The Newlab Team

Leadership tEAM

Cameron Lawrence

CEO

CEO and Entrepreneur.
Previously: CFO at GNC, CEO at PNI Digital Media (acquired by Staples), Chief Operating and Financial Officer at Ondine Biomedical Inc., PwC.

Liz Keen

Strategic Growth

Tech Investor and Advisor.
Partner at ACME Capital. Previously: Silicon Foundry, Sherpa Capital, Conde Nast, Harrison & Shriftman.

Satish Rao

Applied Innovation

Scientist and Innovation leader.
Previously, Columbia Technology Ventures, NYC Media Lab, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Garrett Winther

Venture

Engineer, Investor, and Venture Builder. Previously: SOSV, HAX, IDEO, MIT and various startups.

Justin Massa

Revenue

Entrepreneur and Revenue leader.
Previously: partner at IDEO, founder/CEO at Food Genius (acq: USFoods).

Kristine Colosimo

Brand and Marketing

Full-stack marketing leader.
Previously: built the corporate marketing function at Silicon Valley Unicorn, Workato, valued at $5.7B, and various startups.

Dan Connell

Operations and Strategy

Operator, Builder, and Advisor.
Launched 3 startups, invested in 10. Previously: Founder in Residence at Antler, Early-Stage Investor at the Partnership Fund, Investment Banker at Raymond James.

BOARD

David Belt
Newlab Co-founder. Serial entrepreneur/investor. Voted one of the top 50 most powerful people in tech in New York City by City & State. Board member of St. Ann’s Warehouse and Pioneer Works.
Scott Cohen
Newlab Co-founder. Entrepreneur/investor/artist. Awarded The Urban Visionary Award from the Center for Urban Culture and FIPRESCI Grand Jury Award for best new American Cinema for his film, Red Knot.
Faisal Masud
Currently President at HP for Digital Services. Formerly CEO at fabric, CTO at Staples, COO at Wing (an Alphabet Moonshot). Masud spent his early career working with Amazon during a time of rapid scaling. Managed Amazon's global Reverse Logistics business along with its private label brand (AmazonBasics).
Susan Schuman
Currently Vice-Chair of kyu and Executive-Chair of SYPartners. Schuman has worked alongside Fortune 100 CEOs and their teams to imagine the future they want to create. Prior, she was the General Manager of Studio Archetype, one of the first premier web design firms in the U.S., and spent seven years at Apple, where she was Group Manager of Worldwide Product Marketing. Schuman sits on the boards of Paramount Global, IDEO, GDP, Lexington, and Management Leadership of Tomorrow (MLT).
Sandiip Bhammer
Founder and Co-Managing Partner of Green Frontier Capital, one of India's first and now pre-eminent early stage climate-change focused VCs. Previously, Co-Portfolio Manager of the DA Capital South-Asia Investment Fund. Bhammer was also a senior investment banking executive at Citigroup Global Markets Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., and CLSA Emerging Markets respectively. Bhammer is an early investor in many successful “green” start-ups including Newlab members Amogy, Clip Bike, and Yank Technologies.