Archives: Speakers
Alka Patel
Alka Patel is the inaugural Deputy Director of the Risk and Regulatory Services Innovation Center (an industry/academic partnership) at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to leading the start-up of the $11 million Center including developing and executing Center strategy, operations, and finances, she manages the… Read more »
Matt Stroud
Matt Stroud is CEO and executive editor of Postindustrial Media (postindustrial.com), which tells stories of the Rust Belt’s heroes and villains through a print magazine, a podcast network, and comprehensive newsletters. An investigative journalist, Stroud has covered technology, business, and the criminal justice system —… Read more »
Terri Butler
Terri serves as Corporate Innovation Executive at Innovation Works (IW). In this role, Terri is responsible for fostering collaboration between the start-up and corporate communities by making connections, accelerating collaboration and consulting both sides on how to work more effectively together. Prior to taking on… Read more »
Laura Ritz
Laura is the COO of numo. Prior to her role at numo, she was Senior Vice President of PNC Enterprise Innovation. Before PNC, Laura was with Wells Fargo leading enterprise strategic programs and Northrop Grumman where she led satellite business development proposals valued over $100MM…. Read more »
Alyssa Ilov
As a change agent and design thinking evangelist, Alyssa Ilov has been instrumental in shifting corporate cultures to embrace design driven innovation. Alyssa leads the Experience Innovation team at PNC which drives innovation for customers, employees and partners. She is committed to instilling a customer… Read more »
Mike Degnan
Michael Degnan is the Head of Enterprise Innovation, PNC’s internally-focused Innovation team and concept incubator. A Group-level team, Enterprise Innovation identifies and shapes promising business, customer and technology innovations and works with lines of business and CIO partners to bring them into the Bank. Michael… Read more »
Patrick McKenna
Patrick McKenna is an experienced entrepreneur, investor and business leader. He co-founded Catalyst Opportunity Funds to bring much needed capital to re-emerging American cities. He founded HighRidge Venture Partners on the premise that ‘Talent is Everywhere’ and actively seeks investment opportunities outside of Silicon Valley…. Read more »
Mary Beth Green
Mary Beth Green is the Chief Innovation Officer at Sheetz, where she leads the company’s Business Innovation function, incubator program, and is building a multi-disciplinary team. Prior to her role at Sheetz, Mary Beth was in demand as a business consultant with proven experience in customer… Read more »
Dr. Rob Hartman
Rob Hartman has over 10 years of life sciences and commercialization experience. He is currently the Director of Translational Science at UPMC Enterprises where he leads investment strategy and operations for immunotherapy-related startups. Prior to working with UPMC, he was an innovation and commercialization consultant… Read more »
Dr. David Rabin
Dr. David Rabin is the chief innovation officer, co-founder, and co-inventor at Apollo Neuroscience, Inc. In his role, Dr. Rabin is developing Apollo Neuroscience’s IP portfolio and running clinical trials of the Apollo technology; the first scientifically-validated wearable system to improve focus, sleep, and access… Read more »
Craig Markovitz
Craig S. Markovitz is an Entrepreneur in Residence in the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship and an Assistant Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is co-founder of Blue Belt Technologies, Inc., a spinoff from the Robotics… Read more »
Dr. Anne Germain
Anne Germain is co-founder and CEO of Noctem LLC, a digital sleep therapeutics start-up company. In this role, she leads the development, testing, and deployment of patient- and clinician-centered digital tools that support strategic, evidence-based, cost-efficient and personalized behavioral sleep medicine. Dr. Germain is an… Read more »