Jon Fjeld studies and teaches entrepreneurship and innovation. He has led the entrepreneurship efforts at Fuqua since 2005.
Jon has spent over twenty years in marketing, engineering and general management in start-ups and public companies, as well as over ten years in academia.
From December, 2000, until July, 2004, Jon served as vice president of engineering for Align Technology in Santa Clara, CA. Between 1995 and 2000, he served as CEO of two RTP venture backed firms: Geomagic, a 3D software company and NetEdge Systems, a data networking equipment company. Prior to that, Jon spent 13 years at IBM, where he served in a number of management and executive positions within the networking and software business units. He began his professional career as an assistant professor in the philosophy department at Duke University.
Jon holds a Ph.D. and MA in philosophy from the University of Toronto, an MBA from Duke University, an MS in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a BA in mathematics and philosophy from Bishop's University.
