How we chose the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 innovators

2019 was another record year for the CNBC Disruptor 50, with more than 1,200 companies vying for just 50 coveted spots on the seventh annual list. The companies that made the final cut share a common goal of developing revolutionary new technology into scalable business models to create the next generation of great public companies.

The 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 Advisory Council

Rick Hall, Director of Health Innovation Programs, Arizona State University
Candida Brush, Vice Provost, Babson College
Michael G. Goldsby, Chief Entrepreneurship Officer, Ball State University
Scott Newbert, Academic Director, Programs in Entrepreneurship, Baruch College
Jeff Cornwall, Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Belmont University
Ross Miller, Director of Technology Commercialization, Bradley University and Illinois Small Business Development Centers
Mary McHenry, Program Officer, Burton D. Morgan Foundation
Chris Coleridge, Senior Faculty in Management Practice, Cambridge University
Arthur A. Boni, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Goldberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Design and Innovation, Case Western Reserve University
S. Ramakrishna Velamuri, Professor of Entrepreneurship, China Europe International Business School
Rita McGrath, Professor, Columbia Business School
Ron Adner, Professor, Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business
Gerhard Plaschka, Professor of Strategy and Venture Management, Depaul University Driehaus College of Business
Donna De Carolis, Dean, Drexel University Close School of Entrepreneurship
Clare Gately, Professor of Entrepreneurship, EDHEC Business School, France
Fernanda Arreola, Professor of Entrepreneurship, EMLV
Zoltan Acs, Professor, GED(I)nstitute
Karen Mills, Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School
Thales Teixeira, Associate Professor, Harvard University
Thomas Astebro, Professor, HEC Paris
Julia Prats, Associate Dean for MBA Programs, IESE Business School
Erkko Autio, Professor, Imperial College
Neharika Vohra, Professor, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Kavil Ramachandran, Professor, Indian School of Business
Donald Kuratko, Distinguished Chair & Professor of Entrepreneurship, Indiana University Kelley School of Business
Henrich R. Greve, Professor, INSEAD
Eric Morse, Director, Ivey Business School Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship
Duncan Angwin, Professor, Lancaster University, UK
Ari Wallach, CEO, Longpath Labs
Jason D’Mello, Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship, Loyola Marymount University
Brett Smith, Chair of Entrepreneurship, Miami University (Ohio)
Neil Kane, Director of Undergraduate Entrepreneurship, Michigan State University
Kit Hickey, Entrepreneur in Residence, MIT
Lewis Sheats, Assistant Vice Provost of Entrepreneurship, NC State University
Ari Ginsberg, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management, New York University Stern School of Business
Matthew Rutherford, Associate professor and Chair, Oklahoma State University
Susan Fleming, Educator, Investor, Director and Entrepreneur in Residence, Rev Ithaca Startup Works
Yael Hochberg, Head of Entrepreneurship Initiative, Rice University
Lyneir Richardson, Executive Director, Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, Rutgers Business School
Jerome Katz, Chair of Entrepreneurship, Saint Louis University
John H. Shannon, Professor, Seton Hall University Stillman School of Business
Eleanor Shaw, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Strathclyde University
Alex McKelvie, Associate Dean of Undergraduate and Master’s Programs, Syracuse University Whitman School of Management
Michael Haynie, Vice Chancellor, Syracuse University
Richard Lester, Executive Director, Texas A&M University
Keith Hmieleski, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Texas Christian University
Albert Segars, Professor, UNC Chapel Hill
Greg Brown, Professor & Executive Director, UNC Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise
Whitney Reid Hischier, Lecturer, University of California Berkeley Hass School of Business
Waverly Deutsch, Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Sarabeth Berk, Director of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, University of Colorado Boulder
Vince Lewis, Director, University of Dayton Crotty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
Wally Meyer, Director of Entrepreneurship Programs, University of Kansas
Anil Gupta, Chair & Professor, University of Maryland
Stewart Thornhill, Professor, University of Michigan
Shaker Zahra, Department Chair, Entrepreneurship, University of Minnesota
Jim Wheeler, Executive Director, University of Oklahoma
Thomas Hellman, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Oxford
Michael Fountain, Director, University of South Florida Center for Entrepreneurship
John Sibley Butler, Chair in Constructive Capitalism, University of Texas Austin
Rob Adams, Founder of Texas Venture Labs, University of Texas Austin
David Touve, iLAb Senior Director, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Helena Yli-Renko, Professor, USC Grief Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
Bryan Chambers, Entrepreneurship Professor, UT Dallas
Jennifer McFadden, Associate Director and Lecturer, Program on Entrepreneurship, Yale School of Management

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