Susan Loconto Penta

Susan is active with many non-profits, most often at the intersection of education, entrepreneurship and disadvantaged populations. Susan currently serves as the Chair of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Women’s Network Advisory Board, as Director Emeritus and past Board Chair for the Center for Women and Enterprise (CWE), as Trustee and past Board Chair for Schools for Children, as a trustee with the Children’s Trust of Massachusetts, as a Leadership Advisory Board member for EforAll Cape Cod and as a member of the Susan F. Smith Center for Women’s Cancers Executive Council. Susan puts considerable energy into advancing the domains within which she works, lifting up women in business and supporting small businesses. Susan also invests her time to nurture and support the disciplines aligned with her work and currently serves as a director (2^nd tour) and Vice Chair on the board of the Product Development & Management Association (PDMA) and is also a founding member of WPI’s Women’s Impact Network (WIN). Susan also serves as an advisor and mentor to many entrepreneurs and former students. In the past, Susan served on the Program Committee for The Possible Project, as Treasurer/Finance Chair and Trustee for Belmont Day School, as President of the New England PDMA and was a founding board member for WPI’s Collaborative for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, served on the Management Executive Council for WPI’s Foisie Business School and the Technology Advisors Network, and as a Trustee for the Healthworks Foundation.

Susan has received multiple awards including, in 2017, the Center for Women and Enterprise Advocate of the Year award and in 2016, the prestigious Pinnacle Award for Achievement in Entrepreneurship from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. Other past awards include in 2004, being named to the Boston Business Journal’s “40 under 40” and in 2001, receiving the Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement from WPI.

Prior to founding MIDIOR, Susan held founding, executive, product management and engineering roles at companies including MODA Systems, IDEAssociates, Alcatel and Sprague Electric Company. Susan holds a BSEE degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and an MBA from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) in London, England. When not supporting a MIDIOR client or lending a hand at a non-profit, Susan can be found enjoying the outdoors, exercising, supporting her family or in her kitchen, curating, testing and optimizing recipes.