Tara Lemmey

Tara Lemmey is Chairman of LENS Ventures, an innovation investment and development company working with leading institutions, including American Express, Nokia, and the Lumina Foundation, in creating next markets. She is a leading expert in making both vast and disruptive innovation happen. Along with private boards, Lemmey has been a member of the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age since its inception in 2002. She serves as Commissioner on the Embassy of the Future, and on the faculty of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. 

Lemmey has been published in Wired, Business 2.0, Business Week, and the Harvard Business Review. She is an active participant at Fortune Brainstorm and Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summits. She has been a visiting lecturer at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, and University of California at Berkeley, and is a commentator on public radio.

A serial entrepreneur, Lemmey has founded multiple start-ups in both the private and public sectors. Earlier in her career, she was President of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where she worked on global initiatives in the areas of intellectual property, encryption, and privacy. She has also founded three technology companies that were trailblazers in new markets, and was on the founding board of TRUSTe, a leader in online privacy. 

Lemmey is also CEO of Net Power & Light.