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Biography
With over two decades of experience in technology and entrepreneurship, Lisa has been at the forefront of the digital revolution, helping organisations navigate change and harness the power of new ideas, business categories, models, platforms and high performing team design.
A founder and CEO of technology companies. including GNN (the first commercial web site, Sold to AOL, and the first online photo sharing service, Ofoto (which she sold to Kodak). Beyond that, Lisa has been a founding investor and board member of Taskrabbit, Turo, Honest Buildings (Procore), Instructables (Autodesk), Human Forest, Solar Mosaic (largest solar finance in US), Trove Recommerce and Bango PLC. Her business, Mesh Ventures, creates future fictions (no-code prototypes of the future), designed to provoke clients, teams and customers into palpable business design. Mesh Ventures built a global network of artists, writers and scientists as collaborators. Together the group is dedicated to working on business and societal transformation in partnership with corporations, communities and governments.
Lisa’s critically acclaimed book, The Mesh – Why the Future of Business is Sharing , has inspired countless business leaders to rethink their approaches to innovation and customer engagement. Drawing on her extensive experience, Lisa shares practical strategies for leveraging technology to create value and drive growth, while also addressing the pressing challenges of our time, such as sustainability and social responsibility.
Lisa is invited all over the world to speak on the topics of collaborations with “synthetic co-workers”, trust in the age of AI, strategies for innovation, and capturing lasting value from innovation.