About Brian

Brian Cantwell is a graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he served as Managing Director of the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition and participated in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation program.

At Sloan, Brian focused on blending a passion for marketing with entrepreneurial aspirations. In the spring of 2009, Brian received the Patrick J. McGovern Award for making a significant impact on the quality, visibility, and overall spirit of entrepreneurship education and support across MIT. Brian will be spending his summer working for HubSpot, a promising startup that launched out of the MIT $100K in 2005 and currently resides in Kendall Square at the Cambridge Innovation Center.

Prior to joining Sloan, Brian worked as a management consultant for Accenture, helping clients use technology to enhance customer relationships. Brian is a published author of the whitepaper "Why Technical Breakthroughs Fail: A History of Public Concern with Emerging Technologies," written for the MIT Auto-ID Center. Brian holds a BA in History from Harvard University. He loves taking photographs, reviewing movies, rooting for the Red Sox, and learning about wine, all of which are more fun when shared with his wonderful wife Liz.

Since graduating from Sloan, Brian has returned to work for Accenture where he develops digital marketing and e-commerce strategies for Fortune 500 clients.