Research/Areas of Interest:
Entrepreneurial Marketing, Engineering Management, New Product Development, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Cognitive Science
Education
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, 1995
- M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, 1984
- B.S., Oklahoma State University, United States, 1983
Biography
At Tufts Gordon Institute, Gavin Finn is a professor of the practice. He teaches in the Entrepreneurial Leadership program at the Derby Entrepreneurship Center, in the Master of Science in Engineering Management program, and in the Master of Science in Innovation program. He teaches entrepreneurial marketing and sales, entrepreneurship for computer scientists, new product development, technology and society, and engineering management. He is also president and CEO of Kaon Interactive. In this capacity, he has led Kaon's continuous innovation process, resulting in the introduction of several award-winning solutions which have delivered significant improvements in customers' business performance through increases in sales effectiveness and marketing efficiency. Prior to joining Kaon, Finn served as president and COO of Bluestreak, Inc., and president and CEO of Prescient Technologies, Inc.