Neil Book didn’t go to Wharton or Michigan. He went to Delaware. And the 1999 graduate of UD’s College of Arts and Sciences, now president and CEO of business aviation firm JSSI, has just put his name on a new academic unit at the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics: the Neil Book School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, launching July 1.
The relationship goes back more than a decade, Lerner Dean Oliver Yao tells Poets&Quants. Book first connected with the college through its executive mentoring program, then moved into entrepreneurship work through what is now Horn Entrepreneurship, eventually rising to chair its National Advisory Board.
“Neil has always been deeply engaged with Delaware,” Yao says. “Our alumni are very loyal and willing to give back because they believe it was life-changing for them. Many of them tell me that if they hadn’t spent those four years here, their lives would look completely different. Neil is the same way.”
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