Lesley Solomon is Executive Director of Brigham’s Innovation Hub and Director of Strategy and Innovation in the Brigham Research Institute. In these roles Lesley is leading Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s effort to deepen its relationship with the biotech and pharmaceutical industry while at the same time increasing awareness of the depth and breadth of the hospital’s research and innovation. Within the iHub she helps to foster innovation through collaboration to help transform ideas from creation to commercialization. She leads a team that supports internal and external innovators across areas of care redesign, health IT, and therapeutics/devices/diagnostics. Lesley has 20+ years of experience as an executive doing work in business development, strategy and marketing at start ups, early stage, and large companies such as the Food Network, Barnes & Noble.com, and Yoga Works. Lesley received her MBA from Harvard Business School and has a B.A. in English from Cornell University. 

Lesley sits on the boards of the Food Allergy Research Initiative and Primary Care Progress.