Executive Director and Professional Faculty
Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Entrepreneur, Educator, STEM commercialization expert

About

Rhonda Shrader is the executive director of the Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program and the NSF I-Corps Northwest Hub. She teaches three graduate-level Innovation & Entrepreneurship courses: Lean Transfer, Startup Disco, and Introduction to Commercializing Quantum Information, as well as the Berkeley Changemaker: How to Successfully Scale Family & Friend-Owned Businesses.

As an entrepreneur, Shrader was an early team member of MIT spinout Organogenesis, one of the first publicly traded regenerative medicine companies. She has founded—or was an early stage team member at—startups in biotech, behavioral health, nonprofit, retail, and AI. Shrader serves as faculty director for UC LAUNCH’s Accelerator, a lead instructor for NSF’s National I-Corps academic & SBIR training, and multiple programs for the U.S. Department of State. She earned an undergraduate degree in neuropsychology and premedical studies from Harvard and an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas.

Expertise and Research Interests

STEM Commercialization
Incubators & Accelerators
Lean Startup/Lean Launchpad Methodology
International Innovation & Entrepreneurship Education