Kostas Grigoriou is a visiting professor of strategic management, teaching Strategy and helping IBE student teams with their Capstone projects. He earned his PhD in Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship from Georgia Tech in 2012. Kostas has extensive experience in building and funding new ventures. Former academic, strategy consultant, entrepreneur, and venture studio director. His mission is to empower determined entrepreneurs and strategists to launch or grow their companies unleashing the power of -what Schumpeter calls – “creative destruction”. An expert at human-centric business design and building high-performing teams. He has led business design teams building B2B software companies at High Alpha and AI startups at Forum Ventures. At High Alpha Innovation, he developed and applied the venture studio formula of de-risking and accelerating new venture creation in partnership with corporations, universities, governments, and VC funds across verticals such as industrial, supply chain, healthcare, CPG, finance, and agriculture. He also built a digital health venture studio in The Sanguine Lab.  At McKinsey & Co., he led strategy engagements with Fortune 500 corporations trying to adjust to the new era of digital transformation. Kostas has also been in business academia before, at Florida International University & Georgia Tech, teaching Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship and doing research at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and human capital.