MIT Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Macauley Kenney is an experienced leader for early/mid stage-startups, with a focus on building efficiency and financial success for mission-oriented organizations. Her accomplishments range from presenting at the TechCrunch Battlefield to mentoring for MIT's emerging technologies, and her work has been featured in Forbes and Engineering4Change. Macauley is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at MIT, and the advisor to SurgiBox, Inc., a medtech company building innovative, ultraportable operating rooms for use in austere settings. Macauley holds a master's in Technology and Policy from MIT, and a certificate in sustainability from the Sloan School of Management.
I have overseen or conducted numerous recruitment rounds, including the growth of my company from 17 to 50 people over a 2 year period. During that time I designed multiple interview structures, screenings, and outreach, with a focus on equality and removing bias.
I've built three startups and mentored over 50 ventures at the idea stage. My professional expertise is in how to understand the market need before building the product.
I've managed remote teams spanning 5 different countries and 7 time zones. Much of this work was pre-pandemic, and I led the company in crafting it's remote work policies, including COL adjustment, leave, and working hours.
Understanding the user can make or break a venture; I've lead market surveys, focus groups, and interview to achieve understanding of the pain points, decision factors, and prevalence.
I regularly use asana for both personal task tracking as well as managing multiple product workstreams within my companies. I have also been responsible for integrating Asana into workplace culture.
As COO, I have overseen and orchestrated the production of our medical device from design for manufacturing (DFM) through to regulatory approval. Familiar with ISO13485 requirements, as well as medtech V&V steps for CE Mark and FDA.
Macauley is an executive leader at SurgiBox, a medical device venture creating novel surgical technologies. At SurgiBox, she oversaw the launch of the first ultraportable operating room, a Time nominated invention, taking the product through the design for manufacturing process and into use on the battlefield in Ukraine. Macauley teaches entrepreneurship, with a focus on commercializing hardware, at MIT. She is also the author of two patents on OR technology.
The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship advances knowledge and educates students in innovation-driven entrepreneurship in a manner that will best serve the world in the 21st century. The focus of our education is MIT students to whom we provide proven frameworks, courses, co-curricular programs, state-of-the-art facilities, advisory services, and processes to create a rigorous, practical, customized, and integrated educational experience.
SurgiBox has developed the first ultraportable operating room, for use in austere conditions. In partnership with Doctors Without Borders and Air Force Special Operations command, our flagship technology fits into a backpack and enables safe surgery any time, any place.