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
Sheila Haggerty
Associate Director
Tori Gilbert
Student Program Manager
Katie Calabro
Program Coordinator
Monica Phan
Communications Coordinator
Alexis Alston '17
2024 B-Lab Director
MENTOR LEADERSHIP
Meet our fantastic group of Mentor Leaders: experienced entrepreneurs who are available to support student and alumni founders, as well as help folks navigate their entrepreneurial careers. If you’d like to chat with them about your venture, kick around a nascent idea, or talk startup life in general – drop them a line or SIGN UP FOR THEIR OFFICE CHATS HERE!
David Ronick '89
Entrepreneur in Residence
Yuri Tomikawa '12
Entrepreneur in Residence
Meet our fantastic group of Peer-Entrepreneurs-in-Residence: young, experienced entrepreneurs who are available to support their fellow founders. If you’d like to chat with them about your venture, kick around a nascent idea, or talk startup life in general – drop them a line.
Vini Amit Rupchandani
Psychology and Physics, '24.5
Estela Morais Westphalen
International and Public Affairs, Data Science Fluency '24 & MPA '25
Lana Nguyen
Biology & Entrepreneurship '25
Lauren Diamond
Economics & Entrepreneurship '25
Viktor Bardi
Applied Mathematics and Economics & Entrepreneurship '25
FACULTY & RESEARCH
Hamzah Ansari
Lecturer, School of Engineering
Howard Anderson
Adjunct Lecturer in Engineering, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School
Thano Chaltas '87
Professor of the Practice, School of Engineering
Emily Ferrier
Entrepreneurship Librarian
Jason Harry
Hugh W. Pearson '58 Professor of the Practice of Technology and Entrepreneurship
Jessica Kim '00
Adjunct Lecturer
Abbie Kohler '20
Adjunct Lecturer
Rafael La Porta
Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney University Professor of Economics
David Levari
Lawrence A. Rand and Tiina Smith Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences and Entrepreneurship
Larisa Leventon
Professor of the Practice, School of Engineering, Academic Director, Masters in Technology Leadership, School of Professional Studies
Rich Morales
Professor of the Practice, School of Engineering
Alice Nichols
Adjunct Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Banu Ozkazanc-Pan
Barrett Hazeltine 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
Fran Slutsky
Adjunct Lecturer in Engineering
BROWN EP
Meet the leadership of Brown EP, the long-running and student-led entrepreneurship organization with a deep history of supporting Brown founders.
Sohum Sanu '25
EP Co-President - Computer Science & Psychology
Julia Stepanenko '26
EP Co-President - Computer Science & Economics