Knutsen is the Director of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service, where she is employed since 2008.  She directs the Social Enterprise Ecosystem program, bringing venture development services and capital access to social enterprises in rural Southeast Ohio and contiguous states. Knutsen is a member of four social enterprise Boards, including the Marietta College Entrepreneurship Advisory Board and several performing arts enterprises.

Stacy Strauss joined the Innovation Center as the Associate Director in August 2014 and was promoted to Director in October 2016. Strauss manages the staff, makes connections for clients, oversees facility management, fundraising efforts, budget analysis, grant writing, and other Innovation Center operations.

Mass is an experienced senior executive and entrepreneur who has combined his legal background, c-level operating experience and entrepreneurial risk-taking to create substantial value in several young companies, in industries as diverse as e-commerce, cable television, radio broadcasting, proprietary data services and a start-up drug discovery firm.

Dr. Luke Pittaway is Associate Dean in the College of Business and O’Bleness Professor of Entrepreneurship. He is an expert on entrepreneurial behavior, networking, entrepreneurial failure, business growth and corporate venturing, Pittaway’s research focuses on entrepreneurship education and learning. In 2018 he was awarded USASBE's Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year.