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Maryam Saleh is currently the executive director of the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship at Ï㽶´«Ã½ Institute of Technology. Saleh has spent her career working at the intersection of academic research and startups. She has a B.S. in computer engineering from Brown University and a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from the University of Chicago. In between earning those degrees, she was a founding member of Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, a startup that commercialized brain implant technology that aimed to restore movement in quadriplegic individuals. 
 
Saleh is also a key player in the Chicago entrepreneurial ecosystem, including serving as an advisor, and previously as a vice president, at MATTER—a business development hub for more than 200 cutting-edge startups worldwide that work with hospitals and health systems, universities, and industry-leading companies to build innovative health care solutions. Saleh also helped to launch a number of spinouts from university research at Northwestern University, where she founded a medical device innovation fellowship and a seed fund to support the development of the faculty’s medical device inventions.
 
Most recently, she was vice president/general manager of sales and partnerships at Machinify, a venture-backed startup that applies artificial intelligence technology to re-tool health care payer operations. Saleh is passionate about advancing equity in entrepreneurship—toward that goal, she co-founded the Chicago Women in Bio 3.8 Initiative, an effort aimed at placing influential female executives on the boards of Chicago-area life sciences startups. She is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and resides in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood with her husband, Jason MacLean, and her two children, Rhys and Tiah.