Jhonatan Rotberg: mobile technologies guru

While reading the posts for Week 4, I came across the profile of Jhonatan Rotbert, an intrapreneur and entrepreneur working with MIT.

He is the founder and director of MIT NextLab, one of the featured courses of MIT’s OpenCourseWare. He is a lecturer in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT, and works in partnership with industry to develop new mobile technologies that are spun off as joint MIT-Industry innovations, new open-source initiatives, or for-profit startups. He has been associated with 29 projects in 13 countries, and has received many prestigious awards.

Apart from being technologically innovative, he is also able to drive new ventures and has co-founded three startups in the financial and high tech sectors, one of which was acquired by GE in 2003. His program at MIT spun off the 2009 mobile tech runner up of MIT’s $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, the 2011 winner of Harvard Business School’s Business Plan Contest (social venture track), and a funded for-profit startup currently operating in Mexico and Nicaragua. During 2010, Jhonatan served as Senior Technology Advisor to the Inter-American Development Bank’s mobile technologies incubator.

His bio is well worth a read. He clearly is a tall poppy among ed tech founders.