Professor Mark Ahn
Chair in Science & Technology Entrepreneurship, Victoria University.
Mark J. Ahn, PhD. is Professor and Chair, Science & Technology Entrepreneurship with a joint appointment from the faculties of Commerce & Adm16 May, 2008. The role of the Chair is to focus efforts for research to build understanding of scientific entrepreneurship in international and national settings, and the processes required to enable successful commercialization of science and technology-based innovations.
Dr. Ahn’s teaching and research interests include technology-based entrepreneurship, management and innovation in biotechnology and life science industries, strategy-based transformation, leadership and organizational learning, and social responsibility and venture philanthropy.
Prior to Victoria, Dr. Ahn was founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Hana Biosciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company that acquires, develops, and commercializes innovative products to advance cancer care that he led from private to NASDAQ listed company. Prior to Hana, he served as Vice President, Hematology and corporate officer at Genentech, Inc. where he was responsible for commercial and clinical development of the Hematology franchise that surpassed $1 billion in revenues and achieved the #1 oncology therapeutic position in the US. Dr. Ahn also held a series of positions of increasing responsibility at Amgen and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in strategy, general management, sales & marketing, business development, and finance. He also served as an officer in the U.S. Army.
Dr. Ahn serves on the Board of Directors of Transmolecular, Inc., RXi Pharmaceuticals, Access Pharmaceuticals, and serves on the Board of Governors for Chaminade University.
Dr. Ahn received a BA in History and MBA from Chaminade University. He was a graduate fellow in Economics at Essex University, and has a PhD. in Business Administration from the University of South Australia. Dr. Ahn is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
Dr Ahn is the inaugural holder of the Chair in Science and Technology Entrepreneurship.
