Thane Kreiner

Thane Kreiner, PhD, is Executive Director of Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Howard & Alida Charney University Professor at Santa Clara University. Miller Center accelerates entrepreneurship to end global poverty and protect the planet; more than 1000 social enterprises have participated in its GSBI® accelerator programs and collectively improved, transformed, or saved the lives of over 380 million people living in poverty. Before joining Santa Clara University in 2010, Thane was Founder, President, and CEO of Second Genome and Presage Biosciences, Inc. and President and CEO of iPierian, later acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb. Thane spent 14 years at Affymetrix, Inc., the DNA chip industry pioneer. Thane earned his PhD in Neurosciences and his MBA from Stanford University and his BS in Chemistry from the University of Texas, Austin. His memoir on science and spirituality Composition of Life was recently published. Thane is an avid SCUBA diver, swimmer, yoga practitioner, and gardener.