Aulet Appointed Managing Director of MIT Entrepreneurship Center

Bill Aulet, an Xconomist and active innovation advocate, has been appointed managing director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, which seeks to work with MIT students, faculty, and others outside the school to foster entrepreneurship. Aulet is an MIT Sloan School of Management senior lecturer who began his career at IBM, ran two private companies, and helped turn around biometrics company Viisage Technology as its CFO. He has served as acting director of the Entrepreneurship Center since August. “With his depth of experience and dedication to entrepreneurship, Bill Aulet will be a great asset to the Center as it continues to develop and support MIT’s many entrepreneurial programs and activities,” said Sloan dean David Schmittlein in the university announcement of Aulet’s appointment.

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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.