Mike Grandinetti is on a constant mission to explore what’s next. Operating at the point of intersection of innovation and execution. He’s a serial tech entrepreneur, board member, AI and innovation consultant, and multi- award-winning professor. A former Silicon Valley entrepreneur and McKinsey consultant, Mike has played a key leadership role across 8 tech startups, resulting in two NASDAQ IPOs and 7 strategic exits. Currently, Mike is an Executive Fellow at the Harvard Business School. For the past 20 years, he’s taught and mentored the next generation of leaders at Harvard, Brown, Berkeley, MIT, Rutgers and far beyond. He was named Financial Times Global Professor of the Week and has been named Professor of the Year on multiple occasions. His comprehensive course portfolio includes entrepreneurship, new product design, social innovation, leading innovation strategy, creativity, critical thinking, human-centric design and transformative leadership. He’s led over 200 hackathons and design sprints globally, for corporations including Accenture, Capital One, IBM, Microsoft, Nestle and Nike, and for impact organizations including the MacArthur Foundation, Design for America, and the woman’s sanctuary, Rosie’s Place. He served for over a decade on the WGBH Public TV and Radio Corporate Executive Council.

Today, he’s deeply engaged in AI Executive Education on a global scale, teaching custom courses to senior executives through his affiliations with Carnegie Mellon, NYU Abu Dhabi, Oxford, U. Michigan, and Babson across 5 continents. He’s on the faculty of both the Cornell Chief AI Officer Program and the Cornell CxO program.  He’s a long serving organizing team member and senior advisor to the MIT CIO Symposium, where he regularly moderates panels and gives talks. He’s serves as a judge in the annual MIT CIO of the Year award. He’s a frequent keynote speaker and has delivered several TEDx talks on entrepreneurship and AI. He enthusiastically mentors the next generation of young founders in several of the world’s top startup accelerators. Mike is a graduate of the Yale School of Management, where he was named the annual Jess Morrow Johns Memorial Scholar and was a reciptient of the annual Procter & Gamble Lesdership Award.