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ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP: FACULTY
 Robert Creeden
Robert J. Creeden is Managing Director of the Center for Innovative Ventures (CIV) at Partners Healthcare, where he oversees the creation and launching of new ventures generated from Partners innovative research discoveries.
Mr. Creeden has spent more than 25 years commercializing new technologies and promoting emerging businesses, including 15 years experience in early-stage venture capital investing experience and culminating in his 2004 appointment by Partners to establish the CIV. While serving in a leadership role on the boards of portfolio companies and developing strong relationships with co-investors from New England and across the country, Bob has reviewed more than 2,000 business plans and invested in more than 40 companies.
 Jack Derby
As president and founder of Derby Management, Jack Derby provides strategy, marketing and other management services.
Prior to forming Derby Management, Jack served as CEO of Mayer Electronics Corporation, President of CB Sports, President of Litton Industries Medical Systems, CEO of Datamedix Corporation and President of Becton Dickinson Medical Systems.
Recently named to Mass High Techs All Star Team, Jack is a frequent speaker at numerous business organizations including the MIT Enterprise Forum, the Small Business Association of New England, Harvard Business School, and the WPI Venture Forum. He is also a guest lecturer at MIT where he teaches classes in business plan writing for undergraduate students and for the MIT-Singapore University Program.
Jack is an active board member in a number of emerging companies including: the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, Brainshark Corporation, Hybricon Corporation and Beacon Hospice. He has served as the Vice Chair of the Smaller Business Association of New England and in 2004 was the recipient of SBANEs Pro Bono Publico Award for his significant contributions to the entrepreneurial community. Jack has also been a Director of MITs Technology Capital Network and the President of the University Club of Boston.
 Pamela Winer Goldberg
A Tufts alumna (A77), Pamela Winer Goldberg is the director of the university's Entrepreneurial Leadership Program. For more than a decade, Ms. Goldberg held entrepreneurial positions in both for profit and non-profit start up ventures. Prior to that, she started the investment banking arm of State Street Bank after having worked in mergers and acquisitions for Citibank and Banker's Trust in New York.
Immediately before coming to Tufts, Ms. Goldberg was the Director of Business Relations at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. While at Babson, she managed the affiliated businesses of the college, oversaw the various construction projects on campus, restored strong community and town relationships and acted as a key liaison during the creation of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Mass.
In addition to her B.A. from Tufts University, Ms. Goldberg holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
 Jeremy Halpern
Jeremy Halpern is a Managing Director of Evolution Advisors, LLC. Concurrently, Jeremy is serving as the Executive Vice President of Business Development for MobileTek Corporation an angel backed provider of cutting edge consumer products enabling smarter mobility. He is currently an active Angel Investor, Chairman of The Capital Network's Financing Roundtable series, and a Mentor at MIT's Venture Mentoring Service.
Previously, Jeremy practiced as an Attorney with Goodwin Procter LLP and Bingham McCutchen, LLP in Boston and at Irell & Manella LLP in Los Angeles. He has assisted clients with numerous private equity, venture capital and angel financing transactions (CoreLogic; SecureWorks; Stamps.com; etoys; Equipnet; and NewRiver), as well as debt transactions (Marriott; OPIC; and Raytheon). Jeremy has assisted clients with both buy-side acquisitions (Los Angeles Dodgers; Charter Communications; eDreams; Exigen Group; Zio Corp.; and various companies by Boston Scientific; TA Associates; and Accenture) and a variety of equity and asset sales, liquidations, and divestitures (Photobition Group USA; the Boston Red Sox; and RealityWave). Jeremy has also advised clients on strategic partnerships, commercial technology matters, outsource business development and corporate and strategic planning projects.
While getting his B.A., at University of California, Berkeley, Jeremy spent nearly two years as the Executive Chairman of a concert and special events production company. Jeremy received his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.
 John Hodgman
Since his retirement in 2001, as President and CEO of the Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation (MTDC), Mr. Hodgman has focused his professional activities on teaching entrepreneurship and assisting non-profit organizations that deal with education and career development. He is the Howard Foley professor for High Tech Workforce Development at University of Massachusetts-Lowells School of Engineering and an Entrepreneurship consultant with New Directions, Inc. Prior to his 15 years leading MTDC, he was CEO of Stewart Systems Corporation, CEO of the Massachusetts Employment Security Agency, and Director of Personnel Management for Coopers & Lybrand-New England. Mr. Hodgman earned a B.A., magna cum laude, from Boston College and attended the University of Virginia Law School before serving in the United States Air Force Reserve. Mr. Hodgman, who has been teaching entrepreneurship at Tufts for almost 10 years, is currently teaching AS192S-Social Entrepreneurship (Innovative Nonprofits).
Sheryl Read
Sheryl Read has over 15 years of sales and marketing management experience in business-to-business service sectors. Her experience encompasses working with companies in early stages to large, Fortune 500 enterprises. As Senior Vice President of CMGI, she was one of three senior managers who positioned the company for the IPO. While there, she turned a monthly six-figure loss into a 28% operating margin within a year and a half and started two new divisions. As Vice President Business Development at Copy Cop, Inc., Read initiated the process to shift the company's sales and service focus from a retail to a b-to-b model and increased the b-to-b client base by 30% annually. As one of five senior managers, she was instrumental in positioning the company for ultimate sale. Read is currently the Principal of Sales Solutions, a sales and marketing management outsourcing organization. She is an active board member of The Boston Club, a senior executive women's organization and has an M.B.A. from Simmons College's Graduate School of Management.
 Nancy Wilson
Nancy Wilson has over 20 years experience in non-profit and for profit management, in the United States and overseas, including direct management and bottom-line responsibility. Her career thus far is quite diverse, with a consistent emphasis on strengthening organizations.
Since January 2004, Ms. Wilson has served as Director and Associate Dean of Tufts Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. She is responsible for the overall programming and management of this university-wide initiative to engage students, faculty and alumni in a lifelong commitment to civic engagement.
Recently, Ms. Wilson served briefly as Executive Director of the Africa Foundation, directing the implementation of a new organizational strategy. Prior to that, she completed five years in an international management consulting firm, where she became partner. She successfully started a new practice area in the firm, growing to a profitable team of 30 consultants within 18 months, directed teams working across all industries, and managed teams working across a wide range of consulting fields: strategy, customer relationship management, supply chain, cost reduction, human resources, change management and finance. Given her wide background, she has had numerous roles as project director for multi-disciplinary projects, where cross-functional integration is required. Clients consistently sought her team's work in follow-on phases because of the high quality of her initial work.
Ms. Wilson has also worked in all aspects of non-profit organizations: fund-raising and grant-making; project start-up and program development; consulting; training; monitoring; and evaluation. The content of her work has included community development, micro-enterprise development, gender equity policy, cooperatives, worker-ownership, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, literacy, and environmental education.
From working in many countries and with many cultures, Ms. Wilson has developed a consultative and inclusive management style, especially suited to leading teams of diverse, capable and energetic individuals. Through her work in both the United States and Africa, she has consulted to or managed culturally diverse work-groups, to expand the contribution of historically under-represented groups.
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