Maureen Stancik Boyce, PhD

Managing Partner

Maureen’s decades of start-up and strategic leadership experience include serving as the co-founding and serving as COO of Ignition Ventures, where she and GGC Managing Partner Amy Salzhauer helped start companies worth over US $1 billion out of science labs at MIT, Harvard, Cambridge, and Columbia. Maureen started her strategy career at Bain & Co as a consultant and team leader, in both the Boston and Sydney offices, then became an Associate Partner at IBM’s strategy practice leading Global Strategy Thought Leadership for four industries. Maureen has been a Mentor for MIT’s Sandbox Innovation accelerator since its launch in January 2016 and has been a part-time Consultant to Sandbox to help with its own growth strategy as it grew from 40 startups a year to 400+ startups each semester. She is an active member of MIT’s Angel community, sourcing deals from the groups in Boston, New York and California. Maureen has also been a Lecturer at MIT, and received the highest award for MIT alumni for her service to the Institute, the Great Dome Award. She serves as a board member for Eden GeoTech, Aralez Bio, and Blue Ocean Gear in addition to being an observer at Leuko, Liminal Insights and Encora Therapeutics. Maureen has served in the US Peace Corps in Fiji, designing and helping to build small water systems as a civil engineer. Maureen has traveled to 55 countries and lived in four, including more than seven years of international work experience in Asia. Maureen received her BS in Civil Engineering, magna cum laude, from Carnegie Mellon, an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, and her MS & PhD in Engineering from MIT.