39 Serguei Netessine Senior Vice Dean for Innovation and Global Initiatives; Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship The Wharton School Serguei Netessine is the Senior Vice Dean for Innovation and Global Initiatives and the Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Wharton School. His research focuses on business model innovation and operational excellence, with applications across retail, technology, and aerospace industries. He has advised Fortune 500 organizations and governments. Netessine is a prolific academic with numerous publications in top journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, and Harvard Business Review. He is also the co-author of The Risk-Driven Business Model (Harvard Business Press), which explores how operational choices shape competitive strategy. In addition to his academic work, he is an active angel investor and serves on the advisory boards of several startups. Valery Yakubovich Executive Director Mack Institute for Innovation Management As the Executive Director of the Mack Institute, Dr. Valery Yakubovich focuses on creating synergies among research, teaching, and practice of innovation management within the school and university, promoting dialogue between practitioners and academics, and connecting with corporate and regional partners’ innovation ecosystems. In his previous roles, he conducted research, teaching, consulting, and fundraising at major academic and corporate institutions, including the Wharton School, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the ESSEC Business School in France. Dr. Yakubovich’s research on technological and organizational innovations and social networks has appeared in top academic and practitioner journals, including Organization Science, American Sociological Review, Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review, and was featured in mass media, including the Financial Times, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.