Paul Cheek
Senior Advisor, Entrepreneurship & AI at MIT Sloan School of Management
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Cheek is a Cambridge-based entrepreneurship and AI leader with 13 years of experience building startups, academic programs, and product teams that scale. Currently Senior Advisor for Entrepreneurship & AI at MIT and co-founder of the AI-Driven Enterprise Institute, he blends hands-on engineering (former CTO roles and product builds) with programmatic leadership—having overseen MIT’s entrepreneurship center, a $5M budget, and flagship courses serving thousands. He founded Oceanworks to track recycled ocean plastics, led digital platforms like MIT Orbit, and created AI tools such as the ChatMTC advisor and an AI note-taking service at LogMeIn, showing a pattern of turning research-grade ideas into operational systems. A bestselling author and frequent keynote speaker, he pairs classroom rigor as an MIT lecturer with board and advisory roles in education and accessibility, signaling a commitment to mission-driven scale. Notably, his career threads technical product delivery with institutional change—designing certificates, accelerator programs, and software that embed entrepreneurship across organizations.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Wellesley High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Marketing, Entrepreneurial Studies, and Computer Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree, Marketing, Entrepreneurial Studies, and Computer Information Systems at Bentley University
English, Spanish, html5, css3, php, sql, java, javascript, uml
Github Skills (28)
javascript9
ios9
ionic9
typescript9
vue9
react9
angular9
frontend9
capacitor8
mobile-web8
material-design8
android8
css8
ui-toolkit8
progressive-web-apps8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
EshipMIT/virtual-hackathon-playbook
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:3 commits in 23 days
simplifycom/simplify-utilities-php-example
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:2 commits in 16 days
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