Background

Luis Jimenez Castillo is a PhD Student focusing on Family Business. His research interests are Internationalization, Strategy and Corporate Governance. Before pursuing his degree at WPI, Luis was a faculty member at Universidad Panamericana in Mexico where he was also a member of the Advisory Board of the Family Business Management Bachelor’s Program. Currently he is running the Business Development Lab with Prof. Rosanna Garcia. As a Family Business practitioner, Luis served as the Chairman of the Board of his family’s firm. He has also consulted for other family managed companies. Luis has published articles in local business magazines in Mexico regarding succession and conflict management in family business.

Job experience

• August 2016 - present
  Operations Manager
  Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  

  Worcester, MA, USA

  Operations Manager of the Business Development Lab, January 20220 – Present:
  o Managed daily operations at the Business Development Lab.
  o Managed the marketing activities and developed the logo for the lab, working with the university’s Market and Communication Office.
  o Community relationship development with the local entrepreneurship ecosystem.
  o Grant writing for internal and external grants on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  o Manage the entrepreneurs-in-residence meetings with students and other stakeholders.
  o Planning the annual strategy with the Director of the lab.
  o Representing the university and the lab on events.
  o Events organization for students, faculty and outside stakeholders.
  o Design of database collection survey and interviews so PhD students and faculty can use for future publications.
  o Manage high school student internship, where the student developed a social media strategy and annual plan.
  Teaching Assistant, August 2016 – December 2021:
  o Taught the Frontiers Pre-Collegiate Outreach Program. Do you dream of being your own boss? Two-week course for Junior and Senior High School Students. Summer 2021.
  o Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship. A Term 2020 (3.5/5 points) co-taught with Prof. Frank Hoy.
  o Guest speaker at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business for an undergraduate class for a Family Business Management course using the case method.
  o Lectured on feasibility analysis for an undergraduate class in an Entrepreneurship for Engineers course using the case method.
  o Lectured on entrepreneurial finance for an undergraduate class in an Entrepreneurship for Engineers course.
  o Lectured on intellectual property for a graduate class in a Technology Commercialization Theory, Practice and Strategy course.
  

• July 2013 - August 2016
  Assistant Lecturer
  Universidad Panamericana
  

  Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

  • Family Business Program Coordinator
  • Courses:
  o Theory of Multinational Enterprises. Summer 2017 (10/10; school average 9.77)
  o Family Business Management. Spring 2016 (9.72/10; school average 9.37)
  o Strategic Management. Spring 2016 (9.31/10; school average 9.37)
  o Corporate Governance. Spring 2016 (9.5/10; school average 9.37)
  o Global Strategy. Spring 2015 (9.94/10; school average 9.33)
  o Theory of Multinational Enterprises. Fall 2015 (9.8/10; school average 9.33)
  o Negotiation. Spring 2014 (9.63/10; school average 9.15)
  o Global Strategy. Spring 2014 (9.45/10; school average 9.15)

Education

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  PhD in Business Administration
  

  2016 - 2022

  Dissertation topic: Family business internationalization: factors, motivations, limitations and obstacles.
  Committee Members: Dr. Frank HOY (Co-Chair), Dr. Purvi SHAH (Co-Chair), Dr. Kimberly EDDLESTON, and Dr. Kenny CHING.
  
• IPADE Business School
  MBA
  

  2011 - 2013

  Master’s in Business Administration.
• Universidad Panamericana
  Bachelor's Degree
  

  2005 - 2009

  BA in International Business Administration.