About Us

History. The MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City was founded in 1971 by John Jenkins, an engineer who had graduated from MIT. We were probably the first organization established for the purpose of providing support to entrepreneurs. Seven years later, a national organization was established by MIT, which today consists of 28 chapters throughout the world. This global network is managed by Technology Review, an independent media company owned by MIT with a global readership of 2.6 million.

Program. The Forum has always been open to one and all and operated by volunteers. The purpose has never changed: to help technology-related entrepreneurs start and grow innovative businesses. And the program has consistently featured discussion forum events that support this purpose by delivering insights and opportunities to build relationships with people who can be of help – investors and corporate executives who may become customers, strategic partners, or acquirers. We take pride in being able to attract a sophisticated following of entrepreneurs, investors and business decision-makers.

Core Values. Our core values are:

Effectiveness - achieving positive impact on targeted entrepreneurs
Innovation – focus on cutting edge business issues and trends
Integrity - maintaining the highest standards of objectivity, fairness, openness and honesty
Excellence - commitment to excellence in all aspects of our work

Brand Promise. Our brand promise is that you can rely on our events to deliver valuable insights related to IT, cleantech or bioscience businesses and access to interesting business people. These events carry the endorsement of MIT, one of the world’s greatest institutions of innovation in technology and scientific learning, and they have served entrepreneurs effectively for more than forty years.

Board of Directors

Chair, Nominating			Chair Emeritus, Programming

Bruce Bachenheimer Clinical Professor Pace University	Natanel Barookhian Consultant Serial Entrepreneur	Katja Bartholmess Founder & CEO Gimme Gorgeous LLC	Ben Boissevain Managing Partner Bois Capital	Steve Brotman Managing Director Greenhill SAVP Fund	Somak Chattopadhyay Partner Tribeca Venture Partners

Vice Chapter Co-Chair		Chapter Secretary	Chapter Chair

Stephanie Cion Founder and CEO WELLalarm LLC	Owen Cocking Entrepreneur Private Investor	Cristina Dolan Officer MIT Club of NY	Lori Hoberman Partner Chadbourne & Parke	Mary Howard President Design Technologies	James Klaiber Partner Pryor Cashman

Chair, Information Technology		Chair Emeritus, Programming		Chapter Treasurer

Eddie Quiroz Internet Entrepreneur	Richard Raysman Partner Holland & Knight	Richard Reisman President Teleshuttle Corp.	Allyson Rinderle Analyst Aisling Capital	Nicholas Schiavo, CPA Managing Member Nicholas Schiavo LLC	Lori Smith Partner White and Williams LLP

Chair, Programming Vice Chapter Co-Chair	Chair, Sponsorship/Partnering

Stephen Tucker Equity Partner Fitzpatrick & Hunt, Tucker, Collier, Pagano, Aubert, LLP	Eric Vieira, PhD Director The City University of New York

Board Observers

				Co-Chair, Marketing

Jahanara Ali Ph.D. President Tech. Comm. Services	Geoffrey Finkel Entrepreneur Mutual of America	Joseph Kim Founder Nexops, Inc.	Corey Massella Partner Citrin Cooperman	Andrew Pfluger Financial Data Associate Moody's Corporation	Mark Schneider Venture Capital Acumenven LLC



Wen Tang Analyst AQR Capital Management	Laurence Vigeant-Langlois, PhD Director, Business Development Sikorsky Innovations

Volunteer
The Forum has a strong volunteer leadership. If you are interested in actively supporting our community, please contact us at:

MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC