Faculty/Staff

Kenneth Hamner

Assistant Professor of Instruction
hamnerk@usf.edu 
Campus: Tampa
Room: BSN 3319
Phone: 813-974-7900
Vita

Kenneth Hamner is an assistant professor of instruction at the USF Muma College of Business and the Nault Center for Entrepreneurship. He currently teaches or has taught classes in artificial intelligence, mergers and acquisitions, the new space economy, intellectual property, and principles of entrepreneurship at the graduate and undergraduate level. He also helps plan and judge business plan competitions and serves as a guest lecturer in other courses in venture capital and private equity and exit planning.  

For over 30 years, Hamner has accumulated experience in finance, accounting, consulting, and law. He has experience in structuring international and domestic transactions, equity and debt relationships, and negotiating contracts. He manages and directs all primary practice areas of the Entrepreneur Law Center, P.L., a boutique law firm with focused practice areas of business planning, international and domestic transactions, general counsel services, tax, due diligence, angel investor and venture capital services. He is also the managing member of Encompass Advisory Group, an investment banking and consulting firm.

Hamner also serves as a partner and in a general counsel capacity for several ventures, including STATIP, LLC, a company owning intellectual property related to evaluating and commercializing patents, and Fountain Technologies International, LLC, a firm that develops and licenses nanotechnology patents. 

Hamner was the founder and editor-in-chief of the Florida State University Business Review, an academic journal focusing on business and legal issues that is currently a successful publication for over 20 years, housed at the Florida State University College of Law.  

He holds a Juris Doctor and MBA from FSU, a master's degree in entrepreneurship in applied technologies from USF, an Executive Master of Accounting in Forensic Accounting from Florida Atlantic University, and bachelor's degrees in accounting and finance from George Mason University. He earned a Certificate in Chinese Law at the China University of Political Science and Law. He earned a Certificate in Dispute Resolution and a Certificate in Mediation at Humboldt Universidad. He has also studied foreign investment law at the University of the West Indies in Barbados.  

He is also a Certified Exit Planning Advisor, a Certified Merger & Acquisition Advisor, a Master Analyst in Financial Forensics, a Certified Fraud Examiner, a Certified Business Intermediary, and is licensed as a Real Estate Broker in Florida.