He was a founding judge of the MIT $10K (now $100K) Entrepreneurship Competition.  He has been a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management since 1984 where he teaches the " Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans", a popular IAP course.  He also co-developed The Manager’s Legal Function course in which he has been lecturing since 1984.  He is a frequent speaker for the MIT Enterprise Forum's Satellite Broadcast Series (SBS) where he has spoken about company valuation and structuring venture capital deals.   Reprints from Hadzima's popular Boston Business Journal column, "Starting Up," are available.

Joe received a B.Sc. from MIT in 1973, a S.M. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1977 and a Juris Doctore law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1979.  He has been involved with over 120 new ventures over the last 30 years as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, lawyer and board member.  As a practicing lawyer for 17 years he was Partner, Founder and Director of the Sullivan & Worcester LLP High Tech/New Ventures Group.

Joost Bonsen studies innovation everywhere, from invention in research labs through action in entrepreneurial startups and in innovation ecosystems generally. Formerly an entrant, mentor, judge, and Lead Organizer of MIT's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition he has been instrumental in the growth of the Competition. Joost is co-founder of the Howtoons project which distributes educational cartoons which show kids everywhere "How To" build things. He most recently finished the Management of Technology (MOT) program at the MIT Sloan School of Management 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. Joost did his Bachelor's in Bio-Electrical Engineering also at MIT.

Among his many MIT roles, Bonsen was most recently Teaching Assistant for the path-breaking MIT-Harvard joint-class "Technology & Competitive Strategy", combining student technologists from over a dozen different MIT departments with technology-savvy business students from MIT Sloan and HBS. Bonsen is fascinated by entrepreneurial challenges faced by developing nations and, most recently, served as TA for "Developmental Entrepreneurship", an effort to bring suitable technologies, entrepreneurial ideas, and economic benefit to even the poorest of the global poor http://courses.media.mit.edu/mas967. Bonsen has a Bachelor"s Degree in Bio-Electrical Engineering from MIT and Master of Science in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, Sloan Fellows Program.

Haya Al Ghanim

A 2014 MIT Sloan MBA student, Haya is the first Qatari to join the program. She earned her B.A. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado - Boulder. Before coming to MIT, she operated under multiple hats at a non-profit organization, Qatar Foundation for Science, Education and Community Development as well as its subsidiary centers. Her main focus was “Capacity Building” as a means to diversify the local economy. One of the programs she ran in Qatar was the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program. Haya’s interests span over the complexity spectrum from behavioral neuroscience and management to frozen yogurt. She is still searching for her favorite sport, but the latest sport of interest seems to be squash.

Allison Lynne Yost

Allison is a PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering studying the incorporation of nonporous elements in microfluidics for bioparticle separation applications. She completed her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at MIT in 2012, and earned her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. While at UNH, Allison was also a member of the NCAA Division 1 Women's Soccer Team. Allison is interested in the intersection of engineering and medicine, hoping to pursue biomedical endeavors to affect those in need. Recently a member of the H@acking Medicine Initiative at MIT, she has become passionate about entrepreneurial endeavors for disruptive healthcare. In her spare time, Allison loves to be outdoors, skiing, running, hiking, and cooking.

Mr. Chery has spent over 12 years as a high-tech entrepreneurial executive, mentor, and advisor specializing in identifying and launching early-stage concepts into running companies.

Yonald founded Virtual Ink in 1997 with his graduate school colleagues and served as CTO and as a Director until early 2001. He conceived the flagship product, Mimio, a portable retrofit pen-tracking system that records handwritten notes from a conventional whiteboard to a personal computer. The business was launched while at MIT and won $10,000 in 1997 in the prestigious MIT $50k Entrepreneurship Competition. Virtual Ink was acquired by Newell Rubbermaid (NYSE:NWL).  Download the Virtual Ink Executive Summary.

Mr. Chery currently holds 12 patents in the United States, 4 patents in the United Kingdom, with several more pending in the United States, Europe, and Asia.  See an IPVision Forward Patent Landscape Map of Mr Chery's patents.

Mr. Chery often speaks about technology strategy, team-building, business plan development, and entrepreneurship and has lectured on such topics at MIT's Sloan School of Management.  Mr. Chery holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, both from MIT.