Mike Rowen is a Penn State Engineering alumnus with many entrepreneurial experiences. He is the Spring 2021 Bishoff Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the Engineering Entrepreneurship Program. Mike started his career as an intrapreneur at Lutron Electronics, operating the Cardinal Group developing new, custom lighting controls for various clients as a test bed for future generally available products. He went on to run the e-commerce unit at Capital One through the early days of e-commerce including surviving the dot.com bust, bringing e-commerce to many of Capital One’s business units. He has invested and served on the boards of several successful startups. He has also started his own non-profit startup, The
CauseNetwork, which specializes in helping charities accept non-monetary donations. Mike will discuss his varied entrepreneurial experiences and answer questions in this interactive chat with Innoblue Penn State Entrepreneurs and other attendees. All are welcome to this conversation.
Sponsored by the
College of Engineering,
SEDTAPP Engineering Entrepreneurship Program and
Innoblue.
