Mike Grandinetti

Current

• Managing Director at Southboro Capital
• Mentor at Seedcamp Europe
• Mentor at Tech Stars Boston

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Past

• Chief Marketing Officer at Virtual Iron
• Judge MIT $100K Business Plan Competition at MIT
• Chief Marketing Officer at Raptor Systems

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Education

• Yale University - Yale School of Management

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• MIT Sloan Sales Conference Blo
• TIE Cloud Computing Panel
• TIE Con VC Keynote Panel

Mike Grandinetti’s Summary

Mike Grandinetti has a unique cross-disciplinary background. He has deep operating experience as a serial venture capital – backed entrepreneur across four very successful ventures, was involved as an early team member in the launch of several successful new businesses within Hewlett-Packard, holds long-standing faculty appointments at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the Technical University of Denmark Center for Technology, Economics and Management and has been deeply involved in regional and national economic development, with a distinct focus on global entrepreneurial coaching and enablement, innovation policy and innovation cluster acceleration, as well as advanced technology commercialization and tech transfer, in the US, Canada, and Europe. He also served as a senior management consultant with McKinsey, the world’s premiere strategy consultancy.

As a serial entrepreneur, Mike has helped lead four venture-backed companies to successful exits for his investors, inlcuding 2 IPOs and 4 high multiple trade sales.He currently serves as a Senior Advisor to numerous global start-ups and VC firms across the IT, med tech and clean tech sectors.

Mike Grandinetti’s Specialties:

Global Entrepreneurship, Global Go-to-Market, Strategic Marketing, Raising Venture Capital, Angel Investing, Sales 2.0, Category Creation, Open Innovation, B2B Social Media, Mergers and Acquisitions, Regional / National Innovation and Economic Development Strategies, Innovation Clusters, Advisor on Creation and Management of Entrepreneurship and Business Plan Competitions, Tech Transfer and Commercialization, US SBIR Grants, Senior Advisory and Board of Director roles

Mike Grandinetti’s Education

• Yale University - Yale School of Management

  MBA , Strategy and Marketing , 1987 — 1989

  Activities and Societies:

  Yale Graduate School of Management Teaching Fellowship, Jess Morrow Johns Memorial Scholar, Procter and Gamble Marketing Leadership Award, Yale Teaching Fellowship

Additional Information

Mike Grandinetti’s Websites:

• MIT Sloan Sales Conference Blo
• TIE Cloud Computing Panel
• TIE Con VC Keynote Panel

Mike Grandinetti’s Interests:

Professional Public Speaker, Executive Education and MBA Level Lecturer in Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Strategic Marketing, Open Innovation, Global Entrepreneurial Coaching, Technology Transfer and Commercialization

Mike Grandinetti’s Groups:

Core Member, MIT Global Entrepreneurship Team, Charter Member- The Indus Entrepreneurs TIE), Co-Chair, TiE Con East 2009 Thursday Night Program, Co-Chair, Nominating Committee, WGBH Public TV and Radio Corpotate Executive Council, Veteran Judge, MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, Judge MIT Global MBA Sales Competition, former Judge Yale Goldman Sachs Business Plan Competition, Senior Advisor, DevTech 50 Entrepreneurship Competition-Province of Quebec Canada, Faculty, Danish Gazelle Growth Program, Coach, Quebec 10X20 Entrepreneurial Pilot Program

•    Yale SOM Alumni
•    MIT innovation
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Renewable Energy Business Network
•    Inbound Marketers - For Marketing Professionals
•    MIT Sloan - Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program
•    MIT 100K Entrepreneurship Competition
•    Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
•    Leadership + Innovation by Stefan Lindegaard
•    New England Venture Community
•    CleanTech Network
•    Nantucket Conference 2009
•    Highland Capital Partners - Marketing Network
•    The Global CIO & Executive IT Group (An MIT Sloan CIO Group)
•    Colloque Québec Techno : Objectif croissance
•    TiECON East
•    iPhone Business Incubator
•    Future Forward 2009

Mike Grandinetti’s Honors:

National Engineering Honor Society, Procter and Gamble Annual Marketing Leadership Award, Jess Morrow Johns Memorial Scholar at Yale, Patent Awarded, Online Offer Managment Software Solution, 2001, Academic Fellow-Sitekit Labs, 2009

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