Joseph G. Hadzima

In addition to serving as Managing Director of Main Street Partners, a venture development and technology commercialization firm, Joe is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he has taught entrepreneurship and law since 1984. He has been a judge of the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition since its founding, and served as Chairman of the Global MIT Enterprise Forum, an organization that fosters entrepreneurship through its 24 chapters around the world. He has been involved in the founding of more than 100 companies as a founder, investor, director, legal counsel, or employee, and has advised entrepreneurs, high-growth businesses, and venture capitalists. He was a partner in Sullivan & Worcester LLP, a major Boston law firm, where he founded and directed the High Tech/New Ventures Group. Joe holds a BSc from MIT, an SM in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a JD from the Harvard Law School.