648 About the Authors
Charles Mulford has a doctorate in accounting from Florida State Univer-
sity and is professionally qualified as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in
Florida and Georgia. Prior to joining the Georgia Tech faculty, he practiced
public accounting with the firm of Coopers & Lybrand. He was an audit senior
in the firm’s Miami office.
Michael F. van Breda teaches at Southern Methodist University where he
was chair of the accounting department for a number of years. He is currently
Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Finance and Accounting. His
courses have included cost and managerial accounting at the graduate level.
He obtained his PhD in Accounting from Stanford University and his MBA
from the University of Cape Town. He was previously on the faculty of
MIT and has held positions at the University of Cape Town, the University
of the Witwatersrand, and at University College, Oxford. He is the author of
numerous scholarly publications one of which won the Lybrand silver medal for
its contribution to managerial accounting. He is the coauthor (with Eldon S.
Hendriksen) of the fifth edition of Accounting Theory(Richard D. Ir win,
1991). In addition he has consulted to a number of major corporations.
Andrew “Zach” Zacharakis, PhD, is the Paul T. Babson Term Chair in En-
trepreneurship and an associate professor of entrepreneurship with the Arthur
M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College. Professor Zacharakis
received a BS (finance/marketing), University of Colorado; an MBA (fi-
nance/international business), Indiana University; and a PhD (strategy and
entrepreneurship/cognitive psychology), University of Colorado. At Babson, he
teaches the business plan preparation course at both the MBA and under-
graduate levels. He also actively advises entrepreneurial start-ups and venture
capital firms. His primary research areas include the (1) venture capital
decision-making process and (2) entrepreneurial growth strategies. Professor
Zacharakis has articles appearing in Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepre-
neurship: Theory and Practice, Journal of Small Business Management, Ven-
ture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, Journal of
Private Equity Capital, International Trade Journal, Academy of Management
Executive, Journal of Business Strategies, Case Research Journal,as well as
Frontiers of Entrepreneurial Research.Professor Zacharakis has been inter-
viewed in newspapers nationwide including theBoston Globe and theLos
Angeles Times.He has also appeared on Bloomberg Small Business Repor t.
Professor Zacharakis’s dissertation, The Venture Capital Investment Decision,
received a Certificate of Distinction from the Academy of Management and
Mr. Edgar F. Heizer recognizing outstanding research in the field of new
enterprise development. Professor Zacharakis’s actively consults with entre-
preneurs and small business start-ups. His professional experience includes po-
sitions with The Cambridge Companies (investment banking/venture capital),
IBM, and Leisure Technologies.