Dr. Alicia Robb is the Founder and CEO of Next Wave, which provides early stage financing and advising to young firms. She is also a Visiting Scholar with the University of Colorado at Boulder. She was previously a Senior Fellow with the Kauffman Foundation for more than a decade and currently does economic consulting for a variety of public and private entities. She is also the Founder and past Executive Director and Board Chair of the Foundation for Sustainable Development, an international development organization working in Latin America, Africa, and India. (www.fsdinternational.org). Dr. Robb received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.