Karen G. Mills is a senior fellow at the Harvard Business School, where she is part of the entrepreneurship faculty. She served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as the administrator of the US Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013 and was a member of the President’s National Economic Council. Mills is the president of MMP Group and a longtime venture capitalist and private equity investor, having built companies that range from tech platforms to Annie’s macaroni and cheese. She is the author of the book Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity, as well as numerous other publications on FinTech, innovation policy, and the supply chain economy.