Margarita Quihuis

Global Innovation Summit

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• http://peaceinnovation.stanford.edu/

Overview

A social entrepreneur and mentor capitalist, Margarita Quihuis’s career has focused on innovation, technology incubation, access to capital and entrepreneurship. Her accomplishments include directorship of Astia (formerly known as the Women’s Technology Cluster), a technology incubator focused on women entrepreneurs where her portfolio companies raised $67 million in venture funding, venture capitalist, Reuters Fellow at Stanford, and Director of RI Labs for Ricoh Innovations. She is a researcher at Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab and co-directs the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab where she conducts research in behavior design, open innovation, mass collaboration, persuasive technology & the potential of social networks to change society for the better.