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Dr. Steven Gedeon
President, CEO Fusion, and Director, Ryerson Entrepreneur Institute

Dr. Gedeon, PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), MBA (University of Toronto), PEng is a professor in the Entrepreneurship & Strategy Department at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University. He is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist who has founded or led over a dozen private, public, venture capital and non-profit organizations; published over 100 articles, reports and patents; and delivered over 40 public speaking engagements and on-line videos on personal leadership, motivation, negotiation, entrepreneurship and teaching.

Dr. Gedeon has won over 20 awards including the inaugural 2009 Ryerson Experiential Teaching Award and the 2009 USASBE National Award for Entrepreneurial Experiential Education Best Practices.

Dr. Gedeon teaches the year-long experiential capstone courses in entrepreneurship where 100 students created over $20M in new revenue for 19 site companies and started over a dozen new companies over three years. Steve also teaches the final capstone courses in Strategy and eBusiness. His research interests include analyzing and modelling success factors related to the start up and performance of high-growth, technology-based companies.

As Faculty Advisor to Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), Steven provides experiential teaching to over 100 students from all five Ryerson faculties and coached the team to winning 3 Regional Championships the National Entrepreneurship Championship and the National Financial Literacy Championship. In 2009, SIFE affected over 350 high school and at-risk youth, 1400 Ryerson students and funded $400,000 toward students’ companies.

Dr. Gedeon is currently Director of the Ryerson Entrepreneur Institute, Director of the Ryerson Angel Network, Managing Director of the Dobson Micro-Financing Seed Venture Fund, President of CEO Fusion, Chairman of the Educational Committee of the National Angel Capital Organization, Faculty Advisor to Students in Free Enterprise Ryerson, and Advisor to the Ontario Partnership for Innovation and Commercialization (OPIC).

Steven was CEO of Ashurst Technology, a TSE and NASDAQ listed company with 26 subsidiaries in 15 countries and founded Jaycor’s $100M corporate VC program. More recently, Steven was Founding CEO of 3DNA Corp., a new media technology company that raised 6 rounds of financing and created the number one download in its product category with over 20 awards and 80 magazine articles, as well as many fan sites and over a million users.