PROFESSOR KEVIN HINDLE
BA(Hons) (ANU), MBA (Adel), PhD (SUT), CPA, AAIM, AAMI, MMRS, MPRIA

(t) + 61 3 9214 8732
khindle@swin.edu.au

Kevin Hindle is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He is a researcher, educator, management consultant and private equity investor. His variety of expertise and interests embrace many aspects of managing in conditions of uncertainty. His research, teaching, managerial and consulting work focuses on entrepreneurial business planning but includes: investment evaluation (especially in the field of venture capital), market and financial modelling, change management, organisational design, corporate strategy and management training. Applying leading-edge research to practical problems, he has initiated and developed new ventures and worked for organisations large and small, public and private, Australian and international.

As a long-serving educator, Professor Hindle has developed and taught marketing, finance, organisational behavioural and entrepreneurship curricula for a range of award and executive development programs in Europe, Asia and America as well as Australasia. He has taught in the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration's executive MBA program. He has held visiting professorships in entrepreneurship at Baylor University (Texas), at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and was the inaugural visiting professor at the First Nations University of Canada (Regina , Saskatchewan). He is co-author of two textbooks on entrepreneurship.

His several professional awards include winning the (American) Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division and McGraw Hill Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award in 2004. This is a highly regarded honour for entrepreneurship education in the United States. Professor Hindle is the first non-North American ever to win it. In the same year he won Australia's highest entrepreneurship education award, the Business/Higher Education Round Table (B-Hert) Award for the Best Entrepreneurial Educator of the year.

As a researcher, Kevin Hindle has authored over eighty publications including more than fifty peer-reviewed papers in a range of respected international journals and conference proceedings. He is Australian Project Director of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), the world's largest entrepreneurship research initiative. Beyond academe, Professor Hindle has been an entrepreneur in his own right and currently risks his own money backing his judgment as a private equity investor. He has a strong network of collaborations and personal friendships among leading entrepreneurship scholars and practitioners throughout the world and a track record of substantial fundraising for entrepreneurship research.

His current teaching and research activities are focused in six research areas:

• the innovation-entrepreneurship relationship

• the factors and processes influencing new venture investment

• Indigenous entrepreneurship

• entrepreneurship education

• the methodology of entrepreneurship research, and

• entrepreneurship policy

Professor Hindle has consulted on entrepreneurship policy to both State and Federal governments and several international universities, government organizations and corporations. He is a ministerially appointed foundation member of Australia 's National Innovation Awareness Council and on the advisory board of the International Danish Entrepreneurship Academy (IDEA). The unifying theme of all his work is to develop and execute constructive, internationally relevant research whose findings can be used to enhance the teaching and development of ethical entrepreneurs in Australia and the world.