Jen is an adviser to Luminary Labs, which helps companies make innovation real. She is a strategy consultant and investor helping to encourage entrepreneurial activity that arises from the intersection of open data and accountable health care. She is a former Wall Street Analyst and Economist, and has held executive management roles at Organic and Frog Design.
Prior to Luminary Labs, Jen was at Dachis Group, a social data consulting and software company, where she served as EVP Managing Director, overseeing demand generation, client service, strategy consulting, and experience design and delivery. She was previously a partner at Drillteam where she developed participatory customer engagement programs for brands such as Target, Toyota, Nestle, Saucony, Neiman Marcus, earning the first social media marketing programs for several of these companies. Jen organized the acquisition of Drillteam to Powered, Inc. in 2010, which was then merged into Dachis Group in 2011.
In addition to serving on the board of the Designers Accord, Jennifer writes and speaks on the topic of social business and sustainable design, and is an Adjunct Professor at NYU ITP and SVA’s Products of Design.
Jen has a BA in comparative religion from Trinity College, and an MBA from HEC in Paris.
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