E@C Director John Jaquette Jr. with winners of the Big Idea Competition
John Jaquette is the Executive Director of Cornell's University-wide Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Program (EPE). EPE is governed by the nine Deans of the participating colleges at Cornell. The Program serves undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and alumni.
Prior to assuming his position at Cornell in 1997, John held senior executive positions with a number of entrepreneurial health care companies specializing in addiction treatment, mental health, rehabilitation and long term care from 1984 to 1995.
From 1970 to 1984 John helped found and develop North Carolina's largest community based, hospital centered, alcoholism treatment service system in Wake County (Raleigh). He was the CEO from 1980-84 and the Clinical Director and from 1976-80.
John has a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University, a Masters of Divinity and a Masters of Theology from Duke University Divinity School, and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
John is a member of the Steering Committee for the Stanford's Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education (REE) and a member of the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Center Directors and the National Consortium for Life Sciences Entrepreneurship. He is also an Emeritus Member of the Board of Visitors of Duke University Divinity School.