Sid Vedula announced as new FSB Department of Entrepreneurship chair
Vedula to start in new role on July 1
Sid Vedula announced as new FSB Department of Entrepreneurship chair
The Farmer School of Business Department of Entrepreneurship will have a new leader this summer. On July 1, Siddharth (Sid) Vedula will take over the role previously held by Tim Holcomb.
Sid is currently an associate professor of entrepreneurship at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he has worked since 2020. At TUM, Sid currently holds the Dieter Schwarz Professorship in Entrepreneurship and Community. Prior to that role, he was an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College in Boston, MA.
“Entrepreneurship at the Farmer School is an award-winning, internationally recognized program. I've had the privilege to collaborate closely with several of the faculty at Farmer over the past decade. I’m both honored and excited to have the opportunity to now join this fantastic team,” Vedula said.
Sid holds bachelor’s degrees in physiology and mathematics from the University of Toronto, a master’s degree in biomedical engineering from McGill University, and a doctorate in strategic and entrepreneurial studies from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He has also co-founded and worked as an engineer in several startups in both the aerospace and medical device industries.
“We are thrilled to welcome Sid Vedula to the Farmer School of Business as the new chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship. His impressive academic background, international experience, and remarkable energy will no doubt inspire our students, faculty, and the broader entrepreneurial community,” said Jenny Darroch, Dean and Mitchell P. Rales Chair in Business Leadership “We’re also incredibly grateful to Tim Holcomb for his lasting impact on the department, and to Michael Conger for his leadership during the interim period.”
For the past several years, almost 4,200 students annually from more than 110 different majors across campus have taken at least one course in entrepreneurship at the Farmer School of Business. For the past 16 years, the program has been ranked by the Princeton Review as one of the top 10 public undergraduate programs in the world - it is currently ranked No. 7 among all undergraduate entrepreneurship programs.
