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Rensselaer Appoints Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship
Robert A. Chernow has been appointed to the newly created
position of Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute.
“We have established a new position of Vice Provost for
Entrepreneurship to strengthen our culture of entrepreneurship
that integrates and supports the continuum of technological
entrepreneurship across the campus,” said Rensselaer President
Shirley Ann Jackson. “We will build on Rensselaer’s established
strengths in scientific and technological entrepreneurship,
interdisciplinary inquiry, and interactive learning and the
intellectual foundations of the Lally School of Management and
Technology, the Severino Center for Entrepreneurship, the
incubator program, and Rensselaer Technology Park.”
“With his experience in understanding and exploiting
markets; forming, growing, and managing successful companies
and practices; and his more recent work in planning and
creating programs in the university sector, Mr. Chernow is
uniquely positioned to lead Rensselaer’s efforts to infuse the
study, research, and practice of entrepreneurship across the
curriculum, with an emphasis on educational programs,”
President Jackson said.
Chernow is founder and president of Educational Services for
Entrepreneurship, a nonprofit organization assisting
universities in shaping their entrepreneurship initiatives. In
this role, he has assisted with benchmarking, strategic
planning, curriculum redesign, and launching new student and
alumni programs. He was a consultant to the Entrepreneurship,
Innovation, and Leadership Institute at Howard University,
serves as a volunteer at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology’s Deshpande Center, and has also provided consulting
services to a number of other colleges and universities.
Mr. Chernow recently completed an “Atlantic Fellowship” in
entrepreneurship working with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
at the HM Treasury in the United Kingdom to develop an
entrepreneurship position paper culminating in recommendations
to make the U.K. a more enterprising nation. This high-level
government initiative incorporates business, academic, science,
and technology initiatives proposed to be infused at all levels
of the public, private, and academic sectors.
Before forming his own consultancy in 2004, Chernow served
as senior vice president and head of entrepreneurship at the
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where he worked with
universities, women’s/minority organizations, and angel/venture
capitalists to expand entrepreneurship programs. At the
Kauffman Foundation, he created models for introducing
entrepreneurship into all disciplines on a university
campus.
Chernow’s interests in entrepreneurship are founded on a
21-year career in the health care industry specializing in
health care data analysis and technology. He served as
president and chief operating officer at Intelliclaim Inc.,
Norwalk, Conn.; principal, Global Human Resources Solutions at
PricewaterhouseCoopers, New York, N.Y.; president and chief
executive officer, New York and Presbyterian Health Plan, New
York, N.Y.; senior vice president and chief marketing officer
at Value Health Inc., Avon, Conn.; and president, Managed Care
Services Group at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company,
Westport, Conn.
He has founded two companies in the health care management
sector: Corporate Health Strategies, New Haven, Conn., and
World Specialists Online, Westport, Conn., and Sao Paulo,
Brazil. He grew Corporate Health Strategies to $50 million in
revenues and negotiated its sale to Metropolitan Life, assuring
MetLife’s re-entry into managed care.
Throughout his career, Mr. Chernow has served as a guest
lecturer at universities including MIT, Stanford, and the
Harvard Business School, as well as the U.N. Business Council
and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD). He earned a B.A. in Economics from Colgate University
and an M.P.H. in Health Care Management from the University of
California, Berkeley.
Published
January 16,
2006
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