{"672602":{"#nid":"672602","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Spring 2024 ME Shaping the World Speaker Series: Caitlin Leksana ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoin us on Thursday, February 1, 2024, to hear Woodruff School graduate Caitlin Leksana (ME \u002716, MS ME \u002717) deliver a talk within the ME Shaping the World Speaker Series.\u003Cspan\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETitle: \u0022How to Start a Company: Lessons learned from a mechanical engineer turned startup founder who raised over $1M in venture capital funding.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESpeaker: Caitlin Leksana, Cofounder \u0026amp; CEO Carma\u003Cspan\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESocial Hour: Love Atrium following the event\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCaitlin Leksana is the Co-Founder \u0026amp; CEO of Fazeshift, a venture-backed early-stage FinTech startup revolutionizing B2B invoicing and payments. After graduating with her bachelor\u0027s and master\u0027s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2017, she worked in management consulting at BCG Atlanta advising Fortune 500 companies on pricing and go-to-market strategy. Caitlin continued on to get her MBA from Harvard Business School, graduating in 2022. After graduating from Harvard, she founded a startup, raised $1M from Venture Capital investors, and currently serves as the Co-Founder \u0026amp; CEO of that startup. While at Georgia Tech, Caitlin taught ME4056 and was also captain of the Georgia Tech Colorguard Team.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ERegister to attend here -\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/me.gatech.edu\/event\/spring-2024-me-shaping-world-speaker-series-caitlin-leksana\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/me.gatech.edu\/event\/spring-2024-me-shaping-world-speaker-series-caitlin-leksana\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoin us on Thursday, February 1, 2024, to hear Woodruff School graduate Caitlin Leksana (ME \u002716, MS ME \u002717) deliver a talk within the ME Shaping the World Speaker Series.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Join us on Thursday, February 1, 2024, to hear Woodruff School graduate Caitlin Leksana (ME \u002716, MS ME \u002717) deliver a talk within the ME Shaping the World Speaker Series. "}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2024-02-01 03:10:58","changed_gmt":"2024-02-01 03:13:18","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2024-02-01T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2024-02-01T16:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2024-02-01T16:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2024-02-01 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2024-02-01 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2024-02-01 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"MRDC 4211 and Virtual","extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/me.gatech.edu\/event\/spring-2024-me-shaping-world-speaker-series-caitlin-leksana","title":"More Information"}],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECourtney Sykes\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:courtney.sykes@gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022mailto:courtney.sykes@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecourtney.sykes@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}