John Sibley Butler
Senior Advisor

John Sibley Butler holds The Gale Chair in Entrepreneurship and
Small Business in the Graduate School of Business, Department of
Management at the University of Texas. He is the Director of the
Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship and the Director of the
Institute for Innovation and Creativity (IC2). His research is in the
areas of organizational Behavior and entrepreneurship/new
ventures/immigrant and minority entrepreneurship. His research
appears in professional journals and books. For the last seven
summers Professor Butler has occupied the Distinguished Visiting
Professor position at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo Japan,
where he lectured on new venture start-ups and general
entrepreneurship.  Professor Butler has served as a consultant for
many firms and the U.S. Military. At this time he is Management
Consultant for State Farm Insurance Companies, with Corporate
Headquarters in Bloomington, Illinois. In this connection he has
given lectures on general management issues of corporate America.
He is also one of the distinguished professors who compose the
Advisory Team of Governor George Bush's 2000 Presidential
Campaign.  Professor Butler has appeared on over 30 radio and
television programs, including Eye On America (CBS Nightly
News), The Jim Leher News Hour, CBS Radio Talk Show, The
Osgood Report, and Public Radio. Also this year Professor Butler's
research has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York
Times, The Chicago Tribune, Time Magazine, U.S. News and World
Report and other newspapers and magazines across America. His
books include Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black
America: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics, All That We Can
Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way (With
Charles C. Moskos -Winner of the Washington Monthly Best Book
Award), Immigrant and Minority Entrepreneurship: The
Continuous Rebirth of American Communities (with George
Kozmetsky, Forthcoming) and Forgotten Citations: Studies in
Community, Entrepreneurship, and Self-Help Among
Black-Americans (with Patricia Gene Greene and Margaret Johnson,
Forthcoming). Professor Butler received his undergraduate education
from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and the Ph.D. from
Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.