| Michele A. Kaliski |
| Andrea Ippolito |
Andrea Ippolito is the Innovators Network Lead at the Department of
Veterans Affairs. She previously served as a Presidential Innovation
Fellow at the VA Center for Innovation based out of the White House
Office of Science Technology Policy and General Services Administration.
She previously was a Ph.D. student in the Engineering Systems Division
at MIT, co-founder of Smart Scheduling, Innovation Specialist at the
Brigham & Women’s Hospital Innovation Hub, and co-leader of MIT’s
Hacking Medicine. She also served as a Product Innovation Manager at
athenahealth and completed her M.S. in Engineering & Management at
MIT. Prior to MIT, Ippolito worked as a Research Scientist within the Corporate
Technology Development group at Boston Scientific. She obtained
both her B.S in Biological Engineering in 2006 and Masters of Engineering
in Biomedical Engineering in 2007 from Cornell University.
Public Servant |
Michele A. Kaliski brings three decades of practical experience investing
in students, innovation, and public service. After graduating from
Cornell, Kaliski studied as a General Motors Fellow at MIT. Her master’s
thesis outlined an innovative strategy for empowering employees in
improving factory operations, a basis for her work as a manufacturing
engineer at GM’s Harrison Radiator and a competitive analysis engineer
at A.C. Rochester. After starting a family, Kaliski turned her career attention
to public service, organizing and fundraising for student programs
in the arts and athletics. In the past decade, she’s shifted focus to the
college level, pursuing investment opportunities at MIT’s Division of
Student Life. At Cornell, Kaliski has worked with the ECE Department to
establish and organize its Innovation Award Competition. Now entering
its fourth year, the competition has funded a number of remarkable
student teams, the members of which are well underway in their own
impactful careers.
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