Vish Krishnan

Professor Vish Krishnan serves as the Jacobs Family Chair in Management and Engineering Leadership at the University of California San Diego's Rady School of Management, where he is also the Faculty Director of Rady's Entrepreneurship Initiative. As one of Rady School's founding faculty members, he has developed significant expertise in innovation, entrepreneurship, and product management. His distinguished career spans both academia and industry, with a PhD from MIT and extensive consulting experience with global corporations including 3M, Dell, HP, Qualcomm, Sony, Ford, Nissan, Zeiss, and Microsoft. He has led Rady School's signature Lab to Market curriculum series and serves as Associate Director for the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur. His academic contributions include highly-cited publications on innovation and product development, along with editorial positions at prestigious management journals. Professor Krishnan has received multiple teaching accolades, including being named Most Valuable Professor four times in the last decade, and has been invited to teach at prestigious institutions including MIT and Harvard University. His work has gained significant recognition, including appearances in the Wall Street Journal and being documented in Harvard Business School case studies.