HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Announces 2022-2023 Rock Executive Fellows, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Venture Capital Advisors, and Lawyers-in-Residence

BOSTON—The Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship has announced the Rock Executive Fellows, Entrepreneurs-In-Residence, Venture Capital Advisors, and Lawyers-In-Residence for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Rock Executive Fellows (REF) are comprised of four non-faculty affiliates/practitioners who support and contribute to the extensive Rock Center programming through a rich set of co-curricular and curricular activities. REF is a year-long program appointment by the HBS Dean.

The 2022-2023 Rock Executive Fellows and their current companies are:

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Sam Clemens

•  (MBA 2004), Reprise, Insightsquared, Hubspot

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Sarah Endline

•  (MBA 2001), Riot SA

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Rudina Seseri

•  (MBA 2005), Glasswing Ventures

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Michael Skok

, Underscore VC

 

The 15 Entrepreneurs-In-Residence (EiR), 12 of whom are HBS graduates, have founded, sold, or IPO’d successful ventures in the tech, consumer products, healthcare, biotech, media and entertainment industries, among others. These EiRs are available several times per year to meet with MBA students one-on-one, help facilitate Rock Center programs, and work with faculty on research and course development.

This year’s Entrepreneurs-In-Residence are:

 

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Marty Blue

•  (BA 1986), CarGurus, Reebok

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Stacey Boyd

•  (MBA 1997), Olivela, Schoola

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DJ Didonna

•  (MBA 2010), The Sabbatical Project

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Dawn Dobras

•  (MBA 1995) Credo Beauty/ Consumer Start-up

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Ralph Folz

• , WordStream, Molecular

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Rob Gierkink

• , Datalogix (MBA 1991), Air Miles, Flashfood, Index

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Sarah Kauss

•  (MBA 2003), Avignon Partners, S’well

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Sarah Leary

•  (MBA 1998), Nextdoor

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Avni Patel Thompson

•  (MBA 2008), Milo

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Shereen Shermak

•  (MPA 2003), Atlantic Quantum

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Lisa Skeete Tatum

•  (MBA 1998), Land It

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John Sloss

• , Cinetic Media & Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes LawCo

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Jon Staff

•  (MBA 2016), Getaway

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Shara Ticku

•  (MBA 2017), C16 Biosciences

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Paris Wallace

 (MBA 2007), NCL (National Cycling League), Former Ovia Health

 

This year’s Venture Capital Advisors (VCA) are managing and general partners from some of the most successful VC firms. They provide students with fundraising information, and feedback on their idea, business models, and other core aspects of their new ventures. A few times each year, they meet with students one-on-one, help judge the New Venture Competition Finale, and provide pitch feedback to students.

The 15 Rock Venture Capital Advisors and their current companies are:

 

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Payal Agrawal Divakaran

•  (MBA 2015), .406 Ventures

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Kent Bennett

•  (MBA 2008), Bessemer Venture Partners

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Peter Boyce II

•  (AB 2013), Stellation Capital

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Brittany Davis

•  (MBA 2015), Backstage Capital

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Tasneem Dohadwala

•  (MBA 2009), Excelestar Ventures

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Arjun Goyal

•  (MBA 2014), Vida Ventures

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Rick Grinnell

•  (MBA 2000), Glasswing Ventures

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Amanda Herson

•  (MBA 2009), Founder Collective

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Sarah Hodges

• , Pillar VC

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Alex Iskold

• , 2048 Ventures

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Nimi Katragadda

•  (MBA 2015), Boxgroup

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Melody Koh

•  (MBA 2013), Nextview Ventures

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Jennifer Lum

• , Biospring Partners

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Christina Melas-Kyriazi

•  (MBA 2016), Bain Capital Ventures

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Santiago Subotovsky

 (MBA 2009), Emergence Capital Partners

 

The Lawyers-In-Residence (LiR) program brings lawyers to campus to meet with students to answer questions around incorporation, founder’s agreements, intellectual property, starting a US company as a non-US citizen and more.

This year’s Lawyers-In-Residence are:

 

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Larissa Bifano

• , Partner, DLA Piper

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Steve Cagnetta

•  Company Counsel, LLC

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Alex Civetta

• , Mintz

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Jeff Goldman

• , Goldman & Partners Immigration Law LLP

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Matthew Reardon

• , Goodwin

 

MBA students at HBS who are interested in entrepreneurship and starting new ventures are able to seek guidance and access these experts from resources on the HBS campus. Through this community that provides support, access to content, and a gateway to entrepreneurial ecosystems at HBS and beyond, the Rock Center helps HBS students and alumni create revolutionary and disruptive ventures in both the for-profit and social enterprise sectors.

Since 1947, the study of entrepreneurship has been a vital part of the HBS MBA Program, which includes a semester-long course in the first-year Required Curriculum and numerous offerings in the second-year Elective Curriculum.