Rhonda Shrader

Rhonda Shrader is the Executive Director of the Bay Area Node for NSF I-Corps as well as the Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship Program, where she teaches two popular lean startup courses, Lean Transfer and Startup Disco.
As an entrepreneur, she was an early team member of MIT spinout Organogenesis, one of the first publicly traded regenerative medicine companies.
She has founded or was an early stage team member of startups in biotech, behavioral health, non-profit, retail and AI.
She is an active advisor for NASA spinoff BrainAid as well as the Innovation Chair for Invisible International.
She earned an undergraduate degree in neuropsychology and premedical studies from Harvard and an MBA from Berkeley-Haas.