Professor Megan Kashner presented at the DPELC-MSL Speaker Series last Tuesday to a room full of students at the intersection of business and law. Kashner serves as the Director of Social Impact at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. She is also the founder and CEO of Benevolent, a platform that invites individual givers to fill […]
Talks
Drew Hinkes Believes in Blockchain
Drew Hinkes has no trouble explaining Blockchain. Mr. Hinkes is co-founder and General Counsel of Athena Blockchain, a start-up investment bank focused on tokenized securities. He’s also an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern Business School and the NYU School of Law, where he co-teaches “Digital Currency, Blockchains, and the Future of the Financial Services […]
Michael Ross Ventures into Legal Tech
Last Tuesday at the DPELC-MSL Speaker Series, students had the chance to hear from Michael Ross, a Northwestern Law alumnus who is now a Product Manager at LexCheck. His work for this pre-Series A start-up is focused on their main products: a Microsoft Word add-in and a web platform, both of which can be used […]
DPELC-MSL Speaker: Courtney VanLonkhuyzen
Courtney VanLonkhuyzen, general counsel at Lenovo Mobile Business Group, recently visited the Law School to give a talk as part of the DPELC-MSL Speaker Series. Like other speakers in the series, her work is squarely at the intersection of law, technology, and business. As some of you may have heard, Lenovo recently acquired Motorola from […]
MSL Speaker Series: Dimitra Georganopoulou
As part of its speaker series, the MSL program recently brought in Dimitra Georganopoulou. Dimitra currently works as an Invention Manger and an Innovation & Commercialization Office at INVO, which is Northwestern’s tech transfer office. She has her PhD in Bioelectrochemistry (!) and did a post-doc in analytical chemistry. Dimitra is a delightfully engaging, energetic, […]