Brennan Woodruff, Director of Corporate Partnerships, focusing on driving partnerships with Corporations to accelerate mHub's mission and innovation. He oversees corporate partnerships through incubator, accelerator, hardtech services and general partnerships with aligned organization.
Brennan is uniquely passionate for innovation, especially in the Midwest. Prior to returning to Chicago, Brennan worked at companies like Uber, SoftBank's Vision Fund, and even started his own Generative AI startup (GoCharlie). At SoftBank’s Vision Funds he oversaw the deployment of $50B in capital across 100+ growth stage AI companies. Brennan was part of Uber’s product finance team playing a role in launching Bikes, Scooters, Self Driving, Self Flying and Uber as a Platform Products. He was part of the team that drafted Uber’s Initial Public Offering, resulting in $8.1 Billion in funds raised from public markets. He has seen first hand how innovation drives opportunity, and moved back from San Francisco to Chicago to bring learnings from his career to the mHub ecosystem of partners, ventures and startups.
Brennan is an active Indiana University alumni where he got his bachelors and masters of business from the 3/2 MBA program class of 2013. He’s also a 35 time Groomsmen, a previous IU Alumni Association chapter president, and counts being a 3 Time Wedding Officiant one of his proudest achievements.