Petrit Ademi is Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurial Finance at the Center for Financial Services Innovation (FSI-HSG) and the School of Management (SoM-HSG) at the University of St. Gallen, where he also serves as Co-Head of the Corporate Venturing Lab. His research focuses on start-up financing, corporate venturing and venture exits. In particular, he focusses on issues relating to decision-making from an investor and venture perspective, the design and impact of investment practices and the topic of venture exits. Petrit previously worked as a research assistant and postdoctoral researcher at Justus Liebig University Giessen and was a visiting researcher at Babson College, USA, as part of his doctorate. He studied at Lancaster University Management School and DHBW Stuttgart and has worked at KPMG and IBM.
Ademi, P., Schade, P., & Schuhmacher, M. C. (2025). Situated Attention and Strategic Leadership Interfaces: The Role of CEO Humility and Digital Transformation Urgency for Corporate Venture Capital Investments. Journal of Management Studies.
Ademi, P., Schuhmacher, M. C., & Zacharakis, A. L. (2023). Evaluating Affordance-based Opportunities: A Conjoint Experiment of Corporate Venture Capital Managers’ Decision-Making. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47(6), 2293-2322.
Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurial Finance