Aaron Ganick is currently responsible for the SMART Home Business Unit in the Americas, including profit and loss responsibility, business strategy, strategic alliances, and resource planning. HE has been the CEO of ByteLight (Acquired by Acuity Brands, Inc.), a Boston University spin off company seeking to commercialize visible light communication (VLC) technology. Aaron brings with him multiple years of field experience in electrical and mechanical system design, and a master’s degree specializing in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. Since receiving his BS in Electrical Engineering at Boston University in 2010, he has worked to develop business strategies to leverage and commercialize the limitless benefits of solid state lighting. Since incorporation ByteLight has obtained angel investment, acceptance into Highland Capital’s summer program, and is a current semi finalist in the 2011 Clean Tech Open. He is a 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Boston.

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Ace Moghimi, MBA Candidate, Babson Ace Moghimi is currently pursuing an evening MBA from Babson College's F.W. Olin School of Business. He was formerly an Operations & Commodities Analyst at Barclays Capital in NYC, later moving to Boston and attaining a position as a Derivatives Analyst at John Hancock. His responsibilities have ranged from leading and managing major projects to doing analysis and reporting for internal business units. In his spare time, he launched his first company in Real Estate, investing in small cash flow properties. He previously worked for a startup that ran venture accelerator programs over a weekend for college students, and is in constant pursuit of his next venture as he moves through the SLP 2011-2012. Ace is originally from the greater Boston area. He resides in the Fenway neighborhood and enjoys catching Sox games, playing golf and pursuing his goal of becoming an amateur skimboarder.

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Adam worked at Google for from 2008-2013 years. Prior to joining the company, he worked in Small Business Services, offering scalable service to the long tail of advertisers. He was appointed manager and co-lead a team dedicated to the highest potential growth accounts. On this team, he automated and operationalized revenue reporting and opportunity. identification, for which he was awarded a National Gold OSO Recognition Award. Concurrently, Adam founded the Apps for Edu team in New England, 'selling' Google's cloud computing solutions to local universities. He also worked with countless internal product teams on 50+ working ideas. For the past year he's been managing $40M in annualized ad spend for a book of financial service advertisers, offering consultative sales solutions across Search, Display, YouTube, Mobile and other channels. Previous to Google, he was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, where he earned degrees in Organizational Studies (Innovation & Marketing Management) as well as Psychology. He was proud to be selected as the student speaker for the graduating Honors Convocation, and also received a $20,000 Scholars Award. At UM, he was active in a variety of campus organizations, including Vice President of a fraternity and President of the Ski Club. Before college in 2000, in his hometown of Ridgewood, NJ, he founded SENDcharity.org-- a non-profit dedicated to collecting and distributing used soccer equipment to less fortunate youths around the globe-- for which he received his county's Humanitarian Award. The program is still in existence today, having expanded in geography and scope, and having donated over 1000 of articles of equipment. Currently he is a MBA Candidate at Stanford graduate school of business in 2015.

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Adam Powell is the President of Payer+Provider Syndicate, a consulting firm which uses health services research techniques to improve the operations of health insurers and hospitals. He is concurrently an Adjunct of Health Informatics at Northeastern University. Prior to Payer+Provider, he worked at Oliver Wyman Health & Life Sciences, where he provided strategic consulting to payers. Adam has also worked at Humana and Microsoft. He is an expert in health insurance, health information technology, and economics. Adam’s insights on healthcare have been featured by CNN, NBC News, Reuters, and countless trade sources. He holds a Ph.D. in Health Care Management & Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Bachelor’s degrees in Management Science and Writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He enjoys painting abstracts and studying Mandarin Chinese. Adam is passionate about using commercial means to improve the healthcare system. He is a 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Boston.

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Adam is a co-founder of Altaeros Energies, a leading developer of airborne wind turbines that capture strong higher-altitude winds to deliver cheap, renewable energy. He received his MBA and MPA degrees from MIT Sloan & the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Prior to graduate school, Adam worked as a Senior Associate Consultant for Bain & Company in Boston for three years. Adam has experience with global entrepreneurship, consulting for biofuels entrepreneurs in southern Africa and leading corporate sales for a U.S. home energy efficiency startup. He is passionate about clean energy and education, and in his spare time, is helping to launch social enterprise www.sol-solution.org to help low-income schools install solar PV to help reduce carbon emissions while developing the next generation of clean energy entrepreneurs. Adam holds a B.A. from Yale University in Ethics, Politics & Economics.

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Adam is VP at BlackArch Partners. He was Founder of myshopperapp.com, the leading iPhone application for shopping on the Internet. Prior to this he lead the business development efforts for ReachEverywhere Inc, helping the company expand into the mobile phone application business with solutions for retailers and everyday shoppers, before spinning out the technology into the new company. Previously, Adam lived in Bentonville Arkansas and managed the Wal-Mart businesses for Procter & Gamble, Newell Rubbermaid, and Eastman Kodak. His teams were awarded numerous Vendor of the Quarter/Year awards from Wal-Mart while simultaneously setting all-time sales records for the manufacturer. In order pursue his entrepreneurial nature, he left the consumer products industry for Harvard Business School. He earned first-year honors and was elected President of his 90 person section at HBS. Previously, Adam graduated from Indiana University’s business honors program, where he received the Lionel D. Edie award as top student in Business Economics. He was captain of the IU rowing team, and his senior thesis on internet retailing price dispersion was published in the The Economics of the Internet and E-commerce (2002). Adam can fly planes and has been known to jump out of them as well. He is passionate about playing and coaching ice hockey, and lives in Boston with his wife and infant daughter.

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Aditya Bharadwaj is the founder of nighthawk apps, a consulting firm building Cloud and Mobile apps. Prior to nighthawk apps he worked with a team from Northeastern University/Mass Art to develop a device to monitor the wellness of Elderly People. Aditya also worked at Applied Nanosystems where he conducted market research and projected financial plans for building a low cost, Point-of-Care, Biomarker based Cancer Detection device. He spent the Summer of 2012 interning with various GeoSocial Startups in Silicon Valley. He is an expert in evaluating new technologies and building rapid prototypes for real world applications. Aditya was awarded Tech Quiz Champion during his undergraduate studies in India. He holds a degree in Engineering and Entrepreneurship. He is a fan of Creativity and Quantified Self. He enjoys listening to progressive house music. Aditya is passionate about distributing Innovations and advancing Humanity. He is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Boston.

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Ahmed is the founder and CEO of Posterfolio, an online crowdfunding platform for healthcare research. Ahmed is also the treasurer and co-founder of EgyptNEGMA, a 501(c)(3) non- profit organization in the state of Massachusetts that supports social innovators and entrepreneurs who are working to solve some of Egypt's most significant challenges. Ahmed is currently doing his postdoctoral fellowship in the Cardiovascular Research Center at Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital. His research is focused on stem cell applications in Heart diseases and Diabetes. He earned his Medical Degree from the University of Alexandria in Egypt. Ahmed is a member of several medical, business and social organizations in Egypt and the United States. He sits on a number of boardsluding as the past-chair of the Massachusetts General Postdoctoral Association, a co-vice president of the Harvard Consulting Club and the CEO of his family business in industry. Ahmed is passionate about bridging the gap between researchers and the public by simplifying the way scientists communicate and fund their ideas. He is a 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership program in Boston.

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Akansh Murthy was the co-founder of HermesIQ, a healthcare IT startup that is building productivity tools for physicians. Prior to HermesIQ, he was an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he started an international nonprofit on computer literacy. His interests include fitness, traveling, and cooking/eating. He is a 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Boston.

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Alan Foster is the CEO of Lore Media, it is the first VR/AR/MR publishing platform for literature. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Alan is an expert in entrepreneurship, mixed and augmented reality. He is passionate about solving problems of the environment. He is a 2017 fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Boston

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Alexander Nichols has previously founded Crown Line Consulting, LLC. Alexander has also worked at Massachusetts General Hospital and QD Vision, Inc. He holds a degree in Biochemistry and a Ph.D. in Biophysics. He is 2015 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Boston.

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Alexander Shvartz is the founder of ParkWise, a Boston based parking app that alerts users to scheduled street sweeping taking place in their neighborhood, as well as other features like helping them find an open parking spot. He is also a sailor. He is 2015 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Boston.

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Ali Munawar is the founder of an antiviral drug discovery company developing a first-in-class, antiviral approach that is applicable to all medically relevant viruses. The company has two compounds in preclinical development that treat HIV and HBV infections respectively. Raised $1.2MM+ in VC and attracted successful pharmaceutical executives to lead the drug discovery program. His prior background includes technology consulting as well as conducting biomedical research at Harvard and MGH. Ali discovered and validated a novel class of antiviral drug targets as a researcher that lead to the founding of Molecmo (now Novira) at the age of 23. He is the recipient of the Gates foundation grant for novel anti-HIV drug development, and holds the distinction of being the youngest Pakistani biotech entrepreneur. Ali holds a Bachelors from Ithaca College and a Masters from Harvard University.He turned down Columbia Medical School to pursue his dream of starting his biotech company.

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Alison is co-founder and CSO of a Hibergenica, which aims to commercialize a novel organ preservation solution for organ transplantation. Hibergenica has been recognized as having excellent potential, having been featured in the Boston Business Journal and MIT Technology Review. She is currently a Postdoc Research Fellow in Molecular and Integrated Physiological Sciences at Harvard School of Public Health. Her work focuses on figuring out the physiological processes involved in obesity and how they impact the lung. She enjoy leadership positions and am the President of the HSPH Postdoctoral Association, and currently leads an 8-member council to help enhance the professional careers of 220+ Postdocs at the School, through workshops and networking events. In the past year Alison has negotiated minimum hire salaries, removal of caps for raises, a 20% discount in cafeterias and founded 4 monetary awards for Postdocs to travel to conferences. Alison holds a PhD in Respiratory Medicine from the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and a BSc. from King’s College London, UK.

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