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1 Page 1 Academic Positions University of Massachusetts Amherst - Isenberg School of Management Director, New Ventures September Present o Build and manage the Berthiaume Mentorship Program. o Develop and implement summer accelerator. o Design and oversee incubator space. o Establish relationships with external entrepreneurship partners. Associate Director, Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship September September 2016 In April 2014, UMass received a $10 million dollar gift to start the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship. I came on board September 2014 to begin to build the program. In the first 9 months, I was able to design and implement the following: o Idea Jams - Non-judging space to pitch out ideas and form teams. o Demo Day - Demonstrate why we should be excited about your venture. o ETalks - Entrepreneur speaker series. o HackUMass - 36 hour hardware and software hackathon. o UMass Entrepreneurship Club - Student-run Incubator o Berthiaume Student Innovators - Volunteer base that runs center events and owns campus entrepreneurial culture. o Entrepreneurship Everywhere - Summer High School Entrepreneurship Academy o C4E Services - Connect ventures to mentors and investors, develop relationships with vendors for backend support (tech, legal, accounting, marketing). Academic year implementations: o UMass Innovation Challenge - 3 part pitch competition. o Hult UMass o UMass - 48 hours, idea to launch. o Coleman Fellows Director - Lead non-business faculty in development of niche entrepreneurship curriculum. o Social Entrepreneurship Consortium - Bring social, environmental, and civic faculty together to create social entrepreneurship programming. o More clubs - Social Entrepreneurship Club, Design Club, and UMass. o Accelerator Course - Year-long course that allows/pushes students to take their venture to the next level, meaning launch or to be investor ready; begins Fall o Startup Career Fair - Invite startups to come to campus to show the startup lifestyle and interview students ready to jump in.

2 Page 2 o Entrepreneurship Sales Skills Certification - Non-academic credit program to teach necessary sales skills to those starting new ventures. o Official startup internship and placement services Associated appointments: o Valley Venture Mentors Accelerator Advisor o MassChallenge Judge o Harold Grinspoon Entrepreneurship Initiative Academic Advisor o University Innovation Fellows Faculty o Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council o Springfield Institute Board Member o Inaugural Programming Emerging Track Chair USASBE 2018 o Education Fellow - Straight Up Business Institute Recognition: o 2017 USASBE Entrepreneurship Education Innovation Award o 2016 USASBE Outstanding Emerging Program Award PUBLICATIONS Cowden, Birton and Bendickson, Joshua (Forthcoming) The Impact of Regulatory Focus and Institution on the Innovativeness of New Ventures. Management Decision. Cowden, Birton and Tang, Jintong (2017). Gender Differences and Entrepreneurial Munificence: The Pursuit of Innovative New Ventures. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. Vol. 22, Issue 1. Tang, Jintong, Tang, Zhi, and Cowden, Birton (2017). Exploring the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Orientation, CEO Dual Values, and SME Performance in State-Owned vs. Non- State-Owned Enterprises in China. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Vol. 41, Issue 6. Liguori, Eric, Cowden, Birton, and Hertz, Giles (2017). SOLD! An Entrepreneurial Sales Skills Bootcamp. Annals of Entrepreneurship and Pedagogy, Volume 2, edited by Michael H. Morris and Eric Liguori. Cowden, Birton, Wooldridge, Bill, and Senior, Alexander (2016), Unicorns: Flipping the Principle-Agent Relationship. USASBE Whitepapers. Cowden, Birton, Tang, Jintong, and Bendickson, Joshua (2016). The Maturing of Entrepreneurial Firms: Entrepreneurial Orientation, Firm Performance, and Administrative Heritage. New England Journal of Entrepreneurship. Vol. 19, Issue 2. Cowden, Birton (2016). Playing the Student Card. The Startup Student, edited by Eric Liguori.

3 Page 3 Bendickson, Joshua, Davis, Phillip, Cowden, Birton, and Liguori, Eric. (2015). Why small firms are different: Addressing varying needs from boards of directors. Journal of Small Business Strategy. Vol. 25, Issue 2. Cowden, Birton, Tang, Jintong, Yang, Jun, and Zhang, Yuli (2015). Exploring Innovative New Ventures in China and the United States. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. Vol. 20, Issue 2. Cowden, Birton and Bendickson, Josh (2015) Don't Pitch, Show: An Update to Final Course Presentations. Experiential Entrepreneurship Exercises Journal. Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp Kander, Diana and Cowden, Birton (2015). Teaching the Dynamic Nature of the Business Model Canvas. Experiential Entrepreneurship Exercises Journal. Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp Cowden, Birton, Alhorr, Hadi, Bendickson, Josh. (2015). Experience-Based Green Board Capital: Linking Board of Directors and Firm Environmental Performance. Journal of Leadership, Accountability, and Ethics. Cowden, Birton and Alhorr, Hadi. (2013). Disruptive Innovation in Multinational Enterprises. Multinational Business Review. Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp Cowden, Birton and Kalliny, Morris (2013) The Role of Culture in Developing Disruptive Innovations in Domestic Firms. Cultural and Technological Influences on Global Business, edited by Bryan Christiansen, Ekaterina Turkina, and Nigel Williams. Alhorr, Hadi S., Boal, Kim and Cowden, Birton. (2012). Regional Economic Integration and International Strategic Alliances: Evidence from the European Union. Multinational Business Review. Vol.20, Issue 1, pp PAPERS UNDER REVIEW OR IN PROGRESS Cowden, Birton, Wooldridge, William, and Floyd, Steven (working paper to submit to AMR), Entrepreneurial Orientation: Neither Entrepreneurial nor an Orientation. Cowden, Birton, Wooldridge, William, and Floyd, Steven (working paper to submit to ETP), Exploring objective financial measures to identify entrepreneurial orientation. Cowden, Birton and Bendickson, Joshua (working paper to submit to ETP), Has Entrepreneurial Orientation become the norm? An empirical examination over 30 years.

4 Page 4 PROCEEDINGS Cowden, Birton and Tang, Jintong (2017). Gender Differences and Community Resources: The Pursuit of Innovative New Ventures. Proceedings USASBE. Philadelphia, PA. Cowden, Birton, and Tang, Jintong (2016). The Maturing of Entrepreneurial Firms: Entrepreneurial Orientation, Firm Performance, and Administrative Heritage. Proceedings USASBE. San Diego, CA. Bendickson, Joshua and Cowden, Birton (2015) Board Members for Small Firms: A Means to Providing Competitive Advantage. Proceedings Small Business Institute, St. Petersburg, FL. *Best Conceptual Paper Award Cowden, Birton, Tang, Jintong, Yang, Jun, and Zhang, Yuli (2015). Exploring Innovative New Ventures in China and the United States. Proceedings USASBE, Tampa, FL. Tang, Jintong, Tang, Zhi, and Cowden, Birton (2015). Exploring the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Orientation, CEO Dual Values, and SME Performance in State-Owned vs. Non- State-Owned Enterprises in China. Proceedings USASBE, Tampa, FL. Tang, Jintong, Tang, Zhi, and Cowden, Birton (2014). Investigating the Joint Contributions of EO and CEO Values to Performance of Chinese SMEs. Proceedings Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Cowden, Birton (2014). Don't Just Pitch, Show: An Update to Student Business Plan Presentations. Presentation EEP Conference. Tampa, FL. Cowden, Birton and Zhao, Hongxin (2014), Understanding Innovative Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Emerging Economies through Regulatory Focus and Institutional Environments. Proceedings USASBE. Fort Worth, TX. Tang, Jintong, Tang, Zhi, and Cowden, Birton (2013). Investigating the Joint Contributions of EO, Ownership and CEO Values to Chinese SMEs' Performance. Proceedings Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL. Guo, Hai, Tang, Jintong and Cowden, Birton (2013). The Influence of Business Model Innovation on the Link between Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition and Performance of SMEs in China. Proceedings USASBE. San Francisco, CA. *Best Empirical Paper Award Guo, Hai, Tang, Jintong and Cowden, Birton (2013). Organizational legitimacy vs. entrepreneurial orientation: Effects on new venture performance in China. Proceedings USASBE. San Francisco, CA.

5 Page 5 Cowden, Birton and Zhao, Hongxin (2012). The Entrepreneurial and Institutional Mindset: Determining Types of New Ventures in Emerging Economies. Proceedings Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. Cowden, Birton (2012). Understanding the Construct of Administrative Heritage. Proceedings Academy of International Business Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. Cowden, Birton and Alhorr, Hadi. (2012). A Classic Approach to Finding An Innovative Source: Discovering Disruption in MNEs. Proceedings Academy of International Business Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. Cowden, Birton and Alhorr, Hadi. (2011). Leveraging the Firm's Green Network: Examining the Role of Board of Directors on the Firm's Sustainability Performance. Proceedings Southern Management Association Annual Meeting. Savannah, GA. PANELS Cowden, Birton, Wooldridge, William, and Floyd, Steven (2017). Re-Examining Entrepreneurial Orientation in an Age of Disruption. Panel Guests: Jeff Covin, Tom Lumpkin, Greg Dess, and Bill Wales. Strategic Management Society. Houston, TX. Cowden, Birton and Wooldridge, William (2015). Hackathons: Cross Campus Entrepreneurial Fuel. Deshpande Symposium for Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Higher Education. Lowell, MA. EDUCATION Saint Louis University - John Cook School of Business Ph.D. in Business Administration - Focus in International Entrepreneurship Indiana University - Kelley School of Business Master of Science in Strategic Management Master of Business Administration University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Management Information Systems Bachelor of Arts in Political Science

6 Page 6 TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Massachusetts Amherst Lecturer, September present MGMT 197EE - Becoming a Game-Changer (Entrepreneurship Experiential Exercises) MGMT New Venture Creation (Lean Lean Launchpad) MGMT New Ventures (Design Thinking) MGMT 491c - DOE Wind Competition (Clean-Tech Entrepreneurship) MGMT 494BI - Business Policy and Strategy (Capstone simulation) SCH-MGMT 597N - Lean Launchpad SCH-MGMT 597P - Venture Acceleration Saint Louis University Instructor/co-Instructor, August MGT Business Plan Development (Business plan project) MGT Managing Ideas in Entrepreneurial Firms (Business feasibility project) MKT Introduction to Marketing Management (Small business consulting project) McKendree University Adjunct Professor, 2011 MBA Graduate Global Organizations & Management (Transnational case studies) NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE Co-Owner ( present) W. Probst Inc. Oversee the family business's investments. uwin Strategies, LLC ( ) Owner and Strategic Consultant Help and guide startups and family businesses to achieve their desired goals. Knology, Inc. ( ) Product Marketing Analyst American Cancer Society - National Home Office ( ) Talent Management Project Manager Hewitt Associates ( ) Systems Analyst

7 Page 7 AWARDS AND HONORS Entrepreneurship Education Innovation Award - USASBE 2017 Outstanding Emerging Program Award - USASBE 2016 Best Conceptual Paper - SBI 2015 Doctoral Consortium - BCERC 2014 ENT Doctoral Consortium - AOM 2013 Best Empirical Paper Award - USASBE 2013 Doctoral Consortium - USASBE 2013 Doctoral Consortium - Southern Management Association 2011 Bronze Tablet - University of Illinois 2005 Graduated Highest Honors and Summa Cum Laude - University of Illinois 2005 CERTIFICATIONS Design Thinking - Stanford d.school 2016 Lean Launchpad Certification - Venturewell 2015 Certificate in University Teaching Skills - Saint Louis University Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning 2014