MIT Press Partner Advisory Council
The MIT Press Partner Advisory Council brings together visionary leaders to champion the mission of the MIT Press, ensuring that vital, trustworthy knowledge remains accessible and transformative in a rapidly changing world. By sharing their guidance, generosity, and networks, the Council empowers the Press to achieve ambitious fundraising goals, expand its global impact, and shape the future of scientific and scholarly communication in the AI era.
Lindsay Androski (Chair) is the President, CEO, and Chair of Arbutus Biopharma. An MIT-trained biologist, she has nearly 30 years of experience in biotechnology, law, and academia. She has served in a variety of roles at Roivant including President and CEO of Roivant Social Ventures and Vice President, Head of Acquisitions.
Over a nearly 30 year career, Sid Banerjee has amassed deep skills building companies and solutions based on customer experience (CX), business intelligence (BI), and AI technologies. He currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer of Medallia, a leading AI-powered omnichannel customer experience (CX) software company.
Amy Brand is the Director and Publisher of the MIT Press, one of the largest university presses in North America, publishing groundbreaking books and journals across science, technology, art, and design. Amy received her doctorate in cognitive science from MIT and held a number of positions in scholarly communications, higher education, and information access at MIT, Digital Science, Crossref, and Harvard University, before returning to the MIT Press as Director in 2015.
Simon Chaplin is the Chief Executive at Arcadia, a charitable foundation established by Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. He also serves as a non-executive Director of the Wende Museum and a member of the Supervisory Board of the Legacy Landscapes Fund and the English Heritage Blue Plaque Panel.
Alexsis de Raadt St James is an investment professional with diverse expertise in M&A, finance, venture investing and philanthropy. Currently, she is a Visiting Policy Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. Her research investigates how generative AI can act as a rapid, transparent, and efficient method for identifying human biases that may result in suboptimal technology investment and hiring practices. Over the last decade Alexsis has been, Founder and Managing Partner of Merian Ventures, a venture firm focused on investing in women-founded and co-founded companies in the US and UK.
Mike Dornbrook has retired after 13 years as COO at Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., renowned for hits like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and Dance Central, where he managed Finance, Administration, Legal, Human Resources, Business Development, and Marketing. With a history of founding four startups and spearheading marketing at Infocom, he launched over forty Top-10 bestsellers, notably including The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Juan Enriquez is a leading authority on the economic impact of life sciences and brain research on business and society as well as an entrepreneur. He was the founding Director of the Harvard Business School's Life Sciences Project and was a research affiliate at MIT’s synthetic neurobiology lab. He then co-founded Excel Venture Management and helped build the world's first synthetic life form, programable cells, RNA desktop printer, stapled peptides, and portable MRI reader.
Louis Kang is a Partner at ACCELR8, a VC fund addressing climate change mitigation. He also co-founded March Therapeutics, Inc., a Cambridge-based company developing novel genetic medicines. Louis serves as an Advisor at Woori Venture Partners US, contributing to the VC arm of one of South Korea's largest banks, and he serves as a Member of the Leadership Board at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Margaret S. B. Moore is the CEO of Why My Cancer, a startup examining somatic genomic alterations and their role in tumorigenesis. A serial entrepreneur with a heart for service, Meg has worked in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors on projects to strengthen her community. As a co-founder of Central Texas Addressing Cancer Together (CTX-ACT), she was instrumental in the creation of several programs to improve cancer care for low-income residents of six counties surrounding Austin.
Hyun-A Park, President of Spy Pond Partners, LLC (SPP) is actively involved with the MIT Alumni Association (MITAA), where she leads the Class of '83, chairs the MITAA Alumni Association Selection Committee, and contributes to the MIT Club of Boston's board. Having served as MITAA President and on the MITAA and Fund Boards, Hyun-A has also served a term on the MIT Corporation.
Sanjay Sarma is the Chief Executive Officer, President and Dean of the Asia School of Business, and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT and developed many of the key technologies behind the EPC suite of RFID standards now used worldwide.
Andrew Serazin served as President of the Templeton World Charity Foundation from 2015 to 2023, overseeing its philanthropic initiatives and managing its financial resources including interdisciplinary programs in open research, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and the humanities.
Sally Yu is the Chief Investment Officer at ODC/Dance, a leading contemporary dance company on the West Coast. She was formerly Managing Director at Renaissance Technologies LLC, renowned for its Medallion Fund. Previously, she served as a senior portfolio manager at Barclays Global Investors and started her career as a research analyst at J. P. Morgan in New York.