Biography |
Bill Aulet Managing Director,
The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship & Senior Lecturer, MIT |
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Bill Aulet is the managing director of the
Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
at MIT and also a senior lecturer at the MIT
Sloan School of Management. The center is
responsible for entrepreneurship across all
five schools at MIT starting with education
but also extending well outside the class
room with student clubs, conferences,
competitions, networking events, awards,
hackathons, student trips and most recently
accelerators. |
Bill teaches at least three different
classes per year (introductory to advanced
entrepreneurship classes) in addition to his
responsibilities of running the center. His
work has won numerous awards and most
recently, in April 2013, Bill was awarded
the Adolf F. Monosson Prize for
Entrepreneurial Mentoring at MIT. |
During his three year tenure as the head of
the Trust Center, he has conceived,
designed, and overseen the implementation of
many new innovative programs including: MIT
Clean Energy Prize, Trust Center TV, Energy
Ventures Class, Regional Entrepreneurship
Acceleration Program (REAP), MIT
Entrepreneurship Review, Entrepreneurial
Product Marketing and Development Class,
Linked Data Ventures Class, Founders Skills
Accelerator, t=0 Entrepreneurship Festival,
Beehive Cooperative, Entrepreneurs Walk of
Fame, Corporate Innovators Sponsor Group,
Applications of Advanced Entrepreneurial
Techniques "GSD Ninjas," and Global
Founders’ Skills Accelerator. |
Prior to joining MIT, Bill had a 25 year
track record of success in business himself.
He has directly raised more than $100
million in funding for his companies and
more importantly has led to the creation of
hundreds of millions of dollars in market
value in those companies. |
Bill started his career at IBM getting
training and experience in technical,
marketing, sales, financial, and
international business operations and
management. After 11 years, he was named an
MIT Sloan Fellow which resulted in him
attending MIT for a one year degree program.
Upon graduation, he resigned from IBM and
became a serial entrepreneur running two MIT
spinouts as the president/chief executive
officer (Cambridge Decision Dynamics and
then SensAble Technologies). The latter
became a two-time Inc. Magazine 500
Fastest-Growing Private Company. With a
presence in over 20 countries, SensAble also
won more than 24 awards and was featured in
Fortune Magazine, BusinessWeek, The Wall
Street Journal, and many other publications
for its innovative products and strong
business foundation. |
In 2003, he was recruited as chief financial
officer to co-lead a turnaround of Viisage
Technology, a security technology company
with a dual focus in the areas of drivers’
licenses and facial recognition. During his
tenure of two and a half years, Viisage
developed a new strategy, overhauled its
operations, made three major acquisitions,
executed two major fundraising rounds and as
a result, its market value increased from
$50 million to over $500 million. |
Today, in addition to his work at MIT, Bill
works with individuals and companies to
become more successful through
innovation-driven entrepreneurship. From
single entrepreneurs trying to launch new
ventures all the way up to large
multi-billion dollar corporations seeking to
achieve their goals through
entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, and
innovation, the same fundamentals have been
successfully applied. He also serves on the
board of directors or advisors for a number
of companies. He is a regularly featured
speaker at management leadership programs on
topics such as entrepreneurship,
intrapreneurship, entrepreneurial marketing,
technology innovation, creating sustainable
and rapid profitable growth, financing
strategies, and operational excellence. He
writes as much as possible in places such as
Xconomy.com, MIT Sloan Experts, The Boston
Globe, the Kauffman Foundation, The
Huffington Post and the MIT Entrepreneurship
Review. |
A former professional basketball player,
Bill lives in Belmont, Massachusetts with
his wife and has four grown sons. Mr. Aulet
holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering
from Harvard University and an SM from the
MIT Sloan School of Management |
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