An interview with Marlene McDonnell, President of InnovateLI

Anyone who’s done Long Island business over the last quarter century knows Marlene McDonnell – the former events director for Long Island Business News, the two-decade member of the Long Island Business Development Council (including a long stint as LIBDC administrator and Executive Board member) and the president of Innovate Long Island. Marlene, of course, took over when Innovate LI founder John Kominicki – her longtime business partner and mentor – passed suddenly in 2017. Since then, she’s helped Kominicki’s creation survive and thrive, welcoming new sponsors and an ever-growing audience as it rockets through its sixth year of covering Long Island’s exciting innovation economy. In today’s conversation, Marlene joins Innovate LI Vice President and Editor Gregory Zeller to kick off Spark: The Innovate Long Island Podcast, an exclusive series of one-and-one conversations with the elite of Long Island innovation.