The Faculty of Business invites members of the campus community – students, faculty and staff – to attend a virtual lecture (teaching demonstration) by Dr. Reuben Domike for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level with a focus on entrepreneurship.

Candidate Bio:

Dr. Reuben Domike is a Teaching Professor of Technology and Information Management (T.I.M.) at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). He specializes in entrepreneurship/innovation. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering Practice (joint engineering and management) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) awarded in 2004 and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.  Prior to joining UCSC, he was an associate professor at the Brigham Young University and an associate professor at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) in the Faculty of Business where he was the founding director of the university-wide Hostetter Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship. Prior to joining UPEI in 2009, Dr. Domike was the founding director of a university-wide Center for Entrepreneurship at the College of Wooster in Ohio (funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation).

Over the past twenty years, Dr. Domike has been involved in developing start-up companies in the areas of software; management consulting; industrial water filters; and essential oil extraction. Four of these companies (two on PEI) are now significant with millions of dollars in revenue and dozens of employees each. On PEI, he has worked with dozens of small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs to advance their plans and operations.  His current research activities are primarily in collaboration with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Center for Biomedical Innovation (CBI) in the MIT Engineering Systems Division focused on quantitative assessment of new technologies in pharmaceutical products and manufacturing.

The lecture will take place on Wednesday, March 9, from 10:00-11:00 am (Atlantic Time) via the following Zoom link:  

https://upei.zoom.us/j/61366672134?pwd=blJZelF2U3g3ditKS1pndjFnMG04Zz09

Meeting ID: 613 6667 2134

Passcode: 705669

For further information, please contact Shelly Kavanagh at businessfac@upei.ca.