John Mulford is Director of the Regent University Center for Entrepreneurship (RCE) and Professor in the School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship at Regent.

• RCE has been operating a Center in Ternopil, Ukraine since mid-2007, delivering four training programs to more than 200 potential entrepreneurs. 
  
• The Center is developing an entrepreneurship curriculum and comprehensive business development center model which it will implement, in partnership with the International Christian Chamber of Commerce, in four African countries, starting with Burundi in 2009. 
  
• The Center is partnering with Nehemiah Project International Ministries to expand its program, Biblical Entrepreneurship, in the U.S. and abroad.  The first international effort involved training 38 leaders in Mexico and certifying 24 of them to teach the program. 
  
• In partnership with Luis Palau Association, the Center is organizing a conference of pastors and business leaders for March 2009 to help mobilize the church to transform the nation.      

Mulford teaches the capstone course in the MBA program and electives in international entrepreneurship in both the MBA and PhD programs.  He collaborates with students, faculty, and graduates to research topics in kingdom entrepreneurship and develop business plans and launch businesses both in the U.S. and globally.  Groups are studying how to measure spiritual capital, how to measure the kingdom impact of businesses, and how to think about investing in kingdom companies that have multiple bottom lines.  Student and graduate businesses include consulting companies in Asia and Africa, a manufacturing business in Egypt, and a specialty coffee company in the U.S. and Latin America.     
   
Mulford has a passion for Christian values applied to business.    He has taught courses and seminars on a Christian worldview and Christian principles of business over the past twenty years.  He published The Word On Management --a study of Biblical principles applied to management topics. 

Mulford also has a longstanding interest in economic development in developing countries.  He studied regional economic development in his Ph.D. program at Cornell University.  He has mentored many masters and PhD students who have been preparing to work in their home countries.  He has spoken on business and economic development to groups of business, education and government leaders in many countries, including Guatemala, Bolivia, Zambia, Burundi, Cameroon, Spain, Morocco, and Ukraine.  He planned and hosted an international conference on entrepreneurship for developing countries at Regent University in October 2002.  A book based on the conference was published in August 2003.     

Mulford came to Regent University in 1982 as a founding faculty member in the School of Business.  He served as Dean of the Business School from 1990-2004.  From 1994-1997 and 2000-01, Mulford also served as Regent’s Executive Vice President of Finance and Operations, overseeing all the business functions of the university.  From 1994 to 2002, he served as Chief Investment Officer, managing the university’s $300 million endowment.

Before coming to Regent, Mulford conducted policy research at the Rand Corporation and served as Vice President and Senior Economist at First Interstate Bank of California.  His housing research at Rand, published in monographs and articles, influenced the design of federal housing programs in the 1970’s and 80’s.  His work on the dynamics of a housing program’s enrollment was published in Management Science.   At First Interstate Bank, he advised the senior management on credit models and consumer deposit instruments.  His work on policy models for CEO’s was published in the journal Interfaces.

Mulford earned the B.S. in Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, from Brown University, and the Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow.