Veloric Center for Entrepreneurship
Veloric Center for Entrepreneurship
The Veloric Center serves as a cross-campus catalyst to promote the entrepreneurial mindset (critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, resilience and risk taking) by providing a range of experiential learning opportunities for students (workshops and competitions), assisting undergraduate & graduate students as well as recent AU alumni to incubate and launch startup companies, and overseeing the entrepreneurship curriculum with the Department of Management (Entrepreneurship Specialization & Minor).
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Most Innovative University by US News and World Report and Bloomberg in 2022-2023.
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Best Graduate Entrepreneurship Program by Princeton Review and Entrepreneur in 2022.
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Active ventures in the incubator.
Recent Entrepreneurship News
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Leadership
Tommy White is a Senior Professorial Lecturer (formerly “Executive-in-Residence”) at the Kogod School of Business at American University. In this role, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on introduction to business, introduction to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship business planning, revenue/financial forecast modeling and start-up launch, and venture capital.
Professor White is also the Director of the Veloric Center for Entrepreneurship where he works promotes/directs entrepreneurial experiential learning activities throughout the AU campus and directly works with student entrepreneurs launching companies.
Professor White is an entrepreneur with 3 successful exits and 2 failed ventures. He is an active angel investor and coaches/mentors 20 – 25 startup ventures annually throughout the DC Startup Ecosystem.
Professor White received his MBA in Marketing from the Kogod School of Business, American University (1995) and his BA in Economics and History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1986).
Professor Vogel teaches courses at both Kogod and WCL focusing on the intersection between sustainability and entrepreneurship. She is also the Assistant Director of the Veloric Center for Entrepreneurship. Prior to joining the Kogod faculty, she founded Glen's Garden Market, a climate-motivated grocery store in Dupont Circle. Before that, she spent a decade on Capitol Hill working to pass comprehensive climate legislation. She also served as a Trial Attorney, enforcing the Clean Air Act for the U.S. Department of Justice.
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