The home of exceptional thought in Nassau and Suffolk and beyond goes one-on-one with regional innovation leaders – starting with Marlene McDonnell, the right president at the right time for Innovate Long Island.
Anyone who’s done Long Island business over the last quarter century knows Marlene McDonnell – the former events director for Long Island Business News, the two-decade member of the Long Island Business Development Council (including a long stint as LIBDC administrator and Executive Board member) and the president of Innovate Long Island.
Marlene, of course, took over when Innovate LI founder John Kominicki – her longtime business partner and mentor – passed suddenly in 2017. Since then, she’s helped Kominicki’s creation survive and thrive, welcoming new sponsors and an ever-growing audience as it rockets through its sixth year of covering Long Island’s exciting innovation economy.
In today’s conversation, Marlene joins Innovate LI Vice President and Editor Gregory Zeller to kick off Spark: The Innovate Long Island Podcast, our exclusive series of one-and-one conversations with the elite of Long Island innovation.
Congrats to Innovate LI for launching this podcast. Just as your thrice weekly newsletter has become “must reading” for so many in the Nassau-Suffolk region, so will the “Spark” podcast become “must listening.” Good luck!
Perfect!
Spark — the Podcast. The Interviewer. The Interviewee. The role of both and a look back at our Kominicki. The transition. The future of Our Innovate LI.
Greg and Marlene — WE thank you and owe you.
Looking forward to more podding and casting.