Joe O'Connor

Joe O’Connor is currently Board Member / angel investor at the Angel Investor Forum (AIF), the largest angel group in CT. He was a former DreamIt Ventures NYC Accelerator 2013 cohort, leading business development for a SaaS startup. Later that same year he joined the cohort at MassChallenge Accelerator Boston cohort where he served as business development lead for Rifiniti, acquired by FM Systems in 2019. He also serves as frequent judge for MassChallenge from 2021 to the present and also a former judge at CleanTech Open Northeast and past mentor for startups at both CT Next and PowerBridgeNY. And finally he was an early and longstanding member of Cisco Systems sales team leading pre-sales engineering and business development teams in the enterprise.

His experience is centered in Strategy (startup and early-stage business, growth and scaling), Business modeling (business models, revenue models, value propositions), Venture funding (pre-revenue and in revenue), People management (founding teams/company culture), Marketing and branding and Pitch training.