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Anne is a marketing professional with a focus on technology
commercialization and marketing to drive demand for new and innovative
products. Anne is deeply passionate about delivering a memorable Customer
experience from the very first time a Customer encounters a brand.
While she was a student at the University of Toronto, she founded Young
Inventors International, a not-for-profit organization that has worked
with more than 2,000 university student innovators.
Background
- Founding President of Young Inventors International
- Pioneered the BrainBuzz, a novel model for innovation through live collaboration
- Secured initial large-scale projects for the solar thermal building materials company she co-founded to launch the product in the market
- Certified by the World Intellectual Property Organization in Intellectual Property Management
- Conducted innovation research at the University of Toronto (with the Innovation Systems Research Network) and at Carnegie Mellon University (with support from the Kauffman Foundation)
- Guest lecturer on commercialization and intellectual capital management at MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin at Madison, University of Waterloo, and 30 others
- Columnist for Xconomy on topics of innovation and entrepreneurship
- One of GLAMOUR Magazine’s Top Ten College Women – “Most likely to change the world” for her work with innovators
