To support teams at all stages, the MIT Sandbox facilitates ongoing office hours with experts who offer advice on a broad range of startup-related topics. These experienced professionals, entrepreneurs, and industry experts volunteer to meet one-on-one with Sandbox teams to answer questions, strategize solutions, and help them continue to make progress. Teams receive a weekly listing of upcoming office hours and can sign-up for individual meetings.

View Sandbox Experts by topic. Areas of expertise are listed for each person/organization:

• Corporate Law

• Immigration Law

• FDA Regulation

• Startup Law

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• Intellectual Property Strategy

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• Design and User Experience

• Artificial Intelligence

• Technology

• Project Management

• Sandbox

• Healthcare Innovation

BU/MIT Startup Law Clinic

BU Startup Law clinic advises MIT students seeking to establish or develop real IP-intensive businesses and offers free legal services.

Therése Klasson
Senior Project Manager, Business Sweden

Areas of expertise: data privacy, business development, financial technology, blockchain, risk management, incorporation, expansion

Therése is specialized in regulation concerning data privacy, money transfer and payments, as well as company establishments within the EU and the U.S. With a passion for digital tech and helping entrepreneurs, Therése has also taken on the advisory role for start-ups concerning expansion plans, go-to market strategies, business development and review of pitch decks.

WilmerHale
Gary Schall, Partner, Co-Chair, Emerging Company and Venture Capital Practice

Areas of expertise: entity formation and structuring, founder arrangements, debt and equity financings, corporate governance, equity compensation, joint ventures, securities laws compliance and mergers and acquisitions.

Gary Schall of WilmerHale answers legal questions that Sandbox teams have on various startup topics.

Mahsa Khanbabai
Immigration Attorney, Khanbabai Immigration Law

Areas of expertise: Consular issues, Temporary Work Visas, National Interest Waivers and Extraordinary Ability categories, Investment Visas, Employment based green cards

Attorney Mahsa Khanbabai represents individual & corporate clients. She is the founder of Khanbabai Immigration Law and is an Adjunct Professor at Stonehill College teaching Immigration Law. Her legal advocacy and strategic use of the media spotlight has led to numerous high impact immigration changes and she is interviewed regularly by news sources including MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, NPR, Boston Globe, among others. Mahsa is an elected director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Board of Governors, serves as a member of AILA's State Department liaison committee and the AILA Law Journal, and engages in policy work with the IMG Taskforce.

Jeff Gibbs
Director, Hyman, Phelps & McNamara

Jeff is an experienced lawyer with extensive knowledge of FDA law for medical devices, and assists in vitro diagnostic and medical device companies with a variety of regulatory issues, including FDA product clearance and approval, product labeling, clinical studies, promotional and marketing programs, regulatory strategy, FDA enforcement actions, emergency use authorizations, and laboratory developed tests.

Michael Divine
Co-Founder, Lendshift Inc.

Areas of expertise: startup law, technology law, securities law, fintech, finance, management.

Michael Divine is an attorney, entrepreneur, consultant, and guest lecturer. His experience and focus relate to companies involving social impact, financial technology, real estate, machine learning, and blockchain. He holds monthly office hours for members of the MIT community and is also available by appointment.

Caldwell Intellectual Property Law
Katie Rubino, Chair, Life Sciences Practice Group

Katie Rubino is a patent attorney whose practice focuses on strategic intellectual property legal services for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

Tani Chen
Patent Attorney, Wolf Greenfield

Areas of expertise: intellectual property, patents, trade secrets, value creation, pitch competitions.

Tani counsels clients in IP protection in a wide variety of areas, including batteries and fuel cells, nanotechnology, drug delivery, chemical processes, biomolecular engineering, and analytical devices. He has a particular focus on start-ups, small businesses, and university work, and has helped companies develop strong IP protection based on their business goals and potential threats from competitors. In addition, Tani has been active in several business competitions in the area, including mentoring teams for the MIT 100K competition and the MIT Enterprise Forum.

Ibrahim Hallaj
President, Intrinsic Law Corp.

Ibrahim is a licensed U.S. patent attorney and is the founder and President of Intrinsic Law Corp. Ibrahim holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.S. in Physics. His typical areas involve hardware, software, medical devices, consumer products, electronics, energy systems.

Steven Saunders
Chair, Intellectual Property Department, Nutter McClennen & Fish

Areas of expertise: innovation portfolio development, strategy and evaluation, patent preparation and prosecution, freedom to operate, IP litigation, and licensing.

A patent attorney with deep technical knowledge, Steven chairs Nutter’s Intellectual Property Department where he counsels clients on their IP needs, including innovation portfolio development, strategy and evaluation, patent preparation and prosecution, freedom to operate, IP litigation, and licensing. Steven also conducts due diligence analysis for angel and VC investments, mergers, and acquisitions. Steven also is an angel investor, entrepreneur, engineer, university lecturer, and a mentor, and he invites you to visit his FAQs relating to intellectual property on MIT’s Martin Trust site.

Marwan Hassoun
Executive Director at UM6P Ventures Explorer Innovation Fund | President & CEO at Intellectual Inspiration

Marwan is a technology professional with IP and technology expertise and advises technology companies, including startups, and law firms on technology and IP strategies including methodologies for maximizing the return on investment of their intellectual property, patents and trade secrets.

MIT Technology Licensing Office
Lynn Liu and Josh Rand
Technology Licensing Associates

Lynn Liu and Josh Rand are technology licensing associates with MIT’s TLO, Technology Licensing Office.

Katz, Nannis + Solomon, P.C

Katz, Nannis + Solomon is one of the top CPA firms in MA offering tax and audit expert advice, especially in the high technology and life science space.

Dawn Darnell, CPA, is a partner of Katz Nannis + Solomon, P.C. and a key member of the firm’s assurance practice. In addition to her extensive public accounting experience, Dawn has held key financial roles in private industry for over ten years. Dawn’s private industry experience combined with her technical expertise lend to her ability to partner with clients, recognize issues and identify practical business solutions.

Sebastian (Sam) Malatos, CPA is a partner at Katz Nannis + Solomon, P.C. and has been with the firm over 10 years advising clientele from a wide-ranging industry base on accounting, taxation, and financial reporting matters. Sam’s passion is collaborating with entrepreneurs and finance teams to help them accomplish their goals to grow from idea to market and be ready for any type of event in the future. Sam regularly devotes time “off the clock” – helping entrepreneurs with business strategy and finance matters.

1414 Ventures

1414 Ventures is a pre-seed/seed stage fund focused exclusively on the digital identity space, a $612 billion market which supports areas such as payments, cybersecurity, data privacy & trust. The team is focused on helping entrepreneurs solve big digital identity problems by bringing our extensive relationships, deep technical & domain expertise and go-to-market know-how to help founders quickly grow their business.

Howard Hall, Co-Founder & Managing Director
Serial tech entrepreneur skilled at scaling companies including Vericept (acq. by Trustwave), Trustwave (acq. by Singapore Telecom and RiverGlass (acq. by ASG Software). Howard is a subject-matter expert on Digital Identity, Payments, Strategy and Corporate Development.

Harold Moss, Senior Investment Partner, CEO Tautuk (1414 Ventures Portfolio Company)
Harold is a National Security Institute (NSI) Fellow, former CTO for IBM cloud business, and early Watson employee. Harold brings extensive experience developing and bringing new technologies to market including Cyber-security, artificial intelligence, cloud computing. He holds multiple patents. Previous experience also spans EMC and Akamai. Extensive experience in product, go-to-market, and technologies.

Jackie Shoback, Co-Founder & Managing Director
As Divisional CEO/COO or CMO in financial services at Boston Private, Fidelity, and TIAA, Jackie ran large businesses and executed multiple digital transformations.  She understands the digital identity buying decision. At Staples she built Staples.com online presence to $1B in revenue in 3 years.  Deep experience in consumer, go-to-market, and financial services.

Sonia Ferreira
Senior Portfolio Manager, Maersk Growth

Areas of Expertise: Supply Chain Management, Logistics, E-Commerce, International Trade, Global Sourcing and Procurement, Warehouse and Distribution, Retail, Automotive, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability 
With over 17 years of experience in designing and implementing supply chain strategy for global retail, lifestyle and automotive clients, has monitored and established operations in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China (Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chengdu), Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Dubai, Mozambique, to name a few. Recently moved to the venture arm of Maersk, focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship. Board member for an agricultural commodities trading company.
Developed new E-commerce solution in collaboration with a startup and has been working has an expert and a mentor for several incubator and accelerators programs, as well as a coach for the Social Innovation Competition 2021 organized by the European Commission. CSCP (Certified Supply Chain Professional), with a degree in Economics and extensive training in International Management, Supply Chain Management and Innovation

Aaron-Micael Beydoun
Director of Corporate Development, Pairwise

Areas of Expertise: Agtech, FoodTech, Building and Managing Agriculture Supply Chains, Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis, Industry-application of Machine Learning and Computer Vision, CRISPR/Gene Editing Applications ex Life Sciences, Commercializing Science and Technology

Formerly a commodities trader with two privately-held trade houses (Louis Dreyfus Commodities and Neumann Kaffee Gruppe focused on biofuels and tropical commodities) in Shanghai, New York, Hamburg and Bogotá and in private equity developing greenfield plantations in South America. Later led international business with a spin-out from the Los Alamos National Lab (Descartes Labs) where we commercialized AI-powered geospatial technologies to industry and government. Experienced working with stakeholders across the global food and energy system. Passionate about the interconnectedness of food-health-climate and commercializing breakthrough technologies — lab to market. A graduate of Harvard University, currently founder and President of Harvard Alumni for Agriculture and Alumni.

Marilyn Davison
Entrepreneurship Coach in Residence, The Fletcher School at Tufts University

Marilyn is a certified Mediator skilled in addressing the internal challenges that teams can experience as they work on their entrepreneurial companies. She has managed workplace mediation as a management consultant for 20 years working with executive teams and entrepreneurs while based in France. She has extensive experience working with international teams and their specific challenges. Marilyn currently works with international teams at the Tufts Fletcher School and Hult Prize.

Dan Gilbert
Investor, Motus Ventures

Areas of expertise: Operations, global supply chain management, new product introduction, sourcing, manufacturing, quality, logistics, distribution, customer service, consumer electronics, angel investing.

Dan began his career in management consulting with McKinsey & Company and A.T. Kearney, later holding executive positions at leading technology companies including Webvan, Palm, and Cisco Systems. Dan served as the Executive Vice President of Operations and Customer Service at Barnes & Noble, helping to drive the company’s expansion into digital reading. Dan led the supply chain for the NOOK® product line, spanning new product introduction, sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, and customer service. He now serves as an investor at Motus Ventures, and has been an active member of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley’s longest-standing angel investment group, since 2009. Dan holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Economics from MIT, and serves on the Funding Board of the Sandbox Innovation Fund and on MIT’s Corporation Development Committee.

Fabrice Paget
Founder, The Luxury Brand Agency

Fabrice spent 25+ years building, rebuilding and marketing iconic brands such as Cartier and Fabergé globally as Chief Marketing Officer and later as the founder and CEO of The Luxury Brand Agency. Called back to Tokyo in early 2020, Fabrice is now the Marketing Director for gourmet food delivery startup FOOD-E where he enjoys mixing design, technology and food. Fabrice is also an advisor to Sandbox graduate company Gluxkind.

Charlie Purtell
Vice President, Equity Ventures

Charlie Purtell is a founder of Danaher’s corporate venture group – Danaher Innovation Center LLC- that focuses on investments in life science platforms to accelerate discovery and development of biotherapeutics and diagnostic platforms to aid in earlier diagnosis and to facilitate testing outside traditional core lab. He has 30 years operating experience across the biotech industry from industrial enzymes, bioinformatics, biopharmaceuticals, and analytical and diagnostic instrumentation. He has spent the last 11 years at Danaher working across M&A, strategy, business development, and corporate venture functions. In the past three years he has lead investments on more than a dozen companies and is a board of director member for several portfolio companies. He has and undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from University of Wisconsin and graduate education from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and the Simon Graduate School of Business.

Mark Peterson
Founder, Entrepreneur, Mentor, Executive

Areas of expertise: Working with the US Government, product market fit, differentiation, company strategy, entity formation and structuring, founder arrangements, corporate governance, operations and startup infrastructure.

Mark is BMNT’s SVP business operations and director of the Strategic Innovation Project (a $30m accelerator for leading edge technology companies). Mark Joined BMNT in 2017. He is experienced as a COO, CTO, and has been responsible for an annual P&L of +$200M. Mark was co-founder of Farallon Research LLC as the Partner responsible for coordinating sourcing, due diligence, investment execution, and partnership financials. Farallon was founded to build an entrepreneur/founder-friendly platform for accelerating early-stage startups and their technologies into effective, enterprise-scale capabilities and deployments. With seed level investments, Farallon created a portfolio value of ~$1.5B. Previously Mark spent 27 years at GTE Government Systems (acquired by General Dynamics) where he implemented complex space and intelligence systems deployed world-wide. Mark grew a business from $13M to $200M including execution of $1B in space development programs. Mark’s customers included all DoD services, intelligence organizations, all with next generation technology requirements for advanced ground/air/space sensors, secure communications, MASINT, and cyber systems.

Ari Horie
CEO & Founder, Women’s Startup Lab/Women’s Startup Lab Impact Foundation

Ari Horie is a Silicon Valley innovator, global speaker and thought leader in women’s leadership and entrepreneurship. In recent years, she has also become known for corporate innovation and leadership and speaking about the entrepreneurial mindset for executives.

She is the Founder & CEO of a leading accelerator, Women’s Startup Lab (WSLab), a uniquely designed program for women entrepreneurs with tech startups. Attracting top influencers in the valley, WSLab has been a driving force to change the face of venture and provides strong support to elevate women’s success in the tech world.  More recently, in order to expand the work of WSLab to underserved women across the globe, she founded Women’s Startup Lab Impact Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation of which she is also CEO. 

Her diverse background and rich talent in the valley led to forming a unique entrepreneurial development methodology, Hitology. Its an immersive and residential program, designed to prepare an individual to scale their success and impact as a change agent and to build their entrepreneurial mindset and skills that can set them apart as a transformational leader in this fast paced world.

Jonathan Bronson, PhD
J2 Ventures Managing Partner 

Jonathan Bronson, PhD is a Managing Partner at J2 Ventures. Prior to founding J2, Jon was a Director of Acquisitions & Finance in the private equity group of D. E. Shaw, a New York based asset manager with over $50 billion in assets under management. Jon was the Chief Operating Officer of Betterpath, Inc., a startup focused on helping patients visualize their medical records (restructured to become Backpack Health, which was later acquired). His responsibilities included hiring and managing the software, product and operations teams, and working closely with the CEO on fundraising and investor pitches. Jon began his career at the Boston Consulting Group, serving as a Project Leader responsible for overseeing consulting teams working with Fortune 500 executives. 

Jon holds a PhD from the chemistry department of Columbia University, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. His research focused on applying machine learning techniques to biochemical processes. Jon also holds a B.A and M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Goldwater Scholar and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Jon was formerly an EMT in New York City where he met his current business partner, Alexander Harstrick.

Calvin Chin
Managing Partner, E14 Fund

Calvin Chin is Managing Partner at E14 Fund, a venture fund affiliated with MIT Media Lab. He is an entrepreneur with enterprise software experience in the US and semiconductor foundry and fintech experience in China. Calvin has expertise in the translation of deep tech, early startup operations, and raising capital. He has an MBA from the TRIUM Global Executive program.

Richard Dahan
Managing Partner, Dahan

Richard is a super-nerd and proud member of MIT's first set of quadruplets. He has seen 2000+ pitches and invested in a few unicorns. Although VC is his career, teaching is his calling. As such, he's excited to discuss anything startup with Sandbox teams, especially these topics: idea brainstorming/assessment, customer validation, pitch polishing, fundraising strategy, and moat building.

Habib Haddad
Managing Partner of E14 Fund

Habib is a serial entrepreneur and an early stage investor. He is currently the Managing Partner of E14 the MIT Media Lab affiliated fund focused on early stage companies out of MIT. Before that, he started several startups both in the US and internationally. Areas of expertise include, Go to market, fundraising, business models, business development, product. Habib holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Communication Engineering from the American University of Beirut and a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Jamie Goldstein
Founder & Partner, Pillar VC

Jamie Goldstein has spent over two decades working in venture capital, and is Founder & Partner at Pillar VC. ​He also serves as Chairman of Petri, an accelerator program focused on supporting companies attacking the world’s largest problems at the intersection of computation, biology and engineering. Prior to Pillar, Jamie was an investing partner for 18 years at North Bridge Venture Partners. He has been instrumental in the formation and successful growth of many companies. As part of his professional entrepreneurial success story, Jamie co-founded PureSpeech, a venture-backed speech recognition software and applications company targeting service providers and enterprise call centers. Jamie is a graduate of MIT in Electrical Engineering and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He served as both Chairman and President of the New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA). He is the co-founder of MIT Sandbox as well as StartMIT, the boot camp for MIT student entrepreneurs.

Stan Reiss
General Partner, Matrix Partners

Stan Reiss is a general partner at Matrix Partners and has worked as a venture capitalist for more than a decade.

Reed Sturtevant
General Partner, The Engine

Areas of expertise: Early-stage Fundraising, Understanding Investor Mindset, Planning a Product Roadmap that's Venture Capital Compatible, Tough Tech Science and Engineering-based Startups.

Reed is a General Partner on the investment team at The Engine. Reed was a founder and Managing Director at Project 11 Ventures and Techstars Boston. He attended MIT and has a background in software. He ran Microsoft Startup Labs in Cambridge and was VP of Technology at Idealab, Boston. Early in his career he created Freelance Graphics which was acquired by Lotus Development Corp. He has been a lecturer at MIT Sloan and is a frequent speaker at MIT entrepreneurship courses and programs.

Brian T. O’Neill
Founder and Principal, Designing for Analytics

Areas of expertise: Software design and UX specializing in how machine learning, analytics, and AI aid humans in making decisions with data. Helping product, data science and analytics leaders ensure that data products actually generate positive business outcomes through useful, usable, valuable user experiences. Customer research methods, problem finding/validation, data visualization, and software-business strategy.

Brian T. O'Neill is the founder of Designing for Analytics and a consulting product designer who helps companies create innovative ML and analytics solutions. For over 20 years, he has worked with companies including DellEMC, Global Strategy Group, Tripadvisor, Fidelity, JP Morgan Chase, ETrade and several SAAS startups. He has spoken internationally, giving talks at O'Reilly Strata, Enterprise Data World, the International Institute for Analytics Symposium, Predictive Analytics World, and Boston College. In addition to consulting, Brian hosts the highly-rated podcast Experiencing Data, advises students in MIT's Sandbox Innovation Fund and has been published by O'Reilly Media. He is also a professional percussionist who has backed up artists like Donna Summer and graced the stages of Carnegie Hall and The Kennedy Center. Follow him on Twitter (@rhythmspice) and join his mailing list.

Manta Product Development

Manta is an award-winning product design consultancy specializing in the design, development and manufacturing transfer of a wide variety of medical, scientific, consumer and industrial products.

Rick Grinnell
Founder and Managing Partner, Glasswing Ventures

Areas of expertise: AI-enabled security and enterprise infrastructure, security, storage, analytics and SaaS applications.

As an experienced venture capitalist and operator, Rick has invested in some of the most dynamic companies in security, storage, analytics and SaaS applications during his 20 years in the venture capital industry. In his previous role as Managing Director at Fairhaven Capital, Rick led investments and served on the Board of Directors of Digital Guardian, EqualLogic (acquired by Dell), Prelert (acquired by Elastic), Pwnie Express (acquired by Outpost24), Resilient Systems (acquired by IBM), TrackVia (acquired by Primus Capital), and VeloBit (acquired by Western Digital). He also has deep operating experience having held senior marketing and engineering roles at Adero (acquired by Inktomi), ClearOne Communications (acquired by Gentner Communications, later renamed as ClearOne), and PictureTel (acquired by Polycom).

Rick is a member of the Educational Council at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is active with the entrepreneurial programs at Harvard and Tufts Universities, and is a frequent judge at MassChallenge. Rick’s contributions to the broader community include serving as a member of the Board of the Advanced Cyber Security Center, New England’s public/private security collaboration, and as Vice Chairman of the Board of Advisers at the Museum of Science in Boston. He previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay.

Rick has been recognized by New England Venture Network with the Community Leadership Award for his philanthropic work and contribution to the community. Rick holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from HBS.

Dr. Thomas Hardjono
Director, MIT Internet Trust Consortium

Dr. Thomas Hardjono is CTO of Connection Science and Technical Director of the MIT Trust-Data Consortium. Previously leadership roles include Distinguished Engineer at Bay Networks, Principal Scientist at VeriSign PKI, and CTO roles at several start-ups. He has been at the forefront of several industry initiatives around identity, data privacy, trust, applied cryptography, and cybersecurity. Aside from various open source software projects, he has held leadership roles in various standards organizations (as specifications editor; working group chair; board member): Trusted Computing Group (cybersecurity of systems); Open Music Initiative (smart contracts for music licensing); Internet Engineering Task Force (public-key certificates, multicast authentication & Kerberos); Kantara Initiative (decentralized identity management); Open Interconnect Forum (IoT security); OASIS Security Services Task Force (Security Assertions Mark-Up Language); IEEE 802 TGi (for WiFi Security).

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

MIT Lincoln Laboratory researches and develops a broad array of advanced technologies to meet critical national security needs. Lincoln Lab draws from a pool of dedicated experts with a wide range of technical expertise.  

Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense Technology; Air Traffic Control; Biotechnology and Human Systems; Cyber Security and Information Sciences; Homeland Protection; ISR Systems and Technology; Space Systems and Technology; Tactical Systems; Advanced Technology including novel sensors and devices; and Engineering expertise to enable large scale prototyping (https://www.ll.mit.edu/r-d). 

Brian McNaboe
CTO of Volt Athletics

Brian is a seasoned entrepreneur and technologist, with over 20 years of industry experience in software and hardware product development. He’s spent the past 15 of those years in leadership positions on three founding teams. Most recently as the CTO of Volt Athletics, a health & fitness technology startup. He has worked in a diverse set of industries including health & fitness, fintech, defense, retail, and aerospace, among others, and has extensive experience as a mentor and startup advisor, from ideation all the way through to venture funded operations. Brian holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and M.S. in Computer Science.

Jonathan Odo
Agile Practice Lead, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Areas of Expertise: Process Design Best Practices, Organizational Change Initiatives, Sustainable Agile Transformations, Expertise in Multiple Agile Methodologies, Program & Project Metrics, PMO Leadership & Management, Strategic capacity building, Portfolio & Program Management, Capital Budgeting & Value Stream Analysis

Leader with more than two decades of expertise in diverse challenging technical environments supporting cross functional teams. Demonstrated experience successfully using multiple Agile methodologies to focus teams and whole organizations on business objectives.

Jinane Abounadi
Sandbox Executive Director

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 advised undergraduate and graduate students. She held leadership roles in two of the most successful local Boston area start-ups, ITA Software and Kayak, where she gained deep knowledge about the travel technology sector. Most recently, she ran a global portfolio of 3rd party products for Travelport, giving her the opportunity to establish partnerships with companies across the globe and to advise and evaluate a number of start-ups in the travel sector.

The New England Medical Innovation Center

The New England Medical Innovation Center (NEMIC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and healthcare venture hub that provides expert support, education, connections to funding, and specialized expertise to innovators and entrepreneurs in the medical technologies space. With over 100 years of combined medical device development experience, NEMIC leverages our extensive network of expert advisors and subject matter experts who simplify clinical access, regulatory (FDA) strategy/pathways, and ultimately facilitate connections between startups and funding sources to ensure that our companies have the best chance of succeeding. At NEMIC, we envision a healthcare and life sciences ecosystem where resources, skills, and technologies are interconnected at all levels–from local to global–that improve patient outcomes, promote wellness, and enhance quality of life for humans worldwide.

Lydia Shin (Schroter)
Co-founder & Managing Partner, NEMIC

Lydia Shin (Schroter) is a co-founder and managing partner at NEMIC. With a robust background, her reach includes: serial entrepreneurship, active angel investing, C-level corporate management, and financial growth within the not-for-profit sector. 

Aidan Petrie
Co-founder & Managing Partner, NEMIC

Aidan is a co-founder and managing partner at NEMIC. His expertise stems from Industrial Design, leading to success in MedTech Device development, with a holistic view on navigating the complexity of the FDA. 

Maey Petrie
Director of Programs & Business Development, NEMIC

As the Director of Programs & Business Development at NEMIC, Maey works in the development, program/project management, bookkeeping, operations, and execution of all programs from local/domestic to global.