Dustin Lucien is the Chief Operating Officer of Betterment and has been with the company since 2013. Prior to becoming COO, Dustin served as Betterment's Chief Technology Officer, as well as the VP of Engineering. Dustin received his Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, as well as his Master’s degree in Biomedical Imaging & Computing.
Dustin Lucien is the Chief Operating Officer of Betterment and has been with the company since 2013. Prior to becoming COO, Dustin served as Betterment's Chief Technology Officer, as well as the VP of Engineering. Dustin received his Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, as well as his Master’s degree in Biomedical Imaging & Computing.
Dustin Lucien is the Chief Operating Officer of Betterment and has been with the company since 2013. Prior to becoming COO, Dustin served as Betterment's Chief Technology Officer, as well as the VP of Engineering. Dustin received his Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, as well as his Master’s degree in Biomedical Imaging & Computing.
With Melinda Gates making headlines for the world’s largest private foundation supporting women in technology, it’s a topic whose time has arrived.
Women are launching new businesses at unprecedented rates, and control over half of our country’s personal wealth. In the Mad Men era, MIT’s own Margaret Hamilton helped NASA put a man on the moon. A generation ago, Mary Meeker, now a successful Silicon Valley venture capitalist, was anointed “Queen of the ‘Net” by Barron’s. And technology behemoth IBM, once indelibly associated with “the grey flannel suit”, is today led by Ginni Rometty.
- What opportunities and challenges does the future hold for women in technology, a sector that impacts every single vertical?
- How can we empower and inspire the next generation of women leaders in the industry?
Well, for starters, we will look at how women VCs are funding women entrepreneurs and how this will accelerate the number and trajectory of female founders and executives.
Expert speakers include both pioneering women entrepreneurs and heads of women-run VC firms that successfully invest in female-founded companies. The evolving VC landscape, private equity, unicorn funding, angel investors – our moderated discussion will analyze all this and much more. These fearless founders are testament to how we all benefit from gender parity. Women bring a unique set of strengths, attributes, and perspectives to the tech table. By fostering a collaborative spirit and joining forces on a common goal – learning to not merely ‘lean in’ but also lean on, support, and mentor each other – everyone gains.
Erin Bagwell is a filmmaker and feminist blogger residing in Brooklyn, New York. In 2013 she founded Feminist Wednesday, a feminist storytelling blog. In the summer of 2014 she launched a successful Kickstarter campaign, raising over $100,000 in funding to produce her first feature length film Dream, Girl. In May 2016, Dream, Girl screened at the White House as part of the United State of Women Summit followed by a sold out screening at the iconic Paris Theater in New York City. Erin’s story has been featured in Forbes, TED, Vogue, and The Washington Post and she was named one of Oprah’s SuperSoul100 a list featuring extraordinary individuals that live life intentionally, create great social impact, and bring inspiration to others. Dream, Girl is available worldwide for public screenings and was named the number one feminist documentary to watch by the Huffington Post.
Amy Resnick is the Editor of Pensions & Investments, the international news source for institutional money management, including pension funds, endowments, foundations and sovereign investors. She manages reporters in the U.S., Europe and Asia, covering topics crucial to the people who drive the world of professional money. A veteran financial journalist, has been with P&I for nearly five years. Previously, Amy was focused on the capital markets as Americas Editor of IFR magazine. Prior to that, she spent 15 years covering the intersection of politics and money, first as a reporter and then for 10 years as the Editor of The Bond Buyer, the paper of record for the municipal bond market. Amy was the first (and only) woman ever to hold that job. Ms. Resnick was a Knight Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she studied politics, taxation and infrastructure finance. She is a self-described public policy nerd. She has appeared on CNBC, Nightly Business Report, CNNfn and C-SPAN speaking on financial markets issues. She is a member of the Journalism and Women Symposium and a mentor-editor for the OpEd Project. She has a master’s degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s degree in international relations and history from Tufts University.
Tracy has over 15 years experience in venture capital and private equity. Tracy was formerly a Partner of a growth capital venture capital fund - Baker Capital which had more than $1 Billion under management. Tracy has a broad network in the female founder community. She recently was a speaker on women in venture at the Wonder Woman Summit, and a speaker on Augmented Reality at HighCourt, She is a frequent judge of startup competitions. Most recently she was a judge for the Cornell (Johnson) Business School Women in Tech Competition, Uber/Pitch and a Mentor at MentorHerNYC. She is featured in a chapter of the book “The Internet of Women” by Nada Anid, Laurie Cantileno, Monique Morrow, and Rahilla Zafar. She was also included in the documentary “Dream, Girl about female entrepreneurs. She is a Board Member of Marstone and was the former Treasurer of The Belle Haven Land Company and a former Board Member of the YWCA of Chicago. She is a member of Women in VC and Private Equity Women Investor Network. She serves on the Advisory Board of the MIT Enterprise Forum and an Executive Advisor for the Echoing Green Foundation.
Jesse Draper is founding partner of Halogen Ventures as well as creator and host of 2015 Emmy nominated television series,“The Valley Girl Show”. Draper is a 4th generation venture capitalist focused on early stage investing in female founded consumer technology. Her portfolio includes Laurel & Wolf, Carbon38, Naya Health, HopSkipDrive, The Flex Company & Sugarfina. Through her show she’s helped pioneer the way in digital media and has an initiative to interview 50% women in technology. Previously a Nickelodeon star, Draper has used her comedic talents to bring an approachable feel to the technology world, has produced and distributed over 300 interviews with some of the greatest minds in technology and beyond (including; Ted Turner, Mark Cuban, Sheryl Sandberg, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Jessica Alba, MC Hammer and Eric Schmidt) and was listed by Marie Claire magazine as one of the ‘50 Most Connected Women in America’. USA Today called the show “Must see startup TV”. Draper is a contributor to Marie Claire, SV Magazine, Mashable, Forbes.com, and is a regular investor and tech personality on shows including ‘The Katie Couric Show’, Fox’s ‘Good Day LA’, CNBC’s ‘Who Wants to Be the Next Millionaire Inventor?’ & Freeform’sStartup U. She proudly sits on the board of directors of Werk, the advisory board of Bizworld and is on the Chairman’s board of SurfAir. Draper supports the Parkinson’s Institute and is very involved with growing UCLA’s female entrepreneurship community. She is a new mom, a graduate of UCLA and a Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Anna is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Werk, the go-to destination for flexible work opportunities for ambitious women. Werk aims to fix the leadership pipeline where it is most broken: at or before opt out. By pre-negotiating flexibility for leadership track roles, Werk creates greater work life compatibility, advancing women to the highest ranks of leadership over time. Prior to Werk, Anna was a strategy consultant for 10+ years, most recently as the COO of a philanthropy catalyst firm. She began her career at McKinsey & Co. Anna learned her first lesson in entrepreneurship when she moved to the US as a refugee from the former USSR at age 6 knowing just one word of English. Her scrappiness paid off and she later received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Although Anna once qualified for the junior olympics in fencing, her main athletic focus these days is keeping up with her toddler.
Tania Yuki is founder and CEO of Shareablee, a leading provider of social content analytics for business. She has spent most of her career in digital marketing, measurement and analytics, and was recently honored with a Great Mind Award from the Advertising Research Foundation and featured in Fast Company and Forbes as one of 12 women driving digital in New York.
Tania began her career as a media and internet attorney, specializing in digital rights management, IP and film financing. After moving to the US from Australia she was seduced by digital and went on to run an online video content network as head of acquisitions and branding and has also led product management for comScore’s Video Metrix, the world’s leading online video ratings service.
Tania is also the founder of wimlink, an organization that holds regular events and seminars promoting entrepreneurship, leadership and the professional development of women.
Visit her website at shareablee.com and follow her on Twitter @TaniaYuki
The New York Times called her pharmaceutical product the drug of a generation and Fortune called her a tireless force of nature. Associates of hers call her unapologetically pink. Cindy Whitehead is a highly regarded women's health advocate and serial entrepreneur.
Over a distinguished 22-year career in healthcare, in only the last 10 she has started and sold two businesses for more than $1.5B. She co-founded and last served as CEO for Sprout Pharmaceuticals where, in 2015, the company broke through with the first ever FDA-approved drug for low sexual desire in women -- dubbed “female Viagra” by the media. She started Sprout only one day after selling another that she also co-founded, Slate Pharmaceuticals, which redefined long lasting testosterone treatment for men.
Cindy has made waves, and made her own success, in the field of sexual medicine and creating mission driven companies that deliver big. Her results became a widely covered business success story featured in major media outlets: The New York Times, Associated Press, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg, CNBC, CBS, Fox, Yahoo and the cover feature of Entrepreneur Magazine.
Cindy has a new mission to mentor, invest in, launch and build other women led or focused businesses. In 2016, she opened the doors to The Pink Ceiling -- a cross between a VC firm, a ‘pinkubator’ and a consulting enterprise -- where she is CEO. In very rare moments she is hard at work trying not to work. You cannot miss Cindy. What she touches turns to Pink.
Jessica Traver blends expertise and passion in product development and design with a strong technical background in mechanical engineering.
Jessica began her career doing research at Purdue University, where she led a variety of projects ranging from sports injury and concussion prevention to customizable prosthetic and exoskeleton design. In 2015, Jessica landed a highly coveted position in the TMC Biodesign Innovation Fellowship, where she and 3 teammates spent months rotating in the TMC hospitals identifying opportunities for innovation in healthcare, and building out what is now IntuiTap Medical.
Currently in her role as CEO and Co-Founder of IntuiTap Medical, she is leading a team to develop a device that helps physicians more accurately and efficiently perform spinal punctures. Her innovative work at IntuiTap Medical recently landed her a spot on the esteemed Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Jessica has always had a passion for creating innovative products that dramatically affect the world we live in and improve people’s lives, and hopes to continue developing disruptive medical innovations in the future.
The MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City has for forty years supported entrepreneurs in their efforts to start and run technology-driven business ventures.
We do this by delivering world-class business learning events along with opportunities to build relationships with business people who share an interest in innovation and entrepreneurship related to technology, with focus on digital media, information technology, cleantech and bioscience/healthcare.
Topics for these events included monetizing digital offerings, raising capital, cleantech, success stories of founders whose companies now generate $100 million or more, biotech, web advertising, business plan writing and pitching, wireless broadband, intellectual property and hyperlocal news.