As Executive Director of the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, Cindy and her team provide emerging founders with experiential programs and events which provide access to mentoring, funding, and critical resources to develop their entrepreneurial leadership skills while advancing venture creation. Cindy also leads the student engagement side of the Butler Institute for Free Enterprise through Entrepreneurship where students explore the influence policies have on entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurs can influence policy.
Cindy joined Babson in 2004, in the Graduate School Center for Career Development working with both students and companies with a focus on technology, life sciences, energy and entrepreneurial pursuits. During her time building Babson’s John E. and Alice L. Butler Launch Pad, she managed the mentoring and support of student and alumni entrepreneurs as they developed and grew their ventures. Cindy continues to coach and advise founders and joined TBD Angels as an angel investor in 2020. Cindy is an MBA from Babson College’s two year MBA program where she went through the Entrepreneurship Intensity Track (EIT) and co-launched AdvantageNet, Inc., a business and career management consulting firm. She served for three years as co-President on the board of Wellesley Community Children’s Center leading the Executive Director search and is an active volunteer at both Village Table Wellesley and TBE Table which help those who are food insecure. Prior to Babson, Cindy held several positions of increasing responsibility in the financial services and communications industries. She earned her B.S. in Accounting at University of Delaware, an MBA with honors from Babson College and is a former CPA.
