Peter J. Burns, III

Peter Burns is the founder of the Institute For Entrepreneurship.

A serial entrepreneur, Mr. Burns experienced his first venture success at the age of 19.

In the 30 years since then, he has started more than 100 other businesses, ranging from the first moped rental company in the U.S. to a company that offers architectural rendering and animation production services to architects, builders and developers.

An entrepreneur at heart, Mr. Burns truly understands how to support students who are studying and also launching their own business. To learn more about his entreprenurial beginnings as a student read this article from 1985, published in Nations Business.

Mr. Burns got involved in higher education in 2005 when he began teaching an entry-level entrepreneurship class at the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University. After watching the class grow from a few students to approximately 100 students, he saw and recognized a need and followed a path that would ultimately lead to the country's first College of Entrepreneurship.

Among his accolades in education, Mr. Burns was the youngest participant in Harvard Business School's Owners and Presidents Management Program.

Mark Jacobs, the Dean of Barrett Honors College at ASU, was the first to work with Mr. Burns in an academic setting. Read his evaluation of Mr. Burns' program in his letter to the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.