Prior to teaching, Larry spent 26 years at The Walt Disney Company, retiring in 2013. His last role was 8 years as VP of Worldwide Operations for Home Entertainment and VP of Operations & Strategy for Studio Operations. He worked with teams in 60 countries and started operations in Brazil, Russia, India & China. Before the Studio, he spent 5 years as part of the opening team at Hong Kong Disneyland, leading Operations Development for back-of-house. At Disneyland, he spent 8 years improving & expanding the Resort, culminating with the opening of Disney’s California Adventure. Larry’s Disney career began in 1987, as an intern to write the Disney Store business plan. He was then hired to be a part of the small opening team, that eventually added 300 stores in 15+ countries. Prior to Disney he spent 8 years with Andersen Consulting in the Retail & Grocery industry.

Larry co-leads the UCI New Venture Competition and is on the Board at the Beall Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. He is the Faculty Director for the Antrepreneur Center, helping to drive interest in student entrepreneurship. He is the Faculty Director for the new UCI Health Venture Capital Immersion program.

For Executive Education, Larry has taught certificate and corporate classes on Corporate Innovation for health care, media, automotive, technology, and food companies. He has consulted for automotive, media, retail and real estate companies.

Larry has a BBA with Honors from Southern Methodist University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Larry is lucky to be married to a UCI Executive MBA, class #4.