Paul Brown is a Professor (lecturer) of Entrepreneurship at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business. He is the director of the school’s award-winning Master of Business Creation (MBC) program.

Paul teaches courses in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance, innovation, venture capital, legal issues for entrepreneurs, and startup governance. Paul has led student consulting engagements with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City), the Institute on Aging (San Francisco), Access Afya (Nairobi), CleanSlate Centers (Nashville), the Ensign College of Public Health (Ghana), and Hydro Co-Operative Credit Union (Ghana). He has been a mentor or judge for Village Capital, Healthbox, Bench2Bedside, Opportunity Quest, the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge, and the AGRF GoGettaz Agriprenuer Startup Pitch Competition.

Prior to teaching, Paul was a managing director at Sandbox Industries in Chicago, where he co-led the firm’s $300M healthcare venture capital fund practice. He also was the founder, president, and CEO of Sandbox Innovation Partners, an innovation consulting practice. Prior to Sandbox, Paul was a vice president at the national Blue Cross and Blue Shield organization for ten years, where he founded Blue Cross Blue Shield Venture Partners. Previous to that, he practiced law as a partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

In addition to teaching, Paul is a co-founder and general partner of Upstream Ventures (a seed and pre-seed technology venture capital fund) and an advisory partner for Granite Growth Health Partners (a growth-stage healthcare services venture capital fund). He serves on the boards of Accelerate Dental, Cinch Marketing, CleanSlate Centers, JQ Medical Supply, WeBeWell, and SwellCX.

Paul earned dual bachelor’s degrees from The University of Utah, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a law degree from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.