John Chisholm – United States Of America (USA)

John Chisholm has three decades of experience as entrepreneur, executive, angel investor, and most recently, author. As past president of the MIT Alumni Association, he is an ex officio member of the MIT Corporation (board of trustees). He also serves on the Corporation Development Committee and is a trustee of the Santa Fe Institute. He is author of Unleash Your Inner Company: Use Passion and Perseverance to Build Your Ideal Business (Greenleaf, 2015). He serves on the Global Partners Council of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the advisory board of the Gruter Institute for Law & Human Behavior, and on MIT Corporation Visiting Committees for Social Sciences and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, as well as the MIT Corporation Joint Advisory Committee. He advises entrepreneurs through the MIT Venture Mentoring Service, the Thiel Foundation 20under20 Fellowship, and the Plug and Play Tech Centers. He has been recognized with the Lobdell and Bronze Beaver Awards for extraordinary volunteer service to MIT. The author or co-author of two patents, he holds EECS SB/SM degrees from MIT and an MBA from HBS.