Luda Kopeikina

Dr. Kopeikina is President and CEO of Noventra Corporation an innovation commercialization and licensing firm.
She spent six years at General Electric in various senior leadership positions where she had an opportunity to work with Jack Welch and observe his methods in action.
Later she was President and CEO of Celerity Solutions, Inc., a publicly traded company.
Under her leadership, the company executed a complete turnaround in two years and grew six-fold.
Dr. Kopeikina is an entrepreneur who started two successful companies.
She enjoys working with entrepreneurs and helping businesses prosper.
She is a Founder of MIT Enterprise Forum of South Florida - a non-profit organization that promotes entrepreneurship.
She also serves on the Board of Directors of several companies and is a Lead Catalyst at the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation.
Dr. Kopeikina is a prominent business speaker and a published writer.
She speaks on topics of innovation, entrepreneurship, clear business decision making and leadership.
Her book The Right Decision Every Time: How to Reach Clarity on Tough Decisions was published by Prentice Hall in October 2005.
Dr. Kopeikina holds a Master's Degree from MIT's Sloan School of Management as a Sloan Fellow.
She also holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from St. Petersburg University, Russia, and completed a Ph.D.
thesis in Computer Science there.
In 2003 and 2004 she was appointed a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management.