Jeremy Kagan

Jeremy Kagan is the Managing Director of the Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center at ­Columbia Business School, where he oversees the entrepreneurial curriculum and programming, the multimillion dollar Lang Investment Fund, and the Columbia Startup Lab. For over a decade he has also been a Professor at Columbia Business School, Department of ­Marketing, in the MBA, EMBA, and Executive Education programs, teaching in the areas of Digital ­Marketing, Strategy and Innovation, and Entrepreneurship.

He previously founded PricingEngine.com, a SaaS marketing technology company helping small businesses manage search marketing (SEM) and digital advertising, with peer benchmarking, a simple, unified platform for deploying and managing campaigns, and many other features to save them time, money, and acquire more sales and leads.

In his consulting capacity, Jeremy works as a mentor with numerous accelerators, such as the ER Accelerator, Innovation Norway, the German Accelerator, Dreamit, XRC Labs, as well as advising individual startup companies.

Kagan has held executive positions at Sony Music Entertainment in the Global Digital ­Business unit handling Global Mobile Accounts; as Vice President/Director, Strategy and Customer Insights in advertising at Publicis Modem, where he was head of Strategy and Innovation; and as a strategy consultant at IBM and Dean & Company. He holds an MBA from Columbia ­Business School and both a BS from the Wharton School and BA at the College of the University of Pennsylvania.

Kagan now lives with his wife and children in Greenwich Village in New York City — just down the block from where he used to promote Indie rock concerts and parties. Life’s funny that way.