Past Work:
Blueprints for how universities can copy lessons learned from MIT's innovation system.
#InnovationInfrastructure
Short: consider games where people and organizations innovate, and if they win, the world is better.
Medium: build and run startup creation platforms (e.g., incubators, accelerators, venture studios) and innovation hubs that accelerate the translation of ideas into real-world impact.
Long: design and implement innovation systems that allow for interdisciplinary solving of complex problems. Analyze the physical, social, and procedural resources and limitations of dynamic systems of stakeholders, then design and implement interventions that solve important problems.
Executive Director
MIT Office of Innovation | We inspire, enable, amplify, and measure innovation at MIT and beyond.
MIT Office of Innovation runs iHQ, a home for MIT’s thriving community of innovators & entrepreneurs.
Program Director, MIT Innovation Initiative | As the chief architect of MIT's next generation innovation infrastructure, I led the innovation design of MIT’s Innovation Headquarters and developed innoation pedagogies, data systems, and venture creation programs.
Talk on Innovation Infrastructure at MIT
Here I explain the Innovation Infrastructure Model within a university context and how the MIT Innovation Initiative applies these ideas to MIT's innovation ecosystem with the goal of stewarding the innovation process from idea to impact.
Portfolio of my work MIT:
Associate Director, Harvard Innovation Labs | I led the creation of a new global innovation department.
This is the intro for HarvardX's course Launching Breakthrough Technologies, where I'm a guest speaker on thinking about customer discovery.
Co-founder & CEO
SP@CE, "an innovation infrastructure company" | I designed and coordinated the creation of a 160,000 sq.ft. innovation hub project on the site of the former hockey arena in Downtown Charlottesville, VA.
In 2018, that project became the Center of Developing Entrepreneurs (CODE).
Concurrently, I designed and ran a wide-range of startup incubator activities focusing on biotech, social innovation, and technology.
Innovation Districts (2016).pdf"We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do." – Mahatma Gandhi