Matt Crespi is a Co-Founder of Carnegie Mellon University’s Corporate Startup Lab (CSL) and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, having recently received his PhD in Public Policy and Management for using social networks research to study issues of coordination and collaboration.With the Corporate Startup Lab, Matt has conducted research and developed tools to help companies better adapt and integrate entrepreneurial best practices into their own innovation processes. The frameworks, tools and courses have helped innovators become more successful intrapreneurs, leaders better manage their innovation portfolios, and students better understand how to be entrepreneurial anywhere.As a networks researcher, Matt studies how people work together in professional settings. His focus areas have included studying academic researchers forming a new collaborative community, physicians coordinating on shared patients through referral networks, and the most recent project, an attempt to better understand how corporate startup teams form, what kinds of team compositions might best predict success, and what kind of noise and communication barriers need to be overcome to form the most productive and innovative teams.Matt intermittently takes on consulting projects and participates in executive education training, and he’s been fortunate to be able to work with a wide range of companies, governments, and political candidates from all over the country.Matt previously worked as a Consultant for state and local governments as part of PFM's Quantitative Strategies Group, primarily focused on building tools for debt issuance, investment management, and city budget management. He taught public finance, Excel skills, and financial modeling to new consultants and other professionals.
Listed skills include Policy Analysis, Public Policy, Financial Modeling, Quantitative Analytics, and 20 others.