Haseeb Qureshi (HQ) is a lecturer with the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship. He also serves as the director of Startup Studio, an on-campus startup incubator with Haslam’s Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Focused on delivering the highest quality entrepreneurship education, HQ continually brings practical experiences into the classroom. He continually encourages and supports his students by combining entrepreneurial strategy with real-world tactics.

HQ began working with Haslam as an adjunct lecturer in 2019. Prior to accepting a full-time position with UT, he was an entrepreneur in residence at Morehous Legal Group, a boutique business law firm specializing in startups and entrepreneurial law.

HQ has been a Tennessee licensed attorney since 2011, specializing in startup and entrepreneurial law and serving early-stage founders and entrepreneurs with alternative legal services. He is also a self-taught full-stack software developer and holds a software patent within the live music realm and was a founder of a past music technology company (Audiohand).

HQ is dedicated to the Knoxville community, having volunteered with the Big Ears Festival, the KUB Community Advisory Panel and the Mayor’s Maker City Council. He also collaborated with the mayor’s office to help businesses get federal pandemic relief.

HQ is an alumni of the inaugural MediaWorks program in 2014, Tennessee’ first digital media accelerator, and he served as the first instructor of the Tennessee’s inaugural YEA! program with the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce.