David Charron is a continuing lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He has thirty-five years of experience with technology commercialization. He has taught innovation, entrepreneurship, and investing at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business since 2003. He is the lead faculty in the NSF and NIH I-Corps programs and is the architect of the new Pathways for Open-Source Ecosystems program. He is actively involved in coaching healthcare innovators at UCSF. Mr. Charron has started several companies and actively advises and invests in new ventures. He has held leadership positions at Berkeley, run incubators and accelerators, and worked across corporate, academic, and government sectors.
