Steven Wheelwright

Active Investor

Angel Investor

Oakley, Utah

Steven Wheelwright, Angel Investor is an active investor based in Oakley, Utah. This profile covers what Steven Wheelwright backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Dr. Steven Wheelwright is an Angel Investor. He serves as Board Member at BILT. He serves as Senior Advisor at NaviMed Capital. He also serves as Advisory Board Member at CareSyntax. He also served as Limited Partner at Cornerstone Continuity Partners. He served as a Senior Advisor Emeritus at Surgical Intelligence. He is the Advisor Emeritus and former President of Brigham Young University, Hawaii a part of the Church Education System of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is also a former Professor and Senior Associate Dean at Harvard Business School. From, he was a Baker Foundation Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Director of HBS Publication Activities. In that role, he oversaw the HBS Publishing Company (including HBR, HBS Press books, HBS cases, e-Learning products, and newsletters/conferences). He also oversaw the major on-campus construction projects. From, he and his wife fulfilled a full-time voluntary assignment as the President of the London, England Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. From, he served as Senior Associate Dean responsible for the MBA Program at Harvard. He then served as Senior Associate Dean and Director of Faculty Hiring and Planning and had oversight responsibility for distance learning. Professor Wheelwright first taught at Harvard from and was the Thomas Henry Carroll-Ford Foundation Visiting Professor from. He rejoined the Harvard faculty in 1988. In his years away from Harvard, he was the Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers Professor of Management at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. His most recent book, developed with HBS colleague Clayton Christensen and Stanford colleague, Robert Burgelman, is Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, 4th ed. Dr. Wheelwright is also the author or co-author of more than a dozen other books. He has a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Utah and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. In addition to his Harvard and Stanford positions, he served on the faculty of INSEAD (European Institute of Management) in Fontainebleau, France. He has consulted in the areas of business and operations strategy and improving product development capabilities. He currently serves as a Board member at O.C. Tanner Company (service awards), at Zions Bank (banking), and at the Polynesian Cultural Center (cultural attraction and entertainment venue adjacent to BYU-Hawaii campus).

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Invests in: FoodTech & AgricultureFood & Beverage
Location: Oakley, Utah
Typical check: $500K
Past investments: 1

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