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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Director operating in the Education space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Brian Subirana
Director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. Brian Subirana is Director of the MIT Auto-ID lab (where the term Internet of Things was coined) and Visiting Scientist in MIT’s Office of Digital Learning. He has also taught at programs in several Business Schools (Harvard, Stanford, IESE and INSEAD). Before becoming academic, he worked at BCG. He obtained his PhD in AI at MIT CSAIL, an MBA from MIT Sloan and his research is focused in three areas: digital learning, SCM, and IoT/AI.
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Thomas Hardjono
Technical Director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thomas Hardjono is the CTO of Connection Science and Engineering at MIT (connection.mit.edu). He leads technical projects and initiatives around identity, security and privacy in emerging technologies such as IoT, smart contracts and blockchain systems, and engages industry partners and sponsors on these fronts. Thomas is also the technical director for the Internet Trust Consortium under MIT Connection Science that implements open source software based on cutting edge research at MIT. Prior to this Thomas was the Director of the MIT Kerberos Consortium, developing the famous MIT Kerberos authentication software currently used by millions of users around the world. As an industry expert he has been active in the areas of security, applied cryptography and identity management for nearly two decades now, starting from the mid-1990s working in the emerging PKI industry as Principal Scientist at VeriSign as the largest PKI provider in the world. He has led a number of key industry technical groups within the IETF, OASIS, Trusted Computing Group, OCF, Kantara and other organizations. Aside from MIT Kerberos, he has been instrumental in the development of the OpenID-Connect 1.0 (OIDC) and the User Managed Access (UMA) identity management protocols. He is also spearheading exploratory work on core identities, open algorithms and verifiable transaction identities for blockchain systems. Over the years he has published four books and over sixty technical papers in journals and at conferences. He holds 19 patents in the areas of security and cryptography.
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Pooja Wagh
Director, Results Measurement & Lead, Health Community of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pooja Wagh is the Director of Solve’s Health pillar. She develops and nurtures relationships with Solve’s health-focused members, advisors, and Solvers, and works with them to drive forward promising, innovative solutions to intractable challenges in the health and wellness space. She is also responsible for defining Solve’s strategic direction for the Health pillar and measuring the impact of Solve’s partnerships on the ability of Solvers to affect change. Prior to joining Solve, Pooja was a Program Manager at Innovations for Poverty Action, where she managed a portfolio of rigorous research projects aiming to improve the access and quality of financial services in underserved areas around the world. She previously worked as a consultant at IBM Global Business Services, where she provided technology consulting services to pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods companies. Pooja holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelors in electrical engineering from MIT.
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Kathleen Kennedy
Director of Special Projects of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kathleen Kennedy is senior director of MIT Horizon. In her 14 years at MIT, Kathleen has helped MIT Technology Review to redefine the magazine brand and to achieve success in a rapidly changing market. She has established several new lines of business in the United States as well as in Asia, Europe and Latin America. She leads events, sales and international licensing for MIT’s media company as well as the global team of the entrepreneurial support organization, the MIT Enterprise Forum. She has been a long-time judge for the MITX awards and a distinguished juror for Lemelson-MIT prizes, also known as the “Nobel Prize for Innovators.” She sits on the board of the MIT Enterprise Forum and she was awarded the 2009 Folio: 40, which recognized the most innovative and influential people in magazines.
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Sanjay Sarma
Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Director of Digital Learning of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sanjay Sarma is the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He is the first Director of Digital Learning at MIT. He co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT and developed many of the key technologies behind the EPC suite of RFID standards now used worldwide. He was also the the founder and CTO of OATSystems, which was acquired by Checkpoint Systems (NYSE: CKP) in 2008. He serves on the boards of GS1, EPCglobal and several startup companies including Senaya and ESSESS. He received his Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, his Masters from Carnegie Mellon University and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. Sarma also worked at Schlumberger Oilfield Services in Aberdeen, UK, and at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories in Berkeley, California. He has authored over 75 academic papers in computational geometry, sensing, RFID, automation and CAD, and is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and research including the MacVicar Fellowship, the Business Week eBiz Award and Informationweek’s Innovators and Influencers Award. He advises several national governments and global companies.
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R. David Edelman
Director, Project on Technology, the Economy, & National Security of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. R. David Edelman comes to MIT having distinguished himself as one of the U.S. government’s foremost voices on how technology is changing our economy, national security, and daily lives. An expert on pressing technology challenges facing national security and the global economy, his insights have helped shape national and international policy at the highest levels. In his most recent role as Special Assistant to the President for Economic and Technology Policy at the National Economic Council (NEC), he led the White House team focusing on the digital economy — including broadband, telecommunications, spectrum, and technology trade — as well as consumer cybersecurity, domestic and international data privacy, high-tech patent and copyright issues, and antitrust/competition. In his time at the White House he led engagement with hundreds of technology companies around the world; advised the President on a range of emerging technologies such as big data, drones, and autonomous vehicles; and designed and managed over $15 billion of signature programs focused on technology, education, and economic opportunity. He was awarded the State Department’s Superior Honor Award for his work on intelligence matters, and was twice the recipient of the Meritorious Honor Award for his United Nations negotiations and development of the nation’s cyber diplomacy strategy. He was previously named one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” leaders in Law & Policy, and later chosen as a “30 Under 30 All-Star Alumni” — one of only three in the magazine’s history — for his ongoing contributions to national policy. Edelman holds a bachelor’s degree in History (with honors) from Yale and Master’s and Doctoral degrees from Oxford in International Relations. His dissertation, “Cyberattacks in International Relations,” examined which forces might restrain state use of offensive cyber capabilities.
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Tenley Albright
Director, MIT Collaborative Initiatives of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tenley Albright is a Director, MIT Collaborative Initiatives at Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT.
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Josue Velázquez-Martínez
Executive Director, Supply Chain Management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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David Kiron
Editorial Director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Jeff Freilich
Associate Director, CSAIL Alliances of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Jeff Freilich
Associate Director, CSAIL Alliances of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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David Kiron
Editorial Director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Alex Stamos
Director, Stanford Internet Observatory of Stanford University
Alex Stamos joined Stanford University as Director in 2018. Alex Stamos is a cybersecurity expert, business leader and entrepreneur working to improve the security and safety of the Internet through his teaching and research at Stanford University. Stamos is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s Freeman-Spogli Institute, a William J. Perry Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, and a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution. As a Chief Security Officer at Facebook and Yahoo and a co-founder of iSEC Partners, Alex has investigated and responded to some of the most seminal events in the short history of cybersecurity, and has been called the “Forrest Gump of Info Sec” by friends. He is working on election security via the Defending Digital Democracy Project and advising NATO’s Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. He has spoken on six continents, testified in Congress, served as an expert witness for the wrongly accused, earned a BSEE from UC Berkeley and has five patents.
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Christopher Manning
Director, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of Stanford University
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Irving L. Weissman
Director, Stanford University Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine of Stanford University
Irving L. Weissman, M.D., (Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board) is the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research at Stanford University. He is also the Director of the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. His research encompasses the developmental biology, self-renewal, homing, and functions of the cells that make up the blood-forming and immune systems. His main focus for the last several years has been the isolation, biology, transplantation, and evolution of stem cells. His Stanford lab was the first to isolate any stem cell from any tissue in any species. The isolation of mouse HSCs was followed by the isolation of human HSC by Dr. Weissman and his colleagues at SyStemix where he was a co-founder and director. He has also served on the founding scientific advisory boards of Amgen Inc., DNAX, Inc., and T-Cells Sciences, Inc. (now Avant, Inc.). He was a co-founder and is currently a member of the board of directors of StemCells, Inc., where he is co-inventor of the human brain stem cell composition. Dr. Weissman has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and to the American Association for the Arts and Sciences. He has received the Kaiser Award for Excellence in Preclinical Teaching, the Pasarow Award for cancer research, the Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health, the E. Donnall Thomas Award for Outstanding Achievement in Hematology, the deVilliers Award for Outstanding Achievements in Leukemia Research, the J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine, the American Diabetes Association Elliott Proctor Joslin Medal, and the Society of Neurological Surgeons Bass Award. In 2002 he was awarded the California Scientist of the Year, covering all fields, and in 2004 was awarded the Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize in Immunology and Cancer Research from the Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, and the Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal from the National Academy of Sciences Council. He is also the 2004 Alan Cranston Awardee from the Alliance for Aging Research, and the 2005 recipient of the Linus Pauling Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Science from Stanford University.
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David C Yeomans
Professor and Director of the Stanford Pain Research Center of Stanford University
David Yeomans is the director of pain research and a tenured associate professor of anesthesia at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is the chair of the scientific advisory board of three companies and an advisor to numerous pharmaceutical and biotech companies, as well as venture capital firms and intellectual property law practices. Dr. Yeomans has authored more than 90 peer reviewed articles and 11 book chapters in the field of pain, and has been the recipient of numerous NIH grants. He has authored numerous issued patents and patent applications and co-founded two companies devoted to the management of pain. Dr. Yeomans earned an AB degree from Dartmouth College, received his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Florida, and completed his research training as a NIH fellow at the University of Illinois.
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Mark Blumenkranz
HJ Smead Professor Emeritus, Director of the Ophthalmic Innovation Program (Byers Eye Institute) of Stanford University
Mark Blumenkranz is Kedalion’s Executive Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder, and also the Chairman and Managing Director of Lagunita Biosciences, a venture incubator that creates and grows early-stage companies to commercialize impactful translational science that addresses significant clinical needs. Dr. Blumenkranz is now the HJ Smead Professor Emeritus at the Byers Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology at Stanford University and served as departmental Chairman from 1997 to 2015. He played a leading role in the planning, fundraising and construction of the Institute which opened in 2010. Mark has a longstanding interest and expertise in university corporate technology transfer and early-stage biomedical companies and was a Founder and Director of Macusight, Peak Surgical, Optimedica Corporation, Adverum Biotechnologies, Oculeve, and Digisight Corporation (now Verana Heath). He has also served on the Boards of Directors of a number of other private and publicly traded ophthalmic drug and medical device companies including Oculex Pharmaceuticals, OIS, Midlabs, Presbia, and Beaver-Visitec (BVI Inc). He completed the Stanford Executive Program in the Graduate School of Business in 2004 and received his Undergraduate, Masters degree in biochemical pharmacology, and MD degrees from Brown University (AOA), where he is also a Fellow of the Corporation and immediate past Chair of the Medical School Committee.
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Erik Brynjolfsson
Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor; Director, Digital Economy Lab of Stanford University
Erik Brynjolfsson serves as the schussel family professor at the [MIT Sloan School](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-sloan-school-of-management). He co-founded FlexPlay Technologies, a tech company that develops and supplies limited-life DVDs. Brynjolfsson has been an independent director at the Computer Sciences Corporation since December 2010. He also served as a co-director at BaseSix; a director at CSK Corporation from 2006 to 2008; the director of the MIT Center for Digital Business; and the chairman of the MIT Sloan Management Review. He lectures worldwide on technology strategy, productivity, and intangible assets. Brynjolfsson is the co-author of Wired for Innovation: How IT is Reshaping the Economy. He is on the academic advisory board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and he is also co-principal investigator on several grants by the National Science Foundation to study information technology, organizational transformation, and productivity. He has taught at Harvard and Stanford Universities. Brynjolfsson holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in applied mathematics and decision sciences from Harvard University and a PhD in managerial economics from MIT.
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Guru Parulkar
Executive Director, Stanford Platform Lab of Stanford University
Guru Parulkar is the Executive Director of Open Networking Foundation (ONF), Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) and Stanford Platform Lab, as well as Consulting Professor of EE at Stanford University. Guru also leads open source projects ONOS® and CORD® hosted by The Linux Foundation. In the field of networking for more than 25 years, Guru joined Stanford in 2007 as Executive Director of its Clean Slate Internet Design Program. At Stanford, Guru helped create three programs: OpenFlow / Software-Defined Networking, Programmable Open Mobile Internet 2020, and Stanford Experimental Data Center Laboratory. Prior to Stanford, Guru spent four years at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and worked with the broader research community to create programs such as GENI, Future Internet Design, and Network of Sensor Systems. Guru received NSF Director’s award for Program Management excellence. Before NSF Guru founded several startups including Growth Networks (acquired by Cisco) and Sceos (IPO’d as Ruckus Wireless). Guru served as Entrepreneur in Residence at NEA in 2001 and received NEA’s Entrepreneurship Award. Prior to this Guru spent over 12 years at Washington University in St. Louis where he was a Professor of Computer Science, Director of Applied Research Laboratory and the head of research and prototyping of high performance networking and multimedia systems. Guru received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Delaware in 1987. Guru is a recipient of the Alumni Outstanding Achievement award and the Frank A. Pehrson Graduate Student Achievement award.
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Josie Garthwaite
Associate Director Of Communications of Stanford University
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Caroline Simard
Managing Director – VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab of Stanford University
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Karen Cooper
Associate Dean & Director of Financial Aid of Stanford University
Director of Financial Aid Stanford University.
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Maryam Sarah Hamidi
Associate Director of Scholarship & Health Promotion – Stanford Medicine WellMD Center of Stanford University
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Khari Jones
Assistant Director of Innovation/Video Production of Stanford University
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Magda Chia
Director of Strategy, Impact, and Policy of Stanford University
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Christopher Field
Perry L. McCarty Director, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment of Stanford University
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Juan Carlos Niebles
Associate Director of Research at the Stanford-Toyota Center for AI Research of Stanford University
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Jaimie Henderson
Director of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery of Stanford University
Jaimie Henderson, M.D. is director of the Stanford program in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, and co-director (with Prof. Krishna Shenoy, PhD) of the Stanford Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory (NPTL).
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Anna Lembke
Medical Director of Stanford University
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Ron Davis
Director of Stanford Genome Technology Center of Stanford University
Ron Davis is Director of Stanford Genome Technology Center at Stanford University.
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Larry Leifer
Director, Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research of Stanford University
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Jim Leape
William and Eva Price Senior Fellow; Co-Director, Center for Ocean Solutions of Stanford University
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James Sweeney
Professor of Management Science and Engineering; Director, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center of Stanford University
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James Sweeney
Professor of Management Science and Engineering; Director, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center of Stanford University
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Larry Leifer
Director, Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research of Stanford University
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Nadia Roumani
Director, Effective Philanthropy Lab, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society of Stanford University
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Keith Devlin
Director of the Stanford Mathematics Outreach Project of Stanford University
Keith Devlin joined Stanford University as Director of the Stanford Mathematics Outreach Project in 2019.Keith Devlin is the Executive Director of the Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR) at Stanford University and The Math Guy on NPR’s Weekend Edition.
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Chris Powers
Director of Engineering – Thinkful of Chegg
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Chris Powers
Director of Engineering – Thinkful of Chegg
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Romina Ederle
Senior Director, Global Communications of Udemy
Romina Ederle is the Senior Director, Global Communications at Udemy.
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Alex Mozes
Senior Director of Customer Experience of Udemy
Alex Mozes is a Senior Director of Customer Experience at Udemy.
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Richard Katzman
Board of Directors of Noodle
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Julie Cameron
Director Of Engineering of Articulate
Julie Cameron is a front end developer for Articulate, working remotely from metro-Detroit. She is co-founder of the Ann Arbor chapter of Girl Develop It and is an instructor at Girl Develop It Detroit. Julie is a fan of Sassy CSS and modular architecture, responsive web design, and is a student of JavaScript and continuous improvement. She is an open source developer of SlickQuiz, and is a 2013 GitHub OSCON Scholarship Recipient for Women in Tech.
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Jason Horne
Managing Director of GSV Ventures
Jason Horne is the Managing Director at GSV Ventures.
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Neil Poloso
Executive Director, Biological Research of Allergan
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Tory Brady
Director of Product Engineering of Allergan
Tory Brady’s passion is building software with a keen eye on the customer and the jobs they’re hiring a product to do in their lives. He loves when beautiful design, performant code and comprehensive data intersect. He’s had a fruitful career as a Software Engineer, working for a variety of technology start-ups. Now Tory is applying these learned start-up methodologies to Allergan’s medical aesthetics business as they work to revitalize the digital relationship with their consumers.
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Vijay Raghavan
Senior Director, Management Science of Allergan
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Kyle Asman
General Partner, Managing Director of Backswing Ventures
Kyle Asman is a General Partner and Managing Director at Backswing Ventures. Kyle has extensive experience helping clients raise capital in the finance, banking, regulatory consulting space, and most recently, developed complex international tax structures in the tax advisory space. Today, he is firmly committed to helping companies build their business in the Blockchain sector because he believes it will fundamentally change the way capital markets operate and revolutionize industries across the globe. Kyle has held investment banking regulatory consulting and transfer pricing roles at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Duff and Phelps, and Ryan LLC, a global tax firm. In 2018, Kyle Co-Founded Bx3 Consulting, a full-service biz advisory firm focused on helping cryptocurrency and blockchain companies grow and operate their business and has since brought multiple successful initial token offerings (ITOs) to market. He is a VC investor in multiple startups.
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Courtney Lawless
General Partner, Managing Director of Backswing Ventures
With more than 17 years’ background in the sector, Courtney is an expert in equity, venture capital, hedge funds, real estate and debt funds, having worked at Morgan Stanley, Academy Securities, and Discovery Capital. Courtney has raised over $5 billion in capital commitments from large institutional investors, and specializes in delivering a unique brand of intellectual capital, investment and strategies to founders and portfolio companies. Courtney is driven by a desire to help new companies grow, both for the benefit of their stakeholders and the consumers and communities they serve.
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Ivan Reilly
General Partner and Managing Director of Backswing Ventures
Ivan began his career working on complex IT business solutions in Europe. Navigating International markets through sophisticated platforms, Ivan gained experience in strategic Application Delivery and Digital Program execution. Ivan’s granular understanding of QMS / Design Control protocols and Software Development in global regulated environments are key components to his success at MoxēHub. Ivan has a background in economics, and his past experience in software development is extensive, having expertise in the Healthcare, Pharm, Education, and Beauty industries.
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Richard Swart
Director of Research of University of California Berkeley
Dr. Richard Swart is a PhD in Information Systems, an international award-winning academic and a recognized thought leader in the crowdfunding industry. Richard is a founding member of the Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA), the Crowdfunding Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CIFRA), and an early leader in the field. Richard co-organized the first major national conference on crowdfunding and coordinated several educational events on the JOBS Act throughout the United States. As Director of Research and Analysis for Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA) Richard works closely with the University of California, Berkeley in the Innovation in Entrepreneurial and Social Finance Program which is dedicated to academic research on crowdfunding and has CCA principals as founders. Richard is currently collaborating on a research project for the World Bank’s InfoDev group exploring crowdfunding and funding models for innovative technology.
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Adam Sterling
Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Business of University of California Berkeley
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Michèle Huff
Director of University of California Berkeley
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Erik Stallman
Associate Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic of University of California Berkeley
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Erik Stallman
Associate Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic of University of California Berkeley
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Dick Green
Director of Liberty Global Corporation & Shaw Communications Inc. Chairman of Space Sciences Inst. of StackUp
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Brian O’Grady
Program Director of Code Institute
Brian is Programme Director for Code Institute and has extensive experience in areas as diverse as Software Architecture, Design, Data Analytics and Visualisation, User Experience, Cloud Technologies and Courseware Content Creation (As a Subject Matter Expert for Thomson Learning). Brian has 17 years of professional industry and educational experience to the classroom, including Solution Architect on the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative across the UK.
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Daniel Pianko
Co-Founder and Managing Director of University Ventures
Daniel Pianko is the Managing Director at Achieve Partners
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Aanand Radia
Managing Director of University Ventures
Aanand Radia is a Managing Director at University Ventures. Prior to University Ventures, Aanand was a private equity investor at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, where he focused on Financial Services and Special Situations. Prior to BlackRock, Aanand worked at EdisonLearning (formerly Edison Schools), an early pioneer in the charter school movement and later a diversified K-12 education technology and services company, where he focused on corporate strategy, business development, new product and finance initiatives. While at Edison, Aanand helped to develop an alternative education product offering delivered through a hybrid/blended learning environment. Aanand started his career at Patriot Capital, a middle market private equity firm, where he made investments across a broad range of industries. Aanand received his B.S. in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University. “Aanand helps lead the firm’s investment in Galvanize, Revature, and the firm’s student finance related investments.
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Ryan Craig
Managing Director of University Ventures
Prior to University Ventures, Ryan founded and built Wellspring, the largest and leading organization of treatment programs for overweight and obese children, adolescents and young adults, including boarding schools, summer camps and after-school programs. Ryan headed the Education & Training sector at Warburg Pincus from 2001 – 2004 where he was the founding Director of Bridgepoint Education (NYSE: BPI), one of the largest online universities in the U.S. Ryan has advised the U.S. Department of Education and served as VP Strategic Development for Fathom, the Columbia University online education company, from 1999 – 2001. Ryan began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. He received bachelor’s degrees in Literature and Economics summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University, and his law degree from the Yale Law School.
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Lauren Landry
Associate Director, Marketing & Communications of Harvard Business School
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Ryan Frazier
Managing Director Technology at Harvard Business School Online of Harvard Business School
Managing Director Technology at Harvard Business School Online.
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Alex Richardson
Senior Associate Director, Alumni Career Management of Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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Sarah Toms
Executive Director, Wharton Interactive of Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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Kerry Gallivan
Senior Director of Finance Operations of Northeastern University
Kerry Gallivan is Senior Director of Finance Operations at Northeastern University.
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About Northeastern University: Northeastern University is an experiential and research university that offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate and graduate programs.
Patricia Wood
Director of Internal Audit of Northeastern University
As the Director of Internal Audit, Tricia Wood is responsible for developing, organizing and directing Northeastern University’s Internal Audit plan. She plans financial, operational, and compliance audits to determine the adequacy of the University’s systems of internal control and the degree of compliance with these controls. The Director of Internal Audit is also charged with conducting special investigations as requested, and making recommendations for improved controls, operating procedures, and systems designs. She reports administratively to the Senior Vice President for Administration & Finance and has a direct reporting relationship to the Chair of the Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees. She provides quarterly updates to the Audit Committee regarding Internal Audit’s activities. Prior to joining Northeastern in 2008, she worked in the Internal Audit department at Boston College, and also worked as a risk consultant for Deloitte. She received her MBA from Boston College, and her Bachelors in Mathematics from Stonehill College. Tricia holds Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a Certified in Information Systems Risks & Controls (CRISC) certifications. Tricia also served on the ISACA New England board, and most recently served as the President of the New England chapter. She is also a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors.
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Ahmed Busnaina
Distinguished University Professor and Director, NSF Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing of Northeastern University
Ahmed A. Busnaina, Ph.D. is the William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor, Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the National Science Foundation’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing since 2004, the Advanced Nanomanufacturing Cluster for Smart Sensors and Materials since 2015, and the NSF Center for Nano and Microcontamination Control at Northeastern University, Boston, MA since 2002. He is also the founder and CTO of Nano OPS, Inc. since 2017. Prior to joining Northeastern University in 2000, he was a professor and a director of the Microcontamination Control Lab at Clarkson University from 1983-2000. Dr. Busnaina is internationally recognized for his work on nano and micro scale defects mitigation and removal in semiconductor fabrication. He specializes in directed assembly-based nano and microscale printing of inorganic and organic conductors, semiconductors, and dielectrics for making micro and nanoscale interconnects, FETs, sensors, LEDs, sensors, and various other devices. He developed many techniques for directed assembly and nanomaterials based manufacturing of nanoscale structures for energy, electronics, biomedical, and materials applications. His research support exceeds $58 million. He authored more than 600 papers in journals, proceedings, and conferences. He also has 22 granted and 40 pending patents. He organized and chaired more than 175 conferences, workshops, sessions, and panels for many professional societies. He was awarded the 2020 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award and Medal. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a fellow American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Adhesion Society, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar. He was awarded the 2006 Nanotech Briefs National Nano50 Award, Innovator category, the 2006 Outstanding Faculty, SØren Buus Outstanding Research Award, Northeastern University 2006, the 2005 Aspiration Award, Northeastern University. He is an editor of the journal of Microelectronic Engineering and an associate editor of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research. He also serves on many advisory boards including Samsung Electronics; Journal of Particulate Science and Technology, Journal of Environmental Sciences, Journal of Electronic Materials Letters, Journal of nanomaterials. He is and listed in Who’s Who in the World, in America, in science and engineering, etc.).
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Sean Gallagher
Executive Director, Center for the Future of Higher Education & Talent Strategy of Northeastern University
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Ian Gorton
Professor of the Practice, Director of Computer Science, Seattle Campus of Northeastern University
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Lucy Masters
Director of Marketing of Northeastern University
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Claire Duggan
Director for Programs & Operations, The Center for STEM Education of Northeastern University
Claire Duggan is Director for Programs & Operations at Northeastern University.
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Vladimir Torchilin
Professor and Center Director of Northeastern University
Vladimir P. Torchilin, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a University Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nonomedicine at Northeastern University. He graduated from the Moscow University with MS in Chemistry, and also obtained there his Ph.D. and D.Sc. in Polymer Chemistry, Chemical Kinetics and Catalysis, and Chemistry of Physiologically Active Compounds in 1971 and 1980, respectively. In 1991 Dr. Torchilin joined Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as the Head of Chemistry Program, Center for Imaging and Pharmaceutical Research, and Associate Professor of Radiology. Since 1998 Dr. Torchilin is with Northeastern University. He was there the Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1998-2008. His main interests include drug delivery and targeting, nanomedicine, multifunctional and stimuli-sensitive pharmaceutical nanocarriers, biomedical polymers, experimental cancer therapy, cancer immunology, novel imaging agents. He has published more than 400 original papers, more than 150 reviews and book chapters, wrote and edited 10 books, including Immobilized Enzymes in Medicine, The Handbook on Targeted Delivery of Imaging Agents, Liposomes: A Practical Approach, Nanoparticulates as Pharmaceutical Carriers, Multifunctional Pharmaceutical Nanocarriers, Biomedical Aspects of Drug Targeting, Delivery of Protein and Peptide Drugs in Cancer, and holds more than 40 patents. Google Scholar shows more than 37,000 citation of his papers with H-index of 86. He is Editor-in-Chief of Current Drug Discovery Technologies, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Drug Delivery and on the Editorial Boards of many leading journals in the field including Journal of Controlled Release (Review Editor), Bioconjugate Chemistry, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, Journal of Drug Targeting, Molecular Pharmaceutics, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, and few others. Over the years Prof. Torchilin got more than $30 M from the governmental and industrial sources in research funding. Among his many awards, Professor Torchilin was the recipient of the 1982 Lenin Prize in Science and Technology (the highest scientific award in the former USSR). He was elected as a Member of European Academy of Sciences. He is also a Fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), and of the Controlled Release Society, and received the 2005 Research Achievements in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Award from the AAPS, 2007 Research Achievements Award from the Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress, 2009 AAPS Journal Award, 2009 International Journal of Nanomedicine Distinguished Scientist Award, 2010 Controlled Release Society Founders Award, 2012 Life Time Achievements Award from the Journal of Drug Targeting, 2012 Alec Bangham Life Time Award, and 2013 Blaise Pascal Medal for Biomedicine from the European Academy of Sciences. In 2005-2006 he served as a President of the Controlled Release Society. In 2011, Times Higher Education ranked him number 2 among top world scientists in pharmacology for the period of 2000-2010.
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Peter Roby
Director of Athletics and Recreation of Northeastern University
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Vladimir Torchilin
Professor and Center Director of Northeastern University
Vladimir P. Torchilin, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a University Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nonomedicine at Northeastern University. He graduated from the Moscow University with MS in Chemistry, and also obtained there his Ph.D. and D.Sc. in Polymer Chemistry, Chemical Kinetics and Catalysis, and Chemistry of Physiologically Active Compounds in 1971 and 1980, respectively. In 1991 Dr. Torchilin joined Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as the Head of Chemistry Program, Center for Imaging and Pharmaceutical Research, and Associate Professor of Radiology. Since 1998 Dr. Torchilin is with Northeastern University. He was there the Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1998-2008. His main interests include drug delivery and targeting, nanomedicine, multifunctional and stimuli-sensitive pharmaceutical nanocarriers, biomedical polymers, experimental cancer therapy, cancer immunology, novel imaging agents. He has published more than 400 original papers, more than 150 reviews and book chapters, wrote and edited 10 books, including Immobilized Enzymes in Medicine, The Handbook on Targeted Delivery of Imaging Agents, Liposomes: A Practical Approach, Nanoparticulates as Pharmaceutical Carriers, Multifunctional Pharmaceutical Nanocarriers, Biomedical Aspects of Drug Targeting, Delivery of Protein and Peptide Drugs in Cancer, and holds more than 40 patents. Google Scholar shows more than 37,000 citation of his papers with H-index of 86. He is Editor-in-Chief of Current Drug Discovery Technologies, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Drug Delivery and on the Editorial Boards of many leading journals in the field including Journal of Controlled Release (Review Editor), Bioconjugate Chemistry, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, Journal of Drug Targeting, Molecular Pharmaceutics, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, and few others. Over the years Prof. Torchilin got more than $30 M from the governmental and industrial sources in research funding. Among his many awards, Professor Torchilin was the recipient of the 1982 Lenin Prize in Science and Technology (the highest scientific award in the former USSR). He was elected as a Member of European Academy of Sciences. He is also a Fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), and of the Controlled Release Society, and received the 2005 Research Achievements in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Award from the AAPS, 2007 Research Achievements Award from the Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress, 2009 AAPS Journal Award, 2009 International Journal of Nanomedicine Distinguished Scientist Award, 2010 Controlled Release Society Founders Award, 2012 Life Time Achievements Award from the Journal of Drug Targeting, 2012 Alec Bangham Life Time Award, and 2013 Blaise Pascal Medal for Biomedicine from the European Academy of Sciences. In 2005-2006 he served as a President of the Controlled Release Society. In 2011, Times Higher Education ranked him number 2 among top world scientists in pharmacology for the period of 2000-2010.
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Peter Roby
Director of Athletics and Recreation of Northeastern University
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Rogelio Alvarez
Director of Business Development and Sales of Duolingo
Rogelio Alvarez is the Director of Business Development and Sales at Duolingo.
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About Duolingo: Duolingo is a language-learning education platform that offers 98 total courses across nearly 40 distinct languages.
Joshua J. Mark
Author, Editor, Researcher, Co-Founder, Director of World History Encyclopedia
Joshua J. Mark is the Author, Editor, Researcher, Co-Founder, and Director at World History Encyclopedia.
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Kyle Britt
Director, Brand Strategy & Management, Bankrate of Red Ventures
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Joshua Leibner
Director, Paid Media of Red Ventures
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Sean Murphy
Director of Red Ventures
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Melody Petulla
Director of SEO, B2B of Red Ventures
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Melody Petulla
Director of SEO, B2B of Red Ventures
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Ikhlaq Sidhu
Founding Director and Chief Scientist, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology of UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Ikhlaq Sidhu is the Chief Scientist for the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley and has been the primary architect of its T-shaped curriculum and applied research program. He joined UC Berkeley in 2005 as founding Director of UC Berkeley’s highly successful Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, which has grown to become the cornerstone of the Fung Institute. Ikhlaq received recognition as the 2009 Emerging Area Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley for his contribution to this new research and teaching area. He brings valuable insight to the Berkeley community by building the connections between teaching and current innovation topics within Silicon Valley. Within industry, Ikhlaq has established new businesses and developed new technologies at U.S. Robotics Corporation, 3Com Corporation, and Cambia Networks. He was 3Com’s “Inventor of the Year” in 1999, and has been granted over 60 US Patents in networking technology, IP telephony, and PDA functionality. Technology and intellectual property from his work has been cross-licensed to Palm Computing, 3Com, and UT Starcom. Ikhlaq also designed hardware for the first generation of laser printers at Hewlett Packard. Ikhlaq received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his master’s degree and doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University.
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Lloyd Ratner
Professor of Surgery; Director, Renal & Pancreatic Transplantation of Columbia University
Lloyd Ratner, M.D., M.P.H., is professor of surgery and director of renal and pancreatic transplantation at Columbia University/NY Presbyterian Hospital in New York. He has served as a member of the membership and professional standards committee and its performance analysis and improvement subcommittee. He also was a member of the kidney paired donation workgroup and previously served on the kidney transplantation committee. Dr. Ratner serves on the council (board of directors) and the living donor committee of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS). He also is chair of the board of directors of New York Organ Donor Network and a member of its critical care working group, previously serving as chair of the medical advisory board. He was a member of the ASTS/American Society of Transplantation/NATCO joint societies workgroup on living kidney donor policy. He has served on the medical advisory board of Gift of Life Donor Program and the National Kidney Foundation of Maryland and on the board of directors of the Transplant Resource Center of Maryland (now, the Living Legacy Foundation). He earned his medical degree at Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia and a master’s degree of public health from Columbia University in New York.
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Eric Aroesty
Co-Founder & Director of Steady
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James Leonard
Director, Customer Services of Emory University
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Phil Carter
Director of Growth of Quizlet
Phil joined Trinity Ventures in 2013 after graduating from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. While in business school, Phil led early business development efforts as one of the first employees at Wheelz, a venture backed peer-to-peer car sharing startup that was ultimately acquired by Relay Rides. Previously, Phil also worked for three years at Bain & Company, where he consulted for enterprises in the energy industry and worked on due diligence efforts for multiple top-tier private equity firms across the technology, auto, insurance, and retail sectors. At Trinity, Phil focuses on consumer investments in mobile, commerce, and digital media. He is particularly interested in mobile services that improve the way people live their lives. Phil loves spending time in the outdoors hiking, cycling, camping, and mountain climbing.
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About Quizlet: Quizlet is a learning platform that uses activities and games to help students practice and master what they’re learning.
Laura Oppenheimer
Marketing Director of Quizlet
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Jay Dia
Director of Finance & Operations of LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator
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About Boxconcepts Consulting, LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator: LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator invests in and supports entrepreneurs on the mission to positively transform education.
Johannes Fruehauf
Founder, President & Executive Director of LabCentral
Johannes Fruehauf is the Founder & CEO LabCentral/Biolabs.He is responsible for all aspects of LabCentral’s operation. Johannes is a physician and successful biotech entrepreneur. Prior to LabCentral, he founded Cambridge Biolabs, a contract research facility serving startup and virtual companies in Kendall Square. He is also a co-founder of ViThera Pharmaceuticals, Deltix and Cequent Pharmaceuticals, and an advisor or board member to numerous life sciences companies and non-profits. Johannes earned his medical degree at the University of Frankfurt and his PhD at the University of Heidelberg (Germany).
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About Arkuda Therapeutics, BioLabs, Cequent Pharmaceuticals, Deltix, LabCentral, Mission BioCapital: LabCentral developing novel cancer treatments: Conkwest, Inc, headquartered in DelMar, California, is opening its research laboratory at
Neha Narula
Director, Digital Currency Initiative of MIT Media Lab
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Kent Larson
Director, MIT City Science Initiative and Director, Changing Places of MIT Media Lab
Kent Larson directs the City Science Initiative and the Changing Places Group at the MIT Media Lab. Research is focused on developing urban interventions that enable more entrepreneurial, livable, high-performance districts in cities. His research team brings together architects, urban planners, computer scientists, and mechanical and electrical engineers to create an anti-disciplinary team to prototype and pilot test next-generation solutions for cities. Projects include advanced simulation and augmented reality for urban design, transformable micro-housing to make living in the creative heart of the city affordable for young professionals, and mobility-on-demand systems that provide practical and sustainable alternatives to private automobiles. Larson has established a network of living lab partner cities that includes Hamburg, Andorra, Taipei, Lisbon, and Boston. He and his researchers received the “10-Year Impact Award” from Ubicomp 2014: a “test of time” award for work that, with the benefit of that hindsight, has had the greatest impact. Larson practiced architecture for 15 years in New York City, with design work published in Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, Global Architecture, the New York Times, A+U, and Architectural Digest. His book, Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks was selected as one of the Ten Best Books in Architecture of the year by the New York Times Review of Books.
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Barak Berkowitz
Director of Operations and Strategy of MIT Media Lab
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Marco Tempest
Director’s Fellow Alumnus & Instructor of MIT Media Lab
Marco Tempest is the Creative Technologist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Shaka Senghor
Media Lab Director of MIT Media Lab
Shaka Senghor is a leading voice in criminal justice reform and a Senior Fellow with The Dream Corps. His memoir, Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death and Redemption in an American Prison, was released in March 2016 and debuted on The New York Times Best Seller List as well as The Washington Post Best Seller List. An unforgettable tale of forgiveness and second chances, Writing My Wrongs reminds us that our worst deeds don’t define who we are or what we can contribute to the world. Shaka’s story has inspired thousands and serves as a powerful testament to the power of hope, compassion and unconditional love. Shaka is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2016 Ford Man of Courage Award, the 2016 NAACP Great Expectations Award, the 2015 Manchester University Innovator of the Year Award and the 2012 Black Male Engagement (BMe) Leadership Award. He was recently recognized by OWN (the Oprah Winfrey Network) as a “Soul Igniter” in the inaugural class of the SuperSoul 100, a dynamic group of trailblazers whose vision and life’s work are bringing a higher level of consciousness to the world around them and encouraging others to do the same. He is a former MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow, and a current Fellow in the inaugural class of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Community Leadership Network. He has taught at the University of Michigan and shares his story of redemption around the world.
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About Mind Blown Media, MIT Media Lab: MIT Media Lab creates disruptive technologies pioneering in wearable and affective computing and tangible interfaces.
Dean DeLillo
Director of Quality of Gradifi, Inc
Dean is Director of Quality at Gradifi. With over 25 years of experience in information technology, Dean has held positions from developer to program manager and has managed Quality teams for the past 12 years. Before Gradifi, Dean was a Quality Manager at Vistaprint on the Product Design team. Dean has a B.S. in Business Administration from Boston University. Outside of work, Dean enjoys traveling, dining out and continually working on his 121-year-old house.
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About Gradifi, Inc: Financial tech company providing a unique series of programs and sponsorships to accelerate student loan paydown
Lauri Pearson
Director of Media & Communications of Gradifi, Inc
Lauri Pearson has made a career of Media & Communications, having spent time in radio as a DJ, TV as a spokesperson, and the music business in Marketing and PR. For Gradifi, she handles interview scheduling, and she assists our clients with media launch, announcements, and strategy. Lauri likes to work on illustrating at least one doodle a day, and is an avid music lover.
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Nadine Krause
Director, Holberton School New Haven of Holberton School
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Ashley Gavin
Curriculum Director of Girls Who Code
Ashley Gavin is Advisory Board at KhodeUp.
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About Girls Who Code: Girls Who Code works to educate, inspire, and equip young women with the skills and resources to pursue academic and career opportunities.
Emily Reid
Curriculum Director of Girls Who Code
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Stephen Colbert
Member of the Board of Directors of DonorsChoose
Stephen is the host, writer and executive producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central as well as an accomplished author and actor. Recently, he starred as Harry in the New York Philharmonic presentation of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” along with Jon Cryer, Neil Patrick Harris, Christina Hendricks, Patti LuPone and Martha Plimpton, among others. “The Colbert Report” launched on October 17, 2005 and has received a prestigious Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting in 2008 and 18 Primetime Emmy nominations. In 2010, Stephen and his writing team won the show’s second Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program. “The Colbert Report” deployed to Iraq in June 2009 on a USO tour entitled “Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando” to tape and perform shows in front of the troops. “The Colbert Report” is the first TV show in USO history to produce a week of shows in a combat zone. Stephen’s book, I AM AMERICA (And So Can You!), spent 29 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller’s List; debuting and occupying the #1 spot for 13 weeks. The Colbert Report opened 2010 updated for high-definition broadcast and sporting a brand-new set. Iconic items from the original set, including Stephen’s “C” desk, interview table and portrait, were auctioned off to benefit the American Red Cross’ Haiti Relief and Development effort. Born and raised near Charleston, South Carolina, Stephen graduated from Northwestern University and quickly made a name for himself as a member of Chicago’s famed Second City improv troupe where he met Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello. The threesome moved to New York City where they created and starred in “Exit 57,” a half-hour sketch comedy series which ran for three seasons on Comedy Central. “Exit 57” received five CableACE nominations for Best Writing, Performing and Comedy Series. Stephen reunited with Sedaris and Dinello to create Comedy Central’s first-ever live-action narrative series, the cult hit “Strangers with Candy.” Colbert’s other on-camera appearances include shows such as HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and NBC’s Law and Order: Criminal Intent.” He was a cast member and writer on ABC’s “The Dana Carvey Show,” wrote for “Saturday Night Live” and was the voice of Ace on the “SNL” animated series “The Ambiguously Gay Duo.” He was also the voice of the President of the United States in Dreamworks animated film, “Monsters Vs. Aliens.”
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