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• Managing Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
• Serial Entrepreneur
• Bachelor of Science, MIT
• MBA (honors). Harvard Business School

Ken has been a high performance leader of global management teams for 25 years!

Ken Morse is a serial entrepreneur, having played a key role in launching several high-tech start-ups, including 3Com Corporation, Aspen Technology, an expert systems company, and a biotech firm. Ken’s batting average is 0.833: five of his start-ups went public or were successfully merged; one was a complete disaster. As head of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, Ken is responsible for inspiring, training, and coaching new generations of entrepreneurs from all parts of MIT. Ken has been profiled and quoted in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Economist, and Red Herring.

In 1980, Morse relocated to Silicon Valley as a founding member of 3Com Corporation. Since Ken joined the MIT Entrepreneurship Center in 1996, he has raised $ 20+ million endowment for the E-Center. Ken was named Education All Star by Mass High Tech magazine. Ken serves as an advisor to China Capital Ventures, LLC, Darby Overseas Investments, Ltd., PolyTechnos Venture-Partners GmbH (Munich), and SINTEF A/S (Trondheim, Norway). Ken is a member of the Board of Directors of NeuMath, Inc. (Boston) and is on the Board of Advisors of Lagan and Meridio Limited, both in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Ken, an American, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Cercle Royal Gaulois Artistique & Littraire (Brussels), and the Quissett Yacht Club. He speaks fluent French and some Chinese. Concurrent with his MIT duties, Ken holds the Chair in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Competitiveness in the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at the Delft Technical University.

When he is not helping young companies to succeed, Ken enjoys sailing his wooden boat with his family around Cape Cod.