We’ve have some of the most amazing people in our ecosystem co-chairing the event this year. Special thanks to these tech leaders for helping Innovation 2012 be Boston’s best single day innovation event of the year!
George Bell
Affiliation:
CEO, Jumptap
Expertise:
George is always looking to work with scary smart, high-energy people who have a passion about an idea and are willing to hold onto and balance the apparent contradictions of short-term reactionary paranoia with an optimism that in the long term great ideas will prevail. Specialties: digital media, interactive marketing, targeted advertising, personalization, marketing services.
John Harthorne
Affiliation:
Founder and CEO of MassChallenge, the largest-ever startup accelerator and competition.
Expertise:
John is an innovative and results-oriented entrepreneur with more than 10 years of top-tier strategy, technology and start-up experience. He is a lucid thinker and communicator with record of success leading teams, solving problems, developing services and driving sales growth. He is recognized for pioneering leading edge ideas and for addressing complexity with equanimity, creativity and analytic rigor. John has proved himself to be a great mentor with history of motivating high-performance teams and empowering colleagues to achieve full potential. He is also an unabashed geek and gadget collector.

Katie Rae
Affiliation:
Managing Director at Project 11 Ventures, Lecturer at MIT Sloan School
Expertise:
Katie’s expertise is in building Internet based businesses and communities. She has deep experience in all phases of company development: from idea and team formation, to product development and business building. She was the head of Product for Microsoft Startup Labs, SVP of Product at Eons, and VP of Community and Communication at Lycos.


