Caroline Cannon

Caroline has a 20-year history of creating and pivoting companies across a broad range of industries. Her specific expertise is in developing business models/feasibility for growth including revenue development, cost savings and qualitative measures associated with customer need/positioning, labor, culture and impact on the organization.

Most recently, her focus has been on launching companies from academic research where ground-breaking intellectual property is being created. She brings a fundamental understanding of the unique way in which academics typically approach commercialization and her workshops, including those for the National Science Foundation - Dartmouth I-Corps program, provide ways to commercialize discoveries while allowing faculty to remain committed to academic work.

She enjoys the very early stages of company creation and enabling those first steps that entrepreneurs must take to realize a different type of value in their discoveries. Without those steps, much research will never realize its potential to “do good” for the world.

In addition to commercializing academic research, she coaches budding entrepreneurs and early-stage executives on leadership and start-up best practices.

Caroline has a BA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

VIA Strengths: Creativity, Curiosity, Love, Gratitude, Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence, Love of Learning, Honesty