Cathy Louise Iacobo

Cathy Louise Iacobo is a Lecturer in the Global Economics and Management Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She serves as a faculty mentor for the Global Entrepreneurship Lab (G-Lab), Healthcare Lab (H-Lab), and China/India Lab. Cathy is a global operations executive with 30-plus years of experience across services, supply chain, engineering, manufacturing, product development, marketing, and sales operations, initially at IBM and later at Lexmark International. She has considerable international experience, including managing global services operations and an overseas assignment managing EMEA supply chain operations. Cathy has been a dedicated mentor throughout her career and volunteers as a mentor at MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service (VMS). She holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Duke University and an MS in management of technology from the MIT Sloan School of Management.