Marina Hatsopoulos

Position
Berklee Trustee; Board Chair, Levitronix Technologies, Entrepreneur and Writer
Biography

Marina Hatsopoulos is board chair of Levitronix Technologies, the worldwide leader in magnetically levitated, bearingless motor technology, and president of Hellenic Innovation Network, which serves as a bridge for startups expanding from Greece to the U.S. She is a board member of ALBA Business School and Athens College, both in Greece, and serves on the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Hatsopoulos is founding advisor of the MIT startup Inkbit and on the advisory boards of the Nantucket Conference, MIT Enterprise Forum Greece (now called StartSmart SEE), Eurobank’s EGG accelerator, and Mindspace Entrepreneurship Program. She was founding CEO of Z Corporation, an early leader in 3D printing out of MIT, and has served on numerous corporate boards, both public and private. Hatsopoulos was a director of Cynosure Inc., a leader in the laser aesthetics market; GSI Group, a supplier of laser-based equipment; and Contex Holding, a leading manufacturer of large-format scanners.

Hatsopoulos speaks regularly on topics related to entrepreneurship at MIT, Brown, and other institutions, and has been profiled in Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Boston Business Journal, Boston Magazine, and Technology Review. Her business writing has appeared in Venturebeat, The Observer, CEO World Magazine, Design NewsTime Compression Technologies, and Jumpstart: Launching Your Business Venture, Profitably and Successfully (Aspatore, 2003). She was a speaker at a TEDx event and has also written prize-winning essays and short stories that have been published in Antioch Review, Missouri Review, Bellevue Literary, and other literary journals. She holds B.A. degrees in math and music from Brown University and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.