Shari Loessberg

Shari Loessberg is a Senior Lecturer in Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is an experienced entrepreneur and investor in established and emerging markets, with particular experience in emerging market venture capital fund formation, entrepreneurship in emerging economies, and corporate governance standards. She has served on and led public, private, and non-profit boards and is active in educational programs on board education. At MIT, she focuses on entrepreneurial ecosystem acceleration as a faculty member of the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program, with an interest in increasing access to capital. She is also a faculty director of the MIT Sloan Women on Boards program and the Endeavor-MIT entrepreneurial leader immersion program. Her teaching emphasizes student engagement with emerging and frontier market startups, scaleups, and ecosystems, as well as venture capital and funding sources in entrepreneurship.