Business & Entrepreneurship at Yale

Sessions 1 & 2: Sade Owoye

Sade Owoye is passionate about entrepreneurship, business, and innovation. She enjoys advising and teaching students the skills needed to build sustainable ventures. As Associate Director of student programming at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale, she leads the Launch Pad and Accelerator program for early- to mid-stage ventures. She joined Yale from the University of Connecticut’s Small Business Development Center where she worked as a business advisor. She counseled an extensive portfolio of clients connecting them with over $3.5 million in funding opportunities. Previously, Sade was the co-founder and operations director of a specialty dessert & gift boutique, and also managed venture development programs for underrepresented students in Connecticut. She's been recognized by Pathways Academy of Technology and Design, the Urban League of Southern Connecticut, and Google for her work related to entrepreneurship and civic engagement.
Sade holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Connecticut and certificate in business scaling from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Executive Education Program. She is also an MBA candidate at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.

Session 3: Mitchell Fillet

Mitchell holds an MBA in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business and is a Babson College-certified Leadership and Executive Coach. He has completed post-graduate studies in Manufacturing Management at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and in Operations Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. He qualified for the Chartered Financial Analyst designation at The New York Society of Security Analysts. Mitch provides coaching, mentoring, and consulting services to a number of organizations, both for-profit and not-for-profit. He currently is a member of the senior advisory team of two start-up organizations; one in the luxury brands space, the other is a leading technology developer in Urban Air Mobility. He is a past board member of the Boston University Rowing Association and Impact/NYC, a charitable organization that uses entrepreneurship to assist financially struggling people in New York City.