我们的团队
The 创业中心 is 工作人员ed with passionate innovators and entrepreneurs who support students, 教师, 工作人员, 校友, 合作伙伴, 赞助商, and other participants in the Trinity Innovation ecosystem.
Danny Briere，执行董事
该中心的首任主任是丹尼·布里埃尔, who brings to this role more than four decades of experience as an inventor and entrepreneur. He has started multiple successful firms—including TeleChoice, 哪个专注于前沿, high-impact technologies—and he has served as a consultant to more than 200 start-ups. Briere的字母是B.A. 和一个M.B.A. from Duke University, where he majored in public policy and economics. 他在…的董事会任职 Duke University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship initiative 十年来. 他的经验跨越多个行业, 包括电信, 互联网技术, 航空航天, 可替代能源, 健康和医疗, 社交网络, 教育技术, 以及面向年轻人的非营利组织. 他拥有16项专利，还有几项正在申请中.
在政策层面, Briere has supported innovation ecosystems in 合作伙伴hip with universities, 公司, 和政府, 包括康涅狄格州. 他是Startup Connecticut的首席执行官和联合创始人, a statewide initiative to help start-ups drive job creation, 最终演变成CTNext. Briere has successfully worked to promote innovation among young people, 包括长期担任董事会成员 康涅狄格发明公约 and as chief entrepreneurship officer at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. 他也是超过 15本书 and more than 1,000 articles in telecommunications, computer networking, and other topics.
Carlos Espinosa, Director of 社区 Relations and Strategic Partnerships
Carlos Espinosa is the director of 社区 Relations & Strategic Partnerships for Trinity’s 创业中心 and the Office of 社区 Relations. 卡洛斯是 responsible for positioning The Center as a critical stakeholder within 哈特福德’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and bridging the assets of 全球十大网赌正规平台 with 哈特福德. 卡洛斯与员工密切合作建造, 管理, and grow relationships with cross-sector stakeholders whose entrepreneurial priorities are consistent with the College’s mission and who enhance the Center’s academic and co-curricular programs through applied learning opportunities that help 全球十大网赌正规平台 students expand their innovative and entrepreneurial mindset, 工作经验, 以及专业网络.
Carlos joined 全球十大网赌正规平台 in August 2000, as the head of Trinfo.咖啡馆 and has served in many roles representing the school in the community, including representing the College on the boards of Launch[H]artford, 福吉城工程, 南区院校社区联盟(SINA), 以及贝蒂·诺克斯基金会. 卡洛斯·埃斯皮诺萨获得了B.A. in Educational Studies and Sociology (1996) and then an M.A. 1998年从全球十大网赌正规平台获得公共政策学士学位.
妮莎·乔西，项目经理
Nisha Joshee serves as the program 管理r for the 创业中心 at 全球十大网赌正规平台. 她的职责包括, 实现, and managing innovation and entrepreneurship programs, such as the Innovation Fellowship and Summit Innovation Challenge, 以及该中心赞助的其他项目. She brings over 20 years of experience in higher education in various capacities including program and project 管理ment in institution-wide initiatives, 组织领导, 学术部门运作, 学生事务. 与学生合作, 教师, 工作人员, 和社区, Nisha aims to empower students to bridge liberal arts education with innovation and entrepreneurship, cultivating inclusive opportunities as global leaders.
妮莎手里拿的是M.S. in Organizational Effectiveness and Leadership and a B.S. in Organizational Leadership from Charter Oak State College. 她目前正在攻读硕士学位.B.A. 在康涅狄格大学.
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Dr. Ewa Syta，学院领导
Dr. Ewa Syta, an Associate Professor of Computer Science, received her Ph.D. 耶鲁大学计算机科学专业毕业. 在加入耶鲁大学之前，她获得了B.S. 和M.S. in Computer Science and Cryptology from Military University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests lie in computer security and distributed systems. The long-term objective of her research is to bring cutting-edge cryptographic techniques to real-world applications to shape tomorrow’s digital world. She has been working on effective identity 管理ment methods, 更强的匿名通信技术, practical privacy-preserving authentication protocols, 无偏分布式随机协议, ways to keep Internet authorities honest and accountable, 最近, 关于区块链技术, 以及真实世界协议的可证明安全性. Her current research work is funded by the NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Medium Collaborative Award: “Applied Cryptographic Protocols with Provably Secure Foundation”.
里德·刘易斯，常驻企业家
Reid helps students develop their innovations and turn them into startup 公司 following the Lean Startup Method first introduced at Stanford University and now taught nation-wide by the National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps. His real-world experience as an entrepreneur provides invaluable context to 全球十大网赌正规平台 students who are just starting their journeys and helps the students expand their innovative and entrepreneurial mindset, 工作经验, 以及专业网络.
里德创立了, 领导, and sold several technology 公司 including Group Logic and Proxidyne and advised many more allowing him to advise from a position of experience.
Reid earned a BS in Computer Science with a second major in Economics and a concentration in Mathematics in 1984 from Duke University.
Rick Cleary，常驻企业家
Rick Cleary ’85 is an entrepreneur with 30 years’ experience in high growth, 美国和东南亚的转型和创业公司. He co-founded specialty finance company CYS which he IPO’d on the NYSE, and served as COO. 前半胱氨酸, he started Iron Mountain’s (NYSE:IRM) digital archive business, and ran Thomson Reuters’ First Call operations in SEA. After graduating from Trinity, Rick was at Xerox and DLJ.
里克得了B.A. 从全球十大网赌正规平台和M.B.A. from Cornell in Entrepreneurial Finance, where he was an adjunct professor. 他曾在全球十大网赌正规平台董事会任职, as a trustee of the University of Virginia Architecture School, 以及康科德音乐学院.
