Tara Lemmey

Tara Lemméy
OccupationsLENS, CEO and Founder
Markle Economic Future Initiative, Member
Known forEntrepreneur, designer, inventor, technology expert, innovation strategist

Tara L. Lemméy ( /ˈtærə ləˈmeɪ/ TARR-ə lə-MAY) is an American entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of LENS Ventures, an investment firm based in San Francisco.

She has been granted more than twenty U.S. and international utility and design patents.[1]

Career

In 1998, Lemméy was a board member of TrustArc (then TRUSTe). In February 1999, she was appointed the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation,[2] a position she held until 2000, when Shari Steele succeeded her.

In 2005, Lemméy was on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Privacy Advisory Committee.[3] In 2009, she became a part of the U.S. State Department's Technology Delegation to Mexico, which explored ways for U.S. technology companies to support Mexican citizens’ resistance against the country's drug cartels.[4] In 2007, Lemméy served as a Commissioner on the Embassy of the Future Task Force[5] at the Center for Strategic and International Studies as the "Ambassador from Silicon Valley". In 2010, she was a delegate to the White House Council on Women and Girls Women's Entrepreneurship Conference about public policy initiatives needed to move the women's business agendas forward.

Lemméy created DGREE.ORG,[6] an initiative funded by the Lumina Foundation[7] that focuses on student-centered learning.[8] In 2010, she hosted the DGREE Summit, an event attended by business leaders, venture capitalists, education foundations, and university leaders and accreditors to focus on student-centric learning in a sustainable educational ecosystem.[9]

She has collaborated with Harvard Professor Michael Sandel to create a Global Classroom to pioneer the use of mobile technology and video for global live debates about justice, rights, and democracy. The series of live experiences in the fall semester of 2012 brought together students of Sandel's Justice course with those in China, India, Japan, and Brazil,[10] featuring a guest appearance by philosopher Peter Singer joining the Harvard audience in Sanders Theater live from New York.

Lemméy has spoken on risk and innovation at DO USA,[11] Techonomic,[12][13][14] TED India, Fortune Brainstorm Tech,[15] Future in Review,[16] Digital Media and Learning Conference,[17] and has been published in Wired, Business Week, and the Harvard Business Review.[18]

She is a member of Rework America, part of the Markle Economic Future Initiative established by the Markle Foundation.[19] She served as a co-chair of the Technology Working Group on the Markle Foundation's Task Force on National Security in the Information Age[20] and was the lead architect[21] of the SHARE information environment recommendation which became the Information Sharing Environment.

Lemméy is the CEO and Founder of LENS,[22] an investment firm that works with institutions to prepare for the future. She was CEO and founder of Net Power & Light, developer of technology for high-fidelity video collaboration and live experiences.[23][24] She participated at the Aspen Institute and contributed to a report from the Aspen Round Table on Talent Development.[25]

She is part of the leadership team[26] at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine of the University of Arizona, with her role at the Center focused on innovation. Lemméy has collaborated with Andrew Weil and Victoria Maizes on Public Forum on nutrition and health, part of the center's annual Nutrition and Health Conference.[27] She moderated the Public Forum on “Food and Health: Public Policy and Personal Choice” with Weil, Robert Lustig, and Michael Pollan, held in 2011 in San Francisco.[28]

Lemméy has collaborated with the United States Department of State on public diplomacy and outreach programs around the world with her speaking tours on entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth in both Switzerland[29][30][31] and Turkey.[32][33][34][35][36]

Awards and honors

  • Fast Company MCP 1000: Most Creative People in Business[37]
  • Fast Company 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2013[38]
  • 2013 ComputerWorld Honors Laureates (Mobile Access)[39]
  • Profiled in The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion[40]

References

  1. ^ "Tara Lemmey: Patents". Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Short Take: EFF appoints new executive director". CNET. 1999-02-17. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
  3. ^ "U.S. Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes" (PDF). Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  4. ^ Scola, Nancy (August 27, 2009). "The State Department's Tech.Del: Can People Crush Mexico's Drug Cartels?". Tech President Blog. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  5. ^ "CSIS Embassy of the Future Commission Issues Report" (PDF). Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  6. ^ "DGREE: Envisioning the Future of Higher Education". Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  7. ^ "Lumina Foundation: Envisioning the Future of Higher Education". Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  8. ^ "Tara Lemmey: Envisioning the Future of Higher Education". HuffPost. 18 March 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  9. ^ "DGREE Summit 2010". Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  10. ^ "Tara Lemmey: Fast Company 100 Most Creative People in Business 2013". Fast Company. 13 May 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  11. ^ "DO USA Speaker: Tara Lemmey". Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  12. ^ "Techonomy 2013: A Spin with Tara Lemmey". Archived from the original on 17 January 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  13. ^ "Techonomy 2012: Changing How the World Learns". PCMAG. Archived from the original on 23 January 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  14. ^ "Techonomy 2011 Agenda. Know Thyself: Self-Tracking in an Era of Bespoke Healthcare. Moderator: Tara Lemmey" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 January 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  15. ^ "Fortune Brainstorm Tech Speakers". Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  16. ^ "FiRE 2010 Speaker: Tara Lemmey". Future in Review. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  17. ^ "Digital Media and Learning 2011. Transforming Play - Plenary Session with Tara Lemmey, Mizuko Ito, David Washington, Francois Bar" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 January 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  18. ^ Lemmey, Tara (July 2001). "Harvard Business Review: Untethered Data by Tara Lemmey". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  19. ^ "Markle Economic Future Initiative Members". Markle | Advancing America's Future. Archived from the original on 1 June 2015. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  20. ^ "Tara Lemmey: Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age". Markle | Advancing America's Future. 7 July 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  21. ^ "Tara Lemmey". Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  22. ^ "LENS Ventures". Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  23. ^ "BusinessWire: Introducing Spin for Apple iOS Devices, a Brand New Way to Watch, Learn, Play and Be Together in Real Time" (Press release). 2 October 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  24. ^ "Fact Company MCP 1000 Profile: Tara Lemmey". Fast Company. 13 May 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  25. ^ "Solving The Dilbert Paradox - a report from the Aspen Round Table on Talent Development" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  26. ^ "Leadership: Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine".
  27. ^ "Public Forum at Nutrition and Health Conference on YouTube". YouTube.
  28. ^ "Food and Health: Public Policy and Personal Choice with Andrew Weil, Michael Pollan and Robert Lustig moderated by Tara Lemmey". YouTube. 11 July 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21.
  29. ^ "StartupTicker.ch". Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  30. ^ "Celebrating Launch of Aspire Zurich". Aspire. Archived from the original on 18 February 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  31. ^ "Aspire Switzerland". Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  32. ^ "Ozyegin University". Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
  33. ^ "Eskisehir Technopark". Retrieved 24 January 2013.
  34. ^ "Kagider: Women Entrepreneur Association Turkey". www.kagider.org. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
  35. ^ "Turkish WIN". Retrieved 24 January 2013.
  36. ^ "GÖKTEN TEKNOLOJİK FİKİR DÜŞMEZ". Retrieved 24 January 2013.
  37. ^ "Introducing Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business 1000". Fast Company. 29 January 2014.
  38. ^ "64. Tara Lemmey". Fast Company. 13 May 2013.
  39. ^ "2013 ComputerWorld Honors Laureates" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
  40. ^ "The Power of Pull – How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion". Journal of Consumer Marketing. 28 (3): 240–241. 2011-05-03. doi:10.1108/07363761111127671. ISSN 0736-3761.
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