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Board of Advisors
The TCN Advisory Board is comprised of key members of New England’s entrepreneurial, investor, academic, political and service communities and provides critical thought leadership and feedback to the TCN Board of Directors and the TCN Program Line Managers. As part of the TCN Community, the Advisory Board uses its passion about the value of entrepreneurship to help foster the growth of New England's broader innovation economy.
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Gus Weber Gus is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Polaris Venture Partners. Previously, he was the Business Development and Community Relations Manager for the Microsoft New England Research and Development (NERD) Center where he was responsible for Microsoft’s image and relationship within the technical and innovation communities in Boston. As a core member of the NERD leadership team, Gus also interfaces with key Redmond business leaders on growing and expanding the NERD site. Previously to this role, Gus was the Academic Relations Manager for the Greater Northeast US, where he worked to create awareness and drive use of Microsoft technology and innovations among students and educators to enable them to enhance learning, grow the knowledge economy, pursue career goals, and explore their personal interests. Prior to Joining Microsoft, Gus was Director of Development for the Golisano College of Computing at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the largest college of computing in the country. In this role, as a member of the college leadership team, Gus worked to build sustainable and mutually beneficial research and strategic partnerships with key corporations and partners, in addition to managing the colleges marketing and communications strategy and staff. Gus currently serves on the Board of MITX, the IT Collaborative, University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Science Dean’s Advisory Council, and the City University of New York, City College Computer Science Advisory Board. Gus is an alumnus of the Rochester Institute of Technology and resides in Clinton, MA with his wife and son.
Board of Advisor meetings are facilitated through the generous support and contribution of the following TCN Sponsors:
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