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Nadia Shalaby

Founder & CEO, Pakira, Inc.

Nadia Shalaby

Dr. Shalaby is a serial technology entrepreneur, investor, and board director, passionate about bringing on societal, economic, and environmental impact via technological innovation. Nadia spent 20+ years growing, founding, and advising companies on concept generation, product market positioning, operational infrastructure, strategic alliances, sales and marketing, IP strategy, and corporate governance. Her last MIT spinoff Arctic Sand, a revolutionary energy-saving semiconductor company was acquired by Murata Electronics and its products are designed into 100% of the display sockets of Dell, Microsoft, and other OEMs. Nadia was VP Marketing and Sales for Cooper Perkins; and held various positions at Princeton University and BBN/Raytheon (where she oversaw AMP, the largest supply chain in the world for the US TRANSCOM, which reports to the Joint Chiefs of Staff). Dr. Shalaby serves as Advisor/Mentor to several startups, is an investor at TBD Angels, and Board Director at the Boston Hub Society. Nadia holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University and an MBA from MIT Sloan. She is the recipient of multiple national grants and awards from NASA, NSF, US Department of Energy, DARPA, the Clean Tech Open, and the National Renewable Energy Lab. Dr. Shalaby has 5 issued US patents and more than a dozen academic publications.