our venture team

George B Moseley III

Faculty member at Harvard School of Public Health (Cambridge MA) and Strathmore Business School (Nairobi Kenya).
Teach Strategic Planning at Harvard (Boston) and Strathmore Business School (Kenya) for 8 years.
Author of the second best-selling textbook on strategic planning in health care: Managing Health Care Business Strategy, 2nd Ed. Click For More Info.

MBA (Marketing) Harvard Business School
JD University of Michigan Law School
BSc (Economics) Ohio State University
Two years of study (Mechanical Engineering) Cornell University College of Engineering
DBA (no degree  earned) Harvard Business School

Previously started new ventures in food industry (US) and diamond cutting, soap making, and tobacco products (Mauritius).
Venture Capital officer for Chinese Economic Development Council.
Mentor for startups in New England.

Venture Role:  Founder, CEO, driving force, catalyst, negotiator with third parties, solve problems, envision new futures,

Kirk Fackre

Vice President of Sales at ICorps. Implements strategic sales plans based on the company’s goals and objectives. Throughout his career, has concentrated on how technology helps organizations become more productive by managing, organizing, and sharing critical knowledge, information, and expertise.

Prior to joining iCorps, Kirk cofounded Airtime, a Mobile SaaS Solution provider and ResearchAgent Corporation where he pioneered a product line used to manage web content. Most recently, he built an enterprise-class sales team at Symtrax, an international software consultancy.

Venture Role:  Close advisor on operational venture decisions.

Babak Kouchmeshky

Director of Data Science at Rifiniti where he oversees the research on data driven methods for workplace optimization. Prior to that, he spent 7 years as R&D team lead at Baker Hughes-GE; a leading service company in oil & gas exploration, working on design, optimization, and interpretation of hydrocarbon exploration sensors.

Experience in data driven analytics and big data analytics in the cloud. Successfully led multiple projects from proof of concept to service. Authored 12 papers, made 13 conference presentations, and filed 9 US patents.

Venture Role:  Reliable, authoritative resource on computer science, particularly artificial intelligence. Knowledgeable advice on software development options.

Erik Bullen

Limited Partner, Mendoza Ventures, VC firm investing in pre-seed FinTech, AI, and Cybersecurity startups. Member, Launchpad Venture Group.

Serves as a coach, advisor, consultant, interim executive, board member, or angel investor for startups and corporate innovators. Specializes in building and scaling SaaS, e-commerce, and mobile companies (B2B, B2B, D2C); product strategy, design, and development; sales, marketing, and operations; culture and organization; innovation in theory and practice; fundraising; and pitching.

Venture Role:  Close advisor on strategic venture decisions. Connections to early stage financing options.

Dan Sieck

Associate in Corporate and Securities Practice Group  of Pepper Hamilton LLP.

Concentrates practice in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, securities, and technology law.

Venture Role:  Expertise in venture financing and organizational legal issues. Advice on financing options.

Maria Begoña Peña

Professor and Researcher in Department of Organisation of Business, University of the Basque Country. Guest Researcher at HWWI-Hamburg Institute of International Economics and at NTNU-Norwegian University if Science and Technology – Big Data and Knowledge Management Research group. Worked on different projects for Innovation in Education.

She is a SCIENTIX-European Schoolnet Ambassador and a researcher for EURASHE RDI Working Group. She has been a Guest Researcher at College of Europe-Bruges in the Department of European Economic Studies/ Google Chair in Digital Innovation, HWWI-Hamburg Institute of International Economics and in the NTNU-Norwegian University of Science and Technology-Big Data and Knowledge Management Research group.

Venture Role:  Unique perspective on global markets for computer technology products.