Building & Scaling a Social Impact Business with CEO of Mission Edge Ken Davenport

Feb 28, 2020, 1:30 – 5:00 AM (UTC)

San Diego

Mission Edge, 2820 Roosevelt Road #104, San Diego, 92106

Ken Davenport is the CEO of Mission Edge, a social enterprise providing consulting and strategy services to nonprofits and social impact organizations. Prior to starting Mission Edge, Ken was a serial entrepreneur who started and ran a number of successful companies.

In-person event

About this event

Ken Davenport is the CEO of Mission Edge, a social enterprise providing consulting and strategy services to nonprofits and social impact organizations. Prior to starting Mission Edge, Ken was a serial entrepreneur who started and ran a number of successful companies. He was the co-founder and CEO at NOVUS Technologies, a co-founder of the dental anesthesia developer Onpharma, and a co-founder of My Medical Forum, a platform for genomics-based testing of ovarian cancer. Ken is passionate about veteran entrepreneurship and teaches the Boots to Business courses for the Institute of Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University, and is an associate instructor for the veteran transition program FourBlock. Ken is a seed investor and mentor to numerous start-ups, and is a past board member and current partner at San Diego Social Venture Partners. Ken has a BA in Political Science from UC San Diego, a Master’s in International Management from the School of Global Policy and Strategy (UCSD) and a Master's in International Relations from the London School of Economics.  

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Speakers

  • Ken Davenport

    Mission Edge

    CEO

  • Rachel Gauvin

    Rachel Gauvin Consulting/ Fresh Brewed Tech

    Founder & Project Manager

When

When

Friday, February 28, 2020
1:30 AM – 5:00 AM (UTC)

Agenda

Networking/Ice Breaking
Introduction to Startup Grind
Fireside Chat
Q & A

Host

  • Luis Martinez

    We Tha Plug/Startup Grind San Diego

Organizer

  • Atlás Blake

    Chapter Director

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