Bio

Jennie Starr, JD, MA
Marketing & Communications
Operations

Experience

I practiced law and then fell in love with product management. I have supported many companies by building and leading sales and product teams.  Today, I work at Seres Therapeutics where I built Donor Recruitment and lead the Marketing and Communications for our donor program.

Life Sciences & High-Tech and, yes Data

I love working with data. At Lexis-Nexis we mined data to discover fraud, at MusicMatch to offer consumers new music and in life science we are using bioinformatics to research and develop new therapeutics. Data driven products have unique intellectual property and business development opportunities and operational challenges and I am inspired to support companies pursuing them.

Education
BioTech, IP Licensing and Technology Commercialization, San Diego State University
JD, Law, Washington University School of Law
MS, Information Science, University of Illinois
BA, Political Science, Northwestern University

Boards/Committees/Organizations

Board Member, Women in Bio (WIB) Southern California 2022-present
National Chair, Women in Bio (WIB) – Executive Cohorts 2020-present
Multiple Chair roles:  Chapter Chair, 2020-2021, Chair, MAPS, Mentors, Advisors and Peers group (2017-2020)

I also founded a nonprofit serving as the Executive Director and managing operations including HR, Legal, Finance, Board management and corporate governance.

Accomplishments/Awards

  • Client Counseling Competition Finalist and Regional Competitor & Order of Barristers Excellence in interview, counsel, rapport, investigation and service of client goals. Also recognized for the art of courtroom advocacy.
  • Sales Excellence Awards  Lexis-Nexis President’s Club(2), Circle of Excellence (2), Midwest Region(1)

Goals for my Teams

I encourage collaboration, empower leadership and ownership from idea to execution, expect mistakes will happen but we’ll leverage lessons learned for future success. I encourage professional development while meeting and exceeding goals.

Professional Path

I have worked in highly structured settings (legal) rapid pace (high tech) and bring legal skills (SOWs, NDAs, negotiation) into the creative (product management) to improve communication (sales tools, training) and strengthen process (project management, functional specification, enhancement pipelines) to make teams more efficient and meet product deadlines.

I am very good at putting just enough process in place to increase productivity without impeding innovation.

It has been quite a while since we worked together at Musicmatch, but working with Jennie isn’t something you forget quickly. Her drive and optimism matched with the ability to get things done and keep the whole experience very positive. I would be glad to work with her again any time.

― Ted Dunning, Chief Application Architect at MapR

Over the past year, it’s been my pleasure to partner with Jennie, a powerhouse networker and leader whose skills were instrumental to the success of our project. Jennie’s organization, Tarbuton, was chosen in a selective application process to bring a Hackathon to the San Diego area. An excellent storyteller and pitch woman, Jennie easily convinced…

― Emily Winograd, Upstart Lab