Mike Grandinetti has a unique cross-disciplinary background. He has deep operating experience as a serial venture capital – backed entrepreneur across five very successful ventures, was involved as an early team member in the launch of several successful new businesses within Hewlett-Packard, holds long-standing faculty appointments at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the Technical University of Denmark Center for Technology, Economics and Management and has been deeply involved in regional and national economic development, with a distinct focus on global entrepreneurial coaching and enablement, innovation policy and innovation cluster acceleration, as well as advanced technology commercialization and tech transfer, in the US, Canada, and Europe. He also served as a senior management consultant with McKinsey, the world’s premiere strategy consultancy. As a serial entrepreneur, Mike was involved in the formation of 7 advanced technology start-ups and has helped lead five venture-backed start-up companies to successful exits ( twice a multiple exit) for his VC investors, inlcuding 2 NASDAQ IPOs and 5 high multiple trade sales to strategics. He currently serves as a Senior Advisor to numerous global start-ups and VC firms across the IT, med tech and clean tech sectors and is Managing Director of StartupNEXT Boston and a Community Impact Fellow with OpenIDEO. Specialties: Global Entrepreneurship, Global Go-to-Market, Strategic Marketing, Raising Venture Capital, Angel Investing, Sales 2.0, Category Creation, Open Innovation, B2B Social Media, Mergers and Acquisitions, Regional / National Innovation and Economic Development Strategies, Innovation Clusters, Advisor on Creation and Management of Entrepreneurship and Business Plan Competitions, Tech Transfer and Commercialization, US SBIR Grants, Senior Advisory and Board of Director roles

City Director - Protohack Boston @ From June 2015 to Present (7 months) OpenIDEO Community Impact Fellow @ From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Managing Director @ From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Greater Boston AreaChief Mentor and Senior Advisor @ From June 2013 to Present (2 years 7 months) Montreal, Canada AreaGlobal Discipline Lead & Professor of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Digital Marketing @ From August 2011 to Present (4 years 5 months) Mentor @ From May 2009 to Present (6 years 8 months) Mentor @ From April 2009 to Present (6 years 9 months) Academic Fellow @ From January 2009 to Present (7 years) Judge & Mentor @ From October 2008 to Present (7 years 3 months) Judge, Global MBA Sales Competition @ From September 2008 to Present (7 years 4 months) Event Advisor, Keynote Speaker and Moderator, State of the Cloud Executive Conference,Senior Advisor @ From September 2008 to Present (7 years 4 months) Member-Organizing Committee @ From June 2008 to Present (7 years 7 months) Faculty Member @ From June 2008 to Present (7 years 7 months) Faculty Member and Coach @ From May 2008 to Present (7 years 8 months) Mentor @ From May 2008 to Present (7 years 8 months) Mentor, IBM Smart Camp @ From September 2007 to Present (8 years 4 months) Guest Lecturer @ From June 2007 to Present (8 years 7 months) Faculty Member @ From June 2007 to Present (8 years 7 months) Mentor @ From May 2007 to Present (8 years 8 months) Charter Member, TiE Con East, VC Outlook & CXO Executive Program Chair, Moderator @ From January 2007 to Present (9 years) Board Member - School of Engineering Industry Advisory Board @ From January 2007 to Present (9 years) Senior Lecturer @ From June 2005 to Present (10 years 7 months) Senior Advisor @ From January 2005 to Present (11 years) Advisor @ From January 2005 to Present (11 years) Member @ From June 2002 to Present (13 years 7 months) Member TIE Angels @ From April 2002 to Present (13 years 9 months) Co-Chair Nominating Committee, Corporate Executive Council @ From September 1999 to Present (16 years 4 months) Managing Director @ From January 1999 to Present (17 years) Senior Lecturer @ From January 1999 to Present (17 years) Managing Director @ From January 1999 to Present (17 years) Entrepreneurship Case Study Contributor @ From July 2015 to December 2015 (6 months) Judge- Hult Prize Competition @ From November 2014 to November 2014 (1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaLead Mentor and Faculty Advisor - Hult SF Hult Prize team @ From October 2012 to September 2013 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaJudge and Mentor @ From October 2010 to April 2011 (7 months) Senior Advisor @ From June 2004 to January 2010 (5 years 8 months) Chief Marketing Officer @ From June 2005 to June 2008 (3 years 1 month) Judge MIT $100K Business Plan Competition @ From 1997 to 2005 (8 years) Chief Marketing Officer @ From 1995 to 1998 (3 years) Senior Consultant @ From May 1989 to December 1991 (2 years 8 months)

MBA, Strategy and Marketing @ Yale University - Yale School of Management From 1987 to 1989 B.S. Engineering, Engineering @ Rutgers College of Engineering Mike Grandinetti is skilled in: Entrepreneurship, Start-ups, Business Strategy, Strategic Partnerships, Management Consulting, New Business Development, Product Management, Strategic Planning, Marketing Strategy, Market Research, Public Speaking, Venture Capital, Competitive Analysis, Team Leadership, Mentoring