New Lab CEO and leadership

As the CEO of the Brooklyn-based New Lab, Stewart has helped build a platform that, in three short years, has championed over 750 entrepreneurs from more than 150 startups (including StrongArm) and positioned its massive facility at the center of innovation for entrepreneurs, corporations, cities, and investors. Prior to joining New Lab, he was the Chief Business Development Officer at Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous vehicle company based out of Google X in Mountain View. He joined Waymo after 14 years as an executive at Airbnb, Jetsetter, and Expedia.

Satish Rao is a Chief Product Officer at New Lab and is based in New York City, New York. He has worked as Postdoctoral Research Associate at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Senior Advisor, the Combine; Board Member, RLab; Exec Director, Columbia-IBM Blockchain Accelerator at NYC Media Lab, Columbia University, IBM; and Associate Director, Physical Sciences Licensing at Columbia Technology Ventures. Satish attended University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, University of Virginia, and Thomas Jefferson High.

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