Ms. Marina Hatsopoulos Marina Hatsopoulos is an entrepreneur, director and angel investor. In 2012 she was appointed Chairperson of the Board of Levitronix Technologies, the worldwide leader in magnetically-levitated bearingless motor technology. In 2012 she became a Director and investor in Dear Kate, which sells performance apparel made from advanced materials. In late 2008 she was appointed as a Director of Cynosure (Nasdaq: CYNO), a $250 million leading developer and manufacturer of a broad array of laser- and other light-based aesthetic systems used for hair removal, treatment for vascular and pigmented lesions, and other non-invasive and minimally invasive aesthetic procedures. In 2007 she became an investor and Director of Tea Forte, a high-growth company that sells award-winning premium tea-related products, which was sold to Sara Lee in late 2011.
Ms. Hatsopoulos was the Founding CEO and investor in Z Corporation from 1994 through its successful sale in 2005. Z Corp. is a market leader in 3D Printing, a technology used to produce physical prototypes from design data at low cost and high speed. At the time of sale Z Corp. had 125 employees, revenues of $30 million and a strong history of profitability. It was the technology leader and had reached a strong #2 spot in market share.
From 2005-2010 she served as Director of the GSI Group (Nasdaq: GSIG), a $300 million supplier of precision motion control products, lasers, and laser-based advanced manufacturing systems for the global medical, semiconductor, electronics and industrial markets.
She was a Director of Contex Holding, the $100 million leading manufacturer of large-format scanners and software, from 2005-2007. Prior to that, as Chair of the Committee on Finance and Investment of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), she oversaw the budgets and investments of this 120,000-member organization. She served on the Board of Trustees of The Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She currently serves on the Board of The Bridge Boston Charter School in Dorchester.
Ms. Hatsopoulos graduated with a B.A. in Pure Mathematics and a B.A. in Music from Brown University in 1987 (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Mathematics Prize, and Faculty Fellowship). She received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 1993 (Sigma Xi).
Press/Awards/Publications
Ms. Hatsopoulos was honored with Mass. High Tech’s 2001 All-Star Award for Hardware. She has been profiled in Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Boston Business Journal, the Boston Globe and Technology Review. She speaks at technology conferences and at the nation's top business schools, and was on Boston Magazine’s 2008 Extended Power List of the most powerful people in town. She has published articles in Design News and Time Compression Technologies, and contributed a chapter, titled “Product Differentiation from Technology,” to Jumpstart: Launching Your Business Venture, Profitably and Successfully (Aspatore, 2003).