Jeremy Kagan

Jeremy Kagan is a growth and innovation consultant, and advisor to corporations, startups and digital media companies. He is the former Managing Director of the Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School, where he managed the entrepreneurial curriculum, student programs, the Lang venture capital fund, and the Columbia Startup Lab. While there, he launched the Columbia Alumni Virtual Accelerator (CAVA), and the corporate innovation program, partnering companies and student entrepreneurs to start businesses in their areas of interest. Kagan remains on the board of the Lang Center, and is a Mentor in Residence at the Columbia Startup Lab. He is a judge of the Columbia Entrepreneurship annual business plan competition and the SIPA Dean’s Challenge for Social Impact startups.

As a Columbia Business School professor, he co-teaches the annual Lean Launchpad class, an intensive one-week boot camp with Steve Blank open to all Columbia University students. He is also a Professor of Digital Marketing, and Faculty Director of the Digital Marketing Strategy executive education program, and teaches both graduate and executive education classes. Kagan also teaches the Digital Marketing Intensive in the Cornell Tech MBA program, and Founding a Startup at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His book “Digital Marketing: Strategy and Tactics”, the first textbook for digital marketing, was published in 2018 by the Wessex Press, and is now in its second edition, with international editions now available as well. His new book “Designing the Successful Corporate Accelerator” was released by Wiley in 2021.