GCSEN Board of Director's, Emeritus

 

Jamie Kent is a singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur whose music is a lively, passionate mix of roots rock, contemporary folk, and mature pop. Kent has been called an “artist you need to know” by Rolling Stone magazine and a “must-watch artist” by the Huffington Post. His songs have been heard on major national television programs like “The Today Show,” and his 2016 album, All American Mutt, debuted at No. 16 on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart. Kent is a native of Northampton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Babson College in 2009. Kent met Professor Mike Caslin as a student in Babson’s inaugural Social Entrepreneurship Course. Kent has created a path for himself by putting together music and entrepreneurship and calling it “entrepreneurship.” In 2019, Kent hosted START up! a new, creative-based pitch competition to learn how entrepreneurship and art can intersect. The program was co-hosted with the Sorenson Center for the Arts and The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship.

 

Dr. Edward Rogoff is Dean of the Long Island University Brooklyn School of Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences. Prior to his current appointment, he served as the Lawrence N. Field Professor of Entrepreneurship and Chair of the Department of Management at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. Dr. Rogoff founded the CUNY Center for Student Entrepreneurship and was instrumental in developing nationally ranked undergraduate and graduate Entrepreneurship programs. Dr. Rogoff was named the 2010 Outstanding Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year by The United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE). Rogoff is an active researcher and writer in the field of entrepreneurship. His work has been published in The Journal of Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship Research Journal, The New York Times, and Forbes, among others. He is the author of two books, The Entrepreneurial Conversation and Bankable Business Plans, and the co-author (with David Carroll) of a third, The Second Chance Revolution: Becoming Your Own Boss After 50. Dr. Rogoff was an entrepreneur in the broadcasting industry for 15 years. He earned a B.A., M.B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Columbia University.