Jamie Kraft is the Executive Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) in the Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida. He came from Deloitte Consulting, where he spent several years as a management consultant focusing primarily on economic performance evaluation, competitive assessment and strategic development for clients in the manufacturing and consumer products industries. He graduated from the University of Arizona with an undergraduate degree in Microbiology and from the University of Florida in 1998 as a Matherly Scholar with a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) specializing in Finance, Operations Management, and Business Strategy. Before starting with the CEI, Mr. Kraft spent a year in Paris studying French.