Youth CITIES Team Bios

Vicky Wu Davis

Program Director, Youth CITIES

Spending the past decade in the telecommunications industry, Vicky is the Founder and CEO of Froghop, Incorporated, a middleware and software company that provides a platform facilitating fixed-to-mobile experiences for videogames. She is responsible for creating and driving the long-term vision, product planning, and business development for the Company. Through her involvement in the For-profit Creative Business Working Group of the Creative Economy Council, Vicky serves as a voice for the local videogame industry to the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development. Vicky is an active participant in the Digital Game Cluster of the MA Technology Leadership Council.

Vicky is also Co-founder and Managing Director of WorkWise Executives, an executive staffing agency that helps nonprofit organizations, social ventures, and small businesses fill gaps in their senior management team by matching them with seasoned executives willing to work on a part-time basis.

During 2002 to 2005 (concurrent to her role at Froghop), Vicky was Regional Executive Director for the International Orphans Foundation, a nonprofit organization helping to increase adoption for the underserved niche of older orphans. Vicky laid the framework for the organization, implemented standard operating procedures, and ran the Boston Chapter. She launched their flagship program called Journey of Hope. Vicky was also the impetus of Boston's first annual National Adoption Day to increase awareness for foster care adoption, and remains on the Steering Committee. Prior to founding Froghop, Vicky was responsible for budgeting, process engineering, and project management for software development at Nextel.

Vicky's extracurricular activities support her passion for tech and social entrepreneurship. She founded Executive Minds for Social Innovation, which brings nonprofit leaders and corporate executives together to address nonprofit management issues in an entrepreneurial and strategic manner. She sits on the Business Advisory Board for Design that Matters, a nonprofit that creates cost-effective and scaleable products for social enterprises in developing countries. Vicky also sits on the Board of Directors for the Merrimack Watershed Resource Council, Foster Care Kids of the Merrimack Valley, and the Merrimack Valley Venture Forum. Vicky has been a mentor for MIT's Venture Mentor Services since 2003, and often speaks about entrepreneurship at local schools and technology-related professional associations.

Vicky is often featured in industry trade publications for her forward-thinking ideas. She has also been recognized numerous times in the area of entrepreneurship, such as Red Herring's cover story "Young Moguls: 20 Outstanding Entrepreneurs Under 35", the Kauffman Foundation for "Entrepreneurs Giving Back", and Boston Business Journal's "40 Under 40." Vicky attends Park Street Church and helps teach Children's Church. She also enjoys salsa and ballroom dancing, playing the piano, cooking, and watching baseball. She is conversationally fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Vicky resides in Andover with her husband, son, and four dogs.

Chad Green - Keynote for Youth CITIES Inaugural Kickoff Reception

Director of Community Service, Phillips Academy Andover

Chad A. Green came to Andover in 1995 as a Teaching Fellow in Community Service. He subsequently served as the Interim Director of the Program for one year and was named Director of Community Service at the start of the 1997/98 school year. In addition to heading PA's nationally-recognized community service-learning efforts, Green currently serves as the Dean of West Quad North, one of the five residential "clusters" unique to Andover.

A graduate of Lewis and Clark College with a BA in Sociology/Anthropology and French Studies, Mr. Green earned a Masters in Theological Studies from Boston University in 2003.

Mr. Green is married to Kathryn Green, instructor in mathematics and head coach of the girls' crew program at Andover. They have three children.

Guest Instructors, Mentors, and Judges for Youth CITIES

Colin Angle

Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, iRobot Corp.

Colin Angle is chairman of the board, chief executive officer and co-founder of iRobot. Angle's leadership has transformed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spin-off into a $307 million business and a global leader of practical robots. One of the world's leading authorities on mobile robots, Angle is an industry pioneer with more than two decades of experience. Under his guidance, iRobot is at the forefront of the growing robot industry, delivering home and government robots that are making a difference.

A longtime sailor, Angle is known for his ability to bring together and inspire a winning crew. By setting a course of team empowerment, collaboration and innovation, Angle is enabling iRobot to deliver cutting-edge, market-leading robots that save time and lives. Today, more than 3 million iRobot Roomba vacuum cleaning robots "the world's first affordable home robot" have been sold around the globe. More than 2,000 iRobot PackBot tactical mobile robots have been delivered to military and civil defense forces worldwide, performing thousands of dangerous missions while keeping personnel out of harm's way.

Angle's vision for the future of robots and his keen sense of business strategy are driving forces behind iRobot's successful identification and execution of expansion opportunities. Under Angle's leadership, iRobot has formed strategic partnerships with The Clorox Company, Deere & Company and The Boeing Company, building on decades of expertise from each partner to create new and innovative robot solutions.

In iRobot's early days, Angle and his team designed the behavior-controlled rovers for NASA that led to the Sojourner exploring Mars in 1997. Angle's team won the NASA Group Achievement Award for its accomplishments, and his name is inscribed inside the case of Spirit, the Mars exploration rover on display at NASA.

Before co-founding iRobot in 1990, Angle was president of Artificial Creatures Inc. Earlier in his career, Angle worked at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he first teamed with

iRobot co-founders Helen Greiner and Dr. Rodney Brooks. Angle's master thesis at MIT produced Genghis, a six-legged autonomous walking robot that is now at the Smithsonian National Air and Science Museum in Washington, D.C.

Angle's leadership has been recognized with numerous professional awards. He has been named a Mass High Tech All-Star, one of Fortune Small Business Magazine's Best Bosses and New England Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young with iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner. Angle has spoken at leading industry conferences, including International CES, The Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital, Future in Review (FiRe), Wired Magazine's NextFest and RoboNexus. Angle has appeared on CNN and CNBC, and has been profiled as an industry expert in media outlets such as Business Week, CNET, the New York Times and Newsweek. He sits on the board of directors of Axon Labs, Inc. and is active on the Robotics & Intelligent Machines (RIM) advisory board.

Angle holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in computer science, both from MIT.

Joost Bonsen

MIT Fixture

Joost Bonsen is a member of the Global Board of Directors of the MIT Enterprise Forum. Joost studies innovation everywhere, from invention in research labs through action in entrepreneurial startups and innovation ecosystems generally. He received his bachelor's degree in Bio-Electrical Engineering from MIT. He most recently finished the Management of Technology program at MIT Sloan with his thesis The Innovation Institute: From Creative Inquiry Through Real-World Impact at MIT.

Prior to MIT Sloan, Bonsen ran the MIT Founders Project which quantified the economic impact of MIT-related entrepreneurs, findings ultimately published by BankBoston as MIT: Impact of Innovation. Formerly an entrant, mentor, judge, and Lead Organizer of the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, he is co-founder of the Howtoons Project, which distributes educational cartoons showing kids everywhere "How To" build things using everyday materials and tools. He is co-founder of the MIT Innovation Club, TechLink, and numerous entrepreneurial events and gatherings, including the MIT Chairman's Salon.

Joost was co-creator and founding teaching assistant or instructor of several MIT classes and seminars, including the "Nuts & Bolts of Business Plans" with MIT Enterprise Forum Chairman Joe Hadzima, "Developmental Entrepreneurship and Digital Innovations" with Professor Sandy Pentland, and most recently, "Neurotechnology Ventures" with Ed Boyden and Rutledge Ellis-Behnke. He has hosted a weekly television show "HighTechFever" since 1999, and has run entrepreneurial networking VentureNights at the MIT Muddy Charles Pub since the mid-1990s.

Glen Comiso

Director of eHealth and Life Sciences, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative

Glen Comiso is the Director of eHealth and Life Sciences at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC). Glen is responsible for overseeing the Massachusetts Life Sciences Collaborative comprised of leaders from the Massachusetts "Life Sciences Super Cluster" with the mission to develop and push forward strategic action to solidify and grow the Commonwealth's leadership position. Additionally, Mr. Comiso has been involved in launching the Massachusetts e-Health Institute, a division of the MTC with the mission to push forward the adoption and networking of an Electronic Health Record systems in the Commonwealth.

Previous to joining the MTC, Mr. Comiso was the Deputy Director for Economic Initiatives at the Boston Redevelopment Authority. In this capacity, Mr. Comiso developed and executed Mayor Menino's LifeTech Boston initiative focused on the economic growth of Boston's biotech sector. Additionally, Mr. Comiso helped develop and run several of the City's key economic programs including their young professional, retail, manufacturing and creative industry initiatives.

Previous to the BRA, Mr. Comiso was a Project Manager at the Boston Consulting Group in their Boston office. In 2002, he was selected to be a part of the prestigious BCG Ambassador Program resulting in a year assignment in their Paris office. He was a member of both their Health Care and Technology Practices, and led dozens of projects ranging from strategy development for large Fortune 500 companies to being a part of the launch team for a start-up technology company.

Previous to BCG, Mr. Comiso was a Project Manager and Staff Engineer at Motorola, Inc. in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he led a cross-functional team of engineers to develop the successful multi-million dollar TAMER program for the Department of Defense.

Mr. Comiso received his Masters of Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

In 2005, Mr. Comiso was selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Leaders by the Boston Jaycees, and in 2006, Mr. Comiso was chosen as one of the forty top business professionals under the age of forty by the Boston Business Journal. Glen is a leader in his church and enjoys swing dancing, cycling and roller-blading. Glen lives in Quincy with his wife Cynthia and daughters, Sophia and Tiffany.

Jeff Fagnan

Partner, Atlas Ventures

Jeff Fagnan is a Partner in the technology group, and focuses on emerging companies in enterprise and internet infrastructure as well as alternative energy technologies / advanced material science. Jeff also works closely with MIT, Harvard University, Boston University and other innovation engines, to commercialize technologies developed in technical labs.

Before joining Atlas Venture, Jeff was a Partner with Seed Capital Partners. While at Seed Capital, Jeff was the lead and founding investor in DataPower Technologies, Way Systems, and Polychromix. Before venture, Jeff worked for Booz Allen & Hamilton and Nortel Networks. He also started a coffee business in Rochester, New York.

Since joining Atlas Venture, Jeff led the investment in DataPower Technologies which was acquired by IBM in 2005. He was the founding investor, and currently sits on the boards, of Atlas portfolio companies AEB, Bit9, DataXu, Songbird and Veracode. He also sits on the Board of portfolio company SimpleTuition and led the firm's investments in Keas and Mascoma.

Jeff received his M.B.A. from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester and a B.S. from the University of Alaska.

Michael Foster

Adjunct Professor, Bentley College

Michael S. Foster, a graduate chemical engineer with an MBA in international finance, retired from Rohm and Haas Company (ROH:NYSE) as a Corporate Vice President and President of their $600 Million Circuit Board Technologies Electronic Materials Business in 2001 after 34 years of service.

Prior to his retirement, Mr. Foster held positions of increasing responsibility as Financial Director of Mexico and Central American subsidiaries, along with leadership positions in operations, marketing and mergers and acquisitions.

Presently, Mr. Foster teaches and guest lectures on the subjects of business strategy and mergers & acquisitions at Bentley University and Babson College. Mr. Foster mentors entrepreneurs as part of MIT's Venture Mentoring Service, and is on the Board of Design that Matters, a not for profit Social Enterprise venture based in Cambridge, MA.

Mr. Foster is married and resides in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Michael Grandinetti

Senior Lecturer of MIT Sloan School of Management

Mike Grandinetti has helped lead four venture-backed companies to successful exits for his investors. Currently, he is Chief Marketing Officer for Virtual Iron Software, a leading provider of data center virtualization and management solutions for Global 2000 enterprises. He is responsible for leading Marketing, Business Development and Product Management. Virtual Iron is backed by world class venture and strategic investors including Matrix Partners, Highland Capital, Goldman Sachs and Intel.

Most recently, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Yantra Corp., a leading provider of Supply Chain Management solutions. He is part of the executive leadership team that was responsible for recently selling Yantra to Sterling Commerce for 6X trailing revenues, and 4.5X projected current year revenues. In his role, he is responsible for Strategic Planning, Industry Marketing, Corporate Marketing, Product Marketing, Product Management and Market Development. Other companies that Mike has helped lead to a successful exit include Viewlogic (IPO, subsequent acquisition for roughly $500M), Raptor Systems (IPO, subsequent acquisition for roughly $250M), and Connected Corp (acquisition for $120M.)

Previously, he worked at McKinsey, the world's premiere strategy consultancy, where he consulted with senior executives on a broad range of strategic marketing, sales, pricing and market entry engagements and performed acquisition analysis, and at HP, where he managed a major account sales team selling into the General Electric Company.

Mr. Grandinetti is very active in the New England business, academic and non-profit community. He holds an appointment as Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he teaches in both the MBA and executive MBA programs. He is a veteran judge in the MIT $50K global entrepreneurship competition. He is also a judge in the Yale-Goldman Sachs Foundation on Non-Profit Ventures business plan competition, as well as the business plan competition of Springboard, a non-profit organization that promotes female entrepreneurship. He is a member of the Corporate Executive Council of the Technology Capital Network and of WGBH Public Television and Radio, the flagship operation within the US Public Broadcasting System. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Artworks Educational Foundation. He also serves on the New England Business and Technology Association's Leadership Roundtable Advisory Board, and is on the Leadership Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Software and Internet Council's Sale and Marketing Roundtable. He serves as an Advisory Partner to Flagship Ventures, a $500M early stage venture capital fund, and as an Advisory Board member to Echelon Ventures. He is a frequent keynote speaker, panel moderator and seminar leader at industry events and has been quoted in hundreds of business, trade, financial and technical publications. He has been published in numerous technical and business journals, and holds both US and international product patents. He is an active member of the Yale Alumni Schools Council.

Mr. Grandinetti received his BS in Engineering, magna cum laude, from Rutgers, where he was named to the National Engineering Honor Society, and his MBA from Yale, where he was named the Jess Morrow Johns Memorial Scholar and was the recipient of the Procter and Gamble Marketing Leadership Award.

Michael Lake

Executive Director, World Class Cities Partnership

Michael is the Executive Director of the World Class Cities Partnership, headquartered at Northeastern University. As Executive Director, Michael establishes and develops relationships with municipal governments and universities around the world, creating a global network of partner cities dedicated to implementing public policy to address shared challenges facing 21st century cities. Michael's career in public service has spanned from serving two United States Presidents as Special Assistant for White House Operations to serving the former Prime Minister of Ireland as a policy research analyst and most recently serving as Director of Development for United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley.

A native of Melrose, Massachusetts, Michael was the first and only graduate in history from Northeastern University or the state of Massachusetts to have completed five undergraduate degrees simultaneously. He graduated summa cum laude studying Finance, Political Science, Communications, Entrepreneurship and Management Information Systems. Michael also serves as a Board member for the Neighborhood Organization for Affordable Housing (NOAH), Boston Representative for the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Cities Network, a member of the Boston Public Library's Young Professionals Committee, the Executive Director of Northeastern's College of Business Talent Development Committee, an Alumni Mentor and is involved in a number of other charitable organizations.

Michael Rodrigues

CEO, Triangle, Inc.

Mike Rodrigues was named Chief Executive Officer of Triangle in July 2001. Triangle is a private, nonprofit organization that empowers people with disabilities and their families to lead rich, fulfilling lives, while helping the world to recognize that we are all people with ability. Triangle provides employment, residential, healthcare and social services to more than 2500 people annually from over 150 New England communities. Triangle is headquartered in Malden, MA, with 15 service locations. Triangle's innovative, leading edge services have received national recognition for innovation, creativity and results.

Mike's career in senior management spans 28 years, with 2 years in education and training. The first ten years of his career were in the private sector, with Teledyne (operating Job Corps Centers for the U. S. Department of Labor) and in environmental consulting. Mike's experience in the nonprofit world included senior positions with the Environmental Careers Organization and Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries.

Mike holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (class of 1981). He, his wife Stacy and their four children live in Hopedale, Massachusetts.

Dan Ross

Entrepreneur in Residence, GrandbanksCapital

Dan is currently an entrepreneur in residence at GrandbanksCapital (an early stage venture capital firm) and an Operating Partner for Maxis Capital, a private equity firm doing rollups in IT services, and three other markets.

He has been an exec in high tech for more than 20 years, most recently as CEO of one of the top Chinese offshore IT services companies, DarwinSuzsoft (now named Dextrys). He was also CEO of Optiant, an optimization software supply chain company, and of Manna, a personalization software company. Dan also served as a senior exec at Open Market, the leading ecommerce software provider, and Picturetel, the market leading videoconferencing company.

Dan spent 16 years in various senior management positions at Digital Equipment corporation.

He currently sits on several high tech boards, has raised funds and consulted for several companies including Correlagen, a genomics diagnostics lab.

He is active with inner-city high school entrepreneurial programs at NFTE and the Match school and guest lectures at MIT sloan school and Babson College on Entrepreneurship.

Dan also founded and runs an alternative asset fine arts fund focused on 19th century American art.

John Sarvey

Executive Director, School of Social Science, Urban Affairs, and Public Policy Northeastern University

John has over 20 years of experience in non-profit management and higher education. He worked for twelve years with City Year, a national service program that engages young adults for a demanding year of full-time community service, leadership development, and civic engagement. John served twice as a local City Year executive director (San Jose and Boston) and as a national vice president with responsibility for managing and supporting all US sites. John developed several national program models at City Year including the Whole School, Whole Child model for transforming public schools and improving the academic, socio-emotional, and civic development of students.

Prior to City Year, John worked for the Campus Outreach Outreach Opportunity League, a national organization that promotes and supports college student involvement in community service. John has visited over 300 colleges and universities and provided consulting to dozens on how to build and strengthen student-led community service programs.

John serves as a trustee of the Hyams Foundation. He previously served on the boards of Massachusetts Stand for Children, Asian Americans for Community Involvement, the Coro National Alumni Association, and KaBoom!

John has a degree in organizational studies from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a graduate of the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs. He is currently pursuing an MBA at Northeastern. John lives in Newton with his wife and two kids.

James R. Salzano

Executive Vice President, The Clarks Companies, N.A.

Jim Salzano is the Executive Vice President for The Clarks Companies, N.A. In his role, he is responsible for Information Technology, Employee and Organizational Services, Logistics, Wholesale Operations, Retail Operations and Finance. Jim has been part of the Clarks senior management team that has led the company from just over $200M in revenues to a $700M share of the North American market including over 13,000 locations where Clarks products are sold, in addition to its 210 company owned stores. Jim has over 25 years of experience in the footwear business.

Jim has been actively involved with the Clarks' First Step program, which gives internship opportunities to "people with abilities." This program is aimed at ensuring that opportunities within the Clarks organization are presented to all people with a passion to work. This program provides a confidence building work experience, along with a paycheck, and ultimately the chance at permanent employment at the company. The Clarks Companies was honored with an Exemplary Employer Award from the Massachusetts Governors Commission on Employment of People with Disabilities for the work that has been completed within the First Step program. In 2002, the Boston Business journal named Jim Citizen of the Month.

Jim recently completed an appointment as President of the Board of Directors for Triangle, a private, non-profit organization with a mission to provide vocational, residential and social development services to adults with disabilities. In May 2008, Triangle honored Jim with the Stan Black Humanitarian of the Year Award. Jim also serves as a member of the Board for The Two Ten Foundation and chaired the Strategic Planning Committee to ensure that Two Ten can sustain its support of ongoing needs of the people within the shoe industry. Jim was awarded the AA Bloom award in December 2007 at the annual Two Ten Footwear Foundation dinner in New York City. The award recognizes an individual in the industry for outstanding volunteerism.

Jim has also volunteered both his professional and personal time to The Home for Little Wanderers, which focuses on prevention, advocacy, research, and direct care to help children overcome the challenges facing them and open doors to their futures.

Jim graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology and now resides in Walpole, Massachusetts, with his wife Shana, and children Nathaniel and Luca.

Mark C. Stevens

Assistant Vice President, Retail Banking — Wainwright Bank & Trust Company

Mark C. Stevens is an Assistant Vice President of Retail Banking at Wainwright Bank & Trust Company, the leading socially progressive bank in the country. He has 18 years of experience in the banking industry, including employee training, and currently leads the bank's Financial Literacy initiative in partnership with Operation Hope - Banking on Our Future.

More about the uniqueness of Wainwright Bank - With an active commercial lending operation and products such as Debit Cards and Telebanking, Wainwright Bank outwardly resembles most other banking institutions both large and small. However, the resemblance to other banks becomes blurred as we are now increasingly seen as part of the vanguard of the social investment movement. The Bank's social justice agenda has become a unifying theme that embraces our mission statement, literature, and products while providing a unique identity to a publicly traded corporation. The Bank has attempted to use both its cultural and financial capital to further a vision of a just, tolerant and sustainable society. Over the years we have seen the same voices of intolerance arrayed against the civil rights movement, the women's movement, gay rights and the civil liberties of people with AIDS.

Jerry Zadow

Chairman and CFO, Jhamste International

Jerry Zadow was founder of Texet Inc., an enterprise scale SGML-based document publishing and document object management system. The Texet technology later licensed to both Wang and Agfa Compugraphic, and Jerry then managed Agfa's large systems group with the Texet product as core to yet larger systems. He was also a founding global practice manager for EDS Management Consulting Services, founder of Concord Research and XML Core Technologies, and a senior staff member of Arthur D. Little, Inc. He also worked for Boeing and as a consulting economist in Washington, DC. Jerry has degrees in economics and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Jerry has formed 3 non-profit entities and is currently chairman and CFO of Jhamtse International, which supports and operates a community and school for orphan children in a remote Himalayan corner of Arunachal Pradesh within sight of Tibet and Bhutan. He is also a mentor at MIT's Venture Mentor Services.

Ken Zolot

Founder, Innovation Teams Initiative, Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
Senior Lecturer, MIT School of Engineering & MIT Sloan School of Management

Ken Zolot founded MIT's Innovation Teams program, where multidisciplinary teams of students collaborate with MIT lab directors, evaluating go-to-market strategies for breakthrough discoveries. I-Teams is a partnership with MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation. Ken also co-teaches the X-PrizeLab class at MIT, in partnership with The X-Prize Foundation.

In addition to his MIT work, Ken is a Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where he advises the Foundation on its new initiative "Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation".

Ken's teaching and mentoring have guided numerous MIT-spawned companies, including A123 Systems, Arch Therapeutics, Brontes3D, HubSpot, Myomo, QD Vision, Robopsy, Saaf Water, Semprus Biosciences (fka SteriCoat), Vertica Systems, and Visible Measures.

In addition to his work at MIT, Ken has held full-time founding roles in several startups, most recently Heartland Robotics, which Ken co-founded in 2008 with Rod Brooks, former Chief Technology Officer of iRobot and Director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 2000, Ken co-founded Egenera, Inc., along with Goldman Sachs' Chief Technology Officer Vern Brownell. Egenera was named to Red Herring's list of "100 companies most likely to change the world". Ken's previous startup, Geer Zolot Associates, was a spinoff from MIT Project Athena. Geer Zolot developed network security software for electronic trading and commerce, and designed the Internet security architecture for much of the financial services industry. After the sale of Geer Zolot Associates, Ken was retained by Goldman Sachs to guide its technology strategy. He has also held positions at MIT Project Athena, and at Digital Equipment Corporation's Innovative Technology Research Center in Cambridge. Zolot's first start-up was Spectra Communications, specializing in satellite telecommunications.

Ken serves on the global Board of the MIT Enterprise Forum. Ken serves as an advisor to the MIT Portugal Program, and launched Portugal's BioEngineering Innovation program. Ken served as a Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab, and was instrumental in the creation of the Center for the Future of Banking. Ken also served as a director of Yoga301, which focused on advancing the art, science, and practice of the timeless discipline of yoga.

Ken holds a Master of Science degree from MIT in Management of Technology. His undergraduate work was at Syracuse University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy.