Omar Garriott
Entrepreneurship educator and tech executive
Omar Garriott is an entrepreneurship educator who has led the Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. He worked for 15 years as a tech executive first.
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About Omar Garriott
Omar Garriott has served as Executive Director of the Batten Institute, a center for entrepreneurship, innovation and technology within UVA's business school, the Darden School. Before moving into academia, he spent 15 years as a tech executive. He was Global Head of the education business at Qualtrics and led education product marketing at Salesforce, LinkedIn, Apple, and Adobe. Teaching and mentoring have also been part of his path. He taught third grade through Teach for America and advised students, from high schoolers to executive MBA candidates, as they planned their next steps in college and work. He also worked as a career coach at UC-Berkeley Haas and at the University of Virginia. He has reported for Major League Soccer, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, and The Washington Post. His book in our catalog is Linked.