Leonard Lodish

Bio

Leonard M. Lodish is Professor of Marketing and Samuel R Harrell Professor Emeritus in the Marketing Department of the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania and Leader of the Wharton Global Consulting Practicum (GCP) that has subsidiary partnerships with leading business schools in Israel, Chile, Peru, China, Taiwan, India, UAE, and Spain. Len was the initial Vice Dean for Wharton’s San Francisco campus from 2001-2009 and is currently Senior Advisor and Mentor to the Venture Initiation Program in San Francisco. He was also the founding Wharton Vice- Dean for Social Impact from 2009-2012. As a part time entrepreneur, Professor Lodish co-founded Management Decision Systems, Inc. (MDS) in 1967 with $4000 of initial equity capital. He was a corporate director of public companies Information Resources from 1986-2003, Franklin Electronic Publishers from 1992-2009, and J&J Snack Foods from 1992-2013. He also was co-owner and co-founder of Shadow Broadcast Services in 1991 that was sold to Westwood One, Inc. in 1998. He is currently a strategic advisor to Expansive Ventures, Leadedge Capital, Blumberg Capital, Lumia Capital, Vintage Venture Funds, and Mentor Tech Funds. Len also is or was a director or advisory board member of private companies –Freedom Communications, Compete.com, DVtel, Diapers.com (now Quidsi and part of Amazon), Milo.com (now part of Ebay), Notehall Inc (now a subsidiary of Chegg, Inc.), Oxicool, Sight Machine, InfoScout, Realfood Works, Brad’s Raw Chips, Powergetics,Inc, (now STEM), and Totspot, as well as an advisor to First Round Capital and the Jerusalem Global Venture Funds. Professor Lodish has consulted with many major firms world wide, including Procter and Gamble, Anheuser Busch, Syntex Laboratories, Merck and Company, McNeil Consumer Products Company, the Campbells’ Soup Company, Bentley Systems, Inc., Merrill Lynch, the Coca-Cola Company, and Walsh/PMSI. Len received a Ph.D. (Marketing and Operations Research) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management in 1968 and an A.B. (Mathematics) from Kenyon College in 1965.