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Soner Baburoglu CSML’18
Soner is a brand, sales, and marketing strategist working in Southeast Asia, Africa, Oceania, and North America.
Expertise: Evaluating business models and concepts, founder development, and mentoring early and growth stage start-ups.
Evan Horowitz MBA ’08
Evan’s on a quest to make every day more awesome than the one before and to help others do the same.
Expertise: Marketing & brand strategy, leadership, personal development, consumer products, technology
Jennifer Lammer MBA’01
Jennifer is the CEO and Co-Founder of Diamond NestEgg, a Fintech focused on payments, fraud monitoring, budgeting, and financial coaching.
Expertise: Financial services, consumer expertise, market analysis, cross-generational marketing and strategy, US and global business development.
Oscar Mak MBA’06
Oscar specializes in clean technology, future mobility, and management consulting.
Expertise: Clean technology, future mobility, and management consulting.
Joe Martinez AB ’90
A seasoned corporate attorney, he focuses on representing entrepreneurs, technology start-ups, and emerging companies from formation through liquidity events.
Expertise: Startup and Emerging Technology Companies, Venture Capital and Angel Financings, Mergers and Acquisitions.
Diane Mulcahy
MPP ’94
Diane has been a professional investor for the past 15 years serving as an Advisor to the Kauffman Foundation, where she manages the private equity portfolio.
Expertise: Private Equity, Angel, Venture capital, Early Stage and Growth Stage Ventures, Fundraising, Raising Capital, and Work/Life Balance.
Stefano Olgati
POST DOC HMS ’17
As a researcher, executive, and entrepreneur, Stefano has dedicated his career to science and the science business.
Skills & Expertise: Health and Healthcare Informatics, Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence Implementation in Healthcare, Design of Clinical Trials, and Evidence-based Medicine.
Vishal Punwani
MD ’16
Vishal is CEO of Sophya, a startup spun out of Harvard iLab using data science and cutting-edge AI to automate student and employee learning in the trillion-dollar Future of Work sector. Vishal is an international leader in tech for learning.
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Expertise: medicine, medtech, education, data science, artificial intelligence, leadership, management, and team building.
Omiros D. Sarikas OPM ‘20
Omiros serves as the Managing Partner (CEO), and founding member, of Brookstreet Equity Partners LLP, an FCA-regulated, London-based PE fund.
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Expertise: Private equity
Lisa Shu PhD ’12
Dr. Lisa Shu expertise is the operations of decision-making: as a behavioral scientist, she sees opportunities everywhere to harness the tools of behavioral science to optimize choice outcomes.
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Expertise: Management, decision making, user engagement, product design and testing.
Jyoit Singhvi MPA’07
Jyoti is a visionary business development, eCommerce, CRM, loyalty program, marketing (digital/traditional) & partnerships leader with experience at IBM, KPMG Consulting, Cartier & a luxury retail startup.
Expertise: Business development, eCommerce, CRM, loyalty program, marketing (digital/traditional) & partnerships.
Aaron Wenner
AM ’09
Aaron is the founder and CEO of CiteRight, a Toronto-based legal technology startup that makes it simple for litigators to find and reuse the work they’ve already done.
Expertise: Entrepreneur, technology lawyer, and legal technologist. Using legal and technological insights to work smarter and more efficiently.
Howard Zaharoff
HLS ’80
Howard is an AV Preeminent rated attorney with more than 30 years’ experience in intellectual property, technology, and business law.
Expertise: Tech development, distribution, licensing and joint venture agreements; SaaS and other internet contracts; and copyright and trademark law.