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Cristobal Garcia-Herrera is the founder of the Corporate and Industrial Acceleration Initiative at Imperial College London, a Professor of the Practice in Design and Innovation at the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile (PUC) and an External Faculty of Columbia's Center on Organizational Innovation. With more than 15 years of professional, entrepreneurial and academic experience in Latin America, the U.S. and Europe, Cristobal brings leading edge knowledge on innovation acceleration, entrepreneurship education, creative thinking and networked ecosystems.

Cristobal is the founder of Jump Chile, the largest business model accelerator for Higher Education as well as the co-founder of Entrepreneur-SHIP aka E-Ship, an entrepreneurial and design thinking program conducted onboard in the midst of the Patagonian sea. Cristobal has been a Visiting Scholar at Delft University of Technology, at the MIT Media Lab and at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), where he has collaborated with Tina Seelig and Steve Blank on various creative tools for entrepreneurship education. 

Cristobal is a frequent speaker, advisor, student coach and intrapreneur who looks across boundaries and networks to connect the dots.