Erin McKenna

Erin McKenna

Program Director, Ignite Innovation

Biography

Erin has been the Deputy Director and Senior Project Manager in the Boston Biomedical Innovation Center (B-BIC), a life science accelerator program funded by the National Institutes of Health. Projects receiving B-BIC awards have generated over 25 times their initial return on investment. Prior to that, Erin developed her expertise in medical device product development and commercialization at Boston Scientific in a variety of roles. She started her career in Research and Development at Boston Scientific and launched several vascular grafts and peripheral embolization products before shifting her focus to identifying and implementing company-wide product development lifecycle process improvements. She received her MBA and MS degrees from Babson College, her BE from Stevens Institute of Technology, and holds 9 issued patents. Erin is also a board observer at Platelet Biogenesis and Third Pole Therapeutics.