Biography

Professor of Practice, High Growth Entrepreneurship
Aalto Ventures Program

Visiting Professor of Business, Trinity College Dublin

Visiting Professor of Design, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Dr Kelly is an award winning entrepreneurship educator and practitioner. Over the past 20+ years, he has worked with entrepreneurs and executives in Finland, Sweden, UK, Portugal, Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Norway, Switzerland, Canada, Chile, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan and Ireland. His areas of personal and professional expertise include design thinking, new business creation, intrapreneurship, entrepreneurial finance and innovation policy. A self-described “positive non-conformist”, Peter likes nothing more than to challenge convention and routines. A former corporate and investment banker, he was involved in numerous private placements, merger & acquisition, and initial public offerings for the cable television and publishing industries.