NEXT Studios: Creating Space for Innovation with John McDonald - Ep 41

An episode of the Social Enterprise Alliance Podcast podcast, hosted by Social Enterprise Alliance, titled "NEXT Studios: Creating Space for Innovation with John McDonald - Ep 41" was published on April 9, 2024 and runs 25 minutes.

April 9, 2024 ·25m · Social Enterprise Alliance Podcast

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John McDonald has over twenty-five years of experience as an entrepreneur, most recently as the Managing Entrepreneur of NEXT Studios, Indiana’s first Benefit (B) Corporation Innovation Studio. He was the founder and CEO of ClearObject, the fastest-growing technology company in Indiana for 5 years in a row, which successfully exited to private equity in 2019. Prior to that, John served as CEO of Chicago-based startup CloudOne, and also at IBM, where he led technical sales for their software development tools product line.

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