IOT Impact LABS
Accelerating IoT deployment to address grand challenges.
ImpactLABS Advisory Board
- Anthony R. SapienzaSenior Advisor, Joseph Abboud Mfg CorpNew Bedford, MAAnthony R. SapienzaSenior Advisor, Joseph Abboud Mfg Corp
What is your focus in IoT?
Improving manufacturing processes.
How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
Better tracking, better data, reduced WIP and lead times.Connect with Anthony:
- Carrie Van HeystPartner at Van Heyst Group Inc.Boulder, COCarrie Van HeystPartner at Van Heyst Group Inc.
What is your focus in IoT?
I am interested in the environmental points of impact of IoT.How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
I can provide better informed policy and corporate decision-making.Connect with Carrie:
- Chris McKennaCo-Chair Electronic Practice Group and Technology Industry Team, Foley & Lardner LLPBoston, MAChris McKennaCo-Chair Electronic Practice Group and Technology Industry Team, Foley & Lardner LLP
What is your focus in IoT?
Foley & Lardner delivers practical, insightful and innovative legal services to help companies navigate the myriad of strategic and operating considerations in the IoT ecosystems and across the IoT supply chain. Foley & Lardner's Intellectual Property group is well versed in the technology and data challenges in the IoT solution stack and can advise and help companies execute on intellectual property protection, monetization and transaction strategies. Foley & Lardner's Technology Industry Team engages clients in a collaborative and integrated approach with a multi-disciplinary team of corporate, intellectual property and technology transaction legal advisors and specialists to handle the spectrum of issues, challenges and strategic advising typical of IoT related companies.How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
Foley & Lardner hopes to be a trusted advisor to the various shareholders in the IoT ecosystem to help new companies launch, operating companies grow and strategic partnerships form while helping to develop new business models and enabling shareholders to efficiently transact and monetize IoT products, services and intellectual property across the IoT supply chain.Connect with Chris:
- David ShillingfordPresident, Pegasus AnalyticsSalisbury, CTDavid ShillingfordPresident, Pegasus Analytics
- Donna MilakovicOutreach Director, USTARUtahDonna MilakovicOutreach Director, USTAR
What is your focus in IoT?
I love working with and championing emerging technology entrepreneurs and researchers in IoT and related technical fields such as big data and cybersecurity.
How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
Creating connections for entrepreneurs and universities for information sharing, funding opportunities, commercialization of products and meaningful impact to solve the world's problems.
About Donna:
Donna Milakovic is an outreach director at the Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative (USTAR). USTAR is an economic development agency under the Governor’s Office of the State of Utah. Before launching a Robotics and Internet of Things (RIoT) technology acceleration program for USTAR, she was executive vice president at the Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce and worked for more than 5 years in non-profit management and government advocacy. The RIoT program for the State of Utah includes: pre-seed funding, lab resources, mentoring, training, community building, gap analysis and technology support for Internet of Things companies. Donna has a BA in English and is IOM certified through the US Chamber of Commerce Institute for Organizational Management.
- Dr. Richard SoleyExecutive Director, Industrial Internet ConsortiumBoston, MADr. Richard SoleyExecutive Director, Industrial Internet Consortium
- Ed Anthes-WashburnExecutive Director, Port of New BedfordNew Bedford, MAEd Anthes-WashburnExecutive Director, Port of New Bedford
What is your focus in IoT?
Identifying ways sensors and technology can transform traditional marine industries like commercial fishing, shipping, transportation, cargo handling and recreational boating.How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
IoT can be particularly disruptive in our traditional marine industries. My hope is that with these sensors and the know-how cultivated by leaders in the tech space, we will be able to quantify data that was previously consider qualitative- stories about what fishermen are seeing on the water transformed into measurable and defendable information. The concept of adding research capabilities to every fishing vessel in the Port of New Bedford could revolutionize everything from fisheries stock assessments to ocean health to weather forecasting- giving a voice (and new revenue sources) to the people that know the most about our oceans.Connect with Ed:
- Greg KahnPresident/CEO, Internet of Things ConsortuimPrinceton, NJGreg KahnPresident/CEO, Internet of Things Consortuim
What is your focus in IoT?
Connected cities, home automation, connected cars, wearables, connected retail.How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
Bringing companies together to help solve real-world business challenges.Connect with Greg:
- Guido F. MengelkampDirector, WaveGuide Services & INEX AdvisorsLondon, UKGuido F. MengelkampDirector, WaveGuide Services & INEX Advisors
What is your focus in IoT?
Governance and finance.How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
If we can sort out the governance issues creating inequality and align the financial system with living systems, the potential for exponential increase in prosperity is amazing.Connect with Guido:
- Hussain Mohamed AlmahmoudiCEO of AUS EnterprisesSharjah, UAEHussain Mohamed AlmahmoudiCEO of AUS Enterprises
- John WalshCyberphysical Security Advisor, Operations ExecutiveTampa, FLJohn WalshCyberphysical Security Advisor, Operations Executive
What is your focus in IoT?
I'm focused on leveraging identity: one of the key pillars for creating trust at the edge and up the stack in multi-layered security architectures. I'm also working to bridge the gap from the edge to the cloud.
How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
I want to facilitate a collaborative approach within the ecosystem to address the need and associated challenges of providing trusted environments from which we can recognize and sustain the benefits of a connected global community.
Connect with John:
- Karen SchwalbeExecutive Director, Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural PartnershipDartmouth, MAKaren SchwalbeExecutive Director, Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership
What is your focus in IoT?
Agriculture and food productionHow to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
Providing appropriate tools for farmers to improve production and profitConnect with Karen:
- Kathryn FordProgram Manager, Mass Division of Marine FisheriesNew Bedford, MAKathryn FordProgram Manager, Mass Division of Marine Fisheries
What is your focus in IoT?
Coastal water quality and natural resource monitoring; data management.How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
Improve fisheries management, and reduce impacts to fish habitat.Connect with Kathryn:
- Kenneth S. ZuckerbergExecutive Director and Senior Research Analyst, RabobankNew York, NYKenneth S. ZuckerbergExecutive Director and Senior Research Analyst, Rabobank
What is your focus in IoT?
The Food and Agriculture (F&A) industry is experiencing transformational changes within virtually every part of the value chain. IoT is a focus area for me in my research and advisory practice at Rabobank, that given smart connected devices coupled with AI and machine learning, will help F&A modernize itself and operate more sustainably.
How do you hope to make a difference with that focus?
I hope to add value to LABS' core mission by helping raise awareness to the challenges facing the planet and inspiring others to take action to protect and enhance our natural resources.
About Ken
Kenneth S. Zuckerberg AIF® AFA® is an Executive Director and Senior Research Analyst within RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory group.
Ken is responsible for managing FAR's research mandate in the North American Farm Inputs sector (Crop Protection Chemicals, Equipment, Fertilizer, Seeds, Ag Technology, Water.) He brings to the Bank more than 25 years of institutional investment research and asset management experience in diverse industries and sectors including Agribusiness, Consumer Staples & Discretionary, Financials, Industrials and Technology.
Prior to joining Rabobank in 2014, Ken was the Senior Managing Partner of Carlan Advisors, LLC, an independent research and consulting firm he founded in 2003. He also served in senior research roles with several leading investment management firms, namely Train Babcock Advisors LLC (including as Co-Chair of the firm’s Investment Policy Committee) and before that, Lazard Asset Management. Prior to that, Ken conducted equity and credit research on the global insurance industry at Smith Barney (now Morgan Stanley), Moody’s Investors Services and Keefe, Bruyette and Woods and is well known throughout the insurance and reinsurance sector as a subject matter expert.
He holds a Graduate Certificate in Investment Strategy and Portfolio Management from The Wharton School, has completed executive education programs at Cornell University (Leadership & Strategy) and Harvard Business School (Agribusiness) and received a Bachelor’s of Science in Finance from the University of South Florida. Ken is an Accredited Investment Fiduciary AIF® and Accredited Financial Analyst AFA®.
Connect with Ken:
- Lanny CohenChief Technology Officer, CapgeminiNew York, San Francisco, ParisLanny CohenChief Technology Officer, Capgemini
Lanny S. Cohen is the global chief technology officer of Capgemini. As head of the Group’s global chief technology officer network, Cohen acts across all the Capgemini businesses to help integrate new technology trends, respond to client needs and is ultimately responsible for strengthening the relationship with partners on technology matters.
Cohen’s career reflects a devotion to furthering the value of business technology and its impact on creating sustainable performance improvement and competitive advantage for today's enterprises. Leveraging a diversity of experiences serving clients across industry sectors and process domains, Cohen brings perspectives from his client serving, practice management, and innovation leadership roles.
Connect with Lanny:
- Maria Lynne DaytonCo-Founder, Cedar Spring / Transterra Media / ProsParityWashington, DCMaria Lynne DaytonCo-Founder, Cedar Spring / Transterra Media / ProsParity
What is your focus in IoT?
How IoT can play a role in helping at-risk communities.
How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
Provision of:
- Water and environmental monitoring
- Increased agricultural efficiency
- SMART resilient infrastructure
- Youth training programs
- IoT service related jobs
- New IoT related revenue streams from data and innovative bond structures
Connect with Maria:
- Marian SingerCo-founder and CEO, Wellntel, Inc.Milwaukee, WIMarian SingerCo-founder and CEO, Wellntel, Inc.
What is your focus in IoT?
My focus is groundwater supply monitoring.
How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
Groundwater is a vital but stressed resource. Monitoring of groundwater supply has traditionally been a complex process, out of the price range of most private well owners and expensive even for professionals. Wellntel's information systems make groundwater visible. We are working with private well owners, rural towns, counties, state agencies, local and national conservancies, and trusts to deploy monitoring networks across the US to increase local understanding of their groundwater resources, improve resilience, and help make communities sustainable.
Connect with Marian:
- Mario AloscoPartner, Radius PartnersBurlington, MAMario AloscoPartner, Radius Partners
What is your focus in IoT?
I have worked with entrepreneurs and founders for over 25 years. I have always found that the value I bring to any client is the relationships I am able to facilitate for collaboration, exchanging ideas, resources, and investment. Radius Partners services businesses and investors in IoT, urban technology, software, clean energy, and industrial technology sectors.
How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
Connecting people, building teams, and turning concepts into companies by helping people succeed!
About Mario:
Mario Alosco co-founded Radius Partners with more than 25 years of experience in retained executive search. He works closely with his client companies and their boards to build winning leadership teams on behalf of corporate and private equity/venture capital investors. Mario’s practice includes clients in IoT, software, urban technology, energy, and industrial technology sectors. Mario has completed over 300 assignments for CEO, C-Suite and functional VP-level positions in sales, business development, marketing and engineering. His collaborative style and industry experience make him a proven partner to many of his clients that use him exclusively.
Prior to Radius, Mario was a partner with Mainstay Partners, a Boston-based private equity and venture capital boutique firm. He was also a senior executive at Acterna Corporation (f.k.a. Dynatech) where he recruited for CEO positions as well as recruiting to create high performance senior management teams for the Corporation’s 45 worldwide portfolio companies. At Acterna Mario created the Corporation’s in house retained executive search and talent development functions. Acterna was named one of the Boston Globe’s “Best Companies to Work for in Massachusetts” for several years. Mario was also involved in merger and acquisition activities assessing leadership teams during due diligence.
Mario has been a valued advisor to Boards and CEOs and served as an Independent Director and Board Secretary of Valpey Fisher Corporation (Nasdaq:VPF) until the successful sale of the company to CTS Corporation (NYSE: CTS).
Mario’s most rewarding efforts come as a volunteer and advisor to the Pine Street Inn, the largest resource for homeless men and women in New England. He has supported an intensive program that helps people with substance abuse and criminal history re-enter the work force and develop new attitudes for living.
Mario graduated from Hartwick College and studied Organizational Dynamics at Boston University.
Connect with Mario
- Mark BernardoVP, Professional Services - Americas, General ElectricFoxboro, MAMark BernardoVP, Professional Services - Americas, General Electric
What is your focus in IoT?
As Vice President, Professional Services at GE Digital, Mark is responsible for leading the services organization with a focus on making the Industrial Internet real for both manufacturing and infrastructure customers.How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
Solution design, Product Development and Marketing for software offering within the Industrial space.About Mark
Mark Bernardo has more than 25 years of experience in Solution design, Product Development and Marketing for software offering within the Industrial space. As Vice President, Professional Services at GE Digital, he is responsible for leading the services organization with a focus on making the Industrial Internet real for both manufacturing and infrastructure customers.
He is based in GE Digital’s Foxboro, Massachusetts location.
- Maureen McInerneyPublic Affairs Associate at MassINC; Managing Editor, Gateways magazineBoston, MAMaureen McInerneyPublic Affairs Associate at MassINC; Managing Editor, Gateways magazine
What is your focus in IoT?
Scalability of small business; Stormwater and CSO management.
How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
Providing insights to help business owners scale production and profitability. Using networks and systems to better understand the characteristics of and challenges within aging cities, specifically the relationship between water runoff, pollution, and infrastructure.
About Maureen:
Maureen McInerney is the Public Affairs Associate for MassINC and the Managing Editor of Gateways magazine. In that role, Maureen is responsible for outreach to communities, organizations, foundations, and elected officials. She coordinates events, messaging, and content production. Maureen is a graduate of Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Communication Studies.
Connect with Maureen:
- Melinda SimsPresident, V1 Engineering LLCFlorida, NYMelinda SimsPresident, V1 Engineering LLC
What is your focus in IoT?
Hardware design and fabrication.
How do you hope to make a difference with that focus?
I love building hardware, and I love building companies. I want to help startups bring their idea from lab bench to commercialization, by contributing a hands-on knack for prototyping, a depth of expertise in mechanical engineering, and a background in manufacturing.
Connect with Melinda:
- Michael MurrayGeneral ManagerWilmington, MAMichael MurrayGeneral Manager
What is your focus in IoT?
Smart City, Infrastructure, Buildings and AgricultureHow to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
Connecting and leading the community, MIT and others to LABS.Connect with Michael:
- Michael YoungDirector, Caterpillar VenturesMichael YoungDirector, Caterpillar Ventures
Mr. Young has over 28 years of professional experience with the past 11 years at Caterpillar. He currently leads Caterpillar Ventures with a portfolio of investments focused on Energy, Additive Manufacturing, Robotics, and Digital/Analytics.
Prior to his current position, Michael led Caterpillar’s Mergers and Acquisition actives across Asia Pacific, including acquisitions, joint ventures, and divestitures. During his six years in Beijing, Caterpillar closed more than a dozen transactions, mainly focused on joint venture activities in China. He has also held positions at Caterpillar related to corporate strategy, business development, and M&A, all with a focus on driving growth.Connect with Michael
- Nigel JacobCo-Founder, Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban MechanicsBoston, MANigel JacobCo-Founder, Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics
- Rob van KranenburgFounder, Resonance Design / IoT CouncilGhent, BelgiumRob van KranenburgFounder, Resonance Design / IoT Council
What is your focus in IoT?
Iot as a pragmatic cybernetic system to balance out resources and talent in society.How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
Thought leadershipConnect with Rob:
- Robert LentzPresident, Cyber Security StrategiesSun City Center, FloridaRobert LentzPresident, Cyber Security Strategies
What is your focus in IoT?
I am focusing primarily on security.
How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
I want to ensure that quality security is built-in early in IoT solutions.
About Robert
Robert Lentz is currently president of Cyber Security Strategies. He recently was on the prestigious Cyber Security Hall of Fame committee and Presidential Cyber Commission. He was the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for cyber security. He wrote groundbreaking policies that set the pathway for operating in cyberspace, He spent 26 years at the National Security Agency, where he served in the historic National Computer Security Center with many of the Internet pioneers and ultimately became NSA's Chief of Network Security. In November 2000, he was appointed CISO for the Secretary of Defense, culminating in 2009 assisting President Obama to approve the Comprehensive National Cyber Security Strategy and DOD Cyber Command. He stimulated unprecedented venture capital investment in cyber technology and numerous international Cyber Security agreements. He is recognized for creating the centers of academic excellence with now nearly 200 certified colleges and universities.
Connect with Robert
- Sara FraimDirector of Policy and Community Impact, Mass TLCBurlington, MASara FraimDirector of Policy and Community Impact, Mass TLC
What is your focus in IoT?
To connect, accelerate, and promote the IoT industry in MassachusettsHow to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
To ensure that Massachusetts is seen as a global hub of innovation in the IoT space(s) and the industries in which it serves.Connect with Sara:
- Scott McCarleySenior Director of Solution Management, PTCBoston, MAScott McCarleySenior Director of Solution Management, PTC
What is your focus in IoT?
My IoT focus is on Smart Cities including power, water, buildings, transportation and city services. I work with PTC’s ThingWorx Platform and the ThingWorx Ecosystem of smart city focused system integrators, telecommunication companies, hardware providers, and the marketplace of smart city Powered By ThingWorx Solutions to collaboratively accelerate the delivery of innovative new smart city applications and city wide platforms.
How do you hope to make a difference with that focus?
Smart City solutions leverage IoT to drive better outcomes and help solve some of the greatest challenges facing our planet in areas such as energy production and consumption, water quality and availability, safety and resilience, and aging critical infrastructure.
About Scott
Scott McCarley is Senior Director of Solution Management at PTC focused on Smart Cities which includes Power, Water, Buildings and City Services. For the past 4 years Scott has worked with PTC’s ThingWorx Platform partners and customers to leverage the Internet of Things in the City space as part of the ThingWorx Product Management and Solution Management teams. He currently has responsibility for the leadership of Smart City market analysis, go-to-market activities, and Smart City solution requirements. Scott has over 15 years of software management experience in roles ranging from software development to leading marketing departments. Scott holds a M.B.A in Marketing and Strategy from Carnegie Mellon and a B.A. from Colby College.
- Tom SwiftSenior Attorney, Swift LawMassachusettsTom SwiftSenior Attorney, Swift Law
What is your focus in IoT?
Compliance, investment opportunity and structure.
How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
Risk mitigation, cost reduction.
Connect with Tom:
About Tom:
Tom Swift is an AVVO Rated digital media and business transactional attorney with a deep attachment to his entrepreneurial background. Tom Swift Associates provides unique, expert, and fully integrated strategic and legal solutions for executives and professionals in all creative business markets. Risk management, business structure and transactional expertise is the hallmark.
Swift brings to INEX a deep and early expertise in streaming and digital information transfer and protection, rights and license agreements in all media. His experience in transactional work was forged in the fires of Open Court and includes trials to verdict in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, The Central and the Northern Districts of California, The Supreme Court of Hawaii and of Illinois, multiple Pro Hac Vice appearances nationwide including the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and argument before the Unites States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and admission to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Swift is a licensed attorney in good standing with a perfect record for 25 years of practice.
- Wendi GoldsmithDirector, Center for Urban Watershed ResilienceBoston, MAWendi GoldsmithDirector, Center for Urban Watershed Resilience
What is your focus in IoT?
Integration of IoT with conservation and infrastructure; resilient cities; space weather and EMP vulnerability.How to you hope to make a difference with that focus?
Share my experience, technical skills, leadership, and connections with other innovators for strategy development and performance results.Connect with Wendi: