Brian Halligan, co-founder and executive chairperson of HubSpot, served as the company's CEO until 2021. During this time, he earned consistent recognition on Glassdoor’s and Comparably’s lists of best CEOs.

Brian coined the term "inbound marketing" and together with Dharmesh Shah built a movement around the concept, which included organizing the INBOUND event and co-authoring the book Inbound Marketing.

Prior to HubSpot, Brian earned an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management where he continues to stay involved. Brian developed MIT’s popular Scaling Entrepreneurial Ventures class, which he has taught for over a decade. In recognition of his outstanding mentorship in entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan honored Brian with the Monosson Prize in 2023. In addition to teaching on the topic of scaling, Brian tweets, writes, presents, and talks on the topic often. As the founder of Propeller Ventures, Brian directs a $100 million climate tech venture fund, specializing in ocean innovation investments. He serves on the boards of Navier and Aquatic Labs. A passionate fan and scholar of the Grateful Dead, Brian co-wrote Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead with Bill Walton and David Meerman Scott. As the proud owner and steward of Jerry Garcia's Wolf guitar, he continues to honor the legacy of the iconic band. Currently, Brian is working on a film that explores the life and times of John Perry Barlow. He is also a co-author of an upcoming Harvard Business Review case study on the Grateful Dead.

Brian started his career with a BSEE from the University of Vermont. He was an early employee at PTC and rose to become an SVP of sales there over a 10-year span. Then he ran sales at Groove Networks, which was later acquired by Microsoft.

Audrey Powers is the Vice President of Mission & Flight Operations for Blue Origin where she is responsible for New Shepard flight operations and training, vehicle maintenance, and launch complex infrastructure at Launch Site One.  Audrey is also an astronaut, having flown on the second human flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard program, NS-18.

Previously, Audrey served as Vice President of Legal & Compliance for Blue Origin, overseeing a wide variety of legal matters, including regulatory affairs, legislative and policy matters, supplier and customer negotiations and management, maritime law, crisis response, and legal operations.

Audrey received a Bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1999 and began her nearly 10-year engineering career.  As a guidance and controls engineer, she was a flight controller for NASA with 2,000 hours of console time in Mission Control for the International Space Station Program.  After leaving NASA, she supported government satellite programs for Lockheed Martin. Following a nearly 10-year engineering career, Audrey attended Santa Clara University School of law and received a Juris Doctor in 2008.

Audrey previously served as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation and is the Executive Sponsor of Blue Origin’s New Mercury Business Resource Group, which promotes gender diversity in the workforce at Blue Origin.

Cheryl is the CEO of CNEXT, a leadership development and executive networking company that helps connect, develop and advance high-impact leaders. Before taking on her CEO role, Cheryl was a Partner at Heidrick & Struggles, consulting in the firm’s Leadership Development, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Culture Shaping practices.

Before joining Heidrick & Struggles, Cheryl was the regional managing director for Duke Corporate Education’s European operations. Under her leadership, the region enjoyed its strongest growth and profitability in Duke CE history. Previously, Cheryl was the director of organization capability for The Coca-Cola Company, where she worked with the company and the bottling system across the US, Europe, Russia, Latin America, and the Philippines. Cheryl was named one of the 25 Influential Black Women in Business by The Network Journal in March 2020 and was named one of Paradigm for Parity’s Women on the Rise in August 2020. She is currently on the Executive Leadership Team for the American Heart Association’s Triangle-area Go Red for Women Initiative and was named the 2022 Woman of Impact for the Triangle area. Cheryl earned dual Master’s degrees in Management and Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as part of the Leaders for Global Operations Program, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from GMI Engineering & Management Institute (formerly General Motors Institute, now Kettering).

Arnold Barnett is the George Eastman Professor of Management Science and a Professor of Statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

His research specialty is applied mathematical modeling with a focus on problems of health and safety. Barnett’s early work on homicide was presented to President Gerald Ford at the White House, and his analysis of U.S. casualties in Vietnam was the subject of a column by William F. Buckley.

Barnett has written op-ed pieces for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, CNN Opinion, the Charlotte Observer, The Hill, Real Clear Markets,  and USA Today. He received the President’s Award and the Expository Writing Award from INFORMS in 1996 and in 2001, and is a Fellow of INFORMS. Cited as “the nation’s leading expert on aviation safety,” Barnett was recognized with the 2002 President’s Citation from the Flight Safety Foundation for “truly outstanding contributions on behalf of safety.” MIT Sloan students have honored him on 15 occasions for outstanding teaching.

Jen Felch is the Chief Digital Officer and CIO of Dell Technologies, responsible for driving the strategy, direction and delivery for Dell Digital (Dell’s IT organization) while leading the transformation and adoption of digital technologies across Dell.

Jen’s position combines the traditional roles and responsibilities of a CIO, along with the emerging role of change agent for digital transformation. She leads the organization in the Dell Digital Way – a simplified and innovative approach to quickly introducing new products and capabilities that provide Dell with an unrivaled competitive edge.

Most recently, Jen was a senior vice president in the Office of the CIO, leading corporate supply chain, IT strategy and business operations. Prior to that role, Jen dramatically improved the order experience for businesses throughout Dell and held several global business architecture, supply chain and factory operations roles. Before joining Dell, she held a variety of engineering and leadership roles at Boeing, Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), and successful software startups.

Jen has a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and is an alumnus of the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, where she earned her MBA and an MS in Computer Science.

Michael “Mick” Farrell was appointed ResMed’s CEO and has served as a director since March 2013. In January 2023, he was appointed chair of our board of directors. Mick joined the company in 2000, serving as president of the Americas region from 2011 to 2013, senior vice president of the global sleep apnea business unit from 2007 to 2011, and various senior roles in marketing and business development.

Before joining ResMed, Mick worked in management consulting, biotechnology, chemicals and metals manufacturing at companies including Arthur D. Little, Sanofi Genzyme, Dow Chemical, and BHP.

Mick serves on the board of directors of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) and Zimmer Biomet (NYSE: ZBH), a global provider of implantable musculoskeletal medical devices. He is a member of two committees at Zimmer Biomet: the compensation and management development committee, as well as the quality, regulatory, and technology committee, of which he is chair. Mick also volunteers as a trustee for non-profit organizations: UC San Diego Foundation, Rady Children’s Hospital, and Father Joe’s Villages’ project for the homeless in San Diego, California.

Mick holds a Bachelor of Engineering with first-class honors from the University of New South Wales, a Master of Science in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Master of Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Mira Sahney has over 25 years of executive leadership experience in the successful development and commercialization of innovation driven and customer-centric products. Currently, she serves as the global President of the Pelvic Health Operating Unit at Medtronic, which includes the Interstim® portfolio. She is an active member of the MedTech community and has served as a mentor, investor, and board member for multiple start-ups.

Most recently, as President and CEO of Hyalex Orthopaedics, she secured the company’s $33M Series A and built a world-class team dedicated to addressing unmet clinical needs in orthopaedics with the company’s transformational HYALEX® Cartilage.

Previously, as SVP and General Manager for the ENT and Gynecology divisions at Smith and Nephew, she built and led two high-growth profitable businesses with global P&L responsibility including sales, marketing, research and product development.

Prior to Smith and Nephew, she was the President and co-founder of Myomo, an award-winning company in the neuro-robotics space, which is now public on the NYSE. Earlier in her career, she held a number of product development and product management positions, of increasing scope and responsibility.

Mira has tremendous capability in driving tangible results by developing innovative strategies, solving difficult business problems and building award winning teams. She graduated from the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program with an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management as well as an MS in mechanical engineering. Additionally, she holds an MS from Stanford University and a BS from the University of Michigan.

Dave has been the CEO of Saol Therapeutics since 2016.  In his role, he has been instrumental in the company strategy that resulted in more than $300M in aggregate financings and subsequent divestitures to support the funding needed to initiate new product development.  These successes ultimately led to the creation of a late-stage pipeline that included the approval of LYVISPAH® in 2021 and the sale of the Commercial programs that have accelerated Saol’s investment in SL-1002 in pain related to osteoarthritis of the knee, spasticity, and SL-1009 in rare mitochondrial diseases and oncology.

Prior to Saol, Dave held a number of roles with consistently growing responsibility at both Genentech and Corcept Therapeutics.  As Vice President of Commercial Operations at Corcept, he was instrumental in the early turnaround of the Korlym® franchise, which has since continued to grow at a rapid pace.  His overall experience in the industry is based on a balance of commercial leadership roles and those which have required technical expertise in the areas of product development, manufacturing scale-up, finance and CMC.

Dave holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Northwestern University, as well as Master of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his post-graduate studies at Stanford University and has performed research at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.  Dave serves on the Board of Directors of Georgia BIO, has been granted 10 US patents, multiple international patents and has pending patent applications in the fields of pharmaceuticals, drug delivery, medical devices and health technology.

Billy Marshall is the Co-Founder and CEO at ServiceTrade and the author of two books for commercial contractors: The Digital Wrap and Money for Nothing. He is a sought-after speaker on topics relating to innovation, technology, digital marketing, and sales methodology for commercial contractors. 

Billy’s professional experiences include leadership roles in product, sales, and business development at a range of companies, including Fortune 100 companies, family-owned contracting businesses, and startup ventures. His experience offers a broad perspective from which he coaches commercial service contractors on best practices to thrive in increasingly competitive markets.

Billy has presented at national conferences for the trades including those hosted by the American Fire Sprinkler Association (AFSA), National Fire Sprinkler Association (NFSA), Automatic Fire Alarm Association (AFAA), National Association of Fire Equipment Distributors (NAFED), and the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA). 

Billy graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in aerospace engineering and holds two graduate degrees in engineering and management from MIT.   

Outside of ServiceTrade, Billy is busy as pitmaster at the smoker, as captain on his fishing boat, on the North Carolina coast with his wife, or keeping up with his three wonderful daughters.

In his role, Viju is responsible for global operations, including manufacturing, direct procurement, regulatory affairs, quality assurance, sustainability, integrated business planning, logistics and advanced operations such as additive manufacturing technology development.

Prior to joining Stryker, Viju served as Chief Supply Chain Officer and Senior Vice President at Verizon. Before his work at Verizon, Viju held key leadership roles at Intel in technology, supply chain and manufacturing operations.

Viju earned his doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania and dual graduate degrees (MBA, S.M. in electrical engineering) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Leaders for Global Operations program. He also holds a graduate degree (M.S.E. in computer science engineering) from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Kerala, India.

Kristin Toth is currently President & Chief Operating Officer at Vesta Home after its acquisition of Fernish, (where she held the same role and was a member of the board of directors). Her startup career began at Zulily as Vice President, Operations where she built and scaled the full operations organization through IPO. She subsequently held CEO and COO positions at startups Code Fellows (software coding school) and Dolly (on-demand last-mile delivery and moving, acquired). Earlier, in eight years at Amazon, Kristin led several teams across the company, building Prime, launching same day delivery, as category manager of Movies & Television, and leading the Marketing, Product Management, Site Merchandising, Pricing, Business Development, and Design teams responsible for building and launching Amazon’s digital music offering.

Kristin holds a BSE and MSE in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from the Tauber Institute for Global Operations at the University of Michigan, a SM in Civil and Environmental Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management through the Leaders for Global Operations fellowship program.

Kristin is a director and governance committee chair for Radiant Logistics (RLGT). She's also an active volunteer and serves on non-profit boards of directors and dedicates time helping others be successful, through teaching, coaching, advisory positions, public speaking, and mentoring. She is the Board Chair for University of Michigan’s Center for Entrepreneurship and serves as an advisor for startups (mostly women-founded and -led companies). She was a contributing author for Women in Tech (Sasquatch Books).  Kristin lives on Lake Sammamish, just outside of Seattle, where she can often be found paddle boarding (with her pup, Maizey) or wake surfing.

Michele Parrish is co-founder and managing partner for Parrish Partners, LLC, a leadership and management consulting company offering executive coaching, executive search, leadership training, technology services, and transaction services.  Her twenty-five plus years of leadership roles, coaching and consulting ranges from Fortune 50 corporations to elite private companies and small family-owned businesses.  Her industry experience includes manufacturing, high technology, financial services, consumer products, medical, aerospace/defense, and more.

Michele has a proven track record of leading organizations to success. She served as an executive at Intel, leading large (1000+ person) manufacturing and engineering organizations that generated millions of dollars per day in company profits. She led and coached many multi-national teams to achieve outstanding results. Her semiconductor experience ranges from early-stage product development to high volume manufacturing and global supply chain management.

Michele serves as a trusted advisor and coach to top executives and business owners across the country.  Her signature approach is an integrated blend of coaching, consulting, and training that leverages the latest in neuroscience and positive psychology.  She is the author of B.M.O.R.E.® Leadership and is certified in several psychometric assessments.

Michele graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Master of Science in Business Administration and a Master of Science in Materials Science. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial & Operations Engineering.   Michele received her coach training from Corporate Coach University, a leading global provider of corporate coach training.  

Michele is a speaker and trainer on the topics of leadership, management, and entrepreneurship.  She has taught classes at leading educational institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Arizona State University, and Chapman University. She has served as a Small Business Administration SCORE counselor, helping small businesses start-up and succeed.  Michele has served on several non-profit boards, founded and ran WGLO for a decade, and currently serves on the MIT LGO Alumni Board as the VP Of Communications & Networking.  Michele is married to her LGO ‘95 Classmate, Mark Parrish.  Together with their daughter Savannah, they live in sunny San Clemente, California.  They enjoy traveling and staying connected to friends and family across the country.  

Nima is VP/General Manager Large Molecule Platform North America at Johnson & Johnson. In this role, Nima provides leadership and strategic direction to three Large Molecule (LM) sites in North America and leads the cold chain operations for the LM platform globally. Prior to this role, Nima was the General Manager for the J&J biologics site in Malvern, PA.

Nima previously led the external partnerships organization for the Janssen pharmaceuticals manufacturing network. In this role, Nima led a global organization with production activities across 40 external sites. Nima joined Johnson & Johnson in 2008 and has diverse experience across many of J&J’s businesses.  As Director Reliability, Nima developed and deployed global reliability improvement programs.  Prior to joining Janssen, she held operations and supply chain strategy roles in J&J’s MedTech segment. 

Prior to joining Johnson and Johnson, Nima was a program manager at Boeing Corporation, and held manufacturing and process engineering roles at Nokia.

Nima is a Leaders for Global Operations (LGO ‘07) fellow from MIT and holds a MBA from MIT-Sloan and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. She also has an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from The Ohio State University, and a Bachelor of Engineering from Anna University in Chennai, India. She lives in Princeton NJ with her husband Sanjay (LGO ’08), her two sons, and a dog.

Dan Burseth is the Vice President of Business Development for Invio Automation.  Invio designs and builds automation equipment and provides digital factory services to manufacturers in end-markets including medical device and life sciences, renewable energy, mobility, semiconductor, and heavy industry.  Invio was previously named Eckhart and was LFM Capital's first portfolio company.  Dan resides outside Chicago with his wife and kids and is excited to see the campus and old classmates at the conference.

Jordan Charles is the Vice President and General Manager of the New Glenn Stage 1 reusable booster program at Blue Origin where he leads the team responsible for the design, development, manufacturing, and certification of one of the world’s largest reusable rocket stages. Prior to this role, Jordan served in various leadership positions at Blue Origin, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin spanning engineering, supply chain, and program management.

Jordan is an engineer and inventor at heart. He has authored a number of international peer review journal publications and patented a number of aerospace design/manufacturing concepts that have subsequently served as key product architecture enablers.

Jordan holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Jordan also serves on the Board of FIRST WA Robotics and has a strong passion for improving DEI in STEM with a goal of making STEM careers more accessible to diverse and underserved communities.

Orietta Verdugo is the Chief of Staff and Operations Manager for Corporate Social Impact at Intel Corporation. Her responsibilities include social policy initiatives that support diversity and inclusion, corporate responsibility, and corporate philanthropy. Throughout her career, Ms. Verdugo has held a variety of influential roles in business development, product marketing, operations, and process improvement. Her leadership prowess has been demonstrated in her successful management of a factory startup and as general manager of the hospitality sector at Intel.

Her expansive industry knowledge spans semiconductors, energy, and retail sectors, offering a broad perspective and unique insights. She has led teams across North America, Europe, and Asia, and has embarked on two international assignments in Mexico and Spain. Ms. Verdugo's leadership extends to multi-layered organizations, technical talent, and women worldwide.

Orietta is the bestselling author of “Shattering the STEM Ceiling: Conquering Obstacles and Advancing as a Woman in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics”. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University, and dual Master's degrees in Business Administration and Engineering Systems from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She lives in Arizona with her husband, two children, and beloved dogs. 

Brian Feller is the Vice President of Operations at Nvidia.  Currently, he is responsible for supply, production and capacity planning of Nvidia’s full product portfolio as well as global logistics and fulfillment for over 20 manufacturing and distribution sites.  Additionally, his team includes a growing Services organization to support reverse logistics, repair, and RMA fulfillment.

Prior to Nvidia, Brian worked at Dell where he spent almost 19 years in a variety of supply chain roles including supply planning, manufacturing quality, production planning, logistics, reverse logistics, and chief of staff.  Before Dell, he was a consultant with Arthur Andersen for ~6.5 years where he focused on supply chain operations, warehouse management and planning system implementations, and facility design.  Brian is a passionate leader who is committed to talent development, operational excellence and advocating for people with disabilities.  Currently, he serves as the co-lead for the Nvidia Disability Network.  

Brian has an Industrial Engineering degree from Texas A&M University and is a member of the LFM/LGO Class of 2008.  He lives in Austin, Texas and in his free time enjoys running, playing golf, home improvement projects, working in the yard and reading.  He is also a huge sports fan, particularly when the Texas A&M Aggies are involved!  

Michael Tajima is the Senior Vice President of Strategy at Paragonix Technologies, an early stage commercial medical device company creating new systems for donor organ preservation and transportation. Currently, he is responsible for product strategy & definition, medical & scientific research, and government & payor relations.

Michael has been in the medical device field for the last 13 years primarily with start-up and early stage commercial companies. He has led marketing, product management, and medical affairs in cardiovascular surgery, interventional cardiology, radiation oncology and laparoscopy. He is passionate about developing strategic businesses with products that improve outcomes for critically ill patients. In the start-up environment, he enjoys the rapidly evolving challenges of both expanding the product portfolio and developing the organization structure in parallel. 

Michael has an Aerospace degree from Cornell University and is a member of the LGO Class of 2010. He lives outside of Boston and enjoys hiking, rock-climbing and skiing in his free time. 

Steve co-founded LFM Capital and brings to the Firm over 29 years of operating experience, having served in a variety of senior executive and functional roles in manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, technology and sales.

Prior to founding LFM, Steve was a Principal with TVV Capital (2010-2014), where he directed the portfolio value creation efforts of six portfolio investments, with a focus on operating improvements, management recruiting, leadership development training and performance. Steve also helped to identify investments and served in a leading role on deal negotiations. He also served on the boards of four TVV portfolio companies: INDCO, Critical Solutions International, Big 3 Precision Products, and Bigham Brothers.

Prior TVV, Steve was Chief Operating Officer of MFG.com (2009-2010), the world’s largest global online marketplace for the manufacturing industry, where he directed all functions, excluding finance and HR, for a global six-office (U.S., Asia, Europe), 250-employee, fast-growing company.

Prior to MFG, Steve spent 11 years as a Southeastern regional Senior Director with The Dell Corporation (1998-2009) serving in a range of executive roles that included GM Dell Nashville Consumer Business and Nashville Site Lead, Director of Manufacturing for Dell’s Nashville Campus, and Director of Dell’s Supply Chain Engineering and Demand/Supply Balancing.

Prior to Dell, Steve served as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy (1989-1996), where he flew combat missions in support of Desert Shield and was selected to participate in test squadron flying test missions in all Navy/Marine Corps aircraft.

Steve received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy, his MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT’s School of Engineering and his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management where he graduated first in his class. He has served for over 21 years as a member of MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations Operating Committee where he speaks to classes annually on executive leadership and career management.

Steve and his wife, Shannon, recently celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary and have three wonderful children, Alexis, Christian and Jackson. Steve and his family love to surf and water ski behind their boat, snow ski, SCUBA and kite surf. Steve also enjoys rowing and Crossfit. 

Noramay Cadena is the Managing Partner of Supply Change Capital, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage food tech. Over the last 8 years, Noramay has invested in over 75 companies across industries and stages. Prior to her career as an investor, Noramay spent over a decade in the aerospace industry as an engineer and operations leader. In 2022, she was recognized as one of 10 women of influence in private markets by PEI. She’s also been named one of 55 rising-star VCs who shook up the industry (2021) and one of 50 renowned women in robotics (2020), and has been named one of the top 100 influential Latinas in the United States by Latino Leaders Magazine for the last 3 years in a row. She is a Kauffman Fellow and holds 3 degrees from MIT.

Jonathan Strimling (LGO ’96) is CEO of CleanFiber and a seasoned executive and serial entrepreneur, with deep experience launching technology ventures. 

Under Mr. Strimling’s leadership, CleanFiber secured over $90 million in capital and successfully launched full-scale commercial production of its breakthrough carbon storing insulation from a state-of-the-art Buffalo production facility. 

Previously, Mr. Strimling led SharpSpring, a SaaS marketing technology turnaround he took to the NASDAQ, which ultimately sold to Constant Contact for $240 million. From his technology commercialization firm, US Dynamics, Mr. Strimling previously launched WoodPellets.com, an online retailer of heating fuels, and he has served on the boards of CleanFiber Inc., SharpSpring (NASDAQ: SHSP), the Cellulose Insulation Manufacturers Association, the Biomass Thermal Energy Council, the Alliance for Green Heat, and other nonprofit and for-profit boards. 

Ting Shih is the CEO and founder of ClickMedix, an award-winning AI-powered healthcare technology social enterprise born out of MIT with the mission of improving the health of over 1 billion people using mobile technologies. Her areas of expertise include health technology solution design, AI/machine learning, scale-up strategy, lean/Six Sigma process improvement and operations management, and organization change management.

She spent more than 10 years implementing mobile health programs across Africa, Asia, South America, and the US to enable healthcare to be delivered to anyone regardless of income level, gender, or age through telemedicine, AI, and health workers, to connect patients to world-class medical experts. Using a mobile smartphone, health workers or patient caregivers can follow a series of questions that mimic a medical specialist’s questioning of the patient, and combined with AI, to derive at a recommended care plan and what to do next, including treatment services, home-visits or fully remote doctor consultations. The programs enable health workers and nurses to setup and manage low-cost clinics using a mHealth kiosk(tablet with ClickMedix app) that integrates with a suite of point-of-care diagnostics devices to provide comparable services as a full clinic–including maternal/child care, primary care, and chronic disease management. The system also integrates with payment schemes, pharmacy inventories, and medical record systems where necessary. The system also enables home visits and community surveys to be conducted easily through mobile smartphones by health workers. Ting has worked with US and international insurance firms, health systems, governments, research institutions, and private corporations to reduce the costs of healthcare systematically, while reaching more underserved patients.ClickMedix was inducted to the Million Lives CollectiveVanguard for directly improving the lives of 1,000,000+ patients in 2022.

Ting is World Summit Awards winner (2019), Asia21 Young Leaders (2018), Asian American chamber of Commerce Young Professional of the Year (2018), Geneva Forum for Health Award(2016), winner of USAID / DAI Innovation into Action Challenge in 2016, Toyota Mother of invention in 2015, and she is the Cartier Women’s InitiativeLaureate (North America, 2012). She holds an MBA and MS in Systems Engineering from MIT. In addition, she has a BS in Computer Science and MS in Software Design and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Steven Lee is a chief operating officer known for being gifted in strategic sourcing and negotiations. With over 20 years of experience in his field, he has garnered a reputation for being a great leader and people manager, helping to grow companies and the people within them. Steven's passion for creating resilient supply chains has driven him to co-found Crowdz, a technology company reimagining the supply chain invoice finance space. Through his dedication and expertise, he continues to think of innovative ways to modernize the industry.

Guadalupe Hayes-Mota, a distinguished biotechnologist, entrepreneur, and public servant is the founder and CEO of Healr Solutions. Under his leadership, this company has pioneered technology to expedite drug production, securing $10M in funding. In addition, Hayes-Mota offers his expertise as an MIT lecturer and advisor on healthcare policy for the U.S. Congress. He also holds a position on the Massachusetts Rare Disease Advisory Council, serving under the Governor of Massachusetts.

His diverse career history includes roles as a Vice-President in Supply Chain and Manufacturing for Fortune 500 biopharma companies, Director of the United States' largest free healthcare system, and a key contributor to the development of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

Regarding board memberships, Hayes-Mota provides guidance as an advisor for Sanofi and serves on the boards of Fenway Health, Save One Life, and the MIT Alumni Association. Notably, he is the founder and past president of the MIT LGBT+ Alumni Association.

Hayes-Mota's significant impact in the biopharmaceutical industry has earned him recognition as one of the top 100 influential leaders in the industry by PharmaVoice, the title of one of the most powerful LGBT+ leaders by Business Insider, and the honor of Healthcare Executive of the Year by Los Angeles Business Journal. Academically, he holds a BS, an MS in Engineering Systems, an MBA from MIT, and an MPA from Harvard University.

Rob comes to cleantech after over 30 years of experience in automotive and finance, with a focus on startups and turnarounds. His strong engineering and technical subject matter expertise has naturally led him to product development in technology-intensive sectors. He has worked with AlumaPower’s CTO Geoff Sheerin on a number of new ventures and joined with him formally in 2017 to launch AlumaPower, where he is Co-founder and CEO.

Prior to his time in automotive, Rob worked as a blue-chip company consultant for McKinsey and in investment banking on Wall Street.

He holds masters degrees in engineering and management (MIT, Sloan school), and a BSE in electrical engineering & computer sciences (Princeton). His graduate work on how to launch quality products quickly is still cited in business literature on best practices of new product development.

Rob has, and continues to sit, on various boards in membership and advisory roles. He is also a long time member of the Young President’s Organization (YPO) and was a Board Member there for over 4 years. Most recently, he completed the Innovation Governance Program – Level 1 through the Council of Canadian Innovators (June 2023).

Jeff Baer began his career in automotive engineering at Ford Motor Company, but later caught the entrepreneurial bug.  Various roles in product management, sales, account management, and business development in venture-backed start-ups led to him founding LinkeDrive, which helps trucking companies incentivize, measure, and motivate their drivers’ performance using the nascent learnings of nudge theory and behavioral science. 

Jeff is currently advising several electric vehicle and transportation technology start-ups while launching a new integrated hardware/software venture in the fuel supply chain.  He is the father of four sons:  Gus, Hank, Cash and Willie.  

Baer earned a SM in Systems Engineering and an MBA from MIT and the Sloan School of Management as a 2006 graduate of the Leaders for Manufacturing program.  He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2001 where he was also an Academic All-American, letterwinner, and member of the 2001 Big Ten Championship football team. 

Richard F. (Rick) Dauch has served as Chief Executive Officer of Workhorse, Inc., a commercial EV start-up company based in Sharonville, Ohio since joining the Company in August 2021. He also is an Officer of the Company and member of its Board of Directors.   

During complementary corporate and military careers, Dauch has amassed 40 years of cumulative management and P&L leadership experience across a broad range of disciplines, including operations, sales & marketing, labor relations, strategic planning, finance, and investor relations. He has been the CEO & President of three Tier 1 automotive supplier companies:

• Delphi Technologies, a $5B/yr automotive parts supplier of both ICE and EV powertrain systems.  He led the turnaround of that business and its strategic merger with BorgWarner in the fall of 2020. 

• Accuride Corporation, reshaping it from a $800m/yr North American supplier of commercial vehicle parts into a $1.4B/yr wheel-end systems supplier to the global transportation and agricultural industries from 2008-18.   

• Acument Global Technologies, where he was responsible for leading the restructuring of the largest global fastening solutions company in the world on behalf of Platinum Equity during the 2008-2010 global recession.  

Prior to joining Acument, Dauch served in varied capacities during a 13-year tenure with American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. (AAM), a $3.8B/yr supplier of driveline, drivetrain and chassis systems and related metallic components based in Detroit, Michigan where he completed his career as EVP, Global Operations responsible for 18 operating sites.  Prior to AAM, Dauch worked at United Technologies, Carrier Division, where he led the specialty packaged products (SPP) business consisting of four product lines produced in Korea, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, and in several plants across the USA. Prior to that assignment he was both the site materials and manufacturing manager in Tyler, TX. 

Dauch’s corporate career was preceded by his service as an officer in the U.S. Army beginning in 1983, concluding with his assignment as a Light Infantry Company Commander with the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, NY. Dauch was  qualified as an Airborne-Ranger, Air Assault and expert infantryman. 

Dauch earned dual Master of Science degrees in Management and Engineering and is a graduate of the “Leaders for Manufacturing” program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was a four-year football letterman.  

Dauch is an owner and Chairman of Century, LLC, and Tactical Kinetics, LLC. He is also a minority owner of the West Point Optical Group.  He previously served on the Board of Directors at the SHYFT Group, Koch Enterprises, the Heavy Duty Manufacturers Association (HDMA) and Motor Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA). He also serves on the Board of Directors and is a past president of the Army Football Club.  He is married with seven children, 12 grandchildren and is an avid military historian and sports enthusiast. 

Caitlin Braun is the Director of Strategy and Process Improvement at J&E Precision, an LFM Capital portfolio company in Aerospace and Defense (A&D).  J&E is a platform of three companies nationwide focused on manufacturing high-precision machined components; the goal of LFM Capital with J&E is to begin transforming the highly fragmented A&D supply base, building the next level of capability in a high mix, low volume manufacturing environment that is vital to our national security and economic progress.  Prior to this role, Caitlin served as the technical lead at Stryker, where she successfully launched the second generation PowerLOAD system, Stryker Emergency Care’s industry leading automated ambulance cot-loading and fastening system.   

Caitlin holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, a BA in Physics from Kalamazoo College, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. As a competitive triathlete, Caitlin connects with her community, providing volunteer leadership and support for new riders in annual charity events through Make-A-Wish Foundation, Best Buddies Bike Challenge, and Velosano Cancer Research.   

Erez Kaminski is the CEO and Founder of Ketryx Corporation, the first and only connected lifecycle management software for MedTech that unifies quality and R&D efforts to deliver safer software. Over the last decade, he worked in industries including computational mathematics, biotech, and energy, helping build monitoring systems for pharmaceutical equipment and AI for medication management. 

Before Ketryx, Erez worked with Amgen, the world’s largest biotechnology company, as the head of AI/ML for their medical device division and with Wolfram Research, the builders of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha. Erez holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Master of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kaya graduated from Dartmouth College with B.A. in Computer Science. After graduating she worked as a software engineer at Slack and then Calm in the San Francisco Bay Area. She obtained her MBA and Masters in Civil and Environmental Engineering from MIT Sloan and the School of Engineering in 2023. While at Sloan, Kaya was a co-president of the Retail & Consumer Goods Club and co-VP of Communications for the Black Business Student Association. She organized the 2023 MIT Retail Conference with theme Purpose-Led Retail focused on Sustainability. Upon graduation, she was the recipient of the Sustainability Certificate from the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative.

Kaya is now a Consultant at Bain & Company in the Boston office.

Scarlett Koller is the CEO and co-Founder of Mithril Technologies, a firm developing and launching next-generation satellite antenna technologies out of MIT AeroAstro.

Scarlett earned her SB from MIT AeroAstro in 2016, and spent five years in the space industry, working at SpaceX in Crew Dragon Life Support Systems Engineering, followed by NASA JPL as a Systems Testbed Engineer and Flight Operator on Mars 2020 Perseverance. Conveniently, she was admitted to the LGO Class of 2023 immediately after the landing of Perseverance on Mars. She used the LGO experience to expand her network and her knowledge of the space industry as co-President of the Sloan Space Industry Club, a leader of two New Space Age Conferences, a recipient of the Aerospace Innovation Certificate and as an intern on Amazon's Project Kuiper.

Dante Montgomery is an associate in Danaher’s General Manager Development Program. His current role is as a Global Business Enablement Manager at Cytiva, Danaher’s largest operating company in the biotechnology sector. Leveraging the Danaher Business System (DBS), he leads global cross-functional initiatives to drive gains in revenue achievement and operating margin expansion. Prior to this role in Cytiva, Dante was a Global Product Manager within Pall Industrial, another Danaher operating company, leading new product development and product lifecycle management activities for a portfolio of fluids filtration and separation products focused on the oil and gas industry and adjacent markets. Prior to Danaher, he spent five years at ExxonMobil leading oil and gas infrastructure projects primarily in Chad and across the United States.

Dante holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. While at MIT, he was Co-President of the Black Business Student Association and Co-Chair for the Africa Innovate Conference. He is also a Co-Founder and Co-Chair for the MIT LGO Underrepresented Minority Alumni Group. Dante is originally from Atlanta, GA and currently resides in Orlando, FL.

Since graduation from LGO in 2022, Jen has worked for partner company Rivian with roles in supply chain risk and (currently) go-to-market strategy. She brings notable cross-industry experience to her work, including pharmaceutical manufacturing, oil and gas engineering, and e-retail/warehousing.

Jen holds a BSE in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, as well as an MBA and MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. Jen currently resides in the California Bay area with her partner and loyal canine companion.

Andrew is currently a technical product manager at Zoox, where he hopes to make self-driving cars an everyday reality.  As a PM, he splits his time between a team focused on behavioral challenges for the vehicle autonomy, and a team focused on the operations of a large fleet of test vehicles.  Prior to LGO he was a submarine officer in the US Navy.

Andrew holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the US Naval Academy, as well as an MBA and MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.  Andrew lives in Medford, MA with his spouse.

Milo Werner is a General Partner at The Engine. She serves as a Board Member for Atlantic Quantum, Foundation Alloy, Mori, Resonant Link, and TeraDar.

Milo joined The Engine from Ajax Strategies where she was a Partner, leading mid-stage investments across energy, transportation, agriculture and industrial applications. Before Ajax Strategies, Milo joined Tesla in 2007, at a critical stage in the company's trajectory, where she led New Production Introduction, launching the Model S powertrain (battery, drive unit, and all the stuff in between), dual motor, drivers assist and, most importantly, Model X. During her tenure, the company grew from 200 employees to 12,000. In addition to Tesla, Milo ran New Product Introduction at Fitbit, launching four factories in China and transitioning the company to fully automated production. She also led engineering and product for micro-grid company Zola, a startup providing distributed energy to over a million families in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Milo earned a BS in Geology and Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Vermont, as well as an MS in Civil Engineering and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. She sits on the boards of the UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, AxelHire, and Infinitum Electric.