MAUREEN BOYCE
Maureen has 25 years of experience developing strategies for early stage tech companies and new business units within Fortune 100 companies. She created strategies for seven start-ups while Partner at Ignition Ventures, enabling Series A funding or acquisition. Created Asian market entry strategies for SABMiller while living in Hong Kong. Built internet strategies for 20+ […]
OTHMAN BENKIRAN
Transformation engineer
Othman builds transformational tools and strategies using game design, developmental psychology, systems engineering, and hypnotherapy. He developed a reflection practice that blends dialogue and mind-mapping, and consults with companies on their flexibility and self-transformation.
AFARIN BELLISARIO
Afarin’s professional life has revolved around commercializing nascent technologies in a variety of roles: as a technologist (MIT, BBN), strategist (Analog Devices, Intel, Shawmut), investor (Intel Capital), evaluator (Transtrategy), licensee (Intel) and licensor (MIT TLO), teacher (Madrid and IAP workshops), as well as through nurturing startups as a catalyst/mentor/advisor (Deshpande, VMS, TLO, Sandbox, MIT Water […]
RICHARD AMSTER
Coach/Trainer
Richard is a solutions oriented cross-cultural coach/trainer whose solutions are based on 30+ years experience managing multi-cultural and distributed, application development, IT operations, and service management projects and divisions. For 10 years, his passion has been helping individuals and teams meet the challenges of globalization
JINANE ABOUNADI
Executive Director of the MIT Sandbox
Jinane Abounadi is Executive Director of the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program. She brings a unique combination of experiences, from academic research to senior operational and strategic roles in start-up companies and large businesses. After completing her graduate work, she worked as a research scientist at BBN and as a postdoctoral lecturer at MIT, and […]