Rosemarie Truman

Rosemarie Truman is an entrepreneur, startup catalyst, impact investor, and formerly, a corporate executive. Rosemarie is the Founder and CEO of the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), a 501c3 non-profit with a mission to identify breakthrough inventions and maximize their commercial potential. She is also the CEO and Co-Founder of Ignite Social Impact, the first crowd-equity platform for social impact investing in “tech for good.” With over 25 years of experience in entrepreneurship, executive leadership, and philanthropy, Rosemarie’s specialty is an investment strategy, having led growth strategies for 50 of the global Fortune 100 companies in over 15 countries.

As CAI’s leader, Rosemarie pioneered a first-of-a-kind, award-winning, disruptive innovation platform. Orchestrating 9 innovative challenge-accelerator models CAI has been the catalyst for the launch of 300+ companies, 3000+ entrepreneurs, and 120+ partnerships across federal labs, universities, and hospitals. CAI has received several awards, for example, the Health and Human Services Secretary’s Pick Innovation Award. In addition, CAI has had nine Obama White House mentions such as #6 in the top 10 initiatives that happened during the administration in innovation.

Prior to launching her own firm, Rosemarie spearheaded IBM’s Innovation strategy practice globally and was awarded IBM’s most laudable honor, the Golden Circle Award. In addition, she has also held leadership roles at Booz Allen Hamilton, Oracle, PRTM, and Marsh & McLennan, where she served as VP of global strategy. Rosemarie began her career at Goldman Sachs in investment banking, establishing a breakthrough straight-through processing platform for the NYSE floor.