Diane Hessan, CEO Salient Ventures, Entrepreneur, Investor, Board Member and columnist

• Topic: The Entrepreneur’s Journey: Lessons from the Front Line
• When: Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019 2 to 3:30 p.m.
• Where: Moloney Hall, University Crossing

Speaker bio: Diane Hessan is a successful entrepreneur, marketer and author. She is currently working on a variety of projects in the Boston tech ecosystem, is an active angel investor, and is engaged in a wide-ranging longitudinal study of the American voter as a columnist for The Boston Globe. She is also Chairman of C Space (formerly Communispace), where she was CEO and founder. She led Communispace to 13 years of exponential growth, and it now has over 500 employees, and offices in over a dozen countries. RSVP Now. 

The GE2 is established to develop and promote global partnerships and collaborations between the Manning School of Business and leading international institutions in the entrepreneurship education and research. Several GE2 activities have been underway:

• Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Minor in Entrepreneurship
• Global DifferenceMaker

Future plans include the development of both a faculty exchange and faculty research.