BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced a cohort of 95 Executive Fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year. The Executive Fellows Program seeks to engage the expertise of outstanding practitioners—many of whom are alumni—to enhance teaching and learning at the School. Fellows partner with at least one HBS faculty member to bring their business experience to the HBS community.
Fellows contribute to the School by collaborating on both curricular and co-curricular activities. These include, for example, participating in course sessions in the MBA Elective Curriculum, providing career advice and developmental mentoring to students, and assisting with short format offerings that provide opportunities for students to explore new topics. Fellows also bring their expertise to the School’s HBS Online and Executive Education programs by collaborating with faculty in case development and other research projects. Fellow affiliations range from a few months to one year and may be extended.
“Harvard Business School introduced the Executive Fellows Program in 2020 as a way to engage our alumni and other seasoned business professionals in advancing the School’s mission through diverse and impactful contributions,” said Professor Len Schlesinger, who chairs the program. “These exceptional individuals offer deep insights drawn from their own experiences, enriching both our faculty and students. Their generosity in sharing time and knowledge has had a profoundly positive impact on our community, and we deeply appreciate their involvement.”
The 2025 – 2026 Executive Fellows and their HBS faculty collaborators are:
Milena Alberti-Perez (MBA 2001), Independent Board Director, Digimarc
Alberti-Perez is collaborating with Fritz Foley on the MBA Elective Curriculum course Corporate Financial Operations.
Gulam Amarsy (MBA 1981), Managing Director, Malchas Consultants
Amarsy is collaborating with Feng Zhu on projects related to digital technologies that are reshaping pathways to economic development in emerging markets.
Marc Angelone, Senior Engineering Manager, Kojo Technologies
Angelone is collaborating with Leslie Perlow on the LIFE Special Project.
Mark Aslett (MBA 1997), Former CEO, Mercury Systems
Aslett is collaborating with Arthur Brooks on the MBA Elective Curriculum course Leadership and Happiness.
Christian Audi (MBA 1997), Managing Director, Santander
Audi is collaborating with Max Miller on projects related to emerging markets finance and entrepreneurship.
Paul Baier (MBA 1994), Cofounder and CEO, GAI Insights
Baier is collaborating with Shikhar Ghosh on projects related to artificial intelligence.
Thomas Baker, Technical Founder, Early-stage Investor, and AI Engineer
Baker is collaborating with Rembrand Koning on the MBA Elective Curriculum course Strategy for Entrepreneurs.
Christiana Bardon (MBA 2003), Co-managing Partner, MPM BioImpact
Bardon is collaborating with Malcolm Baker and Amitabh Chandra on the MBA Short Intensive Program Investing in the Life Sciences.
Jeronimo Beccar, Cofounder and CEO, hyka.io
Beccar is collaborating with DJ DiDonna and Koning on the MBA Short Intensive Program Startup Bootcamp, and with Koning on his MBA Elective Curriculum course Strategy for Entrepreneurs.
Ted Bigman (MBA 1987), Former Head of Listed Real Assets Investing, Morgan Stanley
Bigman is collaborating with Nori Gerardo Lietz on the MBA Elective Curriculum course Real Estate Private Equity.
Edward Boyajian (MBA 1990), Former President and CEO, EDB
Boyajian is collaborating with Lou Shipley on the MBA Elective Curriculum course B2B Sales and Distribution.
James (Jay) Bradner, Former President, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Bradner is collaborating with Baker and Chandra on the MBA Short Intensive Program Investing in the Life Sciences.
Ian Brady, Cofounder, SoFi
Brady is collaborating with DiDonna and Koning on the MBA Short Intensive Program Startup Bootcamp, and with Koning on other projects related to research driven innovation.
Zach Brauer, Founder of Pivot Education and Finance Partner, GV
Brauer is collaborating with Jeff Bussgang on the MBA Elective Curriculum field course Venture Capital Journey.
John Brown (MBA 1975), Cofounder, the Setzer Group
Brown is collaborating with Nien-hê Hsieh and Derek van Bever on the MBA Elective Curriculum course the Spiritual Lives of Leaders.
Dinesh Chahlia, CEO and Founder, NeuraLuna
Chahlia is collaborating with Ghosh on the MBA Elective Curriculum course Three Technologies that Will Change the World in the Next Decade.
Andre Charoo, Founder and General Partner, Maple VC
Charoo is collaborating with Reza Satchu on the MBA Elective Curriculum courses the Founder Mindset and Founder Launch.
Niren Chaudhary, Former Chair and CEO, Panera Brands
Chaudhary is collaborating with Ramon Casadesus-Masanell on the MBA Required Curriculum course Strategy, and on projects related to global strategy.
Emily Chien, Former Leader in AI, Global Sustainability Offerings and Partnerships, IBM
Chien is collaborating with Suraj Srinivasan on projects related to AI ethics and governance.
Raj Chinai, Partner, Iron Pillar
Chinai is collaborating with Zhu on projects related to globalization in the digital age.
Paul Clancy, Board of Directors Member, Agios Pharmaceuticals and Incyte Corporation (and others)
Clancy is collaborating with Chandra on projects related to the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program; with Foley on the MBA Elective Curriculum course Corporate Financial Operations; and with Baker and Chandra on the MBA Short Intensive Program Investing in the Life Sciences
Marcelo Claure, Chairman and CEO, Claure Capital
Claure is collaborating with Karim Lakhani on projects related to artificial intelligence adoption and implications.
Patrick Dickinson (MBA 2009), Founder and Managing Partner, Ninth Street Capital Partners
Dickinson is collaborating with Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff on the MBA Elective Curriculum course Entrepreneurship through Acquisition.
Mark Diker (MBA 1996), CEO and Managing General Partner, Diker Management LLC
Diker is collaborating with Satchu on the MBA Elective Curriculum courses the Founder Mindset and Founder Launch.
Lisa Edwards (MBA 1994), Former Executive Chair, Diligent Institute
Edwards is collaborating with Lynn Paine on projects related to corporate governance.
Peter Fasolo, Former Chief Human Resources Officer, Johnson and Johnson
Fasolo is collaborating with Joseph Fuller on projects related to workforce reskilling and the role of generative AI in human resource operations.
Tina Fernandez, Founder and CEO, Day Six Leadership
Fernandez is collaborating with Hsieh and van Bever on the MBA Elective Curriculum course the Spiritual Lives of Leaders.
Jennifer Fonstad (MBA 1997), Cofounder, Owl Capital Group
Fonstad is collaborating with Jeffrey Rayport on projects related to board dynamics in growth-stage ventures for the MBA Elective Curriculum course Scaling Technology Ventures.
Jason Glass (MBA 2006), Senior Advisor, CVC Capital
Glass is collaborating with faculty in the Accounting and Management unit on the MBA Required Curriculum course Financial Reporting and Control.
Spencer Glendon, Founder, Probable Futures
Glendon is collaborating with Tarun Khanna and Mike Toffel on projects related to business risks associated with climate change.
Mike Grandinetti, Managing Director, Southboro Capital LLC
Grandinetti is collaborating with Shai Bernstein and Tom Eisenmann on the MBA Elective Curriculum field course Ideation and Prototyping for Innovation.
Jackie Grant, Former Principal, the Carlyle Group and Abingworth Partners
Grant is collaborating with Bussgang on the MBA Elective Curriculum field course Venture Capital Journey.
Rusty Greiff (MBA 2000), Founder, the eQ group, Former Chief Strategy and Growth Officer, Jobs for the Future
Greiff is collaborating with Gerald Chertavian and Brian Trelstad on projects related to social entrepreneurship and workforce development.
Oliver Haarmann (MBA 1996), Founding Partner, Searchlight Capital
Haarmann is collaborating with Satchu on the MBA Elective Curriculum courses the Founder Mindset and Founder Launch.
Mike Harmon (MBA 1997), Managing Partner, Gaviota Advisors, LLC
Harmon is collaborating with Guhan Subramanian on the HBS-HLS Elective Curriculum course Deals.
Yossi Hayut, Managing Director Wix Ventures
Hayut is collaborating with Bernstein and Tom Eisenmann on the MBA Elective Curriculum field course Ideation and Prototyping for Innovation.
Matt Higgins, Cofounder and CEO, RSE Ventures
Higgins is collaborating with Len Schlesinger on the MBA Short Intensive Program Moving Beyond DTC.
Florian Hillen, Founder and CEO, VideaHealth, Inc.
Hillen is collaborating with Tsedal Neeley on projects related to artificial intelligence.
Alan Hippe, Chief Financial and Information Officer, Roche
Hippe is collaborating with George Serafeim on projects related to competitiveness in Europe.
Mark Inkster, Founder, Asia Sustainability Angels; Former Senior Executive, Yahoo!, eBay, and Microsoft
Inkster is collaborating with Rebecca Henderson to convene academic, business and government leaders to develop frameworks for reimagining and concretely evolving our political economy.
Amrit Jalan (MBA 2022), Principal, ENI Next
Jalan is collaborating with Perlow on the LIFE Special Project.
Thomas Jennings, Managing Director, Summit Partners
Jennings is collaborating with Jim Matheson and Chris Stanton on the MBA Required Curriculum course the Entrepreneurial Manager, and with Jo Tango on the MBA Elective Curriculum course Venture Capital and Private Equity.
Chris Johnson, Former Executive Vice President, Nestlé S.A.
Johnson is collaborating with Forest Reinhardt on the Executive Agribusiness Seminar.
Lee Kaplan, Levin Chair of Sports Medicine, University of Miami
Kaplan is collaborating with Regina Herzlinger on research and pedagogy projects related to her yearlong elective MBA courses on innovations in healthcare.
David Kemp (MBA 2014), CEO, Village Gourmet
Kemp is collaborating with Ruback and Yudkoff on the MBA Elective Curriculum field course Entrepreneurship through Acquisition.
Vanessa Kirsch, Founder-in-Residence and Senior Partner, New Profit
Kirsch is collaborating with Henderson on the joint HBS-HKS-HDS elective course, Reweaving Ourselves and the World: Reimagining Leadership in a World on Fire.
Ben Kirshner (OPM 2018), Founder, Tinuiti
Kirshner is collaborating with Jake Cook on the MBA Elective Curriculum course Digital Marketing and AI Workshop.
Philip Kuai (OPM 2023), Partner, YUE Accelerator
Kuai is collaborating with Zhu on projects related to tech entrepreneurship, sustainability, and emerging markets.
Kritti Lall, Principal, Perceptive Advisors
Lall is collaborating with Satish Tadikonda on projects related to biotech business models and finance.
Ann Le Cam, Former SVP, Talent and Production, Walt Disney Animation Studios and WētāFX.
Le Cam is collaborating with Linda Hill and the Leadership Initiative to explore how to develop leadership for the digital world and build a culture of innovation, and on projects related to the evolving impact of genAI on leadership.
Dianne Ledingham (MBA 1990), Partner and Director, Bain and Company
Ledingham is collaborating with Shipley on the MBA Elective Curriculum course B2B Sales and Distribution.
Vivian Lee, Former President and Founder, Verily Health Platforms
Lee is collaborating with Rob Huckman and the Health Care Initiative on projects related to healthcare delivery, sustainability, and resilience.
Douglas Levin, Managing Partner, Cognoscenti
Levin is collaborating with Bernstein on projects related to entrepreneurship and the intersection of AI and private capital markets.
Sean Lynch, Senior Director, Strategy and US Growth, Eidra
Lynch is collaborating with Perlow on the LIFE Special Project.
Bobbi Mahlab, Founder and Chair, Mahlab and Cofounder, Mentor Walks
Mahlab is collaborating with Kathleen McGinn on projects related to intergenerational mentoring and problem-solving.
William Marks (MBA 2023), Senior Advisor to Biotech Startups
Marks is collaborating with Tadikonda on projects related to entrepreneurship in the life sciences.
Amanda McEwen, Senior VP, Clinical Development, Salubris Biotherapeutics, Inc.
McEwen is collaborating with Tadikonda on projects related to entrepreneurship in the life sciences.
Prakash Melwani (MBA 1986), Global Chief Investment Officer of the Private Equity Group, Blackstone
Melwani is collaborating with Victoria Ivashina on projects related to private equity.
Sunand Menon (MBA 2001), Founder, New Media Insight, LLC
Menon is collaborating with Hill and the Leadership Initiative to explore how to develop leadership for the digital world and build a culture of innovation.
Ephraim Mernick (MBA 2012), Chief Operating Officer, Lindsay Goldberg
Mernick is collaborating with Hsieh on the MBA Required Curriculum course Leadership and Corporate Accountability and with van Bever on projects related to private equity, including values and leadership.
Debbie Millman, Author, Educator, and Podcast Host
Millman is collaborating with Carrie Elkins on the MBA Elective Curriculum course Business of Ideas.
Charles Moldow (MBA 1993), General Partner, Foundation Capital
Moldow is collaborating with Bussgang on the MBA Elective Curriculum course Launching Tech Ventures.
Mina Pacheco Nazemi (MBA 2004), Head of Barings Diversified Alternative Equity
Nazemi is collaborating with Ivashina on projects related to private capital and infrastructure finance.
Kevin O’Leary, Chairman, O’Leary Ventures Management GP LLC; Co-Host, ABC-TV’s “Shark Tank”
O’Leary is collaborating with Satchu on the MBA Elective Curriculum courses the Founder Mindset and Founder Launch.
Michael Orzetti (MBA 2018), Chief Executive Officer, Eastern Communications, Ltd
Orzetti is collaborating with Ruback and Yudkoff on the MBA Elective Curriculum field course Entrepreneurship through Acquisition.
Debra Peattie (MBA 1996); Managing Partner, SV Investment US
Peattie is collaborating with the HBS Health Care Initiative as a mentor to the Blavatnik Fellowship program.
Richard Phillips, Founding Member, Aspen Institute Leadership Council
Phillips is collaborating with Hsieh and van Bever on the MBA Elective Curriculum course the Spiritual Lives of Leaders.
Andy Pforzheimer, Cofounder and Former CEO, Barteca Restaurant Group
Pforzheimer is collaborating with Michael Kaufman on the MBA Elective Curriculum course Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry.
Deepa Purushothaman, Founder, the re. write
Purushothaman is collaborating with Lakshmi Ramarajan on projects related to the Race, Gender and Equity Initiative.
Maliha Quadir (MBA 2006), Founder and CEO, Shohoz
Quadir is collaborating with Andy Wu on projects related to consumer technology in emerging markets in Asia.
Diego Rodriguez (MBA 2001), Former Chief Product and Design Officer, Intuit
Rodriguez is collaborating with Jim Matheson on the MBA Required Curriculum course the Entrepreneurial Manager.
Simon Rothman (MBA 1995), Partner, Greylock Partners
Rothman is collaborating with Bussgang on projects related to the MBA Elective Curriculum field course Venture Capital Journey.
Toni Sacconaghi (MBA 1991), Former Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, Bernstein Research
Sacconaghi is collaborating with Schlesinger on projects related to corporate governance and turnarounds.
Paul Salem (MBA 1991), Chair, MGM Resorts International and Cofounder, Providence Equity Partners
Salem is collaborating with Satchu on the MBA Elective Curriculum courses the Founder Mindset and Founder Launch.
Michael Schrader (MBA 2012), Entrepreneur, Cofounder, and Former CEO, Vaxess Technologies
Schrader is collaborating with Tom Clay and Tadikonda on courses and projects related to technology and life sciences entrepreneurship.
Kim Scott (MBA 1996), Author, Executive Coach, and Cofounder, Radical Candor LLC
Scott is collaborating with Amy Edmondson on projects related to workplace communications.
Dino Shiatis, Former Senior Banker, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Shiatis is collaborating with Henderson on the joint HBS-HKS-HDS elective course, Reweaving Ourselves and the World: Reimagining Leadership in a World on Fire, including projects addressing resilient communities.
Elena Silenok, Entrepreneur, Investor, and Board Member, Elena Ventures
Silenok is collaborating with Bernstein on projects related to product ideation, prototyping and innovation.
Nick Sinai, Managing Director, Insight Partners
Sinai is collaborating with Mitch Weiss on projects related to the MBA Elective Curriculum course Public Entrepreneurship.
Michael Skok, Founding Partner, Underscore VC
Skok is collaborating with Eisenmann on projects related to the HBS Foundry.
Jon Staff (MBA 2016); Former Founder and CEO, GETAWAY
Staff is collaborating with DiDonna and Koning on the MBA Short Intensive Program Startup Bootcamp.
Nikos Stathopoulos (MBA 1995), Chairman, Europe, BC Partners
Stathopoulos is collaborating with Ivashina on projects related to CEOs in private equity.
Arun K. Subramaniyan, Founder and CEO, Articul8 AI
Subramaniyan is collaborating with Srinivasan on the MBA Elective Curriculum course Generative AI for Business Leaders.
John Sviokla (DBA 1986, MBA 1983), Cofounder, GAI Insights
Sviokla is collaborating with Rayport on generative AI case development for the MBA Elective Curriculum course Scaling Technology Ventures.
Angela Thurston, Cofounder, Sacred Design Lab
Thurston is collaborating with Hsieh and van Bever on the MBA Elective Curriculum course the Spiritual Lives of Leaders.
Phoebe Tickell, Founder and Executive Director, Moral Imaginations
Tickell is collaborating with Henderson on projects related to navigating large scale systems change.
Jennifer Turliuk, Speaker, Author, Investor and Entrepreneur in Climate Technology
Turliuk is collaborating with John Mulliken and Toffel on projects related to the intersection of AI and climate change.
Richard Vieira (MBA 1995), Former Managing Director and Co-Head, Cowen Technology Media and Telecom Group
Vieira is collaborating with Josh Krieger and Matheson on the MBA Elective Curriculum course Tough Tech Ventures.
Rochelle Walensky, Former Director, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Walensky is collaborating with Huckman and the Health Care Initiative on projects related to the healthcare workforce, financing, access, and pandemic preparedness.
Brian Walker, Former Chairman and CEO, Blue Cloud Pediatric Surgery Centers
Walker is collaborating with Herzlinger on research and pedagogy projects related to her yearlong elective MBA courses on innovations in healthcare.
Jacob Werksman (PLD 2020), Founder and CEO, Victory Strategies
Werksman is collaborating with Joshua Margolis on using experiential exercises in Executive Education to help participants internalize conceptual learning.
Mark Wilson, Chief Impact Officer, VXI Global Solutions, LLC
Wilson is collaborating with Archie Jones on projects related to entrepreneurship and venture capital.
Toto Wolff, Principal, Mercedes Formula One Team
Wolff is collaborating with Anita Elberse on the MBA Elective Curriculum course the Business of Entertainment, Media and Sports, and on the MBA Short Intensive Program High-Performance Management: Leading a Formula One Team.
Charles Wu, Managing Director and Founding Partner of BayNorth Capital
Wu is collaborating with faculty members in the Finance Unit on projects and courses related to real estate.
Sarah Young, Founding and Managing Partner, Sandpiper Ventures
Young is collaborating with Paul Gompers on projects related to the intersection between entrepreneurship, capital markets and social systems.
