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Trevor Loy
Adjunct Lecturer, Management Science and Engineering
Instructor, Stanford Engineering Center for Global and Online EducationBioTrevor Loy is the Managing Partner and Founder of Flywheel Ventures, a seed- and early-stage venture capital firm that has invested in emerging startup ecosystems for more than twenty-five years.
As an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford, Trevor teaches entrepreneurial management and finance in the Management Science & Engineering Department, where he is affiliated with the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, a research and teaching center he helped create as a graduate student. He also teaches professional and executive education programs for the Stanford Engineering Center for Global & Online Education, as well as for global companies, universities, governments, and sovereign wealth funds.
Trevor shapes venture capital and entrepreneurship policy as a former director of the National Venture Capital Association and a current member of its Board Alumni Council. He also served as Chair of VenturePAC, the venture capital industry's national political action committee, and is a frequent expert witness in private litigation and government policymaking worldwide.
Before founding Flywheel, Trevor held founding, executive, and technical roles at startups including Brooktree, Gigabeat, and ParkingNet, as well as at large tech firms such as Intel, Rockwell, and Teradyne.
He holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Management Science & Engineering, all from Stanford University. -
Prashant Loyalka
Associate Professor of Education and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPrashant's research focuses on examining/addressing inequalities in the education of youth and on understanding/improving the quality of education received by youth in a number of countries including China, India, Russia, and the United States. In the course of addressing educational inequalities, Prashant examines the consequences of tracking, financial and informational constraints, as well as social and psychological factors in highly competitive education systems. His work on understanding educational quality is built around research that assesses and compares student learning in higher education, high school and compulsory schooling. He furthermore conducts large-scale evaluations of educational programs and policies that seek to improve student outcomes.
