Jeff Vinik is hiring an executive from one of the nation’s most respected startup incubators to run a similar innovation hub he’s planning for his Water Street Tampa project.
Lakshmi Shenoy, 34, will come to Tampa from her current job as vice president of strategy and business at 1871, a tech entrepreneurship hub in Chicago that UBI Global rated as the top university-affiliated incubator in the United States.
“We are thrilled to welcome Lakshmi to Tampa Bay and can’t wait for her to join us early next year,” Vinik said in an announcement Thursday. “Her tremendous track record at 1871 makes her the perfect person to take our entrepreneurial ecosystem to the next level.”
