in BOOM! Studios. Touchdown Ventures In 2014, Lenet co-founded Touchdown Ventures with David Horowitz and Rich Grant. Touchdown partners with leading corporations to launch and manage their venture capital programs. Touchdown manages the complete lifecycle of a corporation’s venture capital activities, from strategy and formation to investment management. At Touchdown, Lenet has led the creation or management of more than fifteen corporate venture capital or strategic investing programs, including 20th Century Fox, Avery Dennison, Edelman, INX, Kellogg, Macerich, Olympus, Scotts Miracle-Gro, Technicolor, and others. He currently serves on the investment committees of Avery Dennison, Cooperative Ventures, and INX. Lenet currently serves on the board of directors of BOOM! Studios, a leading independent comic book company, and he also serves as an observer on the boards of directors of Invoy, a connected healthcare diagnostic company, and Gauzy, an Israeli company that makes switchable film for “smart glass” applications. Educational roles Lenet began teaching venture capital and entrepreneurship by guest lecturing at Syracuse University's graduate program in Law, Technology, and Management starting in 1993. He served on the Advisory Board of the Entrepreneurship Center at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, where he was also an Adjunct Professor from 2003 to 2010. Together with Andrew Hargadon, Lenet co-founded the UC Davis Center for Entrepreneurship and developed curriculum funded by the Kauffman Foundation. He previously served as a Director of UC Davis Connect. Beginning in 2010, Lenet began teaching venture capital as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and is also a frequent lecturer on venture capital and entrepreneurship for the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation. Lenet also began teaching corporate innovation at UCLA Anderson in 2018, where he is a visiting professor. He has guest lectured at colleges and universities across North America and in Europe and is a frequent guest speaker for the National Association of Corporate Directors. Lenet holds an A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, where he co-founded the school's astronomy club with Eric Tilenius, a former venture capitalist and founder of Netcentives, a competitor to Cybergold and MyPoints. He also received an M.B.A. in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. At Wharton, he co-founded the school's technology club and chaired the school's first Internet technology conference, "Business + the Internet" in 1997. He was also teaching assistant for Marketing 101 to undergraduates and for