Instructors:
Professor Solomon Darwin
Professor Solomon Darwin comes with broad Leadership Experience in Corporate Management & Academia. He is an international speaker at many business conferences and has been recognized by his peers and students with numerous awards for his innovative leadership, teaching and curriculum development. At UC Berkeley, he teaches courses in Open Innovation, Business Model Innovation and Open Innovation in Emerging Economies. He also teaches in Executive Education Programs and serves as the faculty director of the International CEO program. As a center director, he moderates key annual International Conferences, Innovation Forums. He chairs the quarterly Dean’s CFO and Chief Innovation Office Round Tables. His teaching experience spans over 18 years. Prior to joining the Haas School of Business Berkeley in 2005, he was an Associate Professor for 9 years at USC’s Marshall School of Business in Los Angles.
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His progressive corporate leadership experience covers a span of 14 years as a Senior Finance Officer at Bank of America; Director of Finance at First Interstate Bank; Corporate Controller at Glendale Federal Bank and Senior Financial Analysts at Motorola.
During his spare time, Solomon consults and trains senior executives. The list includes: Google, Genentech, Hewlett Packard, UCSF Medical Center, HealthNet and other Silicon Valley companies and startups, as well as enterprises in Europe, Russia, China, Mexico and India.
Solomon actively teaches in the International Executive Programs as a Visiting Professor during summer breaks at prominent universities that include:
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Lancaster University, UK • University of Turku, Finland
- BI Norwegian Business School, Norway
- Korean University, South Korea
- International University of Business & Economics, Beijing, China
- Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
- Euro‐med, School of Management, France
- EM Lyon School of Management, France
- Wuhan University, China
- Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
- Peter Drucker School of Management, Claremont, CA
He is passionate about helping the poor to have access to good education and healthcare. He founded a school (1996) and a hospital (2004) for the poor in India. His academic achievements include: BA (San Francisco State University); MBA (Golden Gate University); MCCP (Harvard University); and holds two honorary doctorates. Solomon has been happily married to Amy Darwin for 18 years and is the father of Nena (17) Judah (15) and Jaelle (7).