Pinar Ozcan

Moderator

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Pinar Ozcan is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Saïd Business School, Oxford University. She specializes in strategy, entrepreneurship, and technology markets. Her current research includes fintech strategy, open banking, and platform businesses. Pinar completed her Ph.D. at the Stanford University Management Science and Engineering Department, and also holds a Master of Science and dual Bachelors degrees from Stanford. At Stanford, Pinar directed the AEA Stanford Executive Institute, a summer executive program for the high tech industry for several years. She also organized the Stanford Entrepreneurship Thought Leaders Seminars, and helped create the Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner as part of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

Pinar recently had the honour to be selected to the Top 40 Business School Professors under 40 by Poets and Quants, and also was recently selected to the global Thinkers 50 list for emerging thinkers with the potential to make lasting contributions to management theory and practice. Finally, in 2019, she was chosen as a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow for her work on the disruption of banking in Europe and the UK.

Pinar is a founding partner of Blanchard International Turkey. Her work experience also includes management consulting at Siemens Corporation in Munich, Germany, and strategy consulting with technology ventures and venture capital firms in the Silicon Valley.