Alex
Cowan teaches three classes at Darden in the area of digital innovation:
Software Design, Software Development, and Applied Innovation (in Silicon
Valley). With Darden, he also created the popular Coursera specialization 'Agile
Development'. His venture design curriculum is widely used by practitioners
and instructors as a systematic approach to developing new products and
businesses. Cowan divides his time between instructing, advising and
consulting. He has delivered workshops to student and professional audiences
at General Assembly, The Lean Startup Circle, Startup Weekend, SVPMA,
Swissnex, UCSC, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the i.Lab at UVA and
Stanford's d.school. Alex
currently serves on three corporate boards and as an advisor to multiple
startups and “intrapreneurial” ventures. Cowan is also an entrepreneur (5x) and
an intrapreneur (1x). His most recent ventures are Brand Lattice, a brand
strategy platform and Leonid Systems, an enterprise software vendor in the
cloud communications space. Cowan studied industrial engineering and economics
at Stanford University.