Professional Biography
Igor Kouzine is a Marketing and Entrepreneurial Finance lead instructor and a Senior Advisor in the Education Entrepreneurship Master’s program. He is an experienced investor, executive and board member who led successful turnarounds, built high performance growth organizations, and invested in early stage companies. With experience spanning CEO roles in financial services, venture capital, international IT sale, and multi-industry management consulting, Igor is a versatile business thinker and practitioner.
Igor designed and taught a graduate-level, general management capstone course ‘The Art and Science of Execution’ for a number of years. Designed to enable students to take classroom learnings and immediately apply them to their work, the course was one of the most popular at the New Economic School (Moscow, Russia) amongst students (“Best Visiting Professor in 2008 and 2012). Igor completed his second graduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA and currently advises senior leadership teams at both established institutions of higher education, and fledgling education ventures.
