Our Zahn Catalyst and Zahn Associate programs celebrate community members who take a leading role in helping to bring innovation and entrepreneurship activity in the classroom.
Meet Our Associates
Zahn Associates approach other faculty and staff for academic support for these efforts, mentor student entrepreneurs, and/or run workshops and trainings in relevant subject areas. Zahn Associates dedicate a minimum of 2-3 hours/week to support startups at City College or other innovation-related activities on campus. Associates value the entrepreneurial skillset as a learning outcome and seek opportunities to provide broad support for culture shifts that support such education as part of the City College experience.
Peyman Honarmandi
Mentors startups in our incubator and prepares them for our competitions.
Karen Langsam
Leads integrated marketing bootcamps. Her students work with our startups as marketing consultants.
Celia Lloyd
Works intimately within our internship program.
Glen Patterson
Advises the Entrepreneurship Student Club.
Meet Our Catalysts
Catalysts invest 2-3 hours/month encouraging students to attend Zahn public events (through incentives like extra credit) or host Zahn-affiliated programming in the classroom, like idea generation sessions or prototyping workshops. Catalysts value the entrepreneurial skillset as a learning outcome and seek opportunities to provide contextualized education for their students.
Lynn Appelbaum
Nancy Tag
Ali Sadegh
Maria Binz Scharf
Anasa Scott
Kevin Foster
Michael Grossberg
Ahmed Mohamed
Ed Baurin
Mark Mussell
Natalia Trujillo
Umit Uyar
Sihong Wang
Gerardo Blumenkrantz
Akira Kawaguchi
Luis Hernandez
Michael Busch
