President’s Advisory Board for Enterprise Creation, Entrepreneurship and Industry Engagement

The President’s Advisory Board for Enterprise Creation, Entrepreneurship and Industry Engagement was convened in Fall 2023 to assess CMU’s current enterprise creation, entrepreneurship and corporate engagement ecosystems as well as to make forward-looking recommendations that lay the groundwork for the future.

PAB Members

  • Theresa Mayer, co-chair; Carnegie Mellon University, Vice President For Research
  • Ronald Bianchini, co-chair; Microsoft Corporation, Distinguished Engineer; Member of the CMU Board of Trustees
  • Mary Jo Dively, Carnegie Mellon University, Vice President and General Counsel; Secretary of the Corporation
  • Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, George Westinghouse Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Rebecca Nugent, Carnegie Mellon University, Head, Department of Statistics & Data Science and Fienberg Professor, Statistics & Data Sciences
  • Sanjiv Singh, Carnegie Mellon University, Consulting Professor, Robotics Institute; Near Earth Autonomy, CEO & Co-Founder
  • Jeanne Cunicelli, UPMC-Enterprises, President; Member of the CMU Board of Trustees
  • Sam Reiman, Richard King Mellon Foundation, Director; Member of the CMU Board of Trustees
  • Stephen Moret, Strada Education Foundation, President & CEO
  • Luis Von Ahn, Duolingo, Founder & CEO
  • Meredith Grelli, Carnegie Mellon University, Managing Director & Interim Executive Director, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship; Assistant Dean of Entrepreneurship Initiatives, School of Computer Science; Director, Project Olympus; Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business; Founder, Wigle Whiskey and Threadbare Cider & Mead
  • Michael Donohue, Carnegie Mellon University, Tech Investor and Startup Mentor, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship; WhatsApp, Co-founder
  • Chris Martin, BNY, Senior Director, Responsible AI
  • Parag Batavia, Carnegie Mellon University, Adjunct Instructor, Robotics Institute; Neya Systems, Founder