Biography
Dr. Michael P. Lynch is Professor of Practice in the Department of Management and Florida Partnership Director Blackstone LaunchPad. Mike teaches core UCF courses in Entrepreneurship at both the undergraduate and graduate levels including Entrepreneurship in Established Organizations, Technology Entrepreneurship, New Venture Design, and New Venture Implementation. Dr. Lynch also serves in an administrative role as leader of the Florida expansion of the national Blackstone LaunchPad entrepreneurial mentorship and skills development program to now serve 370,000 students across Florida at FAMU, FIU, FSU, Miami Dade College, UCF, UF, and UNF.
Before joining UCF, Mike served in senior executive roles at NASCAR, Tyco/ADT, The Boston Consulting Group, and at startup companies as an intrapreneur, entrepreneur, chief sustainability officer, competitive strategy executive, as well as an investment committee member and pipeline due diligence executive in private equity and venture capital. Before his business career, Dr. Lynch was a tenured interdisciplinary scholar in speech, language, and hearing sciences and in developmental psychology at Purdue University where he was awarded NIH grants for his work on the development of music cognition in infants and the development of musically-structured phrasing in prelinguistic vocalizations.
Mike’s MBA with Honors in Finance & Strategic Management is from the full-time MBA program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His MS and PhD degrees in Developmental Psychology are from the University of Miami where he studied with Rebecca Eilers and D. Kimbrough Oller. Mike’s Bachelor of Music degree in Studio Music & Jazz is also from the University of Miami, where he played saxophone and performed with artists such as Celia Cruz, Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra. Mike has published 28 refereed journal articles and given more than 60 national and international academic conference presentations with a Google Scholar h-index = 19, i-10 index = 24, and total citations = 2,154 as of February 2025.
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