He was a founding judge of the MIT $10K now $100K) Entrepreneurship Competition.  With the support of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, he organizes and coordinates " Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans", a popular IAP course.  He also co-developed The Manager’s Legal Function course, in which he has been lecturing since 1984.  He is a frequent speaker for the MIT Enterprise Forum's Satellite Broadcast Series (SBS) where he has spoken about company valuation and structuring venture capital deals.   Reprints from Hadzima's popular Boston Business Journal column, "Starting Up," are available.

Joe is a Senior Lecturer at Sloan School of Management, where he has lectured on a variety of subjects since 1984.  He received a B.Sc. from MIT in 1973, a S.M. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1977 and a Juris Doctore law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1979.  He has been involved with over 120 new ventures over the last 25 years as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, lawyer and board member.  As a practicing lawyer for 17 years he was Partner, Founder and Director of the Sullivan & Worcester LLP High Tech/New Ventures Group.

Joost Bonsen studies innovation everywhere, from invention in research labs through action in entrepreneurial startups and in innovation ecosystems generally. Formerly an entrant, mentor, judge, and Lead Organizer of MIT's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition he has been instrumental in the growth of the Competition, including the recent doubling of the prize fund to include a Development and Social Impact Track. Joost is co-founder of the Howtoons project which distributes educational cartoons which show kids everywhere "How To" build things. He most recently finished the Management of Technology (MOT) program at the MIT Sloan School of Management with his thesis The Innovation Institute: From Creative Inquiry Through Real-World Impact at MIT. Prior to MIT Sloan, Bonsen ran the MIT Founders Project which quantified the economic impact of MIT-related entrepreneurs, findings ultimately published by BankBoston as MIT: Impact of Innovation. Joost did his Bachelor's in Bio-Electrical Engineering also at MIT.

Among his many MIT roles, Bonsen was most recently Teaching Assistant for the path-breaking MIT-Harvard joint-class “Technology & Competitive Strategy”, combining student technologists from over a dozen different MIT departments with technology-savvy business students from MIT Sloan and HBS. Bonsen is fascinated by entrepreneurial challenges faced by developing nations and, most recently, served as TA for “Developmental Entrepreneurship”, an effort to bring suitable technologies, entrepreneurial ideas, and economic benefit to even the poorest of the global poor http://courses.media.mit.edu/mas967. Bonsen has his Bachelor’s in Bio-Electrical Engineering from MIT.

Sombit is a first-year MBA student in the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program at MIT Sloan.  Prior to coming to Sloan, Sombit managed marketing and web development for GlobalGiving.org, an Internet marketplace dedicated to connecting donors with social entrepreneurs from around the world.  During his time at GlobalGiving, Sombit helped grow the organization from a small startup to a leader in the web philanthropy sector, now with over 400 high-impact grassroots projects in 80 countries.  At Sloan, Sombit is the Managing Director of the MIT $100K Competition and a member of the Sloan Senate.   His long-term aspirations include learning to play "Oh Yoko" on the piano and starting a socially responsible company that captures the elusive double bottom line.

Mr. Chery has spent over 12 years as a high-tech entrepreneurial executive, mentor, and advisor specializing in identifying and launching early-stage concepts into running companies.

Yonald served as President of HingePoint, applying distributed computing technology to creating scalable business applications and workflows, founded by Eric Peters (former CTO of Avid).

In early 2005, Yonald was Founder & President of Calenova, developing software solutions for people across organizations to set-up and schedule meetings.

Before Calenova in late 2002, Yonald was co-founder & CEO of Mok3 (now branded as EveryScape), providing services & solutions to rapidly develop photorealistic 3D content & visualizations for clients in hospitality, tourism, urban planning, and architectural design.

In early 2001, Yonald was the founding executive of Newbury Networks, funded by idealab!'s Boston incubator, developing location-based services & security solutions for WLAN. He also served as CTO and Vice-President of Engineering of Newbury Networks, responsible for all early product development and intellectual property development related activities. Newbury Networks was acquired by Trapeze Networks, a subsidiary of Belden (NYSE:BDC).

Yonald founded Virtual Ink in 1997 with his graduate school colleagues and served as CTO and as a Director until early 2001. He conceived the flagship product, mimio, a portable retrofit pen-tracking system that records handwritten notes from a conventional whiteboard to a personal computer. The business was launched while at MIT and won $10,000 in 1997 in the prestigious MIT $50k Entrepreneurship Competition. Virtual Ink was acquired by Newell Rubbermaid (NYSE:NWL).  Download the Virtual Ink Executive Summary.

Mr. Chery currently holds 12 patents in the United States, 4 patents in the United Kingdom, with several more pending in the United States, Europe, and Asia.  See an IPVision Forward Patent Landscape Map of Mr Chery's patents.

Mr. Chery often speaks about technology strategy, team-building, business plan development, and entrepreneurship and has lectured on such topics at MIT's Sloan School of Management.  Mr. Chery holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, both from MIT.