Lou Marino, PhD

Dr. Lou Marino is the Department Chair of the Michael A. Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship, and Hospitality and a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Kennesaw State University.   

Dr. Marino has served the Academy and the field of Entrepreneurship in several ways.  At Academy, he has co-chaired the Early Career Development Workshop, the Mid-Career Development Consortium, served on the Research Committee where he headed up a subcommittee to award the Best Family Business Paper and has served on the Innovations subcommittee.   Outside of the Entrepreneurship Division, he has served as a senior scholar at the Strategic Entrepreneurship Society, on the Board of Reviewers for the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference and the Sustainability, Ethics, Entrepreneurship (SEE) Conference.  At the University of Alabama, Dr. Marino worked with colleagues to develop a nationally recognized undergraduate entrepreneurship program. He has also taught courses for universities in Russia, Italy, France, Peru, and Chile.  Outside of Academia, he has been involved with several startups as a team member and an investor and actively consults with firms of all sizes.