Rhonda Shrader is the Executive Director of the Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program and the NSF I-Corps Northwest. She teaches three graduate-level Innovation & Entrepreneurship courses: Lean Transfer, Startup Disco and Introduction to Commercializing Quantum Information.
As an entrepreneur, Shrader was an early team member of MIT-spinout Organogenesis, one of the first publicly traded regenerative medicine companies. She has founded—or was an early stage team member at—startups in biotech, behavioral health, nonprofit, retail, and AI. She was a long-time mentor for UCSF’s Idea-to-IPO course, and is an active advisor for NASA spinoff BrainAid. Shrader serves as faculty director for UC LAUNCH’s Accelerator, a lead instructor for NSF’s National I-Corps program, and multiple programs for the U.S. State Department. She earned an undergraduate degree in neuropsychology and pre-medical studies from Harvard and an MBA from Berkeley Haas.