Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Invites

As an undergraduate, Joe Toplyn was an editor of the Harvard Lampoon. He graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Engineering and, later, an MBA. After only a few years in the business world he made a major career change, joining the writing staff of the television show Late Night with David Letterman, where he won four Emmy awards. Joe went on to become co-head writer of The Tonight Show w...

Alejandro Ramírez Magaña is the CEO of Cinépolis. Former Chairman of the Mexican Business Council, the most influential business organization in Mexico, Alejandro serves on the Boards of BBVA Bancomer, Grupo Alfa, the Mexican Competitiveness Institute, the Sundance Institute and the Harvard Board of Overseers.  Alejandro holds a BA in Economics from Harvard University, an MSc in Development Econom...

Time to market has never been as critical as with the search for the COVID-19 vaccine. Moderna Therapeutics (MRNA), who in December 2018, led the largest biotech IPO in history, is in that race against the clock, deploying a novel technology, messenger RNA. Messenger RNA is also the technology of the company's platform approach to the development of treatments for potentially 20 diseases and in th...

Netflix, The Dollar Shave Club, Amazon Prime—these are just some of the businesses that come to mind when we think about subscriptions. But there's more to it than just a monthly fee. More and more companies are using technology to shift from a customer to a membership model. One that deepens their understanding of customer needs while at the same time building loyalty—and improving revenue and ca...

Jill Johnson is the Co-founder/CEO of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership (IFEL). Most recently, Jill conceived and launched the Women of Color Connecting initiative to change the way we think about building the capacity of Women of Color entrepreneurs for the grow-scale-exit trajectory. She is also spearheading  The Making of Black Angels movement to drive diversity and inclusion within...

Emmanuel Arnaud is the CEO of HomeExchange and president of French Tech Boston. HomeExchange is the largest home exchange network in the world, uniting a global network of people to exchange homes without any money changing hands. He is a graduate of the French Business School, HEC Paris, and the Harvard Kennedy School, and co-author of France's first textbook on sustainable development in 2005. H...

Dr. Nasrin Hafezparast is the co-founder and CTO at Outcomes Based Healthcare in London. OBH is a mission-driven health tech company supporting health system measurement of outcomes. They work to improve the health care system, provide sustainable data, with a long term people-centered outlook. Dr. Hafezparast is an entrepreneur and a firm believer in having a health care system that works to bene...

Maurice Gopikian is the Founder and President of Harvard Angels France, and he is also the owner and President of MG Ventures which specializes in fundraising and mergers and acquisitions. He also has a leadership role in The Alchemists, Advanced Retail, and other programs that seek to help companies grow and market their services. In 2008, Maurice founded the French Harvard Business School Alumni...

Denise Silber, a digital health pioneer and opinion leader, is the founder of Basil Strategies consultancy, of Doctors 2.0 & You conferences, and a new venture in Virtual Reality, VRforHealth. A multi-cultural American in Paris, Denise's contributions to the development of digital health globally led her to receive France's highest civil award, the Legion of Honor. A graduate of Smith College and...

Nicolas Mialhe is the co-founder of The Future Society, a nonprofit think tank which helps advance the global governance of AI in 2014. Nicolas also co-founded the AI Initiative in 2015, as well as the CitX Initiative and the Science, Law and Society Initiative in 2016. He is one of the foremost experts in artificial intelligence and he has over 15 years of professional experience building partner...

Sunny Tara is the Chairman and CEO of CareCognitics, a digital health company which is on a mission to improve quality of care through data science. He is a serial entrepreneur, technologist, and investor. Sunny has an impressive track record of Strategy, Business Development, Innovation and Execution in the Healthcare, Casino Entertainment, Retail and Gaming verticals.  Sunny holds a Bachelor's D...