Rustom Desai

Rustom Desai is a visiting senior lecturer at Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. He teaches Strategic Alliances and Family Enterprise Management & Governance. Desai brings to his role 25 years of demonstrated success as a technology executive. He spent most of his professional career with Corning Incorporated, where he held leadership positions of increasing impact across tech-heavy industries including semiconductors, consumer electronics, and telecommunications. Desai has repeatedly delivered dramatic growth through building strong and diverse global teams and has deep experience in general management, product management, mergers and acquisitions, global/emerging markets. As a global citizen, he has lived and worked in the United States, China, Taiwan, and India.

Desai is a trusted director with extensive expertise serving on public, private, joint venture, and family enterprise boards. He also served as an independent director of a publicly traded, woman-run, family-controlled company and is on several advisory boards, including the Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell Johnson and the Praxis Center for Venture Development at Cornell.