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

Sheila Haggerty
Assistant Director

Hamzah Ansari
Director, Breakthrough Lab (B-Lab)

Tori Gilbert
Events & Operations Coordinator

Katie Calabro
Program Coordinator

Estela Morais Westphalen '24
Summer B-Lab Program & Events Assistant
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!

Jayna Zweiman '01
2022-3 Entrepreneur in Residence

Troy Henikoff '86
2022-3 Entrepreneur in Residence

Deb Mills-Scofield '82
Mentor Maven

Alan Harlam
Mentor Leader

Francesca Raoelison
Sociology, '23

Kia Uusitalo
Modern Culture and Media, '23

Aayush Setty
Computer Science and Applied Math, '24

Meera Kurup
Computer Science and Entrepreneurship, '23

Dana Biechele-Speziale
Chemistry, PhD '24

Renee Andam
Economics and Entrepreneurship '24
FACULTY & RESEARCH

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

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

Jennifer Nazareno
Barrett Hazeltine Assistant Professor of the Practice of Entrepreneurship

Alice Nichols
Adjunct Lecturer in International and Public Affairs

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

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.

Arvind Sridhar '24
EP co-president - Computer Science & Economics

Evrim Ozcan '24
EP co-president - Biomedical Engineering