Team

Jennifer Schwab Founder & CEO

Jennifer Schwab Wangers is the Founder and CEO of ENTITY, she has one goal in mind: to support and empower women through education and mentorship.

Mentorship isn’t just her business model, it’s her passion. Her driving force in founding ENTITY was her lack of female mentors in her 20s, leaving her to learn solely through trial and error. Despite this, she was able to build a successful career, which motivated her to pay it forward to the next generation of leaders by providing support early in their career trajectory. After leaving her job as a tax consultant at Ernst & Young to pursue her passions, and co-founding Sierra Club Green Home, a preeminent sustainable lifestyle website, she launched ENTITY in 2016. Since then, she’s built the company to be the first-ever bootcamp education brand dedicated to educating and placing women of all ages and backgrounds in 21st century careers. As an Indian-American woman, diversity and inclusion in the workplace are some of Jennifer's main goals.

Outside of ENTITY, Jennifer is a huge advocate for sustainability, and has been featured in The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Dwell, Fortune, Forbes, CNN Money, CNBC, and Consumer Reports, among others. She has also appeared on WSJ Lunch Break, NBC-U, CBS, NYT, and Fox News. Jennifer was previously a frequent green expert guest on ABC’s Good Morning America.

In 2013, she completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Israel, with emphasis on water management and sustainability. Jennifer follows design avidly and is a long-time hobbyist pilot licensed in a high-performance, multi-engine aircraft. She received her B.S. in Accounting from University of Arkansas; her M.A. in Urban Planning from UC Irvine; and studied Environmental Design at Art Center College of Design.

In her spare time, she loves designing unique spaces, collecting mid-century modern furniture, and spending time with her husband, stepdaughters, and dog, Papi.

CLAYTON TERRIS SVP of Partnerships

As SVP of Partnerships, Clay is responsible for ENTITY’s go-to-market strategy, building infrastructure to scale admissions and marketing operations, securing and diversifying channel partnerships, and assisting with the overall operations of the business. Clay joined ENTITY as part of the acquisition of his startup, SpeakPulse. SpeakPulse is an interview preparation SaaS tool that helps job seekers sound confident as they get ready to speak to hiring managers. Clay also brings several years of experience in the EdTech/bootcamp space. As the former VP of Revenue at SV Academy and Head of Partnerships at Thinkful (acquired by Chegg in 2019), he has been an integral part of fast-growing EdTech companies. Prior to Thinkful, Clay led the sales team at Digital Measures, which was acquired by Watermark Insights in 2018. Before moving into the software space, Clay spent his first three years out of USC in investment banking.

DR. MUDDY BHATT CHIEF DATA OFFICER

Dr. Bhatt is a product of University College London Medical School’s combined MD Ph.D. program (Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience & Applied Mathematics).

He has worked in a number of AI-based tech roles, including Google DeepMind’s health division, before turning to entrepreneurship as Co-Founder and Director of AI at VERSES Health.

Taryn Hillin VP of Customer Acquisition

Taryn Hillin is the VP of Strategy at ENTITY. Prior to joining the team she was a producer at TMZ, an associate editor at The Huffington Post, and a features reporter for Fusion. She graduated from Yale with a degree in Political Science and Comparative Government. On a more personal note she loves West Coast IPAs and videos of baby goats.

Angelica Pronto ENTITY ACADEMY DIRECTOR

Angelica studied Literature/Writing at the University of California, San Diego. She completed her undergraduate honors thesis on Postmodern Feminist Theory and Writing Practices and has since been passionate about identity politics and intersectionalism. If you spot her outside the office, she's probably petting cats, making spreadsheets or watching another musical.

Spencer McNiven DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS

As Director of Admissions, Spencer is a confident independent thinker with an inner compass that can identify opportunities where he has the most influence to move people and projects forward. He achieves this by stepping into a position of leadership when needed to quickly assess and process specific situations and confidently make deliberate strategic decisions with creative solutions that consider anticipated obstacles with creative alternative ways to proceed.

Maria Rotelli Editorial Lead

Maria graduated from Clark University with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in English Literature and then went to Emerson College to earn her M.A. in Journalism. When she isn’t at work, Maria likes to create fun makeup looks, take care of her ever-growing collection of plants, or have game nights with her friends.

Senior Advisors

SUSAN ROCKEFELLER

SENIOR ADVISOR &

SUSTAINABILITY

EDITOR

"ENTITY is not just a digital media platform, but is also an innovation hub for women. It provides mentorship through ENTITY Academy which also offers a boot camp for developing a competitive advantage in the workplace through digital marketing, and a curation of experiences for women to learn, grow, and become the professionals that the world needs. I believe in leadership with purpose and Jennifer Schwab, founder of ENTITY, is embodying such leadership by creating relevant content and experiences that can scale for the empowerment of women around the world."

Susan Rockefeller joined the ENTITY team in 2016 as an advisor. She has since become co-founding investor, as well as the Editor of the magazine's sustainability vertical. Susan is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, artist, and conservationist. Her latest endeavor, Musings is a digital magazine that curates ideas and innovations that pave the way for a more sustainable future. As the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Musings, Susan offers a portal to vetted products and brands that are pioneers in health, environmental, and social consciousness.

A longstanding philanthropist, Susan sits on the boards of Oceana, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, We Are Family Foundation, Unleashed, Southampton Arts Center, and Land and Garden Preserve. She is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and is additionally an advisor to Food Systems 6, MADE SAFE, Oceanic Global, and Ohana & Co. In her film work, Susan is a Principal of Louverture films and a member of the Film Committee for the Museum of Modern Art. Her own original films, including Bach Star Café, Food For Thought, Food for Life, Striking a Chord, Making the Crooked Straight, and Mission of Mermaids, have aired on HBO, PBS, and the Discovery Channel.

ACADEMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL

DR. RICHARD MATTHEW

ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Richard A. Matthew (BA McGill; PhD Princeton) is Associate Dean for Research and International Programs; Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy; and Director of the Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation (http://blumcenter.uci.edu/) at UC Irvine.

He is also a Senior Fellow at IISD in Geneva; a member of the United Nations Expert Group on Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding; a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy and co-chair of its Task Force on Conservation, Migration and Conflict; and the Vice-President of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (https://environmentalpeacebuilding.org ).

He is PI of an NSF EAGER project, and Co-PI of the FloodRISE and SedRise projects (http://floodrise.uci.edu/ ). He has served on several UN peacebuilding missions, including two that he led to Sierra Leone. His research focuses on understanding and addressing human security and conservation challenges at the intersection of severe environmental stress, extreme poverty and violent conflict. He also works on the co-development of visualization tools using big data and local knowledge to provide practical risk management support to communities that are extremely vulnerable to flood events and other disasters. He has done extensive fieldwork in conflict and disaster zones worldwide. He has given four TEDx talks and been a featured storyteller on The Moth twice. He has over 180 publications.