Currently on the faculty at the Haas School, Randy has taught New Venture Finance since 2007. Randy has nearly 30 years of experience in entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial organizations. He was the Founding VP Sales/Marketing at Yahoo!, followed by a 12-year career developing and leading his own venture capital fund (Outlook Ventures - $200M under management). While in previous roles at Apple Computer, Paramount/Viacom and AOL, Randy was responsible for internal (“intrapreneurial”) endeavors at each of these organizations – several of which were spun out to form new units or companies.

Today, Randy is focusing on Haykin Capital, which provides mentor capital to many start-ups in the Bay Area. At present, Randy has “adopted” two new companies led by UC Berkeley Haas grads and hopes to do more of this in the future as an angel/mentor.

Randy has lectured or taught classes at Brown, Harvard Business School, Stanford, and University of Edinburgh. In addition to his MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business, Randy’s undergraduate degree at Brown University was in Organizational Behavior and Management. Randy is also a graduate and long-time participant in the Creative Education Foundation programs (annual meetings and seminars on many topics of creativity) – http://www.creativeeducationfoundation.org/.

MOT Course(s):

• INNOVATION, CREATIVITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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