The Runway Consortium
Laura Kinnard, MBA
Runway Studio Director and Curated Growth Principal. Experienced educator in Digital Marketing, Marketing, Entrepreurship, and Management. 30 years experience in Marketing and Entrepreneurship. 15 years experience in Entrepreneurship Led Economic Development and Digital Transformation.
Vada Grantham
Business Educator, Entrepreneur, and Entrepreneurship Chair, DMACC.
Vada has owned several businesses as an entrepreneur, including a food promotion business owned by he and his wife with 500 employees in eight states. Today they own a prominent Market Research that specializes in testing new and existing products with consumers.
Vada is the entrepreneurial department chair for Des Moines Area Community College where he also teaches business courses including startup small business and marketing.
Plus Vada has mentored successful entrepreneurs and judged numerous startup venture competitions.
Eric Henderson, PhD
Scientist and Professor, Genetics and Cell Biology. Eric teaches, promotes and practices rule breaking (when appropriate), fearlessness, and entrepreneurship in all facets of life.
Eric is always looking for challenges and opportunities to work with young entrepreneurs. On the side Eric is a performing musician, fiction writer, tinkerer, and gadget freak.
Eric Henderson’s path in science is: B.A. in Biology and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology UCLA; Post-Doc studying telomere biology, UC Berkeley; Professor, Iowa State University
He has been involved in several companies including: Bio Force Nanosciences, Inc., (biotech); Aspera Corp (biotech); Creodyne, llc (tech development); Bumblefunk Music (media); Hello Holdings (Griffle,GriffleGames, Griffle TV; media); eMoJoCo, llc (art and media)