Staff

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Timothy Prestero, CEO. Timothy is a cofounder of Design that Matters and the related ThinkCycle initiative. He is co-inventor on three patents for cholera treatment devices. He is a graduate of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, holding M.S. degrees in Mechanical and Oceanographic Engineering, and a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Davis. Timothy was a Peace Corps volunteer in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa in the Urban Environmental Management program, where he worked as a consulting engineer and project manager for a city public works department. He has traveled throughout West Africa, Latin America and Asia. He is fluent in French. He is a Martin Fellow at the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, and was named an Ashoka Affiliate in 2004.

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Lubna Maria Nabi, Director of Resource Development. Lubna has a professional background in fundraising and program management and an academic background in international development. In January 2006, she completed an M.A. in International Relations at Boston University, where she was a Graduate Fellow. Before moving to Boston, she worked for the Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston organizing student activities and doing fundraising for the Newman Center at the University of Houston. Lubna honed her fundraising skills as Director of Development at Teach For America–Houston, prior to working for the Archdiocese. She has a B.A. in Humanities Honors from the University of Texas at Austin, where she specialized in Economic Development in Latin America and won the Karen Cameron Humanities Honors Thesis Prize. Lubna is fluent in Spanish, has traveled to 27 countries on six continents, and spent eight years of her youth living in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Lyla Blume Hardesty, Resource Coordinator. Lyla's work involves resource development and coordination of evaluation systems. Before joining the DtM team, Lyla worked at MIT assisting professors in the Nuclear Engineering Department. She is currently finishing an Ed.M. in International Educational Development at Boston University, where her thesis will focus on bilingual education and employment in Niger. In 2005, she completed her B.A. in English with minors in African Studies and French at Boston University. Lyla has spent time living and working in West Africa and has traveled in China and Europe. She is fluent in French and conversational in Hausa.

Fellows and Interns

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Sami Nerenberg, DtM Design and Marketing Intern. After volunteering here during her last semester at the Rhode Island School of Design and finishing a contracted position at GreenBlue in Charlottesville, Virginia over the summer of 2007, Sami returned to the office as the new full-time Design and Marketing Intern. Sami received her degree from RISD in Industrial Design with a concentration in Sustainability receiving the department’s Rachel Carson award and the school’s Community Service award. She will bring her skill set to DtM to create a coherent brand identity for the organization, enhance internal operations, as well as help coordinate events and networking opportunities to increase DtM’s contact and support base.

DtM Board of Directors

Michael Foster, Director. Michael is a graduate chemical engineer with an MBA in international finance, and retired from Rohm and Haas Company as a Corporate Vice President and President of their $600 Million Circuit Board Materials business in 2001 after 34 years of service. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Foster held positions of increasing responsibility as Financial Director of Mexico and Central American subsidiaries, along with managerial positions in operations, marketing and mergers and acquisitions. Presently, Mr. Foster teaches and guest lectures on the subjects of business, strategy and mergers & acquisitions at Bentley College and Babson College. He also mentors entrepreneurs as part of MIT's Venture Mentoring Service. Mr. Foster is married and lives with his wife in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Jonathan Moulton, Director.As Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Jon Moulton is responsible for Aspect Software's worldwide legal activities, including advising senior management and the board of directors on legal transactions, overseeing corporate compliance and governance initiatives, managing mergers, acquisitions and other commercial transactions, as well as providing legal support to the sales, services and partner organizations at Aspect Software. Aspect Software is one of the largest software companies in Massachusetts with approximately $600M in annual sales and ranks 76th on the Software 500.

Jon has twenty years of legal experience working in the software and technology industry. Before joining Aspect Software, he was the founding partner and co-chair of the corporate practice for the Boston office of the international law firm, DLA Piper Rudnick. Prior to that position, Jon was a partner in the Boston technology and venture capital law firm of Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault. In 2004, Jon was chosen as one of Massachusetts' "Super Lawyers" in a joint survey conducted by the publishers of Law & Politics magazine and Boston magazine as part of a special issue titled "The Top Attorneys In Massachusetts."

He is a member of the American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations, as well as the American Bar Association's Committee on Technology and Intellectual Property. Jon earned his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. He also holds a bachelor's degree from Westmont College in Santa Barbara.

Christopher Noble, Director. Christopher is an engineer, executive, and entrepreneur with experience in high-technology business, international operations, and fundraising for high-tech startups and non-profits. He is the founder and CEO of Ultimate Balance, Inc., which has developed wearable electronic motion-sensing for physical therapy, sports and lifestyle applications.

Mr. Noble previously worked for twenty years in corporate strategy, marketing and general management at the executive P&L and officer level in technology infrastructure companies ranging from the Fortune 500 (Schlumberger, Analog Devices) to growth companies (CP Clare) to startups (Philsar). He has managed and transferred operations between the US, Canada, Europe and Latin America, built businesses and management teams, and negotiated intellectual property licenses and acquisitions internationally. Mr. Noble has raised financing and served on the Board of several private companies. Before his business career he worked for four years on oil exploration rigs in rural South America. He is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

Mr. Noble's past non-profit activities include serving as Founding Director of the New England Region of Future Scientists and Engineers of America, and he currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Hearts and Noses Hospital Clown Troupe, which trains health-care providers and volunteers in the US and overseas in clowning techniques designed to provide emotional support to hospital-bound and handicapped children.

Timothy Prestero, Director.

Board of Advisors

Karen F. Copenhaver, Advisor. Karen is a partner in Choate Hall & Stewart's Business & Technology Group. Her practice focuses on technology transfer and licensing of intellectual property, particularly in the areas of software licensing and open source business models.

Karen also continues to serve on the Board of Advisors of Black Duck Software, Inc., where she was instrumental in establishing automated methods of software compliance management as an industry best practice. Before joining Black Duck, Karen was a partner in the Patent and Intellectual Property Group of Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault LLP from 1994 through 2004. She began her legal career in 1979 at IBM Corporation and served as, among other positions, site counsel for the IBM Microelectronics Division, Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing facility in Essex Junction, Vermont. She was a Partner at Brown & Bain LLP in Phoenix, AZ and Palo Alto, CA from 1991 through 1994.

David Green, Advisor. David has worked with many organizations to make medical technology and health care services sustainable, affordable and accessible to all, particularly to the poorer two thirds of humanity. David is a MacArthur Fellow, Ashoka Fellow and is recognized by Schwab Foundation as a leading social entrepreneur. His most significant work is the development of an economic paradigm for making health care products and services available and affordable to the poor. This paradigm of ‘compassionate capitalism’ utilizes production capacity and surplus revenue to serve all economic strata, rich and poor alike, in a way that is both financially self-sustaining and affordable to all members of society.

In 1992, David directed the establishment of Aurolab (India), the first non-profit manufacturing facility in a developing country to produce affordable intraocular lenses (IOLs), suture, pharmaceuticals and eyeglasses. Aurolab is one of the largest manufacturers of IOLs in the world, with sales to 109 countries. David also directed the establishment of suture (wound closure product) manufacturing at Aurolab in 1998 and hearing aids in 2003. In addition to establishing medical manufacturing, David has helped develop high-volume, quality eye care programs that are affordable to the poor and self-sustaining from user fees. He helped develop Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, India, and programs in Nepal, Malawi, Egypt, Guatemala, El Salvador, Tibet, Tanzania and Kenya. He is now collaborating with the International Agency for the Blind, Deutsche Bank and Ashoka to create an “Eye Fund” that will improve financing for sustainable eye care. David also is Vice President of Ashoka, where he works to develop more abundant and efficient financing for the social sector.

R. Paul Herman, Advisor. Paul founded HIP Investor to spread and implement this vision of a world that is socially, environmentally and financially sustainable. HIP Investor serves corporations and CEOs, entrepreneurs, and individual and institutional investors to realize their potential to be HIP.

Previously, Paul was Director of Strategy for eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's Network to help shape the future of its for-profit and non-profit investments and portfolio impact. Paul's achievements as Chief Development Officer of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public included leading the global team to grow revenue from $12 million to nearly $20 million in two years, and expanding the North America Fellowship program, now numbering 60 systems-changing social entrepreneurs, known as Fellows.

Roman Lubynsky, Advisor. Roman Lubynsky has over 25 years of experience in startups and growing technology companies. Currently he is a principal with MIT's Venture Mentoring Service working with dozens of entrepreneurs in new startups in a broad range of industries and technologies. Roman has a particular interest in non-profit and developmental engineering. Previously, he was the founder of several new ventures. He began his professional career with Fasfax Corporation, a pioneering startup in retail IT systems where as EVP he headed product development, marketing, sales and professional services. Roman serves on a number of advisory boards of young companies. He holds an MS in Management of Technology from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Cary Morrill, Advisor. Cary is co-founder and Managing Partner of Barrack Hill Partners, a retained executive search and HR consulting firm. She brings more than twenty years in executive search working with multinational conglomerates and the venture capital community across a diverse range of industries. Cary began her career in management consulting and sales.

Cary holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and an M.A. from Columbia University. She is a mentor with the Center for Women’s Leadership Program at Babson College and MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service, and additionally coaches entrepreneurs through the Center for Women and Enterprise.

Vicky Wu Davis, Advisor.Spending the past decade in telecommunications, Vicky is the Founder and CEO of Froghop, Incorporated, a middleware company that facilitates fixed-to-mobile experiences for videogames and training simulations. Having started Froghop during the dot-com demise, she survived the bubble burst and has established Froghop as an industry leader. She is responsible for creating and driving the long-term vision, product planning, and business development for the Company.

Concurrent to her role at Froghop from 2002 to 2005, Vicky was Regional Executive Director and co-founder of International Orphans Foundation, a nonprofit organization helping to increase adoption for the underserved niche of older orphans. Vicky laid the framework for the organization, implemented policies and procedures, and ran the Boston Chapter. She remains active in the nonprofit sector by sitting on a number of nonprofit Boards. She also founded and is chairing Executive Minds for Social Innovation, which brings nonprofit leaders and corporate executives together to address nonprofit management issues in an entrepreneurial and strategic manner.