fellow in the John Dobson Foundation
2005-Present Standard Broadcasting Business Plan Competition Judge
2003 Business Plan of the Year Competition. Third Place, Innovations Foundation
2002-2004 Listed in International Who's Who of Entrepreneurs
2002-2004 Listed in International Executive Guild's Who's Who
1995 Distinguished Alumnus, youngest awardee in the history of The Ohio State University
1987-1988 Listed in Who's Who in the East

Research Interest:

Research interests leverage relationships and grants from the Ontario Partnership for Innovation and Commercialization, Dobson Foundation, CEO Fusion, National Angel Organization, Students in Free Enterprise, and the Entrepreneur’s Benchmarking and Thought Leadership Forum and include analyzing and modeling success factors related to performance of high-growth, technology-based companies, including:

• Sources of competitive advantage including technology, convergence, innovation, positioning, human capital and relationship management capital

• Financing entrepreneurial ventures including seed capital, angel investing, venture capital, private equity and merchant banking

• Improving personal and corporate performance including goal-setting, efficacy, motivation, intent, behavior, and networking

• Monitoring and modeling performance indicators including key business drivers, board governance and corporate valuation

Dr. Gedeon has hired over 20 undergraduate research assistants and work-study students during 2006 and 2007.

Current Courses:

ENT 730   Entrepreneurial Organization Appraisal I
ENT 830   Entrepreneurial Organization Appraisal II
BUS 800  Strategy
ITM 360    Establishing an eBusiness
ITM 100    Business and Information Systems

Professional Affiliations:

Students in Free Enterprise, Faculty Advisor

National Angel Organization, Chairman, Educational Committee

Ontario Partnership for Innovation and Commercialization, Advisory Board

Academy for Technology CEOs, Board of Directors and CEO Roundtable Leader

CEO Fusion, Chairman