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Christopher Noble, Director of Corporate Engagement
Chris focuses on creating active partnerships between ESI and external organizations to advance ESI and MIT’s environmental missions.
During the first decade of his career, he had operational and M&A management roles in international technology and energy companies. He spent the following fifteen years as an entrepreneur, startup CEO and advisor, board member and investor. His career then shifted to the environmental field and to non-profits, joining MIT in 2008 as Licensing Officer for MIT’s energy technology, before joining ESI in 2017.
Chris has a B.Eng. from McGill University in Montreal (1977) and an MBA from MIT Sloan (1983). He lived and worked in North and South America and Europe, and is fluent in French and Spanish. He is an occasional consultant and lecturer (university technology transfer, IP management and valuation, entrepreneurial ecosystems). He has also served on several for-profit and non-profit boards, most recently AUTM, the Association of University Technology Managers (2017-2020). Chris currently serves on the Board of florrent, a venture-backed grid-storage technology startup.