Dr. Kristen Lee Costa is a first generation college graduate and an award-winning professor of Behavioral Sciences at Northeastern University, where she researches organizational wellbeing and resilience. Her signature ability to engage with a diverse range of audiences has led her to be invited to speak nationally and internationally to […]

Brigitta Rubin is a scientist, artist, and inventor with a passion for eclectic ideas and interesting stories. Rubin currently works as a Multidisciplinary Engineer at MITRE, where she leads several groups in the development of an enterprise-wide anticipatory intelligence capability. Rubin’s main focus is assisting in the technology transitions, acting as a […]

Karen Rubin is currently on the product team at Quantopian, where they are building the world’s first crowd sourced hedge fund, having spent the past 10 years building products and managing product development teams. Rubin’s work on focuses on their cloud based algorithmic trading platform, on which their users and community members research investment […]

Diane Hessan describes herself as a “serial entrepreneur,” having worked at three startups and serving as CEO of two. A graduate of Tufts University and Harvard Business School, her ties to the Boston area are strong, and she has made a name for herself, especially in the startup and innovation community. Since […]