Paul Orlando is an entrepreneur who often takes a contrarian approach to the startup world. He runs the University of Southern California Incubator Program (USC Incubator) and is Professor of Entrepreneurship at USC. Previously, he was Co-founder and Director of AcceleratorHK, a mobile startup accelerator and runs Startups Unplugged Advisory for early-stage companies and corporates. Previously, he also led a startup in New York, developed new communication services and most recently helped Hong Kong build its startup ecosystem. 

Paul is proud of a win at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. He graduated from Cornell and Columbia.

His work has been featured in media outlets including TechCrunch, Forbes and The Next Web.