Mike Grandinetti combines deep operating experience with world-class teaching. Over 20 years, he has founded and scaled eight venture-backed technology companies, achieving two NASDAQ IPOs and seven strategic exits to IBM, Oracle, and others. Now an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School and Faculty Director of Brown University’s Post-Graduate Program in Innovation Leadership, Mike has delivered 100+ keynotes on five continents and led 200+ hackathons and design sprints. He teaches at leading institutions including Columbia, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, NYU Abu Dhabi, and Babson. A former McKinsey consultant with over a decade at MIT Sloan and a 3× TEDx speaker, Mike is a Senior Advisor to the MIT CIO Symposium.