Monica Novoa

Monica Novoa is a Program Manager and Research Faculty with Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI²). Monica started her career in higher education in 2008 at the School of Management of The University of San Francisco in California where she co-led the creation of a new entrepreneurship education department.  She joined the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) in 2013 where she oversaw domestic and international offerings of the Stanford Ignite Program, the GSB’s flagship certificate program in innovation and entrepreneurship. Monica specializes in the design, development, and implementation of entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology commercialization programs. She has worked with universities, governments, non-profit organizations and private sector and created training experiences tailored to each organization’s needs. Monica earned an M.B.A degree with a concentration in Finance and Marketing from The University of San Francisco, and a Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering from Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela.