Anne Smith, J.D.
Anne is a co-founder and Director of the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She previously served as the General Counsel for Winterthur U.S. Holdings Inc. and Promega Corporation. She also runs a small family business and has serves on a variety of nonprofit boards of directors.
Rock Mackie, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor, Medical Physics and Human Oncology; Director, Medical Devices Focus Area, Morgridge Institute for Research
Dick Burgess, Ph.D
Trained at Caltech and Harvard, he joined the faculty of the Oncology Dept at the UW-Madison in 1971. He founded the UW Biotechnology Center in 1984. He received the 1982 Pfizer Award, the 1999 Waksman Medal and the 2013 UW Alumni Entrepreneurial Achievement Award. He co-founded ConjuGon, INC, a Madison, WI anti-microbial biotech company and is active in promoting Wisconsin biotechnology and in public education.
JoAnne Robbins, Ph.D.
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Professor, Department of Medicine- Geriatrics
Associate Director, Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center
Jon Eckhardt, Ph.D.
Jon Eckhardt is the Robert W. Pricer Chair in Enterprise Development and the Executive Director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Eckhardt is a cofounder of the gener8tor business accelerator, which has helped to build over 50 companies that have gone on to raise over $100 million dollars in venture funding and employ over 1,100 people.
Allen Dines, MBA
Allen Dines is an Executive Advisor at WISC Partners, a strategic operating capital fund founded by a group of Silicon Valley-based UW-Madison alumni. Allen has more than 30 years of experience at the executive level working at the interface of science and technology.
Dan Olszewski, MBA
Director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship & WAVE class, Co-founder fo the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (WEB). Former CEO and Chairman of $450M imagining parts and supplies distributor. Formerly a consultant at McKinsey where he focused on strategy, M&A, and operations.
Susan Labelle, MBA
Susan has over 30 years of marketing, new product development, and business strategy experience in the health care, pharmaceutical, and medical products industries. In addition to her experience at mid-size and large companies, she has provided business strategy consulting to companies, nonprofits, and higher education institutions.
Jonathan Lenz, PhD
During his postdoctoral fellowship, Jonathan helped found WiSolve. On the Board of Directors he held the positions of DoT and DoO from 2015 to 2019. Since, he has worked as an assistant scientist at UW-Madison and, now, has transitioned to project management in the private biotechnology sector.