LENS is home to a diverse group of people who bring aspects of law, economics, networks and science to life. Business leaders, doctors, scientists, technologists, economists, writers, psychologists, designers and even a few layers are part of the mix. It's not just the academic alphabet soup of PhDs, MDs, JDs, MBAs and the like but, we come from different cultures, races and perspectives as well.

More importantly, we have all been part of major innovations in the fields we engage in. Be it creating a new approach to medicine, a new view of national security or a new form of science. We hold patents and have changed industries. LENS is not just about ideas but making them tangible, and creating whole new fields in the process.

Our experience includes technology, transportation, healthcare, financial services, telecom, consumer markets, and more. As you read about some of the LENS team and network, our experience speaks for itself.

Here are some of the people who make it happen.

Tara Lemmey - CEO

Tara Lemmey is the CEO of LENS Ventures, an innovation, investment, and development company. Tara speaks regularly on innovation, corporate strategy, and social and market trends to business, government, and social sector audiences around the world. After starting multiple technology companies, Tara founded LENS Ventures, LLC in 1999 with the mission of helping companies make innovation tangible. LENS helps companies create options for next generation growth by providing them with a unique approach to new markets.

Tara has been published in Wired, Business 2.0, Business Week, and the Harvard Business Review. She is an active delegate at the Aspen Institute/Fortune Brainstorm and Fortune Most Powerful Women Summits. She has been a visiting lecturer at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, and UC Berkeley and is a commentator on National Public Radio. Tara has led strategic innovation initiatives with companies such as Nokia, Polycom and Intel, focusing on innovation, next generation strategies, new markets, investments, and acquisitions.

Tara is the Co-Chair of the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age since 2001. The innovation work in the Markle reports has influenced fundamental restructuring of how the government views intelligence and homeland security in the post 9/11 world. She is the ÒAmbassador from Silicon ValleyÓ on the Embassy of the Future Commission where she serves with 26 former Ambassadors to bring innovation to the State Department. She is on the Faculty of the world renowned, Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona founded by Dr. Andrew Weil, and is an Emeritus board member of the AIGA Center for Brand Experience, a leading design and brand organization.

Earlier in her career, Tara was president of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where she worked on global initiatives in areas of intellectual property, encryption, and privacy. She also founded three technology companies that were trailblazers in new markets and was on the founding board of TRUSTe, a leader in online privacy. Throughout her career, Tara has worked with the entrepreneurial edge of major companies such as Cisco, McGraw Hill, Absolut, Xerox, and Siemens.

Murray Brozinsky - Team Lead Business Strategy Murray's role at lens is providing C-level strategic thinking and business development expertise for major corporations. Murray has 20 years experience advising, founding, and operating technology, Internet, media, and financial services companies.

He has negotiated business development transactions ranging in size from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of dollars. Cambrian Technologies has completed over 20 major business development deals and numerous go-to-market strategies for its clients over the last 2 years. Murray was President of Netcentives. During his tenure the company grew from 40 to over 800 employees, to over $40M in revenue, went public and exceeded all of Wall Street's expectations with Murray at the helm.

Murray was founding Chairman of Lakshmi Technologies (a technology commercialization firm), Manager with The Boston Consulting Group (where he was a member of both the financial services and Internet practice areas), Director of Finance at McCaw Communications, and an M&A investment banker with Morgan Stanley. Murray was founding Chairman of Loyalty Matrix (sold to Responsys in 2007), Integrated Devices (sold in 2007), and Lypro Biosciences (funded in 2007). Murray is a member, Licensing Executive Society (LES) and former member of the World Entrepreneurs Organization (WEO). Murray has written columns for Wired Magazine and Business 2.0 among other jourlas and has been a featured speaker at many industry and financial conferences. In addition to LENS, Murray is principal of Cambrian Technologies, a strategy and business development firm dedicated to driving growth and margins for it clients.

Murray has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Business a Masters of Science in Engineering from Northwestern University, a Bachelor's Degree in Finance from the Wharton School and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.

Sean Dolan - Team Lead User Experience and Product Design Sean is a senior technology and design strategist. He has guided the development of projects for clients such as the Markle Foundation, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and WebEx Communications. Additionally, he has recently worked with LENS Ventures on a strategic prototype for The Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age visualizing the Markle SHARE network for homeland communications. Previously, Sean was Director of Program Management for Idea Integration and Executive Producer at Food.com, both in San Francisco. He was also Senior Managing Producer at AOL/Digital City in Boston, Massachusetts. In his spare time, Sean enjoys digital photography and hiking, completing a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail in 2002. He is a graduate of Brown University.

Steve Harris - Team Lead Legal Innovation Steve is legal counsel and corporate management affairs lead for LENS. Steve's core strength is seeing the possiblities for innovation in complex policy environments. Steve helped create Cometa Networks, a joint-venture of Intel, ATT and IBM. He has served as Senior Vice-President-Corporate Affairs and General Counsel for SoftNet Systems, Inc., the leading provider of high-speed internet access and related services over cable, satellite and wireless technologies. Prior to joining SoftNet, Steve worked at Pacific Telesis Group from 1983-1998, in the areas of regulatory and external affairs, policy and strategy. In the early 1980's, Steve was Commissioner's Assistant and Special Assistant to the General Counsel at the Federal Communications Commission and was previously in private practice.He is a graduate of Brandeis University and the University of Michigan Law School.

Jo Anne Miller - Team Lead Entrepreneurs Program Jo Anne leads the entrepreneurial aspects of the LENS Forecasting Fund. Past endeavors include 3 years at the helm of Innovent Nokia, a seed stage investing organization within the Nokia Ventures/Strategy Organization where she used venturing as a focus for innovation at Nokia. Her role as Principal included working with up to six entrepreneurial start-ups as an active board member/CEO coach assisting with business development, fundraising and project managing. Jo Anne spent 2 years with Gluon Networks, Inc. where she was President and CEO. There she raised over $61 million dollars in series C round funds and took the company from prototype to full production. Jo Anne also spent time as Vice President for JetCell, Inc., TeleAcccess Communications, Inc., and AirNet Communications, Inc., all development stage wireless start-ups.

Jo Anne is actively involved in her community and serves on the board of directors for MentorNet, ShareChive, LLC, and IntelliNet Technologies. In 2002 Jo Anne received the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, Trailblazer Fundraising Award. Jo Anne earned her M.B.A. at the University of Chicago Executive Program, has an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan.

Plus the whole LENS network.

Megan McVay - Senior Analyst Megan has nearly a decade of experienceÊengagingÊwith software and Internet businesses to develop their business plans and strategies. Most recently with companiesÊincludingÊCharles Schwab, PeopleSoft. Megan was Director of Consulting Services at Convey Software (eTranslate Inc) working with clients such as eBay, Compaq Computer, and EMC. Before Convey Software, Megan was a Senior Consultant in the Strategy Group at USWeb/CKS (marchFIRST) developing go-to-market strategies including product/service offerings, revenue models, and launch planning for clients such as Encyclopaedia Britannica, Romac International, and MARS Music. Megan started her career in Washington, D.C., working in the Economic Section of the Embassy of Japan and in the press office at the Export-Import Bank of the US. Ê Megan has a BA in Asian Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters in International Management with a concentration in Japan from UC San DiegoÕs Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.

Joanne Donn - Director of Operations Joanne provides support to our internal and external customers with logistics, scheduling and project management.

She has over 10 years of experience providing administrative and office management support in such industries as commercial real estate, economic consulting and a research firm focused on emerging growth technologies. Joanne has worked on projects such as office relocations to events management, paralegal support, CRM Database rollout and implementation, marketing & graphics design and office management. She is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz with a bachelor's degree in Business Economics.

Joanne also teaches Motorcycle Safety courses part time and maintains a website and blog about women's motorcycle gear.