Getting to know computer security in 90 minutes! (PRIME Practice Seminar)

Patrick McHugh – PRIME Program Director, Professor of the Practice

About the presenter:

Dr. McHugh is a Professor of the Practice in the School of Engineering at Brown University where he teaches courses in entrepreneurship, finance and strategy at the undergraduate, graduate and executive levels. His research interests focus on legitimacy and network theory in the context of social media and decision making. His work has been published in the Journal of General Management, Journal of Management and Organizations, Journal of Prediction Markets, and MIS Quarterly Executive. He has over 25 years of industry experience with technology companies, including executive roles at three venture-backed data security
firms. Earlier initiatives include building a call center automation services practice for GTE leveraging artificial intelligence and speech recognition (winner of the GTE Chairman’s Leadership Award) and an on-line financial service offering leveraging social media while at IBM Credit Corp. He is the recipient of two patents in the area of call center automation and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Columbia University, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a Ph.D. in management from Bentley University. Dr. McHugh is Director of the Brown University School of Engineering master’s program in Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship (PRIME), a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Cherrystone Angel Group.

Co-sponsored by PRIME and the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship