Sharon Topper

Sharon Topper is an MBA with more than 20 years of driving the go-to-market strategy, business development, and communications efforts of major public companies and start-up ventures.

She started her technology career in global marketing and business development for Mercury Interactive (NASDAQ: MERQ, sold to HP in 2006). She has also worked in the area of security, enterprise software, media, telephony, consumer tech, food tech, and other sectors.

Topper’s passion to bring more girls/women into technology and STEM fields has also driven her to create many large-scale programs – including the Smart Fifty Start Up Competition at Brandeis International Business School, addressing the socio-economic problems of India, as well as hands-on STEM programs and make-a-thons in schools.

Topper also co-founded a digital design agency offering strategic marketing services, branding, unique web design and original illustration, giving her the invaluable opportunity to see marketing from both in-house and agency-side.