Greg Schmergel is a serial entrepreneur who has started multiple companies, and is co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Nantero, Inc. and Chairman of Yuva Biosciences, Inc. He serves on multiple Boards including as member of the Board of Trustees of the Lahey Hospital & Medical Center and of the Lahey Clinic Foundation and as a Venture Partner at Rubicon Venture Capital. Before Nantero, Greg was Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy for About, Inc., at the time the 5th largest Web property in the world. Previously, he was President and CEO of ExpertCentral.com, Inc. Greg founded ExpertCentral.com to provide consumers and small businesses with access to thousands of experts to use as an online resource for important questions on a wide variety of topics (later acquired by About, Inc.). Before that, he was a Case Team Leader for Bain & Company and held a senior position at TowerGroup, which he helped start (acquired by Reuters). Greg was a previous Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award winner in New England, in the emerging technology category, and was also inducted into Boston Business Journal’s 40-under-40 Hall of Fame in 2018.
Greg stays active in supporting the entrepreneurship and business community including being a judge in the Harvard Business School New Venture Competition and at the MassChallenge accelerator, a guest speaker at entrepreneurial classes and groups, a past judge in MIT business plan competitions, and a Board member on the Mass Technology Leadership Council. He holds an AB magna cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.