About the Event
Join us for the inaugural TalkIQ, a series of virtual fireside chats with thought-leaders and renowned tech investors, operators, and entrepreneurs.
We at the CBS Fintech Initiative, together with The Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics, are please to announce the launch of TalkIQ, a new series of curated conversation with distinguished trailblazers to help untangle complexity, identify trends, and codify skills necessary to succeed in today's fast-changing world.
Each chat will include a discussion on market dynamics, short- and long-term investment and career opportunities, lesson on the analytical mindsets, mental models, and leadership styles essential to adapt and advance a purposeful career.
For our Spring 2022 program, we will feature four events with outstanding women and venture capitalists, all with prior experience as operators and/or entrepreneurs. See the schedule below for dates and times for each of our events.
TalkIQ is conceived, planned, and moderated by Prof. R.A. Farrokhnia, and is brought to you by Columbia Business School’s Advanced Projects and Applied Research in Fintech and The Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics.
About Mar Hershenson
Mar Hershenson is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Pear VC, a seed-stage investment firm in Palo Alto backing companies like Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), Doordash (NYSE: DASH), Gusto, Aurosa Solar, and Branch. Prior to Pear, Mar co-founded three companies and held executive positions in product and engineering at Magma Design Automation. Mar holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University where she is currently a Lecturer in the Engineering School. Mar also serves on the Board of Trustees of Harvey Mudd College and on the Advisory Council of the Electrical Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University and is founding member of All Raise and the Equity Sum. She has been recognized by MIT Technology Review as a Top Innovator Under 35, named Champion of Innovation by Fast Company, included by EE Times in its listing of the Top 10 Women in Microelectronics, and awarded the Digital Automation Conference's Marie R. Pistilli Achievement Award.
