OCTOBER 12–13, 2017 | TECHNOLOGY SQUARE | #iECOSYSTEM
SPONSORS Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation | MIT Corporate Relations | MIT Sloan Executive Education WELCOME
Bringing together a global community of practitioners with thought leaders and scholars to explore the implementation of novel models, programs, and initiatives that enhance economic growth and social progress in innovation ecosystems. THE GOAL OF THE SYMPOSIUM
To learn from both successes and failures and to maximize collective impact in research and practice, exploring “what’s best” today and “what’s next” on the frontier.
The overarching emphasis will be on the models, programs, and initiatives that develop, drive, and inform innovation ecosystems and the roles multi-stakeholder leadership plays in advancing them both individually and collectively.
Home to MIT labs, makerspaces, and industry alike, the symposium is taking IMMERSED IN THE ECOSYSTEM place in the heart of Technology Square, an innovation ecosystem it aims to foster.
Through a call for concepts soliciting novels models from around the world, BROAD BASE OF INPUTS the symposium tracks are defined by the submissions received and will draw from them to coalesce and disseminate best practices and new ideas.
The symposium aims to compile a resource regarding the inputs, outputs, and impacts DESIRED OUTCOMES of effective I&E models, programs, and initiatives, making available the top 30 concept papers describing novel, action- oriented programs (including their design, implementation challenges and metrics for evaluation), and identifying concrete, new focus areas for future research. Broadway
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Technology Square
400 Technology Square Keynotes, Plenary Panels, Track Session 3 Technology Square
Ragon 100 Technology Square Registration, Poster Session, Institute Lunch, Reception
Portland Street
500 Technology Square Track Session 2 Beaver Works
Synthetic Biology Lab The Atrium
Main Street
Galileo Galilei Way
300 Technology Square Track Session 1
Albany Street
Vassar Street Broadway
DAY 1 Thursday, October 12, 2017 AGENDA
Technology Square 10:30 am Registration Atrium @ 100 Technology Square
Technology Square 11:00 am Poster Session and Lunch
Multi-stakeholder initiatives and programs from around the globe showcase how they are driving and informing innovation ecosystems in their regions. Portland Street
• Bridge to Mass Challenge • NESTA/Global Innovation Policy • Canberra Innovation Network Accelerator • Cambridge Innovation Center • Northeast Clean Energy Council & NECC Institute • COMPETinnova-Innovation Competition • Quorum at the University City Science Center • Ecosystem i2e @ Distro Tec • REAP Madrid Innovation Driven • Experiment Peru Ecosystem • FIEMG Lab Novos Negocios Main Street • REAP One Lagos Skills • Franhofer TechBridge Program Accelerator Program Galileo Galilei Way • Galway City Innovation District • Ruta N • Greentown Labs • RWTH Aachen Campus • Growth Readiness Program • Sella Lab FinTech District • Hebei Innovation Cluster • Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab • InnovateNC • Student & Innovation House • JEDDI Denmark • LAJE-Innovation Platform • The Runway Startup Postdoc Albany Street • MaRS: EXCITE & BAP+MDC Program • MAR.TE. • UIIN Professional Education • MIT D-Lab Program • MIT IDE Inclusive Innovation Challenge • University Sorbonne Paris Cite • MIT IDEAS Global Challenge Scientific Cartography • MIT linQ Catalyst Program • Village Capital Communities • Wallonia-Brussels: The Research Vassar Street & Innovation Platform DAY 1 AGENDA | Thursday, October 12, 2017
12:30 pm Opening Remarks Ragon Institute @ 400 Technology Square
• Catherine Fazio, MIT Lab for Innovation Science and Policy • Sarah Jane Maxted, MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program
12:40 pm Keynote
• Stephen Forte, Laudato Si’ Challenge, Fresco Capital
1:00 pm Plenary Panel: How Ecosystem Orchestrators Create the Conditions for Inclusive Innovation and Social Impact
Features new initiatives that are building capacity for inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship.
• Gary White, Black Start Innovation • Barrie Grinberg, Venture for America • Lee Wellington, Urban Manufacturing Alliance • Steve Grossman, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (chair) Thursday, October 12, 2017 | DAY 1 AGENDA
2:00 pm Program Evaluation & Benchmarks
An exercise guiding participants through identifying key measures of success for their organizations and recognizing key challenges of benchmarking and measurement.
• Yael Hochberg, Rice University • Daniel Fehder, University of Southern California
2:45 pm The Startup Cartography Project
The launch of a new tool that measures entrepreneurial quality and maps innovation ecosystems.
• Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management • Jorge Guzman, National Bureau of Economic Research
3:30 pm Plenary Panel: The Power of Place: Buildings and Cities as Canvases for Ecosystem Engagement
Three world-leading stakeholders at the forefront of this emerging trend discuss the planning, use, and design of space within cities to foster immersion within and the support of vibrant innovation-driven ecosystems.
• Carlos Cubillos, Gensler • Erik Ubels, OVG Real Estate • Salomon Salinas, Global Connected Spaces, Accenture Digital • Albert Saiz, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (chair) DAY 1 AGENDA | Thursday, October 12, 2017
4:15 pm Plenary Panel: From Pilot Experiments to Collective Impact: Choosing Among Alternative Models for Effecting Change
An exploration of two alternative models for effecting change within innovation ecosystems, how to square these very different approaches, and where and when each might be most usefully deployed.
• Jan Rivkin, Harvard Business School • Mark Kramer, FSG • Sarah Jane Maxted, MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (chair)
5:00 pm Closing Remarks
• Vladimir Bulović, MIT School of Engineering, MIT Innovation Initiative
5:10 pm Proceed to Reception Atrium @ 100 Technology Square
5:15 pm Reception DAY 2 Friday, October 13, 2017 AGENDA
8:00 am Breakfast Ragon Institute @ 400 Technology Square
8:30 am Fireside Chat
• Sheila Herrling, Case Foundation • Catherine Fazio, MIT Lab for Innovation Science and Policy (chair)
9:00 am Plenary Panel: The Potential of Gender Balance: What’s Next in Bridging the Gender Gap
Considers how platforms, programs, and workplaces can be designed to help change culture and reshape the innovation economy to foster gender inclusion.
• Georgene Huang, Fairygodboss • Amal Dokhan, Babson Global Center of Entrepreneurial Leadership • Jessica Faieta, United Nations Talent Development • Chandra Briggman, Venture Café Cambridge (chair) DAY 2 AGENDA | Friday, October 13, 2017
9:45 am Innovation Ecosystem Framework and Metrics
An overview of the MIT ecosystem and launch of the I-Cap and E-Cap metrics tool.
• Fiona Murray, MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT Innovation Initiative • Phil Budden, MIT Sloan School of Management
10:15 am Go Hack!
• Bill Aulet, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
10:20 am Proceed to Tracks:
Track Session 1: Ideas to Impact Beaver Works @ 300 Technology Square
Track Session 2: Entrepreneurship Programs Synthetic Biology Classroom @ 500 Technology Square
Track Session 3: Ecosystem Orchestrators Ragon Institute @ 400 Technology Square Friday, October 13, 2017 | DAY 2 AGENDA
10:45 am Track Breakout Sessions:
Discuss best practices and ideate solutions to central problems.
Ideas to Impact accelerating research from bench to market
• Georgina Campbell, Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT (facilitator) • Johanna Wolfson, U.S. Department of Energy (chair) • Ilan Gur, Cyclotron Road (panelist) • Reed Sturtevant, The Engine (panelist)
Entrepreneurship Programs accelerators, incubators, co-working spaces, startup support
• Mart Laatsit, Copenhagen Business School (co-facilitator) • Donna Levin, MIT Sloan School of Management (co-facilitator) • Mark Vasu, Greentown Labs (chair) • Stas Gayshan, Cambridge Innovation Center (panelist) • Rasmus Wiinstedt Tscherning, Creative Business Cup (panelist)
Ecosystem Orchestrators connecting communities, marshalling resources
• Lars Frølund, MIT Lab for Innovation Science and Policy (facilitator) • Steve Tang, Science Center Philadelphia (chair) • Bolaji Finnih, One Lagos Skills Accelerator Program (panelist) • Angel Agudo, Madrid Innovation Driven Ecosystem (panelist) • Naila Jahan, Bridge to Mass Challenge (panelist)
11:15 am Symposium Challenge: Mini-Hackathon
Ideate on “what’s next” for innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems, programs and initiatives. Teams will develop proposals and construct pitches. DAY 2 AGENDA | Friday, October 13, 2017
12:30 pm Working Lunch
1:15 pm Pitch Session and Judging
Teams pitch their proposals to a panel of judges followed by a Q&A session.
Judges:
• Sheri Brodeur, MIT Corporate Relations • Vladimir Bulović, MIT School of Engineering, MIT Innovation Initiative • Stephen Forte, Laudato Si’ Challenge, Fresco Capital • Ayesha Khalid, MIT Hacking Medicine • Liz Reynolds, MIT Industrial Performance Center • Stephanie Rowe, Joulez • Andy Stoll, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
2:00 pm Break / Proceed to Ragon Institute 400 Technology Square
2:30 pm Closing Program
Introduction of judges. Announcement of track winners followed by pitches.
3:00 pm Closing Keynote
• Paul Smyke, World Economic Forum
3:30 pm Symposium Ends Angel Agudo Bill Aulet Madrid Innovation Driven Ecosystem Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
Angel Agudo is a professor at Universidad Bill Aulet is changing the way entrepreneurship Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in the department is understood, taught and practiced around of Organization Engineering, Business the world. He is an award-winning educator Administration and Statistics, where he has and author whose current work is built off the been working on several research lines, digital foundation of his 25-year successful business technologies innovation and entrepreneurship. career first at IBM and then as a three-time He is author of more than 50 contributions serial entrepreneur. During this time, he directly to international academic journals and raised over a hundred million dollars and, conferences, and has participated in several more importantly, created hundreds of millions international research projects in Europe, Latin of dollars of shareholder value through his America and the USA. companies. He is the research leader (data rockstar) For the past seven years, he has been within the Madrid team in the MIT Regional responsible for leading the development of Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program, and entrepreneurship education across MIT at he is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard in the 2017– the Trust Center. His first book, Disciplined 2018 academic year. Ángel holds a PhD (cum Entrepreneurship, released in August 2013, laude) from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, has been translated into 18 languages and has a BSc in Telecommunications Engineering at been the content for three online edX courses Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, MSc. in which have been taken by hundreds of Economics and Innovation Management in a thousands of people in 199 different countries. Madrid interuniversity program (Complutense, The accompanying follow on book, Disciplined Autónoma and Politécnica Universities); Entrepreneurship Workbook, was released in and three-year Certificate in Business April 2017. He has widely published in places Administration in the National Distance such as the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Education University (UNED). Boston Globe, Kauffman Foundation, Huffington Post and more. He has been a featured speaker on shows such as CNBC’s Squawk Box, BBC News, Bloomberg News as well as at events and conferences around the world. He has degrees from Harvard and MIT and is a board member of MITEK Systems (NASDAQ: MITK) and XL Hybrids Inc. (Private) as well as a visiting professor at University of SPEAKERSMAP Strathclyde (Scotland). Chandra Briggman Sheri A. Brodeur Venture Café Cambridge MIT Corporate Relations
Chandra Briggman is Director of Venture Sheri Brodeur is a Director in the Office Café Cambridge. To this role, she brings 18 of Corporate Relations at MIT managing a years of product and marketing experience broad portfolio of industrial relationships with that spans both start-ups and multiple start- the university and the surrounding startup up ecosystems. Chandra teaches product ecosystem. Prior to this she spent 22 years management at General Assembly and large at Hewlett-Packard Company in several roles. enterprises—in multiple start-up ecosystems Her most recent position was in the HP Labs and coaches entrepreneurs for WINLab Strategy and Innovation Office. The role of (Babson) and Founder Institute. She founded this organization was to set HP Labs research digital magazine PATRONNÈ as an online strategy and extend HP’s internal research platform for professional women. As the capacity by partnering with universities, former Director of Digital for USPS, she built governments and other companies on a global the first digital division and innovation lab for scale to much more rapidly advance the the organization. She is a child advocate and positive impact of technology on the world. certified foster care provider. She is also a Sheri spent 15 years with HP Labs, HP’s proponent of human-centered and conscious corporate research center, managing major innovation and is on a mission to activate the university alliances and programs, including “inventor” in everyone. a $25M program with MIT. She has been responsible for managing global higher education technology programs in the areas of Security, Digital Libraries (DSpace), Information Management, and Sustainability. Prior to this role she spent the previous eight years at Hewlett-Packard in the sales organization moving from the position of Field Sales Engineer to Global Account Manager. In this role she was responsible for selling, supporting and delivering high end test and measurement solutions for the communications industry. Sheri has a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from Alfred University and an M.S. in Solid State Science from the Materials Research Laboratory at Penn State University. Phil Budden Vladimir Bulović MIT Sloan School of Management MIT School of Engineering MIT Innovation Initiative
Phil Budden is Faculty Director of the MIT-UK Vladimir Bulović oversees a broad portfolio of Program and a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan efforts within the School of Engineering that in the TIES (Technology, Innovation and support innovation and entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial Strategy) Group. He co-directs the MIT Innovation Initiative and is the faculty leading the design and Phil co-teaches in the successful ‘Regional construction of MIT’s new nano-fabrication, Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program’ nano-characterization, and prototyping facility. (REAP), an ExecEd program for regional Vladimir holds the Fariborz Maseeh Chair in teams from around the globe interested Emerging Technology and directs the Organic in accelerating ‘innovation-driven and Nanostructured Electronics laboratory, entrepreneurship’; in the related 15.364 class, which he developed as a unique open known as the ‘Regional Entrepreneurship nanotechnology facility. He is also co-directing Acceleration Lab’ (REAL), aimed at MBAs and the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center, among Sloan Fellows; and on similar topics in a variety MIT’s largest sponsored programs. of degree and ExecEd settings. Prior to joining the School of Engineering Phil’s approach combines academic, historical leadership, Vladimir directed the MIT and real-world perspectives on how different Microsystems Technology Laboratories, which stakeholders—including Entrepreneurs, during his tenure grew to support over 700 Universities and ‘Risk Capital’ providers, investigators and $80M of research programs alongside Corporate enterprises and from across the Institute. His research interests Government policymakers—can all contribute include studies of physical properties of to building successful innovation ecosystems. organic and inorganic nanostructured films Phil is currently on leave from the British and structures and their applications in novel Government, and joins MIT having worked optoelectronic devices. His academic papers recently in Boston’s private sector for the have been cited over 10,000 times, while Royal Bank of Scotland’s U.S. subsidiary, his 60 U.S. patents and numerous patent Citizens Bank, where he focused on financing disclosures have been licensed and utilized by transatlantic (especially British-American) trade both startup and multinational companies. A and investment. His background as a diplomat practicing entrepreneur, Vladimir is a founder makes him well-suited to the ‘global innovation’ of QD Vision, Inc. of Lexington MA, which is of REAP/REAL, the interplay among the manufacturing quantum dot optoelectronic REAP teams, and the negotiations within the components; Kateeva, Inc. of Menlo Park CA, ‘innovation ecosystems’ (especially between which is focused on development of printed Corporate and Government stakeholders). organic electronics; and Ubiquitous Energy, Inc., which is developing nanostructured solar technologies. These startups presently employ over 200 researchers in the U.S. and a similar number of employees. Carlos A. Cubillos Amal Dokhan Gensler Babson Global Center of Entrepreneurial Leadership
As a Planning & Urban Design Practice Area Amal Dokhan is the Director of Babson Leader, Carlos A. Cubillos brings incredible Global Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership expertise in urban design and master planning. (BGCEL), responsible for the strategic His particular expertise is in providing design direction, tactical execution, and operational leadership to high-profile assignments that oversight of the center. The BGCEL focuses require big-picture, resource-driven solutions on expanding the practice of entrepreneurship that can move beyond ideas into built in all levels. She has a diverse range of environments. experience in management, teaching, training, and marketing-related roles, particularly in A Gensler Principal and Design Director, Carlos education. has participated in projects across the globe, including the USA, Latin America, the Middle Over the past four years, Amal has played East, Africa and South East Asia. Carlos holds multiple leading roles at King Abdullah a Master of Architecture and Master of City University of Science and Technology Planning/Urban Design, from the University (KAUST) and at the Entrepreneurship Center of Pennsylvania, which he attended under in particular. She managed the university a Fulbright Scholarship, and a Bachelor of startup accelerator, which was funded by Saudi Architecture from Universidad Nacional de British Bank and hosted 28 startup teams in Colombia in Bogota. He is a frequent juror for its first edition with a variety of technologies international design and planning competitions including IoT, New Materials, Software, and and a speaker at forums around the world Biotechnology from 13 different universities. related to planning and urban design. He has Amal managed the program design, sponsor also served as a visiting critic at the University engagement, startup mentorship, and other of Pennsylvania and taught at various related matters. Amal also taught and co- universities in Colombia. designed a course in Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation that was offered to Master’s and post-doctoral students. She designed and taught in the executive education programs with a focus on innovation for companies and other institutions either in-house or at KAUST. Amal delivered training sessions in all signature programs designed for the needs of the customers. Prior to that she worked in the KAUST Seed Fund that worked with research startup funding and investments. Jessica Faieta Catherine Fazio United Nations Talent Development MIT Lab for Innovation Science and Policy
Jessica Faieta was appointed United Nations, Catherine Fazio is the Managing Director and United Nations Development Programme of the MIT Lab for Innovation Science and Latin America and the Caribbean in May 2014. Policy at the MIT Innovation Initiative. This Prior to that she served as Deputy Assistant research and policy laboratory studies the Administrator and Deputy Director for the same factors shaping innovation outcomes and regional Bureau since October 2012. translates research findings into actionable Jessica has also worked as Senior County insights. Catherine previously served as a Director in Haiti, leading UNDP’s recovery and partner at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP. Among other reconstruction efforts in Haiti after the January activities, she formulated the strategy and 2010 earthquake. Prior to her assignment in directed operations for multiple, billion-dollar Haiti, she was the UN Resident Coordinator arbitrations, served as lead antitrust counsel and UNDP Resident Representative in El on a range of multi-national mergers and Salvador and Belize (2007–2010). During acquisitions, and counseled clients on risk 2005–2006, she served in the Executive mitigation strategies. Catherine was also a trial Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG), first attorney for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. as Principal Officer to the Chef de Cabinet Department of Justice, where she led several and later as Director of the Office of the significant merger investigations and worked to Deputy Secretary-General. Jessica was also preserve competition in numerous industries. the Deputy Director and Deputy Chief of Catherine serves on the Boards of the Stone Staff in the Office of the UNDP Administrator. Barns Center for Food and Agriculture and the She started her career with UNDP in 1991 as Atrium School in Watertown, Massachusetts. United Nations Volunteer programme officer Catherine received a J.D. from Stanford in Guyana. She joined the Management University, an M.B.A. from the Sloan Fellows Training Programme in 1993 as Policy Officer Program in Innovation and Global Leadership and subsequently as Special Assistant to the at MIT, and a B.A. from the University of Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau California, Berkeley. for Finance and Administration. In 1997, she returned to the field as Deputy Resident Representative (DRR) in Cuba. She also served as DRR in Panama (1998–2001) and in Argentina (2001–2002). Before joining UNDP, she worked for the Canadian Embassy in Ecuador (1987–1991). Jessica holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and another in International Affairs, both from Columbia University. She is also a Yale University World Fellow. Daniel Fehder Bolaji Finnih University of Southern California One Lagos Skills Accelerator Program
Daniel Fehder is an Assistant Professor in the Bolaji Finnih is the founder of Technpreneur Management and Organizations Department at Africa, an organization focused on harnessing the Marshall School of Business at University innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship of Southern California. He studies entrepre- for real economic impact across Africa. Bolaji neurship, innovation, and technology strategy. is a graduate of the Sloan Fellows program Daniel has built close connections with the at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, startup accelerator community through his a fellow of the MIT Legatum Center for research on MassChallenge and more broadly Development and Entrepreneurship, a through his work on the Seed Accelerator MasterCard Foundation Fellow and recipient Ranking Project. He expects to leverage the of both the Sloan School of Management detailed administrative data gained through Deans’ Fellowship and Sloan Fellows Program these connections to explore a number of Global Scholars Scholarship awards. He is also broad themes in early-stage entrepreneurship. a member of the Harvard Business Review This research trajectory is currently supported Advisory Council. A serial entrepreneur, by both the NSF and the Kauffman Foundation. Bolaji has founded over seven businesses Prior to joining the PhD program at MIT Sloan, over a period of 15 years, the latest of which Daniel spent four years as an entrepreneur is Joulytics, an energy solutions company building and then selling financial data prod- offering innovative end-to-end energy products ucts. In addition, he has worked with a number and consulting services. A professional of entrepreneurs at MIT and beyond business coach and mentor, he is dedicated to launch and build their startups. to enabling the achievement of innate entrepreneurial potential, particularly in high- growth economies. Stephen Forte Stas Gayshan Laudato Si’ Challenge Cambridge Innovation Center Fresco Capital
Stephen Forte is a managing partner at Fresco Stas Gayshan is a Managing Director at the Capital, a global Venture Fund. He is also Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) and the co-founder and accelerator director of the founder of CIC Boston. Stas is currently the Laudato Si’ Challenge, inspired by Pope leading the development of CIC projects in Francis. Prior, he was the Chief Strategy Officer Miami, Florida, Warsaw, Poland, and beyond, of Telerik, a leading vendor of developer and connecting innovators across boundaries team productivity tools acquired by Progress and borders. Stas joined CIC in early 2014. Software (NASDAQ: PRGS) in 2014. Stephen Previously, Stas was the Founder & CEO was the founder of Mach5, a Silicon Valley- of Space with a Soul, a 20,000 square foot based startup accelerator and co-founder coworking space in Boston’s Innovation of AcceleratorHK, Hong Kong’s first startup District. Stas is an entrepreneur and an accelerator. Involved in several startups, he attorney, and he worked in Democratic was the co-founder of Triton Works, which was political campaigns at various levels prior acquired by UBM (London: UBM.L) in 2010 to starting Space with a Soul. In his political and was the Chief Technology Officer and work, Stas focused on the intersection of co-founder of Corzen, Inc., which was acquired collaboration, technology and activism. Stas by Wanted Technologies (TXV: WAN) in 2007. has been recognized by the Boston Globe Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO as one of the Most Innovative People in of Zagat Survey in New York City (acquired by Massachusetts Business and by CJP as one Google in 2011) and also was co-founder of the of Boston’s most influential young leaders. New York-based software consulting firm the He holds leadership positions in several Aurora Development Group. Stephen has an philanthropic and nonprofit organizations MBA from the City University of New York. An active in the Greater Boston area. Stas has a avid mountain climber, Stephen leads a trek in B.A. and J.D. from Boston College. the Mt. Everest region every fall to raise money for charity. After several years as an ex-pat in Hong Kong, Stephen now lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and daughter. Barrie Grinberg Steve Grossman Venture for America Initiative for a Competitive Inner City
Barrie Grinberg is the Director of Community As CEO of the Initiative for a Competitive Partnerships at Venture for America (VFA), Inner City (ICIC), Steve Grossman leads a a fellowship program that aims to create dynamic and growing team of professionals economic opportunity in American cities dedicated to achieving economic prosperity by mobilizing the next generation of in America’s inner cities. Steve is focused on entrepreneurs. In her role, Barrie leads setting ICIC’s strategic direction, leading the the team responsible for VFA’s startup organization through a period of rapid growth partnerships, community engagement, regional and extending ICIC’s national visibility and fundraising, and in-city programming. Prior brand. He directs ICIC’s efforts to secure new to joining VFA, Barrie was a management partners and drive private sector engagement consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. and investment. Through her work, Barrie has learned that Prior to joining ICIC, Steve was elected a team of determined, kind people with Treasurer of Massachusetts in 2010 and served a thoughtful plan can accomplish almost in that position from 2011 until 2015. One of anything. She has also learned the importance his principal achievements in that office was of knowing the names of local sports teams the creation of the Small Business Banking when working across several U.S. cities. Partnership, a pioneering initiative that was Originally from the Boston area, Barrie is a responsible for moving almost $400 million of graduate of New York University. state deposits into community banks that used these funds to make more than 10,000 loans with a value of over $1.6 billion, with a principal focus on businesses owned by women, minorities, immigrants and veterans. Prior to taking office, Steve served for 35 years as President of Grossman Marketing Group, a fourth-generation marketing communications firm started by his grandfather. Steve has been an active leader in many civic, philanthropic and political organizations. These positions include former board chair of Brandeis University, former national chairman of the Democratic National Committee, former president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), founding board member of MassInc and life trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts. He currently chairs the advisory board of Cambridge College. Ilan Gur Jorge Guzman Cyclotron Road National Bureau of Economic Research
Ilan Gur is Founding Director of Cyclotron Dr. Jorge Guzman is a Post Doctoral Fellow Road, a home for hard science and technology at the National Bureau of Economic Research innovators to advance their ideas from (NBER) and a research affiliate at the MIT Lab concept-to-market-ready product. Ilan founded for Innovation Science and Policy. His research Cyclotron Road to bridge a gap he observed focuses on using a Big Data approach to in energy technology innovation over the past measure entrepreneurship, and understand decade. Before launching the program, he its role in economic policy and firm strategy served as Program Director at the Advanced at a national and local level. Jorge’s research Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). has been published in reputed journals such At ARPA-E, Ilan managed a $50 million as Science and the NBER volumes. His current portfolio of advanced technology projects in projects include the design of economic tools the areas of energy storage, solar energy, and that enable policy makers to create effective advanced materials. He was also a cofounder entrepreneurship policy as well as varied set of ARPA-E’s Technology-to-Market program, of research projects. aimed at maximizing the commercial and societal impact of the agency’s breakthrough R&D portfolio. Prior to ARPA-E, Ilan launched two venture-backed energy startups based on advanced materials and manufacturing, including Seeo, an advanced lithium battery technology company that was successfully acquired by Bosch in 2015. Ilan holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Sheila Herrling Yael Hochberg Case Foundation Rice University
Sheila Herrling joined the Case Foundation in Professor Yael Hochberg’s research 2014 as the Senior Vice President for Social and teaching interests are focused on Innovation. She leads the Foundation’s efforts entrepreneurship, innovation, and the to develop and implement mission-driven financing of entrepreneurial activity. Her domestic and international initiatives, expand research focuses on the venture capital tech for good platforms, cultivate partnerships, industry, accelerators, networks and corporate promote entrepreneurial approaches to social governance and compensation policies. In change, and build a robust portfolio of social addition to her doctorate in finance from and impact investments. Sheila is an executive Stanford, she holds a B.Sc. in Industrial with more than 20 years of experience in Engineering and Management from the international development and U.S. foreign Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and an policy, focused on aid innovation and A.M. in Economics from Stanford University. effectiveness, monitoring and evaluation, and Her research has been published in top tier economic analysis. journals, including Science Magazine, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial She was previously with the Millennium Studies, the Journal of Accounting Research, Challenge Corporation (MCC), an independent and the Journal of Financial Economics, and U.S. foreign assistance agency working to has been presented at numerous universities reduce poverty through economic growth, and governmental bodies around the world. where she served as Vice President for Policy She is an Associate Editor at the Journal and Evaluation. Under Sheila’s leadership, of Banking and Finance and the Journal of MCC earned the ranking of #1 transparent aid Empirical Finance, and previously served as agency in the world by pushing an open data an Associate Editor at the Review of Finance. policy and the use of rigorous independent Prof. Hochberg serves as the Head of the evaluations of MCC programs to advance Entrepreneurship Initiative at Rice University learning and share best practices. Before and as Academic Director of the Rice Alliance joining MCC, Sheila was a Senior Policy for Technology and Entrepreneurship. Director at the Center for Global Development (CGD), an independent, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality and making globalization work for the poor. Prior to CGD, Sheila served in senior management positions at the U.S. Department of Treasury, including Deputy Director of the Office of Development Policy and Adviser to the U.S. executive director of the African Development Bank. Georgene Huang Naila Jahan Fairygodboss MassChallenge
Georgene Huang is obsessed with improving At MassChallenge, Naila Jahan is responsible the workplace for women. She’s the CEO for managing Bridge to MassChallenge pro- and Co-founder of Fairygodboss, a grams worldwide and servicing key partners, marketplace where professional women including international governments and looking for jobs, career advice and the inside foundations. The Bridge to MassChallenge scoop on companies meet employers who programs support economic growth, vitality, believe in gender equality. Previously she and the development of international inno- ran the enterprise business at Dow Jones vation ecosystems. Naila is passionate about and was a Managing Director at Bloomberg entrepreneurship and innovation as vehicles Ventures. She is a graduate of Cornell and for finding solutions to global problems, and Stanford Universities. this role allows her to do just that by support- ing MassChallenge achieve its mission of catalyzing a global startup renaissance. Previously, Naila developed and operated the Fund for Innovation in its inaugural year at Middlebury College. She was also an associate at the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET), a venture capital firm and tech startup incubator. At VCET, Naila managed a co-working space, supported startups, and conducted analyses on the performance of its portfolio companies. Naila was an advisory board member for LaunchVT, a statewide business pitch compe- tition, from 2015 to 2016. In 2015, she received a Rising Star award from Vermont Business Magazine. Naila graduated from Middlebury College with a BA in Environmental Economics. Ayesha Khalid Mark Kramer MIT Hacking Medicine FSG
Ayesha N. Khalid is a practicing sinus surgeon Mark Kramer leads FSG, a 150-person and Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical nonprofit consulting firm, to devise social School with 15 years experience in the impact strategies for many of the world’s healthcare industry. As an ear, nose and throat largest foundations, corporations, and surgeon, Ayesha pioneered groundbreaking nonprofit organizations. Mark also serves as research in sinus inflammation and clinical a Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School outcomes in sinus disease. As a healthcare of Government. He co-founded the Center innovation specialist, Ayesha completed an for Effective Philanthropy, is a member of MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management the Kimberly-Clark Sustainability Advisory focused on Global Leadership and Innovation. Board, and lectures in the executive education program of Harvard Business School. Mark has During her tenure at Sloan, Ayesha assessed published extensively on topics in philanthropy, mechanisms to increase adoption of adaptive collective impact, evaluation, and creating clinical trials at academic medical centers. shared value. He has co-authored many She joined MIT Hacking Medicine and helped influential articles in Harvard Business Review organize several innovation events in Boston, with Professor Michael E. Porter of Harvard BIO 2014, and in Doha, Qatar. Ayesha co- Business School and in Stanford Social founded the Hacking Medicine Institute to Innovation Review with FSG colleagues. engage stakeholders interested in compelling conversations to accelerate paradigm shifts in healthcare service delivery. Ayesha has worked as a strategic consultant in the private equity space digital and currently serves as Vice-President of Business Development at Doctella—a company dedicated to changing the patient experience during surgery. Ayesha completed her medical school and surgical residency at the Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine, her surgical fellowship at the Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. Sarah Jane Maxted Fiona Murray MIT Regional Entrepreneurship MIT Sloan School of Management Acceleration Program MIT Innovation Initiative
Sarah Jane Maxted is an industry cluster Fiona Murray is the Associate Dean of and innovation ecosystem specialist with Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of 10 years of professional experience in Management, William Porter (1967) Professor research, business development and project of Entrepreneurship, and an associate of the management. She has spent significant time National Bureau of Economic Research. She in the energy and environmental sector, is also the co-director of MIT’s Innovation including oil and gas, power and utilities, Initiative. Prof. Murray is an international energy efficiency and renewable energy. She expert on the transformation of investments has led research and analysis and business in scientific and technical innovation into development efforts for both public and innovation-based entrepreneurship that private sector entities including Deloitte’s drives jobs, wealth creation, and regional energy practice and the U.S. Department of prosperity. She has a special interest in the Energy (DOE) and DOE National Laboratories. commercialization of science from idea to She developed and ran the inaugural U.S. impact and the mechanisms that can be Department of Energy National Clean Energy effectively used to link universities with Business Plan; helping 750+ start-ups form entrepreneurs, large corporations, and and 70 ventures that have raised over $40M in philanthropists in that process. follow-on funding. She serves on the British Prime Minister’s Currently, she is the Executive Director for Council on Science and Technology and MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration has been awarded a CBE for her services to Program; focusing on economic growth for innovation and entrepreneurship in the UK. specific global regions through innovation- driven entrepreneurship. Most recently, she managed Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness U.S. Cluster Mapping Project; focusing on broader industry cluster growth and regional economic development under the direction of Professor Michael Porter. Outside of formal engagements listed below, she also strategically advises and independently contracts to energy start-up companies as well as incubator/accelerators and prize/challenge initiatives globally. Liz Reynolds Jan Rivkin MIT Industrial Performance Center Harvard Business School
Elisabeth (Liz) Reynolds is Executive Director Jan W. Rivkin is the C. Roland Christensen of the MIT Industrial Performance Center Professor of Business Administration at (IPC), a multidisciplinary research center that Harvard Business School (HBS), where he focuses on firms, industries and technological serves as Senior Associate Dean for research change in the global economy and how and co-chairs the School’s project on the their emergence and transformation impact competitiveness of the United States. He society at large. Her work has focused in was head of the HBS Strategy Unit from particular on the theory and practice of 2009 through 2014. In leading the U.S. industry cluster development and regional Competitiveness Project, Jan has worked with innovation ecosystems and she advises a team of about 20 HBS faculty to explore several organizations in this area. Her current steps that leaders—especially business research focuses on trends and developments leaders—can take to help firms in the U.S. in advanced manufacturing, growing innovative win in the global marketplace while raising companies to scale, and building innovation American living standards. capacity in emerging economies. His work on U.S. competitiveness focuses Before coming to MIT for her Ph.D., Liz was on how managers choose to locate business the Director of the City Advisory Practice at activities in the United States or elsewhere, the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a how business leaders can best work with non-profit founded by Professor Michael Porter educators to improve America’s schools, focused on job and business growth in urban and how leaders of American cities can areas. She also held positions with the Institute foster cross-sector collaboration for shared for Research on Public Policy in Montreal prosperity. In support of this work, Jan has and with Goldman Sachs in London. She is a recently developed case studies on Barry- Lecturer in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies Wehmiller, the Columbus Partnership, the and Planning, where she obtained her PhD, city of Detroit, and Southwire Corporation. and sits on the boards of the Massachusetts His research on business strategy focuses Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative and the on how managers tackle decisions that cut Northeast Clean Energy Council among others. across functions and across product lines. His scholarly work in this area combines computer
simulations, large-scale statistical studies, field research, and case studies. To support this research, Jan has completed case studies on diverse organizations ranging from Dell and Delta Air Lines to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and LEGO. Stephanie Rowe Albert Saiz Joulez MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Having started as a programmer, Stephanie Professor Albert Saiz is the Daniel Rose Rowe has 20+ years of experience working Associate Professor of Urban Economics and in technology. She is a passionate innovator, Real Estate at the Massachusetts Institute of entrepreneur, design thinker and STEM Technology, and the Director of the MIT (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Center for Real Estate. Prof. Saiz also serves for girls advocate. She recently founded as the Director of MIT’s Urban Economics Joulez, a startup focused on designing Lab, which conducts research on real estate products and experiences to inspire girls economics, urban economics, housing markets, ages 8-12 to engage in STEM activities. local public finance, zoning regulations, global She is the Founder of Design Thinking DC, real estate, and demographic trends affecting DC’s premier organization for innovation and urban and real estate development worldwide. human-centered design. This action-oriented He teaches in both the MIT Urban Planning community of more than 4,000 innovative and Real Estate programs. change makers comes together to share Before joining MIT, Prof. Saiz was a Research knowledge and experience to facilitate Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of complex problem solving. Philadelphia, and an award-winning Assistant She spent three years working at the Professor of Real Estate and Economics in the Department of Homeland Security building and MBA Core Program at The Wharton School at running TSA’s identity management systems. the University of Pennsylvania. He currently She also spent 15+ years with Accenture where serves as a Visiting Scholar at the Federal she was a Senior Executive specializing in Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; a Research managing complex, large-scale transformation Fellow at the Institute for the Analysis of Labor initiatives for Fortune 100 companies across (IZA—Bonn, Germany); a Board Member at the multiple industries. She received her MBA from American Real Estate and Urban Economics MIT where she was a Sloan Fellow. Association, and as a Research Advisor for Buildzoom.com. He is also an Editor of the Journal of Housing Economics. He holds a BA in economics from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (1995) and a PhD in economics from Harvard University (2002). Salomon Salinas Paul Smyke Accenture Digital World Economic Forum Mobility, Accenture Smart Cities
Salomon (Sol) Salinas is the Global Leader Paul Smyke currently serves as Head of of Accenture’s Smart Cities practice and a Regional Strategies–North America, and North America Sustainability Practice Leader. Member of the Executive Committee of the He is responsible for the development and World Economic Forum, LLC. He joined the maintenance of a global Smart Cities offering organization 30 years ago when the Forum and alliances with global Internet of Things employed 35 staff, compared to more than providers. He is involved with and often directly 600 today, and split that time evenly between oversees the work of multi-disciplinary teams its’ Geneva headquarters and the east coast supporting Accenture’s work in cities across of the United States. Most recently, Paul North America and throughout the world. As has focused his attention on the Forum’s part of this effort, he leads Accenture’s digital strategy and growth in the United States work for the City of Chicago, representing the and Canada, primarily in political circles, as company in a unique Public Private Partnership well as key institutional relationships in the with the city and various other public and realm of business, media, academia and civil private entities that intend to rapidly advance society. This role combines designing and smart city development. In addition, Sol’s implementing engagement strategies for the responsibilities extend to helping expand above. As such he serves as the principal Accenture’s sustainability presence across interface between the Forum and policy- the U.S. federal government, Health and makers in the Administration, Capitol Hill, Public Service, Retail, Consumer Goods, Light Independent Agencies, and Governors. Industrial, and Energy sectors globally. Under Paul’s leadership, dozens of such He has had overall program direction for officials, ranging from Members of Congress various sustainability clients in North America to First Ladies, Cabinet Secretaries, Vice- and globally, with annual revenues exceeding Presidents and Presidents have taken part $100 million, including the U.S. Department in Forum activities in Davos and around the of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection world. The same is true regarding Canadian Agency, U.S. General Services Administration, Prime Ministers, Ministers, Mayors and U.S. Department of Transportation, World Premiers. Bank-International Finance Corporation, Earlier in his tenure, Paul served Carbon Disclosure Project, and various global in several capacities, including Member of the commercial strategy and sustainability clients. Executive Board and Senior Advisor to the Managing Board. He has held both functional and geographic responsibilities, having been the ‘Face of the Forum’ in charge at various times of political and business relationships, especially in Latin America during most of the 1990s. Scott Stern Andy Stoll MIT Sloan School of Management Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Scott Stern is the David Sarnoff Professor Andy Stoll is a serial entrepreneur and a of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Senior Program Officer at the Ewing Marion Management. He explores how innovation Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, where and entrepreneurship differ from more he is responsible for the implementation and traditional economic activities, and the management of the Foundation’s ecosystem consequences of these differences for strategy development strategy. Before joining the and policy. His research in the economics Kauffman Foundation, Andy co-founded Seed of innovation and entrepreneurship focuses Here Studio in 2010, to build the innovation on entrepreneurial strategy, innovation- ecosystem in The Creative Corridor and driven entrepreneurial ecosystems, and across Iowa. He is the co-founder of six innovation policy and management. Recent entrepreneurial-focused organizations include studies include the impact of clusters on Vault Coworking & Collaboration Space and entrepreneurship, the role of institutions in NewBoCo. Andy most recently co-founded shaping the accumulation of scientific and The Startup Champions Network, the nation’s technical knowledge, and the drivers and first professional association for full-time consequences of entrepreneurial strategy. innovation ecosystem builders. His past work includes projects with The Case Foundation, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and The Bohemian Foundation, building innovation ecosystems in technology, global health and music, respectively. Andy is a regular speaker on entrepreneurship and ecosystem building; a global facilitator for Startup Weekend; and has taught entrepreneurship at Cornell College. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in business management and a Bachelor of Arts in communication and media production from The University of Iowa, as well as a Master of Arts in media cultures from The City University of Hong Kong. Reed Sturtevant Steve Tang The Engine Science Center Philadelphia
Reed Sturtevant is a General Partner on the Dr. Steve Tang is the first president in the investment team at The Engine. Reed was Science Center’s history to have not only led a founder and Managing Director at seed a company through venture funding and an venture fund Project 11 and Techstars Boston. initial public offering, but to also serve as a He attended MIT and has a background in senior executive with a large life sciences software. He ran Microsoft Startup Labs in company as it acquired and integrated smaller Cambridge and was VP of Technology at start-ups. In September 2016, Dr. Tang was re- Idealab, Boston. Early in his career, he created appointed to the National Advisory Council on Freelance Graphics which was acquired Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE) and by Lotus Development Corp. He has been now serves as NACIE co-chair through 2018. a lecturer at MIT Sloan and is a frequent NACIE members offer recommendations to the speaker at MIT entrepreneurship courses U.S. Secretary of Commerce for policies and and programs. programs designed to make U.S. communities, businesses, and the workforce more globally competitive. Previously, Dr. Tang served on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Innovation Advisory Board. He also serves on several statewide, regional and local Boards of Directors. Along with Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, he co-chairs the Team Pennsylvania Foundation, which bridges the gap between government and the private sector. Dr. Tang also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of OraSure Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: OSUR), a leader in the development, manufacture and distribution of diagnostics and collection devices designed to detect or diagnose critical medical conditions. From 2014-2016, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Committee of Seventy, which is Philadelphia’s and Pennsylvania’s largest and oldest active better government advocate and watchdog. Dr. Tang earned a doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University, an M.B.A. from Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary. Rasmus Wiinstedt Erik Ubels Tscherning OVG Real Estate Creative Business Cup
Rasmus Wiinstedt Tscherning is CEO and Since January 2016, Erik Ubels has been Chief Founder of Creative Business Cup, a global Technology Officer at OVG Real Estate, driving network supporting creative and innovative innovation and application of technology in entrepreneurs. Previously, he was Managing the widest context you can imagine related to Director of CKO–Center for Cultural and real estate technology. This includes building Experience Economy and was the Chairman processes, building material, HVAC installation, of the European Creative Industries Alliance, Internet of Things, and energy, including solar. appointed by the European Commission. At OVG, they take pride in building the world’s He was also Co-Chair of the OMC Group on most amazing buildings, not just smart as in Access to Finance for Cultural and Creative energy efficiency, but intelligent, to learn from Sectors, Advisory Board Member for Wallonia the building and to make it a better place to European Creative District, Founding Member work, improving users’ comfort and wellbeing. of Regional Creative Industries Alliance, and Advisory Board Member, Copenhagen Business School, Master in Management of Creative Business Processes. Rasmus is passionate about promoting entrepreneurship, the creative industries, and cross-sector innovation and is a speaker on these subjects in French, English, German, Danish and Swedish. He has a Master’s in Political Science and a creative DNA: at 18 years old, he won a Scandinavian graphic design competition and in 2009, was part of the team of architects and engineers who won 1st Prize for the Masterplan for Nordhavnen, a part of Copenhagen for 40,000 citizens. Mark Vasu Lee Wellington Greentown Labs Urban Manufacturing Alliance
As Executive Vice President, Mark Vasu leads Lee Wellington has dedicated her career to and supports revenue-generating activities industrial development for over a decade. that sustain and grow Greentown Labs. Before joining the Urban Manufacturing He manages a portfolio of (40) corporate Alliance (UMA) as Founding Executive sponsors, partnerships with organizations in Director, Lee directed a New York City the cleantech ecosystem, and oversees the Council Member’s land use decisions and member pipeline. He also provides consulting legislative portfolio as Chief of Staff; helped and advisory services to new or growing create NYC’s Industrial Business Zones incubators, and is helping to grow a national and a broader industrial policy for the NYC network of incubators. Mayor’s Office; and administered a New York State tax incentive program, expanding Prior to Greentown Labs, Mark was the incentive boundaries to include new industrial founder of perCent Inc., a software company neighborhoods. Lee was a Planning Fellow at focused on reducing personal energy use the Pratt Center for Community Development and spending. He also founded and led where she coordinated a vacant lot activation CMV Marketing, a marketing and sustainable program and assisted with a large-scale study strategy-consulting firm for social-purpose of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. companies and high-performing social enterprises. He served in marketing and Lee received a B.S. in Economics from business development leadership roles the Stern School of Business at New York working for the founders of three high growth University, a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, social enterprises as the first development and a M.S. in City and Regional Planning director for City Year, a model national service from the Pratt Institute. program that inspired President Clinton to create Ameri Corps; VP Marketing for Children First, a pioneer of corporate-sponsored onsite child care and early education services (acquired by Bright Horizons); and Jumpstart, a national early childhood education program involving mentoring o flow-income pre-school children by college students. Gary White Johanna Wolfson Black Start Innovation U.S. Department of Energy
Gary White, Major, U.S. Air Force Reserve, Dr. Johanna Wolfson is the Director of is the Founder and President of BlackStart Technology-to-Market in the Department Innovation, a service-disabled veteran-owned of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and small business located in the Washington Renewable Energy (EERE). In this position, D.C. metropolitan area. BlackStart, an energy she leads efforts to reduce barriers and resiliency and innovation consultancy group, inefficiencies in the U.S. innovation system is focused on creating energy resiliency in service of getting promising new energy strategies and ecosystems to conceive, technologies to market. Existing efforts under develop, and implement innovative and Tech-to-Market help launch entrepreneurs sustainable resolutions to energy challenges and new businesses out of universities and for organizations and entire communities. National Labs, open up National Lab facilities to small businesses and entrepreneurs, Prior to BlackStart, Gary was a charter member position early-stage hardware innovators and the Director of Innovation and Strategic for manufacturing and scale-up, and pilot Integration at the Air Force Office of Energy new approaches to financing early-stage Assurance, where he established the Joint energy innovation. She is also responsible for Energy Development, Demonstration, and developing new EERE programs in service Innovation (JEDDi) Lab—a unique initiative of the Tech-to-Market mission, and for addressing energy problems across coordinating and evaluating Tech-to-Market government agencies and funding structures. efforts across EERE’s technology offices. Major White is also an associate program Prior to EERE, Johanna was with the officer at the Air Force Research Lab’s Office Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy of Scientific Research, has 14 years of military Systems in Boston where she led TechBridge, service as a certified acquisition program an innovative program that mitigates manager, international affairs specialist, and air the technical risk of startup ventures for battle manager, sits on the Harvard Extension investors and strategic partners via technical Alumni Association Board of Directors. He is demonstration and validation. Previously, she an alumnus of the Department of Energy’s served as the President of the MIT Science National Renewable Energy Laboratory Policy Initiative, engaging scientists and Executive Energy Leadership Academy engineers in the policy dialogue for R&D and holds graduate degrees from Harvard funding and better innovation models. Johanna University, Georgetown University, and Troy has a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from MIT, University in International Relations, Global where she conducted research on photo- Hospitality Leadership, and Management, induced solid-state dynamics. respectively. Gary lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and business partner, Lisa Spinelli, and their three daughters Angelina, Valentina, and Carina. SUPPORT
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