Entrepreneurs in Residence
Entrepreneurs in Residence
Entrepreneur in Residence
Anita J. Brearton
Managing Director and the Boston Forum Leader, Golden Seeds
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Anita J. Brearton is a Managing Director and the Boston Forum Leader of Golden Seeds, an angel investment group that provides early stage and growth capital to women-led businesses across all industry sectors. As an Entrepreneur in Residence at Simmons she says, "One of my best ‘Simmons moments' is when I introduce a new graduate to an early stage venture fund, watched her pitch her business, and hear a venture capitalist tell her that she had a compelling business idea. It's a great moment for the entrepreneur and a credit to the Simmons entrepreneurship program. Simmons students are trained to give compelling pitches — their investor presentations rank among the best of business schools."
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Katie Schuller-Bleakie, MBA '94
Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Bill Blass New York
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Katie Schuller-Bleakie is a business professional and an investing member of Golden Seeds, a group of largely women investors investing in women-led early stage businesses. Katie has over 25 years of experience in investment finance, advertising, fashion, entrepreneurship, and operations management including her role as co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Bill Blass New York, a design and marketing company. She also co-managed her family's investment company, which held interests in stocks and bonds, real estate, and oil and gas. Currently, she consults for several start-ups, is a board member for Proxy Apparel and several non-profits, and serves on the Entrepreneurial Advisory Board Simmons School of Management.
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Patricia K. Fletcher
Global Marketing, SAP
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, 2012
Dr. Patricia (Patti) Fletcher is a software executive at SAP, the global leader in enterprise software, heading the global transformation of SAP Global Marketing. Patti has built an extensive network over her 14 year tenure that spans across SAP's global ecosystem of partners, large enterprise customers, influencers, and academic thought leaders.
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Susan Murcott
Senior Lecturer, MIT Department of Environmental Engineering
Founder, Safe Water for 1 Billion People
Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Susan Murcott is an inventor, environmental engineer, Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a global advocate for clean drinking water access for the world's poor. As founder and chief evangelist for the nonprofit organization, Safe Water for 1 Billion People, Murcott is globally recognized for her contribution to the emerging field of household water treatment and safe storage in undeveloped and emerging economies. Her commitment has led Susan to develop, often in partnership with her students, on-the ground clean water projects in Nepal, Haiti, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Peru, Kenya, Ghana, Bangladesh and Cambodia over the last 15 years. She commonly notes that she works primarily on behalf of women, who are largely responsible for water, and children who suffer disproportionately from its pollution.
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Maggie O'Carroll
Chief Executive Officer, The Women's Organization and the International Centre for Women and Economic Development, Liverpool, UK
Entrepreneur Scholar in Residence
Maggie O'Carroll is the founder and Chief Executive of The Women's Organization Ltd (formerly Train 2000 Ltd). The Women's Organization is an award winning social enterprise and the largest women's economic development agency in the United Kingdom. It is now recognized as a leader in the field of women's enterprise support, research, and policy development on the international stage, as it has successfully utilized world class research to develop and inform business support practice. The Women's Organization recently developed the first International Centre for Women's Economic Development —a £5.5m flagship facility based in Baltic Triangle district of Liverpool— and is currently developing market opportunities in China and the Middle East.
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