Nadia Shalaby, PhD

Dr. Shalaby is a serial technology entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and board director, passionate about bringing on societal, economic, and environmental impact via technological innovation. She is currently Founder & CEO of Pakira, Inc. – an AI-based digitization platform for physical commodity supply chains worldwide, to reduce waste and combat illegal logging and mining, by tracking the goods from harvest to retail.

Nadia has worked on AI since 1990s, and spent 20+ years founding, growing, and advising companies. She has taught Computer Science courses at Alexandria University, Harvard University, and Princeton University, and has been teaching entrepreneurship at the Founder Institute, the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund,  and other entrepreneurship accelerators.

Her previous 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 (acquired by PA Consulting), and held various positions at Princeton University and BBN Raytheon (where she oversaw AMP, the largest supply chain in the world for the US Transportation Command, which reports to the Joint Chiefs of Staff).

Dr. Shalaby is an investor at TBD Angels, Board Director at the Boston Hub Society, and a speaker on AI in business and entrepreneurship. 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, MIT Legatum Fellowship, and the National Renewable Energy Lab. Dr. Shalaby has 5 issued US patents and more than a dozen academic publications.