team

newlab leadership

We are founders, scientists, engineers, investors, and operators. Now use our expertise to help critical technology founders go further, faster.

Chief Executive Officer
David Belt

Newlab Co-founder and Chairman. Serial entrepreneur, investor. Board member of St. Ann’s Warehouse and Pioneer Works.

Chief Strategy Officer
Liz Keen

Policy, Strategy & Public-Private Partnerships. Previously: Partner at ACME Capital, Silicon Foundry, Sherpa Capital, Condé Nast, Harrison & Shriftman.

Chief Product Officer
Garrett Winther

Engineer, Investor, and Venture Builder. Previously: SOSV, HAX, IDEO, MIT Engineering, and various startups.

Operations & Finance
Dan Connell

Operator and Venture Builder. Previously: Partnership Fund for NYC, Founder, Raymond James

Managing Director, Detroit
Katie Soven

Strategy, Architect & Ecosystem Builder. Previously: IDEO, Valerio Dewalt Train, Harvard

Managing Director, Montevideo
Fernando de la Fuente

Startup Advisor and Ecosystem Builder. Previously: Head of Portfolio Development at HSBC and Boston Consulting Group.

Managing Director, Riyadh
Muneef Al-Muneef

Engineer, Strategy & Ecosystem Builder. Previously: General Director of Renewable Energy Policies at the Ministry of Energy in Saudi Arabia, Kearney, MIT.

Strategy
Sahil Jain

Chemical Engineer, Strategy & Growth. Previously: Nomadic Venture Partners, Shell, LanzaTech

Strategy
Michelle Brechtelsbauer

Engineer, Energy Policy and Ecosystem Builder. Previously: Last Energy, Energy Impact Center, Institute for Defense Analysis, MIT Chemical Engineering

Platform
Brandon Corts

Engineer, Entrepreneur and Platform Lead. Previously: Founding Engineer at Wafer, Harvard MSMBA, MIT Engineering

Advisory
Carlos Trevino

Materials, Manufacturing and Strategy. Previously: Mitsubishi, OTM Consulting, Co-founder at Mentor Co.

Strategy
Madeline Reeves

Sustainability, Investor, & Public Policy. Former Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer for the White House, U.S. Department of State, DBL Partners, Bain & Company.

Membership Detroit
Riley Hall

Engineer, Builder, and Mentor. Previously: Product Marketing at Flux, Houzz Manufacturing, MuKagood.

Membership Brooklyn
Dan Gross

Physicist, Prototyping & Community Builder. Clearwater Instrument Design, BK ROT INC, Rockefeller University, University of Washington

Strategy
Prad Parthiban

Engineer, Entrepreneur and Startup Advocate. Harvard, J.P. Morgan, DoD, Firefly Aerospace.

Strategy
Mia Lu

Chemical Engineer and Innovation Strategist. Advisory Member, Imagine H20. Previously: Research at Lux Research Co and Technical Program Manager.

Strategy
Shivani Torres

Founder, Engineer and Commercialization. Previously: Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Petra, MIT Innovator Under 35, Stanford Engineering

Strategy
Jonathan Meléndez-Davidson

Researcher, Designer and Strategist. Pratt Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, Johnson & Johnson.

Advisory
Sydnee Grushak

Sustainability, Policy and Innovation. Previously consultant at Eunomia Research, IBM, Edelman.

Advisory
Jack Gray

Partnerships & Strategist. Previously: Ford Motor Company, Deloitte, Michigan

Advisors

David Belt *

Newlab CEO, Co-founder, Chairman of the Board. Founder of DBI Projects and MACRO-SEA. Board member of St. Ann’s Warehouse and Pioneer Works.

Scott Cohen *

Newlab Co-founder and serial entrepreneur. Investor in frontier technology and impact-driven ventures.

Tarun Khanna *

Harvard Business School Professor, Co-founder of Axilor Ventures, and Author. Board member of AES Corporation and SKS Microfinance.

Sandiip Bhammer *

Co-founder and Managing Partner at Green Frontier Capital. Impact investor. Champion of climate innovation in emerging markets.

Susan Schuman *

Vice-Chair of kyu and Executive-Chair of SYPartners. Board member of Paramount Global, IDEO, GDP, Lexington, and Management Leadership of Tomorrow (MLT).

Fredric Michel

Group Chief Communications and Corporate Affairs Officer at MCH. Former Chief Strategy and Communications Adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron.

Roy Salame

Board member at Rincell Corporation, SquareOne Energy, and Green Frontier Capital. Previously Citibank; Goldman Sachs; Lehman Brothers; JPMorgan.

*Select Advisors also board members of Newlab.

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