Cheryl Edison is an entrepreneur and senior global business development executive. Her works spans fifty-seven industries, on five continents. Quoted by USA Today, NPR and CNN, with articles reporting on her most recent work in FastCompany, the Silicon Valley Business Times and Yahoo Finance, Edison provides advisory and presentations to start-ups, Fortune 100 corporations, property developers, civic leaders and universities and to achieve milestone ROI, innovation acceleration and startup ecosystem placemaking goals. Credited with expanding the borders of Silicon Valley with the launch of the nation’s largest incubator/accelerator, and best known for new category launches that scale globally, Edison pays it forward each month by traveling internationally to provide a week of keynotes and workshops to serve emerging economies.