John Liddy, Director of Syracuse Student Sandbox John Liddy has over 20 years of managerial experience and currently serves as the entrepreneur in residence for several colleges and universities. Mr. Liddy also is the Director of the Syracuse Student Sandbox, which is an accelerator program for college student run businesses. He has been part of five startup companies, primarily in an operations and finance role. Immediately preceding his tenure as EIR, Mr. Liddy headed a business unit for a publicly traded company where he had full P&L responsibilities for a $300 million dollar business and had over 300 employees reporting to him. John received his undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont and received his MBA from the Whitman School at Syracuse University in 2003.