Lesley Kahn
Founder -Â Head of Vision, Product & Networks
Lesley enjoys business, creativity, and learning. A good way to describe her is from the left and right.
Lesley’s Left side:
Training, education, and work in: financial analysis; new product development, numeric frameworks of businesses,
Experience in sector leaders: evaluating and improving performance, international operations, consumer products, B2B, B2C,
Start-up experience: researching, identifying, and defining market opportunity; small team member commercializing SaaS offering (ideation through launch and BD). Co-inventor of online survey platform (US Patent: US 7,539,696 B1). Other: establish and manage business operations, financial performance,
Passion for a multi-disciplinary approach, affinity to make order/organization around multifaceted operations or concepts.
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Lesley’s Right side:
Paints and writes, and enjoys considering artists and their art,
Driven by curiosity, motivated to learn more and derive meaning. Enjoys meeting people and learning about their skills, motivations, values,
Believes in education; benefits of showing young people art and thinking of others, with an open approach for children to determine: importance; what has meaning and its incorporation in their intellect, confidence, self-esteem, and orientation to what is possible in their lives or future across any disciplines.
Lesley has an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business; and M.A. in International Relations from The University of Chicago; and a BA from Mount Holyoke College (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa).