Jason Vazzano is a serial Entrepreneur, Mentor, and Early-stage investor from Detroit, MI, who has built multiple global companies and products. As a visionary in the emerging tech space, he has led idea-to-invention pipelines for Fortune 500 brands, including BMW, Microsoft, GoogleX, DTE Energy, Red Bull, Volkswagen, Kaiser Permanente, and Estée Lauder.
His areas of expertise include company and culture building, R&D monetization, product development and incubation, innovation management, go to market, and strategic business development.
Jason’s work has been the subject of Harvard Business School live cases focused on scaling entrepreneurial ventures and launching clean energy ecosystems. He is an established presenter for Harvard Business School Executive Education. Jason has also presented at DMEXCO in Munich and Futureland in Milan, as well as Future X Live, Data West and TEDx in the United States.
In addition to entrepreneurship, Jason serves on the boards of Endeavor and the Michigan Science Center. He has also served on the boards for Camp Oakland and the Oakland University Information & Decision Sciences Department.
Jason believes that Michigan has the potential to be a global destination of innovation and entrepreneurship — and he’s passionate about inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs to do it.