Andre Marquis

Andre is the Founder and Executive Director of the Innovation Acceleration Group at the University of California Berkeley. He and his team have built scalable, global infrastructure to deliver training to hundreds of startups, and thousands of entrepreneurs and corporate innovators. Through world-class programs, including the reality TV show America's Greatest Makers, the Bay Area NSF Innovation Corps, Innovate for Digital India, Intel's $1.3m Make It Wearable Challenge, the Berkeley LAUNCH Startup Accelerator, Global Social Venture Competition. His team has redefined how to teach the process of evidence-based entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Two web companies Andre helped start IPOed, and a third was acquired by Amazon for close to $200 million. His most recent company, Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, raised over $190m in venture capital.