Craig S. Galbraith PhD

Craig Galbraith's currently holds the Duke Progress Energy Distinguished Professorship at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he teaches in the areas of entrepreneurship, technology commercialization, risk management and institutional economics. He earned a Ph.D. from Purdue University and also holds graduate degrees in both molecular biology and operations/supply chain management. He has published eight books and over 100 academic articles; and has served as the Director of both his university's entrepreneurship center and the technology transfer office.

Craig is also an active entrepreneur and has founded several firms including a start-up biotechnology firm and several operations in ocean transportation. He is also an active angel investor.

Craig has a particular interest in global technology strategy and has worked as a commercialization project manager for a number of Department of Defense funded technology transfer offices. With his background, he worked extensively in the areas such as chemical and biological warfare agent detection systems and medical instrumentation. He has also been a consultant for many global technology firms, His current consulting business focuses primarily on business valuation and forensic economics, where he has valued well over 400 firms, and has testified in court over 50 times.

Craig grew up in San Diego, where he surfed a lot, and played basketball and tennis in high school. After a short stint in the Army went to college and found more success on the varsity fencing team. Became a bit of a hippie, lived on a 45 foot sail boat (cruising ketch) in San Diego for many years, mined gold in the California mountains (didn't make much money), and ultimately earned a living in college between working as an apprentice clock maker, playing claw-hammer banjo in an old timey group, and backup blues piano in bars (still pull out the banjo occasionally). Took up Taekwondo in midlife and competed in national competitions for several years. But had an only partially successful full knee replacement so his primary athletic activities these days are fond memories and biking on level ground. Overall, it has been fun.