Margo Georgiadis is a CEO-Partner at Flagship Pioneering and co-founder and CEO of Montai Health, an AI platform company enabling the predictable discovery of breakthrough small molecule medicines to treat and preempt chronic disease. In these roles, Georgiadis brings extensive expertise in technological innovation and high-performance business transformation and leverages her artificial intelligence and machine learning experience to advance biotech innovation. She plays an instrumental role in Flagship’s efforts to scale its Preemptive Medicine & Health Initiative and develop new companies aimed at deterring or delaying the onset of disease and improving health outcomes for consumers, corporations, and countries.

Georgiadis has dedicated her career to transforming products and services with data and technology to empower consumers to live better lives, and to deliver outsized growth and returns for investors. Prior to founding Montai, she held multiple senior roles including President and CEO of Ancestry, President of Americas and Vice President of Global Operations at Google, CEO of Mattel, Inc., the COO of Groupon, the EVP of US Card Services and CMO at Discover Financial Services, and a partner at McKinsey and Company. She also is an experienced investor and worked at both General Catalyst and Synetro Group building next generation technology and healthcare platforms. Margo serves on the Boards of several market leaders and innovators including McDonald’s, Applovin, Handshake, Ro, Harbinger Health, and Neeva.

Georgiadis has received the Forbes Excellence Award in Innovation, Chicago Innovation’s Visionary Award, the Eastman Medal from the University of Rochester, and Executive of the Year in Utah, and was named to Crain’s “Most Powerful Women in Business” and Fortune’s “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” lists. She serves on multiple Boards including McDonald’s, Applovin, Ro, Handshake, the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, and People’s Health Clinic.

Georgiadis earned a BA in economics from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

This appearance by Margo Georgiadis is part of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. You can find more talks at youtube.com/ecorner where we bring founders, investors and industry influencers to center stage and invite them to share what it takes to become a disruptor.