Empowering Women in Innovation: TenU Hosts Panel Discussion Led by Industry and Academic Leaders

TenU Hosts is a series of events offering opportunities for US and UK policymakers, thought leaders and leading practitioners to hold topical conversations in research commercialization. At this event, a distinguished panel of innovation leaders discussed how to engage and retain more women in the innovation sector, citing research-based evidence as well as reporting on their own experience of attracting women to their workplaces.

TenU member Lesley Millar-Nicholson, Executive Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office, chaired the panel of speakers, featuring:

• Almesha Campbell, AUTM Chair-Elect and Assistant Vice President for Research and Economic Development at Jackson State University
• Anne Lane, TenU member and CEO of UCL Business
• Fiona Murray, Professor of Entrepreneurship & Associate Dean of Innovation at MIT Sloan School of Management
• Gaele Lalahy, Chief Operating Officer of Balance-App
• Maina Bhaman, Partner at Sofinnova Partners