Mark V. Cannice, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized
scholar, teacher, and speaker on entrepreneurship and venture
capital. He is Department Chair and 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
and EBSCO, 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 has written similar quarterly
reports 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, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial Perspective, 14th
edition (2013) (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 annual 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) - two of
China's top 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).
