Rebecca J. White, Ph.D. is co-founder RiskAware, LLC and currently serves as the Chief Operations Officer. She has conducted extensive research in the field of risk mitigation in higher education. Dr. White has more than 25 years in higher education teaching, research and administration. She is the Founding Director of the Fifth Third Bank Entrepreneurship Institute and a Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at Northern Kentucky University (NKU). She received an MBA and a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from Virginia Tech University and a BS from Concord University.