Joshua Creamer

Josh Creamer is a PhD Researcher and Lecturer at MIT, a Technology Investor, a Digital Platform and Transformation Consultant to fortune 500 organizations, and an Advisor to early-stage technology startups.

Josh’s interests are at the intersection of design, technology, and entrepreneurship. He is a Researcher at MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, as well as MIT’s Interactive Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Lab. He works to bridge the gap between academic research and the practice of innovation and entrepreneurship. His current research includes studies of innovation-driven entrepreneurship, digital platforms and business model innovation, human-centered artificial intelligence, robotics, and human-machine collaboration.

Josh’s experiences consist of extensive investment, strategic, and operational executive leadership--investing in, building, scaling, operating, and researching in innovation-driven entrepreneurship. Most recently, he served as the Head of Venture Investments and Digital Business Creation at a fortune 200 organization. In this role, he also led the firm’s technology transformation strategic initiative (strategic development through execution), served as an operating executive for a portfolio of technology business initiatives, and led interdisciplinary teams in building, scaling, and operating multiple technology business ventures. Before that, Josh led digital transformation, product development, and new venture creation initiatives at a fortune 10 organization. He also served as the chief architect of the firm’s venture investment fund. Josh started his career at J.P. Morgan where he worked within the firm’s Investment Banking and Private Equity divisions–investing in Technology, Healthcare, Financial Services, Energy and Renewables.

Josh previously completed his M.S. in Integrated Product Design, Engineering, and Management from MIT, and his B.A. in Economics from the University of Notre Dame.