Sue Siegel, Chairman
Sue Siegel has driven game-changing ideas and powered companies that advance industries and improve lives for more than three decades. As GE’s Chief Innovation Officer and CEO of GE Ventures for seven years, Siegel oversaw investment in startups, creating and scaling new companies, and commercializing GE’s intellectual property. She also led strategic planning and oversaw the global marketing function.
Before joining GE, Siegel was a General Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, where she spearheaded investments in personalized medicine, digital health and life sciences. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Siegel led Affymetrix as President and a board member. She also held executive leadership roles at Bio-Rad, DuPont and Amersham after transitioning to a corporate career from early work in molecular biology and biochemistry.
Siegel has served on many corporate and non-profit boards and has been recognized as one of the “100 Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley.” Siegel lives in Silicon Valley with her husband and her two sons.
Paula Hammond
Professor Paula T. Hammond is Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. She is the Vice Provost for Faculty at MIT as of January 2024. She served as the Head of the Chemical Engineering Department at MIT from 2015 to 2023. The core of Prof. Hammond’s work is the use of electrostatics and other complementary interactions to generate functional materials with highly controlled architecture. Her research in nanomedicine encompasses the development of new biomaterials to enable drug delivery from surfaces with spatio-temporal control. She also investigates novel responsive polymer architectures for targeted nanoparticle drug and gene delivery. The newest developments from her lab offer a promising approach to the delivery of proteins, siRNA and mRNA using electrostatic assembly as a means of modifying surfaces, nanoparticles and lipid complexes for targeted systemic delivery, opening potential for vaccines and immunotherapies. Professor Paula Hammond was elected into the National Academy of Science in 2019, the National Academy of Engineering in 2017, the National Academy of Medicine in 2016, and the 2013 Class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also a member of the National Academy of Inventors (2021). She received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Margaret H. Rousseau Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement by a Woman Chemical Engineer in 2019 and gave the Materials Research Society (MRS) David Turnbull Lectureship, 2019. Professor Hammond has published over 330 papers, and over 20 patent applications. She is the co-founder and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of LayerBio, Inc., a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Moderna Therapeutics and a member of the Board of Alector Therapeutics and the Board of Sail Biomedicines, a Flagship company. In 2021, Professor Hammond was selected to become a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). In January 2025, President Biden awarded Professor Hammond the honorable National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
In terms of educational background, Prof. Hammond is from Detroit, Michigan, and received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from MIT, then worked for two years in industry, moved to Atlanta to get an M.S. in Chemical Engineering at Georgia Tech, before returning to MIT for her PhD. She held the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and on completing her PhD, was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Chemistry Department before returning to MIT as a faculty member.
Linda Pizzuti Henry
Linda Henry is the co-owner of Boston Globe Media where she serves as Chief Executive Officer of the thriving 152-year-old multimedia company that includes The Boston Globe, Boston.com, Boston Magazine, Harvard Book Store, and Stat – a national life sciences publication.
Linda is deeply engaged in sports as a partner in Fenway Sports Group, which stewards teams in the Premier League, MLB, NHL, NASCAR, TMRW Golf, and more. She is an investor at the league level in the PGA Tour, WNBA, LOVB League One Volleyball, and Unrivaled. Outside of sports, Linda is an Emmy-award winning television producer, Emmy-award winning documentary producer, children’s book author, and facilitator of a Guinness Book World Record.
She is a lifetime learner, holding degrees from Babson, MIT, and Harvard. She also serves as chair, trustee, director, or advisor to ten non-profits that support and empower a wide variety of local and international communities.
Brad Powell
Brad Powell is the Managing Director of Emerson Collective. In this position, he oversees Emerson’s financial and investment activity. This requires directing diligence work, coordinating research and advising the founders and entrepreneurs who operate the companies within Emerson’s portfolio. He is a member of and advisor to several boards of both private for-profit and non-profit organizations. In addition to this role, Powell has primary responsibility for driving the community impact work of the Collective.
Prior to joining Emerson, Powell’s career spanned many different sectors, including public accounting, management consulting, financial services and commercial real estate. He has launched and built several startups and worked in large corporate and multinational organizations. He has undergraduate degrees in accounting and computer science and was a certified public accountant. Powell has two graduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology–a master’s of science in real estate and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management.
Jeremy Wertheimer
Jeremy Wertheimer is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is currently incubating startups in biotech, AI and computational science, education, medicine and space. His philanthropy has been recognized by MIT, The Broad Institute, the Weizmann Institute, Cooper Union and other institutions. He serves on several boards at MIT and at other institutions. He is a board member of The Engine, and was a trustee of Cooper Union for the past 8 years.
He received a BE in Electrical Engineering from Cooper Union; and a Masters in Computer Science, and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, from MIT. He founded and was the CEO of ITA Software, which powers the airfare shopping for American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and many others. The company grew to over 400 employees and was acquired by Google. Jeremy served as VP of Engineering at Google for 8 years.
Glen Shor
Glen Shor was appointed Executive Vice President and Treasurer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in October 2020. In this role, he is the chief steward of MIT’s $34 billion in net financial assets and $5 billion operating budget, responsible for financial strategy development, operations and capital budget planning, debt issuance, and maintenance of the integrity of financial information for the Institute. He also leads the central administrative functions at MIT, including operating units focused on finance, human resources, information systems and technology, campus services and stewardship, security and safety, and campus medical care.
Shor joined MIT in 2015 as Vice President for Finance. Prior to that, he served as Secretary of Administration and Finance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under former Governor Deval Patrick, and was the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Health Connector. He also held roles as Senior Policy Counsel and Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts, a senior policy aide to former U.S. Representative Martin T. Meehan, Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, and a public interest attorney who participated in the McConnell v. FEC campaign finance case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Shor holds a BA in history from Yale University, awarded in 1993, and a JD from Harvard Law School, awarded in 1996.
Angela Koehler
Angela N. Koehler is the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor of Cancer Research in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT and Associate Director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. She is also an Institute Member of the Broad Institute and a Founding Member of the MIT Center for Precision Cancer Medicine. She is the Faculty Director of the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, which empowers MIT’s talented researchers to make a difference in the world by developing and commercializing breakthrough technologies and inventions.
Her research group at MIT aims to challenge the notion that several promising targets in disease are ‘undruggable’ by developing new strategies to expand the repertoire of biomolecules that can be controlled with a variety of agents. The lab has developed small-molecule modulators for a variety of targets previously considered recalcitrant to small molecule drug discovery, including transcription factors, RNA-binding proteins and cytokines. The lab has a particular interest in impacting pediatric cancers that have been neglected from the standpoint of drug discovery.
She received her B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Reed College and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University. Upon graduation, she became an Institute Fellow in the Chemical Biology Program at the Broad Institute and a Group Leader for the National Cancer Institute’s Initiative for Chemical Genetics. She has served on the Chemists in Cancer Research Executive Advisory Board for American Association for Cancer Research. Awards include being named a Genome Technology Young Investigator and a Broad Institute Merkin Fellow as well as the Novartis Lectureship in Chemistry, the Ono Pharma Breakthrough Science Award, the AACR-Bayer Innovation and Discovery Award and the MIT Junior Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching. She serves as a consultant or scientific advisory board member to several pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies and has founded several biotechnology companies, including Ligon Discovery, Kronos Bio, and 76Bio.
Mick Mountz
Mick Mountz is a logistics industry entrepreneur and technologist known for inventing the mobile robotic order fulfillment approach now in widespread use across the material handling industry. In 2003, Mick founded Kiva Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of mobile robotic fulfillment systems. In 2009 under Mountz’s leadership Kiva was ranked #6 on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America, and in 2012 Fast Company recognized Kiva as the 23rd Most Innovative Company in the World. That same year, Amazon acquired Kiva Systems where Mountz stayed on to run the company until the end of 2015 and the business was renamed Amazon Robotics. After Kiva, Mountz established Kacchip LLC, a disruptive technology incubator and investment entity to support local founders and startups, where he currently serves as principal. Mick is on the board of two venture-backed robotics startups and is active with MIT visiting committees and the corporation.
Before founding Kiva, Mick served as a director of business process for logistics at online grocery delivery company, Webvan (1999-2000). From 1995 to 1999, he served as a product marketing manager for Apple Computer working on the launch of the G3 and G4 series Macintosh desktops. Mick's career began at Motorola, Inc., working for seven years as a mechanical engineer, then CIM systems and manufacturing engineer at the company’s Schaumburg, IL Communications Sector, and Phoenix, AZ Semiconductor Products Sector (1987-1994).
Mick holds over 40 U.S. technology patents and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2022 for the Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment patent. He was also inducted into The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2021. Mountz earned a SB from MIT in 1987 and a MBA from Harvard Business School in 1996.
Tom Kalil
Tom Kalil is the CEO of Renaissance Philanthropy. Tom served in the White House for two presidents (Obama and Clinton) and in collaboration with his team worked with the Senate to give every federal agency the authority to support incentive prizes for up to $50 million. Tom also designed and launched dozens of White House science and technology initiatives, including the $40 billion National Nanotechnology Initiative, announced by President Clinton; The BRAIN Initiative, announced by President Obama; The Next Generation Internet initiative, and initiatives in advanced materials, robotics, smallsats, data science, and EdTech.