Andrew Zacharakis is The John H. Muller, Jr. Chair in Entrepreneurship at Babson College and Director of the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference. He has written various books, in collaboration with William D. Bygrave, Stephen Spinelli, Jr. and Jeffry A. Timmons, about venture capital and entrepreneurship, which are his areas of expertise, and his articles have been published in numerous academic journals, as the Journal of Business Venturing, Academy of Management Executive and International Trade Journal, among others. Zacharakis has offered conferences at distinguished companies, including Intel, Met Life and Lucent Technologies; he has also trained executives worldwide.