Profile

Ed Egan is a third year doctoral student in the Business and Public Policy (BPP) group at the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley. He conducts empirical research relating to the financing of innovation, particularly venture capital, and is currently working on developing economic models relating to innovation and the theory of the firm. Ed previously co-founded two start-ups, one that developed ecommerce server software and another that provided data and analysis to the venture capital industry, and worked as an associate for a Canadian venture capital firm.

Contact Details

My university mailing address is:

Edward J. Egan, PhD Student

2200 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley,

CA, 94720, USA.

Email:

ed@edegan.com or ed_egan@haas.berkeley.edu

Tel:

(Office - F535 at Haas) +1 510 643 1415

(USA) +1 510 275 4535 (Fax by arrangement only)

(CAN): +1 604 734 2995

(Cell): +1 510 388 2755

Degrees and Honours

Degrees:

• BSc (Hons) in Physics from University College London (UCL), London, England (2000)
• MSc in Business from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada (2006)
• PhD in Business from the University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA (In Progress).

Honours:

• Canadian Graduate Scholar (2008)
• Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow (2008)
• UBC University Graduate Fellow (2006)
• See my curriculum vitae for other honours and awards.