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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 - Academic Administration
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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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
Current 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.
