Dr. Emily Reichert serves as Chief Executive Officer of Greentown Labs, the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America. As the organization's first employee, Emily has spearheaded the rapid growth of Greentown Labs into a global center for climate solutions innovation, attracting visitors and partners from around the world.

Emily started her career at Arthur D. Little as a Ph.D. scientist and progressed into R&D, business development and general management roles. Prior to Greentown Labs, she was the Director of Business Operations at the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry where she helped grow the angel-funded startup into a sustainable contract R&D business with a mission to minimize environmental impact of chemical products. Emily also served as a MIT Sloan Fellow in Innovation and Global Leadership as well as a Venture Labs Fellow at Flagship Ventures, a Boston-based Venture Capital firm. She is a recipient of the Barr Foundation Fellowship (Class of 2019), which celebrates exceptional civic leaders in Greater Boston.

Emily has been appointed to leadership positions on innovation, economic development, entrepreneurship and clean technology commercialization at the city, state and federal level including Massachusetts Governor’s Economic Development Planning Council and the U.S. Secretary of Commerce's National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned her MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.