Sam Garg

Sam Garg (PhD Stanford) is a professor of Management (Strategy and Entrepreneurship) at ESSEC in Singapore. He has held the position of Liwei Huang Associate Professor of Business (Entrepreneurship and Strategy) at HKUST Business School in Hong Kong where he was also co-director of the elite interdisciplinary program BIBU (Biotech in Business). He has also held visiting appointments at INSEAD and Singapore Management University.Sam is involved in the community with startups, and regularly lends support to governance initiatives such as those that advocate women on boards and in leadership positions. He serves on the inaugural academic advisory board/discussion circle of Temasek's Stewardship Asia Center based in Singapore.Sam's research is at the intersection of governance and high growth technology firms. Specific research interests include board processes and leadership structures, strategic decision making, and power dynamics. His current research focuses on effective board processes in privately-held technology ventures, and effective board leadership structures when these ventures transition into public-listed firms. His research has been published in leading academic journals, and he also serves on the editorial boards of some of the top academic journals in management and entrepreneurship. Notably, Sam is an Associate Editor of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (a premier academic journal at the intersection of strategy and entrepreneurship). Sam is an award winning scholar and teacher. He is invited regularly to speak at conferences for technology executives, investors and board members. With Arnoud De Meyer (then at INSEAD), he is co-author of the book "Inspire to Innovate: Management and Innovation in Asia", which was published by Palgrave MacMillan (UK). The book was a finalist for the global best management book of the year award (Management Consulting Association, UK). Before joining academia, Sam worked with established as well as young, entrepreneurial firms, and was also a founder-CEO of an online payments venture.Specialties: Technology ventures, CEO-Board relationship, board process, board leadership structure, initial public offering and associated transitions, corporate governance.