T.J. Cook

T.J. Cook is a creative, strategic innovator specializing in strategy and team management for early-stage tech startups. As Fund Manager of ABQid at CNM Ingenuity, Cook helps early-stage companies with high growth potential accelerate traction through seed capital and connectivity to leading programs like Activate New Mexico, Hyperspace Challenge, and pitch events like Ski Lift Pitch and Balloon Pitch.

Previously as CEO of CauseLabs, a certified Benefit Corporation, Cook helped design a rapid approach to problem-solving that launched more than 100 digital solutions for companies like LEGO and IDEO while assembling an award-winning team of 15 strategists, designers, and engineers around the world to prototype and build breakthroughs.

Cook has more than 18 years of experience at the forefront of emerging technologies and entrepreneurial strategies and uses his systems perspective to provide guidance and support to numerous early-stage efforts. He sits on the board of ABQid, Conveners.org, and The Grants Collective, and advises aspiring entrepreneurs of all ages in order to help them accelerate their impact.