Christoph Winkler, Ph.D., is the endowed professor and founding program director for the new Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Iona College.

He served as an entrepreneurship faculty member and academic director at the Long Island University (LIU) Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Winkler also was on the faculty of Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, where he served as the associate director of the CUNY Institute for Virtual Enterprise and director for Technology, Innovation and Research at the CUNY Center for Student Entrepreneurship.