TiE Boston
Kent Summers is an accomplished entrepreneur, educator, and board member with extensive experience in B2B sales and leadership development. As the Founder and Managing Partner of Spinnaker Sales Group since January 2018, Kent has provided strategic sales training for startups and scaleups. In addition, Kent serves as an Executive Leadership Coach at Harvard Business School's Advanced Leadership Initiative, enhancing skills for experienced leaders. Kent has taught the B2B Sales for Startups course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been involved with various organizations such as NextTrip and TiE Boston, supporting technology-driven ventures and founders. Kent's previous roles include operating partner at Garofalo & Associates and founding CEO positions at MyHelpdesk and Collego. Kent holds a BA in English from the University of Houston.
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TiE Boston
Whether you are looking for insights on emerging technology or for one-on-one mentoring, TiE Boston offers you the resources and content you need to develop your next opportunity into reality. TiE Boston is a comprehensive eco-system for entrepreneurs with the mission to foster, encourage, and support entrepreneurship in the New England region. We connect entrepreneurs with each other and stakeholders in the entrepreneurial world including serial entrepreneurs, Angel Investors, Venture Capitalists, Vendors and Service Providers. We run several vibrant programs to educate, mentor, network, and inspire entrepreneurs in the community. These programs are the forum where talent, ideas, and enterprise mingle in a potent combination to generate innovation. While our programs have facilitated the growth of companies worth billions of dollars in net worth, the business leaders attending these programs still retain the camaraderie that sparked the formation of TiE-Boston 15 years ago. TiE Boston is based in Cambridge, MA and is part of the Global TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) group, the largest not-for-profit organization promoting entrepreneurship, which has over 12,000 members in 62 chapters worldwide.