Karen Mills

Karen Gordon Mills is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Business School and a leading authority on U.S. competitiveness, entrepreneurship and innovation. She was a member of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, serving as the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013, and is an expert on the economic health and wellbeing of the nation’s small businesses. She is the author of the book Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity. Mills is also President of MMP Group, which invests in businesses in financial services, consumer products and technology-enabled solutions. She is also Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Private Capital Research Institute and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research.