Flagship Ventures founder and CEO Noubar Afeyan is among 42 honorees named to the Carnegie Corporation’s 2016 class of “Great Immigrants.” Other members of the class include Fei-Fei Li of Stanford University, Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital, Thuan Pham from Uber, and Sundar Pichai from Google. Afeyan, a Lebanese native of Armenian heritage, serves as senior managing partner at Flagship and is involved with companies such as Moderna Therapeutics, Seres Therapeutics, and Joule Unlimited. (He’s also an Xconomist.) Flagship, based in Cambridge, MA, is a venture capital firm focused on financing and launching new companies in life sciences and healthcare.
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Greg is a veteran journalist who has covered a wide range of science, technology, and business. As former editor in chief, he overaw daily news, features, and events across Xconomy's national network. Before joining Xconomy, he was a features editor at New Scientist magazine, where he edited and wrote articles on physics, technology, and neuroscience. Previously he was senior writer at Technology Review, where he reported on emerging technologies, R&D, and advances in computing, robotics, and applied physics. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Nature, and The Atlantic Monthly’s website. He was named a New York Times professional fellow in 2003.
Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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