On This Episode of Thriving Transformation:
Christina Ioannidis talks to Marina Hatsopoulos, is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor who serves as a financial expert on corporate boards, both public and private, from startup through enterprise. Marina was Founding CEO of Z Corporation, an early market leader in 3D printing out of MIT. The Company was the winner of the “New England Technology Fast 50” for 2001, a ranking of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the region and was listed in the Inc 500 ranking of the nation’s 500 fastest-growing private companies by Inc Magazine. She is currently Chair of the Board of Levitronix Technologies, the worldwide leader in magnetically-levitated bearingless motor technology and Founding Advisor of Inkbit, an MIT startup. She is a member of the National Board of Research & Innovation for the Republic of Cyprus. She is on the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and who sits on multiple corporate boards as a financial expert.

Notable Quotes:

• ‘Accounting, Sales and Negotiation are the 3 critical skills no matter what you do’
• ‘Being entrepreneurial is a mindset and it starts from the top’
• ‘Failure should not be wasted’
• ‘Entrepreneurship involves a lot of failure and rejection’
• ‘You either succeed or you learn’

Talking Points in This Episode:

• The importance of being strategic and covering your own skills gaps
• How a transformational mindset is important as most startups fail
• Setting the culture of agility from the top
• Career Transformation: the need for continuous soul-searching and building long-term life / work goals
• No women in the Boardroom? How to fix the leaking pipeline

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