Mark V. Cannice, Ph.D. is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation with the University of San Francisco School of Management, recent former Chair of the Department, and the Founder of its Entrepreneurship Program. Dr. Cannice’s primary research is in venture capital, and he writes a quarterly research report on Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence, which is indexed globally on Bloomberg Professional Services in 170 countries (Bloomberg ticker symbol: SVVCCI) since 2004 and is referenced regularly by business media. Professor Cannice has published in leading academic and professional journals and is the co-author of Management: A Global and Entrepreneurial Perspective, 15th edition (2020) (published by McGraw-Hill in four languages). Dr. Cannice has advised governments and universities from Asia, Europe, and Latin America on entrepreneurial education, and has been a Visiting Professor with the University of Paris 2 (Panthéon-Assas), a Visiting Associate Professor with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Peking University, and a Visiting Scholar with Waseda University (Tokyo) and Loyola Marymount University (L.A.). He is a former U.S. Naval Officer and holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Indiana University Kelley School of Business, an MBA from USF, and a B.S. from the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis).