StartingBlock Hiring Next Executive Director

by Taylor Kennedy

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StartingBlock Madison is looking for a new executive director, the organization announced recently.

Current Executive Director and founding member Chandra Miller Fienen will be stepping down from the role that she has held since 2017, when she took over for Scott Resnick.

“I am honored to have served as StartingBlock’s second executive director, leading StartingBlock through construction and its critical first two years of operations,” Miller Fienen said in a blog post. “I am excited to see what the StartingBlock community becomes.”

According to the job description, duties include building relationships and connections to drive organization evolution and sales for both StartingBlock and the entire Madison startup ecosystem on the local, regional and national levels.

The search, which is being led by Board Chair Forrest Woolworth and Transition Team leader Mark Richardson, is expected to be done by early summer.

Since it was built in 2018, StartingBlock Madison has housed 69 early-stage companies that cumulatively had $18.3 million in revenue in 2019 and provided nearly 1,000 hours of programming to more than 4,700 participants.

For more information and how to apply, click here.