Wally Meyer

Wally Meyer, MBA, Director University Center and Senior Research Associate at KU’s Institute for Policy and Social Research, was the faculty founder of the nationally top ranked KU Entrepreneurship Program, architect of the several applied research initiatives which have had a significant impact on Midwestern states’ economic development. These include: the RedTire management succession program, The Catalyst KU’s student new venture incubator, Jayhawk Consulting and Startup School@KU which applied the I-Corps Lean Startup principles to commercialize KU’s federal grant supported lab inventions. Finally, Meyer is mentor to over two dozen deep tech SHARPhub grant supported participating university startups. Prior to joining the KU faculty, Meyer was a senior manager at Gillette, Nabisco, Sprint and led four successful startups.