Renato Ribeiro
United States
Ms. Jenny Lawton served as a Chief Innovation Officer at Techstars. She serves as Board Observer at CALT Dynamics. She also serves as Board Member at Sphero. She served as the Board Member at Adero. Prior to littleBits, Lawton served as CEO of MakerBot, a global leader in the 3D printing industry. While at MakerBot from 2011 until 2015, she held several positions prior to being appointed interim CEO, including the president, chief strategy officer, and head of people. At MakerBot, Lawton was instrumental in driving the company's meteoric growth of more than 600 percent in two years and she was one of the main architects in the merger between MakerBot and Stratasys in 2013. As a long-time tech leader, Lawton co-founded Net Daemons Associates (NDA) in 1991, an information technology-consulting firm. With Lawton as CEO, NDA was recognized on the 1998 Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing privately held U.S. companies, and on the Deloitte and Touche Fast 50 and Fast 500 lists for 1997 and 1998. In 1999, Net Daemons was acquired by Interliant Inc. (formerly Sage Networks), where Lawton served as a senior vice president. She later worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence with Softbank and Mobius Venture Capital. The events of September 11, 2001, were the impetus that inspired Lawton to leave the corporate world for a hiatus to become the owner of the independent bookstores Just Books and Just Books, Too, as well as Arcadia Café in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. After ten years running successful retail ventures, Lawton re-entered the business and technology scene, serving as COO for Rockin' Water and RAM Scientific, and senior vice president of operations for Mercury Solar Systems. In 2014, she was appointed to the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.
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