Mark V. Cannice, Ph.D.

Mark V. Cannice, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized scholar, teacher, and speaker on entrepreneurship and venture capital. He is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation with the University of San Francisco School of Management.

Dr. Cannice writes the widely-followed quarterly Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index Report® which is published by ProQuest, carried globally on Bloomberg Professional Services in 125 countries (Bloomberg ticker symbol: SVVCCI), and has been referenced in the Economist, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Xinhua News Service, Der Speigel, CNBC, National Public Radio, and many other media. He writes a similar quarterly report on the Chinese venture capital industry, China Venture Capitalist Confidence Index Report™ (Bloomberg ticker symbol: CVCCI). Professor Cannice's research in venture capital and technology management has been published in many leading academic journals (e.g. Management International Review, Journal of High Technology Management Research, Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship), and he is the co-author of Management: A Global and Entrepreneurial Perspective, 13th edition (2010) (published and distributed by McGraw-Hill in four languages).

Professor Cannice founded the USF Entrepreneurship Program, which under his leadership grew to become recognized among the nation's best entrepreneurship programs:

2004 - 12th most entrepreneurial campus in the nation according to Princeton Review and Forbes.com

2005 - Top tier university entrepreneurship program according to Entrepreneur Magazine

2006 - Top 25 graduate program in entrepreneurship in the nation according to Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine

He also founded the USF International Business Plan Competition which attracted top graduate student entrepreneurial teams from around the globe and hundreds of venture captialist and entrepreneurial executive judges over the six international contests he chaired.

Dr. Cannice has advised and lectured governmental organizations and universities from Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America on entrepreneurial education, given keynote addresses to CEO/CTO, attorney, and private equity manager audiences, and has been a Visiting Professor with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2006) and Peking University (2005) - China's top two universities. He founded his own company, Pacific Business Development, Inc., an international trading firm. He also served nine years active duty as a Naval Flight Officer in the U.S. Navy - most notably as a Patrol Plane Mission Commander leading an aircrew in military operations throughout the Pacific, and was promoted to Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserves. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Indiana University Kelley School of Business, an MBA from USF, and a B.S. from the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis).