Joe Gerber
Managing Director at IDEO CoLab Ventures
- Role
- Managing Director at Ideo Colab Ventures
- Location
- Oakland, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Joe Gerber
Joe is Managing Director of the IDEO CoLab Ventures, where he invests in the future of the internet.Prior to founding the CoLab, Joe helped start IDEO Futures, a new ventures team focused on prototyping and incubating new businesses for IDEO and its network of friends. Joe been active as an advisor and teacher in the entrepreneurial community, mentoring at Techstars, General Assembly, and the Harvard iLab and teaching courses on design thinking and venture design at NYU, School of Visual Arts and UC Berkeley. Before IDEO, Joe was a Product Manager at Fidelity Investments, where he was responsible for developing and executing strategies for the next generation Fidelity.com. Joe began his career as a cancer biologist at biotechnology companies. Joe holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and a B.S. in Biological Sciences from UC Santa Barbara.
Experience
Managing Director
Jan 2016 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Education
UC Santa Barbara
BS, Biology
1997 — 2001
MIT Sloan School of Management
MBA
2005 — 2007
Skills
- Research
- Rapid Prototyping
- Ethnography
- Product Development
- Start-Ups
- Strategy
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- User Experience
- Marketing Strategy
- Design Thinking
- Experience Design
- User Research
- Teaching
- Entrepreneurship
- Data Analysis
- Interaction Design
- Design Strategy
- User-Centered Design
- Agile Methodologies
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