Full Name
Dr Emily Reichert
Job Title
Chief Executive Officer
Company
Greentown Labs
Speaker Bio
Dr. Emily Reichert serves as Chief Executive Officer of Greentown Labs, the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America. As the organization’s first employee, Dr. Reichert spearheaded the rapid growth of Greentown Labs into a global center for climatetech innovation, incubating hundreds of climate-focused startups that have created thousands of jobs and attracted partners from around the world.

Dr. Reichert started her career at Arthur D. Little as a Ph.D. scientist and progressed into R&D, business development and general management roles. Prior to Greentown Labs, she was the Director of Business Operations at the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry where she helped grow the angel-funded startup into a sustainable contract R&D business with a mission to minimize environmental impact of chemical products.

Dr. Reichert has been appointed to leadership positions on innovation, economic development, entrepreneurship, and clean technology commercialization at the city, state, and federal level including the Massachusetts Governor’s Economic Development Planning Council, the Massachusetts Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative, and the U.S. Secretary of Commerce’s National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Dr. Reichert holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned her MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Dr Emily Reichert