Trudy Kightley

Trudy Kightley, Chief Operating Officer, has broad experience in all aspects of financial management drawn from her work in financial consulting and her success in raising venture capital for MIT start-ups, early stage and mid-market companies.

Six years ago, she formed Trudy's CEO Breakfast Forum, a group of some of the most brilliant entrepreneurs in the world - article written by Bob Buderi, the CEO of Xconomy.com. This has grown to over 160 CEOs who convene at quarterly meetings with attendance capped at 40 delegates.

The CEOs are PhDs in Nanotechnology, Life Science, Medical Devices, Sustainability, and High Tech. They are graduates of MIT, Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge Universities and their interests range from start-ups to companies whose combined value is over $140 Billion.

Trudy speaks Spanish, Swedish, French and German and has lived in Europe, North and South America, the Carribbean and the South Pacific. She has a degree in Public Policy with graduate work in International Political Theory.