John Hodgman
Lecturer, ELS 101 Entrepreneurship & Business Planning, ELS 193 Special Topics

Since his retirement in 2001 as President and CEO of the Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation (MTDC), Mr. Hodgman has focused his professional activities on teaching entrepreneurship and assisting non-profit organizations that deal with education and career development. He is the Howard Foley professor for High Tech Workforce Development at University of Massachusetts-Lowell's School of Engineering, where he is focusing on a statewide initiative to encourage more students to major in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Prior to his 17 years leading MTDC, he was CEO of Stewart Systems Corporation, CEO of the Massachusetts Employment Security Agency, and Director of Personnel Management for Coopers & Lybrand-New England. Mr. Hodgman earned a B.A., magna cum laude, from Boston College and attended the University of Virginia Law School before serving in the United States Air Force Reserve.