Gerald Starsia

Gerry Starsia has enjoyed a unique career as a practitioner, business owner and operator, followed by a pivot to higher education as an executive, academic, and author (most recently of Plan to Pivot).

Over the last two decades, he has been on the faculty at the University of Virginia with split roles that include teaching undergraduate, graduate, and executive classes and as Senior Associate Dean and Chief Operating Officer at the McIntire School of Commerce and the Darden Graduate School of Business.

Prior to his tenure at UVA, Gerry was the Founder/CEO of a medical design-build firm. He brings the perspectives of a former project manager, program manager, project executive, and business founder and CEO. That combination of real-world experience and doctoral-level research, brings an interconnection between the theory and practice; between what could be and what is.

He serves on several for-profit and non-profit boards of directors, consults with many small to mid-size start-up and growth firms, and advises a small number of executives and entrepreneurs.

Gerry lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife Marianne and dog Bear.