 | Greg Bialecki Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Secretary Greg Bialecki oversees the Commonwealth’s business development, housing & community development, and consumer affairs & business regulations undersecretariats. As Governor Patrick’s chief housing and economic development advisor and cabinet member, Secretary Bialecki has oversight of fourteen state agencies. Prior to his appointment as Secretary of Housing and Economic Development, Bialecki served as the Undersecretary of Business Development. He also leads the Governor’s Development Cabinet, which improves coordination across several Cabinet Secretariats involved in high level initiatives geared towards strengthening the Commonwealth’s economic position. Before joining the Patrick-Murray Administration, Bialecki enjoyed a twenty year career as a real estate development and environmental lawyer at the law firms of Hill & Barlow and DLA Piper Rudnick, where his work focused on the major urban redevelopment projects in the Greater Boston area. He also worked extensively with public agencies, non-profit organizations and private landowners on land conservation and open space protection matters throughout the Commonwealth. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. |
Board of Advisors
 | Josh Boger Founder and former CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Dr. Joshua Boger is the founder of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: VRTX). He retired as Vertex’s Chief Executive Officer and continues to serve on the Board. Dr. Boger holds a bachelor of arts in Chemistry and Philosophy from Wesleyan University (Connecticut) and a master's and doctorate degrees in Chemistry from Harvard University. He is the author of over 50 scientific publications, holds 31 issued U.S. patents in pharmaceutical discovery and development, and has lectured widely in the United States, in Europe and in Asia. Dr. Boger is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT), Immediate-Past-Chairman of BIO, a founding Director and Chairman of the New England Healthcare Institute, a founding Director and Co-Chairman of the Progressive Business Leaders Network, Chair of the Board of Fellows of the Harvard Medical School and Chair of the Board of the Celebrity Series. He serves on several additional non-profit Boards including the Harvard Board of Overseers, The Hastings Center, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts Foundation, the Science Advisory Council of WGBH, the Museum of Science, the Massachusetts Workforce Investment Board, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, the Dean’s Advisory Group of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Harvard College Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Business School and the MIT Corporation Visiting Committees to the Department of Biology and to the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences Technology (HST)/Whitaker College. |
 | Desh Deshpande Chairman A123 Systems, serial entrepreneur, avid mentor Sycamore Networks (SCMR), Tejas Networks, Sandstone Capital and HiveFire.Prior to co-founding Sycamore Networks, Dr. Deshpande was founder and chairman of Cascade Communications Corp. Dr. Deshpande serves as a member of the MIT Corporation, and his generous donations have made possible MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation. He and his wife are involved in several non-profit initiatives that include support for MIT, IIT, TiE, Akshaya Patra Foundation, Public Health Foundation of India and the Social Entrepreneurship Sandbox in India. Dr. Deshpande holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, an M.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and Ph.D. in Data Communications from Queens University in Canada. |
 | Joe Hadzima Managing Director Main Street Partners LLC, Former Chairman MIT Enterprise Forum Joe is a recognized visionary in technology start ups, with a keen eye for commercializing the latest technology advancements. Joe received his S.B and S.M in Management from M.I.T and a juris doctore cum laude from Harvard Law School. He practiced law for 17 years, first at Ropes & Gray and then at Sullivan & Worcester as director of the High-tech/New Ventures Group. As a founding judge for MIT’s $100K Entrepreneurship Competition and a senior lecturer at Sloan School of Management at MIT, his passion for cutting edge technology continues to evolve in new directions. Joe has been instrumental in creating more than 100 new business ventures while continuing to pursue his passion for teaching and operations excellence. Joe is a co-founder of IPVision, focuses on Legal clients and currently manages strategic operations in Cambridge, MA. |
 | Ken Morse Member, National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Prior to joining the MIT Entrepreneurship Center as Founding Managing Director in 1996, Ken Morse was a co-founder of six high-tech companies, together with MIT friends and classmates. Five of these ventures had successful IPOs or mergers; one was a disaster. They included 3Com Corporation, Aspen Technology, Inc., a China Trade Company, a biotech venture, and an expert systems company. Ken was either the CEO or responsible for part or all of the Sales organization in each of these new enterprises. Ken serves on the Board of Advisors of several ambitious start-ups, including Denkwerk GmbH in Germany, iMotions - Emotion Technology ApS and Zylinc A/S in Denmark, Aifos Solutions SL, Indisys, and Invenio in Spain, Izon Science Ltd in New Zealand, Naseeb Networks and Sofizar in Pakistan, as well as Dynasil Corporation, and several MIT spin-offs, including FloDesign Sonics, Inc., Terrafugia, and UkuMe. He serves as Commercialization Advisor at Scottish Enterprise Digital Media and Enabling Technologies Group. Ken holds a Chair in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Competitiveness at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, and he is Visiting Professor at the ESADE Business School in Barcelona. |
 | Cat Oyler Senior Director, Emerging Technologies Cat Oyler is Sr. Director, Emerging Technologies in the Corporate Office of Science and Technology at Johnson & Johnson. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Cat is responsible for identifying and nurturing emerging health care related technologies in the New England area, assessing their technical and business risk, and facilitating integration of these technologies into the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies and their product lines. In this role, Cat works with local area faculty, researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors to identify innovative product/ business opportunities that will fill strategic gaps in Johnson & Johnson's current portfolio and will expand Johnson & Johnson's horizons into new "white space" therapeutic areas and businesses that are aligned with the future health care environment. Cat joined Johnson & Johnson from AstraZeneca where she was responsible for evaluating and in-licensing clinical and marketed oncology products. Additionally, Cat led the business development effort for out-licensing of AstraZeneca's oncology assets and assisted with strategic planning for oncology business development. Prior to joining AstraZeneca, she served in a progression of business development roles at Myriad Genetics, culminating in leading all diagnostic licensing for the Laboratories division of the company. In previous roles at Myriad, Cat worked on in- and out-licensing efforts for the pharmaceutical division, establishment of research collaborations and strategic assessment and divestment of a non-core business unit. With over ten years in business development and nearly twenty years of experience in the life science industry, she has also held marketing and research scientist positions at Amgen, Alza and Alkermes. Cat received a bachelor's degree in Biology from Williams College and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. |
 | Sara Spalding Senior Director of Microsoft's New England Research & Development (N.E.R.D.) Center Sara Spalding is the Senior Director of Microsoft's New England Research & Development Center, where she leads a team responsible for Microsoft's R&D Campus and the company’s technical and local outreach. Sara joined Microsoft in 1991, and has worked on wide range of products and technologies, including Windows, Internet Explorer, the .NET Framework and MSDN, in a range of roles including Technical Evangelist, Program Manager and Product Unit Manager. After a short vacation from the company in 2005-2007, she rejoined Microsoft in 2007 here in Cambridge. Sara has a BS in Computer Science and Math from the University of Puget Sound. She lives near Boston with her husband and two children. |
 | Amy Stursberg Executive Director Blackstone Charitable Foundation Amy Stursberg is the Executive Director of the Blackstone Charitable Foundation. Since joining the Foundation, Ms. Stursberg has been responsible for the creation of a programmatic plan for the Foundation and the distribution of funds. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2008, Ms. Stursberg served on the Spitzer Administration transition team. She had been a consultant to the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation managing the award of $35 million in cultural enhancement grants and $30 million in community grants in Lower Manhattan. Prior to that Ms. Stursberg worked at the September 11th Fund serving as a consultant to The Chair of the Board, Program Director for Economic Development and Revitalization, and then as the last Director of the Fund, overseeing its sunsetting. |
