Centre for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and SMEs (CENTIM)
Guest Lecture "Entrepreneurship Stories: CommonShare"
Date
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Time
10:00 - 11:15
Martin Smith will share his personal journey as a sustainable techpreneur and impact investor to students specialising in International management and guests. Students will get real life experience on how entrepreneurship works on the ground, rather than in theory. After a short lecture of the guest speaker, there will be time for questions and answers in a discussion.
About the Lecturer
Martin Smith is a product driven entrepreneur focused on marketplaces that increase transparency in opaque markets, further sustainability within firms, or create better broad-based ownership among value-creating stakeholders. He is currently working on building CommonShare, an online platform that hopes to make sustainable commerce competitive.
Smith is also a PhD Fellow studying firms with distributed ownership and policies that encourage wealth distribution through firms at United Nations University-MERIT / Maastricht University in collaboration with the schools of business and governance. Specifically, his research is focused on how Coase´s theory of the firm breaks down in large scale digital marketplaces, the effects this has on marketplace participants, and the implications for wealth inequality.
He is the former founder/co-founder of Justmeans, 3BLMedia, SynZenBe, Le Souk, and StartingBloc and an active angel investor through NextGen Venture Partners. He was the first CRO at Noodle Education. Smith has lived around the world while working as a social entrepreneur including in Bangladesh, India, the Dominican Republic, the United Kingdom, Spain, and the Netherlands.
He is particularly interested in impact investing, sustainability, broad-based ownership, sustainable value chains, digital marketplaces, experimental economics, and governance. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago. Outside of work, he is an avid reader, kitesurfer and mountain hiker.
The event is open for all students interested in entrepreneurship either as current or potential founders.
The session is scheduled for Wednesday January 20, 2021 from 10.00 am - 11.15 am
We look forward to an engaging and inspiring lecture with you. Please register by sending an email to joyce.treptow@h-brs.de
The event will be held in English.
We would like to thank Professor Bode, Vice President for International Affairs and Diversity and Mrs Regina Brautlacht in her capacity as the Presidential Commissioner / Advisor for Global Digital Learning.