OUR TEAM
Our founding team at the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship is passionate about and experienced in educating and supporting entrepreneurs in the Brown ecosystem. Teaching entrepreneurship is not a spectator sport, so as startup folks ourselves, we try to practice what we preach: move quickly, collaborate freely, and think expansively.

Danny Warshay '87
Executive Director

Jonas Clark
Associate Director

Liz Malone AM '20
Assistant Director for Programs

Jason Harry
Director, Breakthrough Lab

Abi Durmaz
Events & Operations Coordinator

Sheila Haggerty
Academic Program Manager

Fabiana Sarkis '22
Design & Multimedia Intern

Alyssa Trejo AM '22
Communications Fellow
MENTOR LEADERSHIP

Alan Harlam
Mentor Leader

Arnell Milhouse
Entrepreneur in Residence

Deb Mills-Scofield '82
Mentor Maven

Laura Thompson '09
Entrepreneur in Residence

Hamzah Ansari
B-Lab 2020 Entrepreneur in Residence
FACULTY & RESEARCH

Howard Anderson
Adjunct Lecturer in Engineering, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School

Emily Ferrier
Entrepreneurship Librarian

Rafael La Porta
Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney University Professor of Economics & Nelson Center Faculty Director

Jennifer Nazareno
Assistant Professor of Public Health & Entrepreneurship

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan
Professor of Practice, School of Engineering, & Director of the Venture Capital Inclusion Lab

Bobby Pakzad-Hurson
Jonathan M. Nelson Assistant Professor of Economics and Entrepreneurship

Larry Rand '64
Visiting Associate Professor of the Practice

Linda Scott
Visiting Scholar and Professor Emeritus, DP World Chair of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Oxford

Lauren Brown
Business, Entrepreneurship, & Organizations, '22

Madison Frye
Engineering, '21

Elvia Perez
Business Economics & Political Science, '22

Francesca Raoelison
Sociology, '22

Mariel Rosic
Neuroscience, '20.5
BROWN EP
Meet the leadership of Brown EP, the long-running and student-led entrepreneurship organization with a deep history of supporting Brown founders.

Isabella Espinosa '24
EP co-president