Faculty & Research

Shari Loessberg

Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management

Biography

Shari Loessberg is an experienced entrepreneur in established and emerging markets. In the US, she founded and runs Big World, a strategy firm focused on new ventures in new markets. She also co-founded Zeta Networks, an optical networking firm built on technology developed at MIT. In addition, Loessberg spent five years in Moscow, where she was a partner, director, and general counsel of Brunswick (now Brunswick UBS), a start-up investment firm in the brutally entrepreneurial Russian equity market. She has particular experience in emerging market venture capital fund formation, entrepreneurship in emerging economies, and the evolving issues and standards of corporate governance in the US and abroad. Loessberg is a director-designate of Parkhead Group Ltd, a start-up investment firm in the Vietnamese equity market; a director of National Financial Partners (NYSE: NFP); chairman of the board of the International Institute of Boston; and chairman of the board of overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Web Site: http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/practitioners.php