Organizing Team

Anoosheh is the Chief Business Officer and a board member at Six Star Bulk Bag, the foremost fully vertical packaging manufacturing company in the Middle East. With over 15 years in the manufacturing sector, Anoosheh quadrupled the production line and established the company as the vendor of choice for the petrochemical industry. She co-founded one of the region's premier manufacturing sector organizations and is currently the Chief Marketing Officer and a board member at Guofu Hydrogen Energy Technologies. In 2023, she co-founded Crimson Founders, a tech and entrepreneurial ecosystem and event management firm catering to MIT and Harvard Startups, the inaugural event, a Demo Day for MIT and Harvard Startups in Abu Dhabi is slated for 2024. Anoosheh has organized impactful events with distinguished guest speakers such as Dr. Jordan Peterson and General David Petraeus for MIT. In 2022, she co-founded the MIT Female Founders Pitch Competition. She served as Marketing and Tech Chair of the MIT Sloan Club of New York and a board member. Anoosheh holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a BASc in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, as well as an AAS in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design.

Karen has spent the last 15 years of her career building and scaling mission-driven, high-impact start-ups in healthcare, environmental sustainability, education, and agriculture. She has been a part of 3 early-stage teams that went on to make successful exits (two through acquisition and one through IPO). Karen built the first claims team at Oscar Health (IPO 2021), led product development and go-to-market launch for Ecological (acquired 2013) and most recently led product and go-to-market strategy for Springtide Child Developement  (acquired 2023).  She is currently supporting Trehaus to lead the launch of their Edtech platform as a fractional CPO and is working as a founder on a stealth B2B Saas platform.  Karen is passionate about building teams and crafting products that will solve meaningful problems. She is a graduate of MIT’s Sloan Fellows MBA program as well as NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

After graduation from MIT, Peter founded a technology consulting company which he grew to over 120 employees. He was responsible for operations, finance, managing enterprise projects, winning marquis clients, and selling over $120M in services. During that time he managed numerous global, enterprise engagements as well as helping 50+ founders launch their startups. He incubated one startup to a successful exit and took another from an idea on a napkin all the way through to an IPO. He subsequently moved more deeply into the NY entrepreneurship ecosystem, managing a venture fund, and co-founding several startups. Peter is the Chairman of the MIT Sloan Club of New York and co-founder of the MIT Female Founders Pitch Competition. He is an advisor to startups, helping with fundraising, product roadmap, customer acquisition, technology and operational strategies. He is currently a co-founder of MySideKick, where he is focused on improving campus safety for women, LGBTQ+ and other vulnerable populations.