Sami Jitan is a start-up strategist with extensive experience in project management, customer discovery, and product development. He studied Cultural Anthropology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick, and has worked with prestigious organizations such as Harvard Innovation Lab and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sandbox Innovation Fund. Jitan's current role involves building transnational partnerships at MIT and growing PIVOTtheWorld, a social-enterprise that won a 2014 Harvard Innovation Lab award. He is also a mentor at the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund.