Posts Tagged ‘business’
Blue Economy Convergence Conversation: Monica Jain, Founder of Fish 2.0
Monica Jain is a connector of people and ideas. She started her career as a marine biologist, earned an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, spent several years in finance and venture capital, then directed her experience and energy to focus on oceans. After spending many years bringing finance into ocean-related…
Read MoreBlue Economy Convergence Conversation: Jennifer McCall, Co-founder of SeaTox Research
Dr. Jennifer McCall is a leader with one foot in the world of science and the other in business. Already a Ph.D. in immunology, she opted to do further postdoctoral work in the University of North Carolina Wilmington Business of Biotech program that cross-trains Ph.D. scientists in business. She discovered that doing postdoctoral work in…
Read MoreLooking Beyond Launch to Spot The Real Value of Space
Space. It was the final frontier in the 1960s — a source of dreams, fantasies, and ambitions. Today’s space ambitions are no less compelling than those of the ‘60s, but they focus on the commercial possibilities of space, rather than the governmental security issues that drove exploration in the early days. And its billionaires, including…
Read MoreConvergence Conversation: Building Human-centric Business with Elizabeth Ross
Convergence Conversation: Building Human-centric Business with Elizabeth Ross It was a cold call that introduced me to Elizabeth (Liz) Ross. At the time, she was the CEO of Periscope, a full-service marketing agency, and was looking for a futurist to share the stage with her at a 2016 Advertising Week New York event. She was…
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