Alexander "Sascha" Cocron is a strategy consultant and academic lecturer with extensive experience in corporate strategy and entrepreneurial venture development. He was a founding member of two venture-funded high technology start-ups, and partner at Mercer Management Consulting, a leading strategy consultancy.

Cocron has advised senior executives of Global 1000 clients on issues of strategy and mergers and acquisitions in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Australia, Canada, and the United States. He has lectured on the topics of entrepreneurship and business strategy at the Kendall School of Business, where he also served as Dean, as well as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.

Cocron holds an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a B.A. in philosophy and mathematics from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland.

• The Risk-taking Entrepreneur: Don't Believe the Hype (October 24, 2011)
• Return of the Austrians (April 21, 2010)