Emily Green is an executive driving innovation and growth with technology for over 30 years.

Currently, she is an independent Director on the Board of Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (NASD: CWST), a waste services firm in the Russell 1000 index, supporting a complex turnaround that has led to a 15X increase in stock price in the last eight years; she chairs the Nominating & ESG committee. She is a Trustee of Centerspace (NYSE: CSR), a real estate investment trust (REIT) operating multi-family housing in the Midwest, where she also chairs the N&G committee. Previously, she served as an independent Director, and the Chair of the Compensation Committee, for Vuzix Corporation (NASD: VUZI), a leading developer of enterprise applications in augmented reality.

Now teaching at the MIT Sloan School of Management, she has independently coached more than 30 C-level executives in creating personal and organizational growth.

In the non-profit sector, she works with UP Education Network, a school turnaround organization that transforms underperforming schools into places of high achievement, and also helps mount Boston’s annual Agents of Change Summit for women entrepreneurs.

Emily was the launching CEO of Smart Lunches, Inc., a startup providing online ordering and delivery for school lunches, leading the design of an award-winning tech platform, raising venture funds, and scaling to 7 states. Prior, she was the CEO, and later Chairman, of Yankee Group, a tech research firm that she partnered with private equity investors to acquire. Before that, she was the CEO of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), driving a return to growth and a profitable exit for its owners.

Previously, she served with Forrester Research (NASD: FORR), a SaaS-model technology research leader, first building its consumer research practice, then leading its operations in Europe and Asia. At her departure, she was the general manager of the North American division, responsible for 65% of the company’s revenues. Earlier in her career, she led marketing in a fiber-optic telecommunications startup, and developed computer-generated software for film and television special effects.

Emily was granted a B.S.LL cum laude in linguistics from Georgetown University, and an M.S.Eng in artificial intelligence and computer graphics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering. ANYWHERE, her book on the impact of global connectivity, was published in 2010 by McGraw-Hill; she was named a Mass High-Tech All-Star in 2011.