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