Jim Kitchen is a teacher, entrepreneur, and world explorer who has visited all 193 U.N. recognized countries. Jim has been a space dreamer since watching NASA’s Apollo rocket launches in Florida as a child.

Since 2010, Jim has served on the faculty at University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, teaching students to create world-changing for-profit and non-profit ventures.

Jim received an MBA with honors from the University of Tennessee, a master's degree in political management from George Washington University, and a bachelor’s in Russian and East European studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is married to Susan Kitchen and they have two adult children.