Emily Fallon Baum

• Led strategy and execution for initiatives supporting underrepresented founders through accelerator programs, founder education, and investor engagement. • Built partnerships across investors, corporations, mentors, and ecosystem organizations including Amex Ventures, HearstLab, J.P. Morgan, and Antares Capital. • Supported a network of 200+ founders from Seed to Series B through coaching, workshops, fundraising support, and targeted introductions. • Designed and executed founder-focused programming spanning commercialization, venture growth, and strategic partnerships. • Represented Project W across startup, venture capital, and innovation ecosystem events nationwide.

Startup Lab: How to Build a Scalable Startup A required class for students in the BS in Business, Technology and Entrepreneurship (BTE) degree program, this course provides real world, hands-on learning to simulate an entrepreneurial experience for students with all the pressures and demands of a real world early-stage startup within the constraints of the classroom setting. Professor Baum also co-designed and co-taught the first iteration of Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship: The Entrepreneurial Mindset to first year students in the BTE Program.

Reboot Democracy was created to bring innovators in technology and politics together. The organization created an ecosystem of support for early-stage innovators building technology to strengthen democracy. Reboot Democracy mobilized 1100+ participants via nationwide events and built the first-ever democracy-focused startup accelerator to support growth in the democracy tech sector.

Led technology investments for the NYU Innovation Venture Fund, sourcing and evaluating early-stage startups emerging from the NYU ecosystem.

Emily leads numerous programs and serves as an in-house mentor and coaches NYU entrepreneurs through various stages of launching a startup. The NYU Entrepreneurial Institute at the Leslie eLab leads University-wide initiatives to launch successful startups and commercialize technology created by NYU’s 60,000 students, faculty and researchers. The Institutes' team of startup experts offers educational programming and events, and helps identify funding opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs in the NYU community.

Professor Baum taught the Lean Launchpad class to graduate computer science students at NYU earning a Master's degree in Computing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (the MS-CEI Program). The curriculum covered critical stages, including problem conceptualization and product development, fostering an environment where students could incubate their ideas and evaluate effectiveness.

From spec writing to post-release analysis, led feature development with the goal of increasing basket size, average order value, and overall growth and retention.

Served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence, curriculum designer, and startup coach for the Citrix Startup Accelerator and Innovators Program. • Designed curriculum for a 12-week Design Thinking and Lean focused accelerator program in collaboration with the Citrix Customer Experience and Startup Accelerator teams • Taught intensive 3-day Lean/Design Thinking boot-camps in Sydney, Redmond, Raleigh, and Santa Clara • Coached 18 enterprise-focused startups and several internal teams through early stages of customer discovery introducing them to a variety of ethnographic research techniques (interviewing, surveying, etc.)

Emily completed her MBA as part of the MMM (Triple M) dual-degree program. The program integrates the Kellogg School of Management & the McCormick School of Engineering educating visionary leaders to innovate customer experiences from system design through fulfillment.

Cum Laude USC Renaissance Scholar Honor Gamma Phi Beta Distinguished Scholarship Award Deans List 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 Student Delegate: Princeton University’s International Business Today Conference

General Studies, GPA: 3.87/4.00 Board of Directors, Chem104 for Professor Clark Landis