About this speaker
Paulette Jencks has been building, advising and mentoring startups for close to a decade. She is the founder of Future of Parent, where she provides marketing,strategy and advisory services to start-ups focused in the family tech sector. She played a pivotal role in building and launching Kidstir, a subscription cooking box company for kids, and then went on to lead partnerships at a parent wellness company that was later acquired by Spring Health.The majority of Paulette's current work is dedicated to creating better workplaces for working parents and caregivers. She's been a lead mentor at Blue Startups Accelerator for 3 years and is also a member of Hawaii Angels and Angels.VC, a women-led investing community. Before immersing herself in the start-up world Paulette spent years in healthcare both at Leerink Partners, a healthcare investment bank and Vynamic, a healthcare management consulting firm. She holds an MBA from Cornell University and a BA from Bowdoin College. She lives in Honolulu with her husband and two daughters.
