Graduate School of Business
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Ajay Madhok
Affiliate, Graduate School of Business - Academic Administration
BioAjay Madhok is a growth architect who has driven innovation from both sides — helping established organisations evolve, and launching startups to challenge the status quo. His expertise lies in translating bold ideas into scalable products and high-growth platforms.
He is the founder and CEO of Celerity Studios, a story-tech venture building AI-native tools and platforms for the next generation of creators. Its first product, MIXXI, enables Gen Z to remix and co-create culturally relevant content using AI. Previously, Ajay served as EVP of Business Strategy at Angel Studios and Managing Partner at the Angel Acceleration Fund.
At Stanford, Ajay is a Distinguished Scholar at mediaX, where he researches corporate innovation and organisational resilience. His current work focuses on building "purpose-built ventures" that combine startup agility with institutional assets, and on decentralised trust and crypto-enabled ecosystems as drivers of next-generation economic models.
Ajay is an advisor to Playground Global and a member of the Technology Advisory Council at Harman International (a Samsung company). He has contributed to foundational digital identity protocols (XRI/XDI) and serves as Vice-Chair of the Communications Committee at Trust over IP, a Linux Foundation initiative advancing digital trust standards.
He earned a B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and an M.S. in Mathematics from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. -
Jules Maltz
Lecturer, Graduate School of Business - Other Faculty
BioJules Maltz joined IVP in August 2008 and has over 19 years of venture experience. He focuses on venture investments in rapidly-growing software and Internet companies. Jules was recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 100 venture capitalists in the world by his inclusion in the 2018, 2019, and 2020 Forbes Midas List. He was also included in the GrowthCap Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors List in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019.
Jules led IVP's investments in Buddy Media (CRM), Checkr, Clipboard Health, Dropbox (DBX), Eightfold, G2, Grammarly, Hims & Hers, Hopin, Indiegogo, MuleSoft (MULE), NerdWallet, Nextdoor, Oportun, RetailMeNot (SALE), Roam, Slack, SteelBrick (CRM), Tala, TransferWise, TuneIn, Veriff, Zendesk (ZEN), and Zenefits, and was actively involved in sourcing investments in Marketo (MKTO), Spiceworks, Twitter (TWTR), and Yext (YEXT).
Jules currently serves as an Observer or Director of Clipboard Health, G2, Grammarly, Roam, Tala, and Veriff.
He graduated from Stanford GSB in 2008, where he was a Siebel Scholar and Arjay Miller Scholar and has a B.A. in Economics from Yale University. -
Jennifer Mason
Associate Director, Strategy & Curricular Support, Graduate School of Business - MBA Program Office
BioJennifer has over 20 years of higher education administration experience at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Barbara. Jennifer has an MA in Education-Higher Education Administration from San Jose State University and a BA in Law & Society with a Minor in Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara. During her senior year at UC Santa Barbara, Jennifer was lucky enough to sail around the world and visit 10 countries in 100 days with the Semester at Sea program. In her spare time, Jennifer enjoys making soap and candles for her small business, hiking, traveling, baking, and volunteering at the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA.
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Diego Mazo
Affiliate, Graduate School of Business - Executive Education
BioI am President of CEIPA Institución Universitaria in Medellín, Colombia, a position I have held since 2012. I have been part of the institution for most of my professional career.
My work centers on innovation in education. I am committed to expanding access to high-quality higher education for working adults and first-generation students across Latin America. I began my career as a computer scientist, which led me to pioneer online higher education in Colombia. I designed one of the country's first virtual university models and introduced a problem-based curriculum built around two-month academic terms. Today I am focused on competency-based education, microcredentials and the integration of artificial intelligence into teaching and learning.
I am also launching Outcometrics, an edtech venture that helps institutions measure and improve learning outcomes, bringing data and evidence to the center of academic decision-making.
At CEIPA, we earned institutional high-quality accreditation from Colombia's Ministry of Education, renewed in 2026 for six years. We also joined the Cintana Alliance, whose anchor university is Arizona State University. During the pandemic, I led the Ministry's Plan Padrino initiative, through which we supported other institutions and trained more than 1,500 faculty members.
I hold an Ed.D. in Global Education from the University of Southern California and an M.A. in Higher Education Administration from Universidad de los Andes, and I completed Harvard's Institute for Educational Management.
At Stanford, I look forward to learning from leaders across industries and to exploring how organizations can innovate and scale their impact. -
Cynthia Mazow
Director, Learning Design and Technology, Teaching and Learning Hub
Current Role at StanfordInstructional Designer, Digital Learning Solutions at the GSB
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Daniel McFarland
Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of Sociology and of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business
On Leave from 2026-10-01 To 2027-08-31Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe majority of my current research projects concern the sociology of science and research innovation. Here are some examples of projects we are pursuing:
1. the process of intellectual jurisdiction across fields and disciplines
2. the process of knowledge innovation and diffusion in science
3. the propagators of scientific careers and advance
4. the role of identity and diversity on the process of knowledge diffusion and career advance
5. the process of research translation across scientific fields and into practice
6. the formal properties and mechanisms of ideational change (network analysis, or holistic conceptions of scientific propositions and ideas)
7. developing methods for identifying the rediscovery of old ideas recast anew
8. investigating the process of scientific review
I am also heavily involved in research on social networks and social network theory development. Some of my work concerns relational dynamics and cognitive networks as represented in communication. This often concerns the communication of children (in their writings and speech in classrooms) and academic scholars.
Last, I am heavily involved in institutional efforts to develop computational social science, computational sociology, and education data science on Stanford's campus. -
Niraj Mehta
MBA, expected graduation 2027
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPlants provide some of the most important drugs in current clinical use. It can be challenging to chemically synthesize these drugs or sustainably source them from producer plants. These issues could be alleviated if their biosynthetic genes are engineered into heterologous organisms for large-scale production. I am interested in a) understanding how plants produce these valuable drugs and b) engineering the sustainable production of these drugs into other plants for large-scale production.
