Elaine Chen

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Elaine is an entrepreneurship educator and a corporate innovation consultant. Her extensive experience includes serving at the VP level of 6 companies, including Rethink Robotics, Zeo, Zeemote and SensAble Technologies. She has brought numerous hardware and software products to market and holds 22 patents. She has been teaching startup and corporate entrepreneurship in higher education since 2011. Elaine is also the Founder and Managing Director of Conceptspring, where she helps corporate leaders make their organizations more entrepreneurial via innovation consulting services and custom training programs. Elaine holds a BS and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

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