• Phone: 617-353-4258
  • E-Mail:  pmcmanus@bu.edu
  • Website: http://www.bu.edu/itec/
  • Office: 557
    • Office Hours: By Appointment
  • Address: Boston University School of Management
    595 Commonwealth Avenue
    Boston, MA 02215

Profile Summary

Paul McManus is an Executive-in-Residence and Lecturer in the Department of Strategy & Innovation at the School of Management and a Faculty Fellow at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Long Range Future at Boston University. He is also Executive Director of the Sustainable Neighborhood Lab (SNL), a unique urban field laboratory engaging academics across all BU's seventeen colleges and other institutions, together with industry, government and civil society as collaborators in ground breaking trans-disciplinary research, technology commercialization, new venture creation and community development programs. In addition, McManus is Managing Director of the Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (ITEC), BU’s entrepreneurship center and also the Faculty Director of the Leading Clean Energy Ventures executive program.

McManus teaches in the areas of entrepreneurship/entrepreneurial leadership, as well as strategy, globalization, sustainability with an emphasis the on entrepreneurial opportunities within the green economy. An award-winning member of the faculty, McManus was voted SMG Faculty of the Year by the MBA class of 2009 and received the School of Management’s Broderick Award for Service to the Graduate Programs in 2010.

As a Faculty Fellow at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Long Range Future, he contributes to thought leadership on entrepreneurship and the green economy with a focus on innovation that drives environmental resilience and sustainability, promotes economic prosperity and enhances social vitality to improve quality-of-life and well-being of civil society.

McManus sits on the steering committees for the Boston University, Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Initiative (CEESI), the Sustainable Buildings Committee of Sustainability@BU and Co-Chairs the Sustainable Communities sub-committee.

Prior to joining the faculty at Boston University full time in 2006, McManus was the Human Capital Partner at Boston Millennia Partners, a $740M venture capital fund with international investments in early-stage technology ventures in the life sciences, healthcare, medical device, information technology and telecommunications industries. Previously, he spent eight years as consultant to investors, corporations, government agencies and startups in the international venture community and fifteen years as a corporate new venture development executive, product manager and engineer in the high tech industry.

In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors for the Cleantech Open, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) Corridor-wide Advisory Group for the Fairmount Indigo Planning Initiative and the Main South/Loomworks Revitalization Advisory Committee - Worcester, MA.

McManus received his MBA from Boston University in 1986 and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Wentworth Institute of Technology in 1977.

  • Education Open or Close

    MBA, Boston University, 1986.

    BS, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering Technology, 1977.

  • General ServiceOpen or Close

    Service to the School:

      National, Boston University, Board of Directors of a Company, CleanTech Open - New England, approximately 0 hours spent for the year. (2013 - Present).

      Local, Public/Community, Board of Advisors of a Company, Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) Corridor-wide Advisory Group for the Fairmount Indigo Planning Initiative , approximately 40 hours spent for the year. (2013 - Present).

      Regional, Boston University, Board of Advisors of a Company, Loomworks Revitalization Advisory Committee - Worcester, MA, approximately 10 hours spent for the year. (2013 - Present).

      Boston University, Committee Member, Sustainability@BU, Sustainable Buildings Steering Committee, approximately 0 hours spent for the year. (2013 - Present).

      Public/Community, Interaction with Industry, New England Technology Venture Accelerator, Office for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in the United States, approximately 0 hours spent for the year. (2013 - Present).

      International, Public/Community, Interaction with Industry, Young Entrepreneurs Initiative, Office for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in the United States, Boston, MA, approximately 0 hours spent for the year. (2013 - Present).

      Boston University, Other Role, UNFCC COP15, Copenhagen 2009, approximately 0 hours spent for the year. (2013 - Present).

      Local, Boston University, Undergraduate Program, Student Org Advisor (Professional Org), NetImpact Undergraduate Chapter, approximately 10 hours spent for the year. (2013 - Present).

      International, Boston University, Grant Proposal Reviewer, External, "Entrepreneurial Processes and Culture for Higher Education to Produce Commercial Impact – Hong Kong, approximately 0 hours spent for the year. (2013 - Present).

      International, Boston University, Faculty Director, Sustainable Neighborhood Lab, approximately 0 hours spent for the year. (2013 - Present).

      International, Boston University, Faculty Director, ITEC, approximately 0 hours spent for the year. (2013 - Present).

      International, Boston University, Interaction with Industry, IBM Smarter Planet Program, approximately 10 hours spent for the year. (2013 - Present).
      Advisor to IBM Venture Capital Org for IBM Smart Camp Program


      National, School of Management, Other SMG Service Area, Grant Proposal Reviewer, External, Alimni Events in Dallas, LA and SFO, approximately 0 hours spent for the year. (2013 - Present).

      International, Boston University, Grant Proposal Reviewer, External, approximately 5 hours spent for the year. ( - Present).

      Local, Boston University, Committee Member, Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Initiative Steering Committee, approximately 10 hours spent for the year. ( - Present).

      International, Boston University, Executive Education, Faculty Director, Norwegian Entrepreneurship Program, approximately 40 hours spent for the year. (June 15, 2012 - August 18, 2012).

      Regional, School of Management, Faculty Director, Leading Clean Energy Ventures Program, approximately 120 hours spent for the year. (February 15, 2012 - April 18, 2012).

  • Conference ActivitiesOpen or Close

      World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Water Innovation, Panelist. (September 24, 2012 - September 26, 2012).

      CleanTech Open Annual Conference, CleanTech Open, CleanTech Startups, Panelist. (October 16, 2012 - October 16, 2012).

      CleanTech Open Competition - Regional Finals, CleanTech Open, University-based Ecosystems for Student Entrepreneurs in Cleantech, Panelist. (October 9, 2012 - October 9, 2012).

      Symposium on Water Innovation in Massachusetts, Office of Governor Patrick Duval, Water Technology-based Ecosystem Development in MA, Committee Member. (May 8, 2012 - May 8, 2012).

      Safe Water for Health Now Conference, BU SPH & Vestergaard Fransen, Committee Member. (January 27, 2012 - January 27, 2012).

      Food & The CIty, Frederick S Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, Food and the City: Issues on the Horizon, Panelist. (February 25, 2012 - February 26, 2012).

      Food & The CIty, Frederick S Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, Food and the City: Issues on the Horizon, Panelist. (February 25, 2012 - February 26, 2012).

      The Urban Century, Frederick S, Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Ranger Future, The Urban Century: Local Challenges, Global Matters, Committee Chair. (December 14, 2012 - December 14, 2012).