Jim Chung is the founding Executive Director for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the George Washington University, and a Co-Principal Investigator for the NSF DC I-Corps Node. He was previously the director of the Mtech VentureAccelerator at the University of Maryland, and served as Director for New Business Development at the Corporate Executive Board. He was also a private equity and venture capital investor at Cherington Capital (now Intervale Capital) and incTANK Ventures. He received his Bachelor and Masters degrees from Stanford University and was a Ph.D. candidate at MIT.