Jason Pontin

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Mr. Jason Pontin serves as a General Partner & Member of the Investment Team at DCVC. He serves as a Board Member at Kanvas Biosciences. He also serves as a Board Member at TaTiO. He also serves as a Board Member at ZwitterCo, Relation Therapeutics, and Aquafortus. He serves as Executive Chairman at Stratos. He is a Co-Founder and serves as a Board Member at Totus Medicines. He has served as Senior Advisor at Flagship Pioneering. He served as a Senior Advisor at Cue Ball. In this role, he leads strategic communications for both Flagship Pioneering and the enterprise's ecosystem of pioneering ventures. He works on originating and developing new companies and is a key strategist for expanding the firm's domains of innovation. As the framer of Flagship's narrative and an architect of the value creation plan for each VentureLabs company, he is also the point of connection between Flagship's ecosystem and governments, NGOs, academia, foundations, and industry. From 2004 to 2017, he was CEO, editor-in-chief, and publisher of MIT Technology Review, the oldest technology publication in the world. He has written for The New York Times, The Economist, and The Financial Times, and still writes regularly for Wired. Before joining MIT Technology Review, he was the editor of Red Herring, a business magazine that was popular during the dot.com boom. At MIT, he was the founder and curator of Solve, MIT's open innovation platform, and the chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum, the Institute's global community of entrepreneurs; and he reorganized MIT's news and communications as a senior advisor to President Susan Hockfield. In 2013, he delivered a TED talk entitled "Can technology solve our big problems?" which has been viewed more than 1.5 million times. He was educated in the United Kingdom at Harrow School and Keble College, Oxford University. He also serves as an Advisory Board Member at Social Impact Capital.