Primary Job Title Partner Primary Organization FoundersX Ventures
Location Menlo Park, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
Website www.foundersx.com/team/tom-kosnik-tghsl Facebook View on Facebook LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
Tom Kosnik joined FoundersX Ventures as Partner in 2016.Tom Kosnik is a Fenwick and West Consulting Professor, Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), at Stanford School of Engineering.
He is an International Advisor for National University of Singapore Entrepreneurship Centre, and a cofounder of Gear Up Ventures, a global partnership that
helps entrepreneurs in organizations large and small to create new markets and disrupt existing markets.
His current courses include Global Entrepreneurial Marketing, Technology Entrepreneurship, New Venture Creation, and Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Program. He taught Marketing at Harvard Business School from 1985-89, and launched HBS's Entrepreneurial Marketing course in1995-97.
Education:
BA in History and International Relations, Duke University (1972), MBA, University of Virginia (1977), Ph.D., Stanford Graduate School of Business (1986).






