Mike Grandinetti
About Mike Grandinetti
Active in fields of innovation, entrepreneurship, design thinking & leadership development Successful serial tech entrepreneur, professor, innovation consultant, BOD member, hackathon leader, keynote speaker & startup mentor. VC -BACKED ENTREPRENEUR CXO of 8 prior VC-backed startups, 2 NASDAQ IPO'd. 7 acquired by strategics incl. ATT, IBM(2X), Iron Mountain, Oracle & Symantec. Co-led PO roadshows & was part of mgmt teams that have raised $1B USD in VC & public equity capital. Team won 1st ever MarTech "Stackie" award for use of Hubspot stack & innovative organizational design. PROFESSOR As Professor, named Financial Times Professor of the Week,Professor of the Year, won 4 Teaching Excellence awards, part of small team that designed new MBA curriculum, winning AACSB's award for the most innovative global MBA curriculum. Consistently high student evaluations over 20 years at Masters & Exec Ed levels. Exec ed participants include Infosys, Maersk, Novo Nordisk, Tetra Pak. Lecture(d) at Babson, Berkeley, Brown, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, HBS, Harvard Professional & Executive Development, Rutgers, etc. in US, Oxford in UK & ESADE in Europe. MIT Sr. Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management & judge in MIT $100K global startup competition for 10 yrs; serves as faculty member for MIT EF's Founders Program. Organizer, MIT CIO Symposium, MIT Horizon CONSULTANT Worked at McKinsey & manage independent practice; focusing on corporate strategy, innovation & design thinking. Corporate clients included Accenture, Capital One, Dell, Ferrari, IBM, Microsoft, Nestle, Pirelli, Samsung, SAB Miller & Zimmer Biomet. STARTUP MENTOR/BOARD MEMBER Serves on BOD of many startups & is top-rated mentor in elite accelerator programs. Mentored winning team in $1M Hult Prize Regionals, defeating Stanford, Berkeley, & MIT, leading to global Finals where team presented to luminaries incl. Nobel Laureate M.Yunus & President Cilnton SOCIAL IMPACT ACTIVITIES & AWARDS Won 2018 Rosoff Award for leadership in driving diversity & inclusion in the tech & startup communities. Board Member- Covent19 global ventilator design challenge with Mass General Hospital. 150 teams across 25 countries. Board Member AfricaO2 ventilator & oxygen support challenge Facilitator-Startup Weekend USA COVID19 Hackathon- 1000 registrants KEYNOTE SPEAKER Keynotes many events incl. Global Startup Fest & Nestle's Hackathon, & many others & active on the TEDx circuit. COLUMNIST Writes regularly about innovation, entrepreneurship & leadership in Forbes & Money Inc