Jeffrey Sohl

Professor and Director of the Center for Venture Research
603.862.3373
jeff.sohl@unh.edu [1]

Fields of Specialization:

Early stage equity financing of high growth ventures, trends in the angel market, entrepreneurship

Education:

Ph.D., University of Maryland

M.B.A. University of Maryland

B.E., Villanova University

Jeffrey E. Sohl is Director of the Center for Venture Research [2] and Professor of Entrepreneurship and Decision Sciences at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. He received his Bachelor in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University and his MBA and Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the Whittemore School he was a consultant to the Department of Energy in the area of public policy analysis.

He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, the eCoast Technology Roundtable and MerchantBanc, and the Editorial Board for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. He also serves on the New Hampshire Governor’s Advisory Committee on Capital Formation and is on the Board of Directors for NetworkNH. In 2006 he was awarded the national Hans Severiens Award by the Kauffman Foundation in recognition of his research on angel investing in the US. He has presented his research in academic and practitioner forums in the United States, Europe and Asia, and in briefings for several government agencies and scholars from the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, Asia and Africa.

He has appeared on CNBC, MSNBC, National Public Radio, NHPTV’s NH Outlook, and has been quoted in Inc., Forbes, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Red Herring, Newsweek, Business Week, Newsweek-Japan, Financial Times, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and the Financial Times-France. He has written many articles which have been published in academic and business journals, including Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, the Social Science Journal, the Journal of Forecasting, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, Entrepreneurship 2000 and the Journal of Business Venturing.

Recent Research:

[For complete list, please download CV [3]]

Recent Journal Publications:

“Do women-owned businesses have equal access to angel capital?” (with John Becker-Blease), Journal of Business Venturing, Vol.22, No. 4, 2007, pgs. 503-521.

"Women Business Angels: Insights from Angel Groups" (with Laura Hill), Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2007, pgs. 207-222.

“Angel Investing: Changing Strategies During Volatile Times”, Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2006, pgs. 27-47.

Book Chapters:

“The Organization of the Informal Venture Capital Market”, Handbook of Research on Venture Capital, Hans Landstrom ed., Edward Elgar Publishers:UK, October 2007.

“Trends in the Angel Market” (with Frances Amatucci), Entrepreneurship: The Engine of Growth, Volume II: The Process, A. Zacharakis and S. Spinelli, eds., Praeger Perspectives, Greenwood Publishing Group; CT, November 2006.