Our Leadership
Andy Goldberg
FounderAndy’s experience spans all three sectors of the economy and includes launching and operating an international business and nonprofit. His early fundraising success provided seed funding to two nonprofits during their tenuous startup phases. Andy is the founder/director of the Asian American Civic Association (AACA) Asian Business Training & Mentorship Program.
Prior to AACA he advised numerous nonprofits on fundraising strategy, was the national program director of Boston University’s InnerCity Entrepreneurs (now Interise), which was contracted by the U.S. Small Business Administration to teach its curriculum in cities throughout the United States. Prior to BU, Andy founded a successful international IT/telecom consultancy and publishing enterprise. He served as the Latin American trade representative for Massport. He earned his B.A. from Bowdoin College and M.A. from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Ren Lanzi
Community Engagement CoordinatorRen Lanzi is the Community Engagement Coordinator at ElevAsian. She began her journey with the organization as a graphic designer, working on website content and promotional materials. Over time, as she continued collaborating with Andy, Ren had the opportunity to take on additional responsibilities.
This growth led to her new role asCommunity Engagement Coordinator, where her focus is on fostering stronger connections within the community, boosting ElevAsian's online presence, and supporting ElevAsian’s programs and events.
A bit about Ren—she has a background in marketing and graphic design, earning her bachelor’s degree in Marketing with a specialty in Advertising, followed by a master’s in Graphic Design from Boston University. Ren is passionate about creativity, community engagement, and supporting underrepresented small businesses.
Sandhya Balasubramanian
New Venture Advisor and InstructorSandhya Balasubramanian is a startup co-founder, entrepreneurship educator, and venture mentor focused on supporting early-stage founders building innovation-driven ventures. As a New Venture Advisor with ElevAsian, she helps entrepreneurs shape ideas, strengthen teams, and develop scalable businesses.
She is also a co-founder of a NIOSH-funded biomedical startup developing technology to improve respirator fit testing and safety outcomes. Sandhya serves as Assistant Dean at the WPI Business School, where she leads initiatives connecting students, startups, and industry partners, including directing the WPI Small Business Digitization Initiative.
She holds an MBA and PhD in Entrepreneurship from the Manning School of Business at UMass Lowell.
Peter Marton
Cohort & Mentorship Program InstructorPeter Marton teaches entrepreneurship, innovation and strategy full-time at a major Boston-area university. Prior to his teaching work, he spent 25 years as an entrepreneur, executive, and business leader, having been a founder or senior executive in a number of high-tech start-ups, turnarounds, social ventures, and high-profile companies.
He has a strong track record of achievement through his hands-on leadership style in markets as diverse as education, software, information systems, healthcare, and distance learning. He graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Tufts University with a degree in nuclear physics, and has an MBA from Stanford Business School.
Gregory Stoller
Cohort & Mentorship Program InstructorGregory Stoller teaches MBA and undergraduate students from across the university full time, in the areas of entrepreneurship, experiential learning, and international business. He also mentors student teams which participate in business plan and venture capital competitions. His areas of expertise are Business Planning, International Entrepreneurship, Experiential Learning, and Global Strategy.
His work with ABTM involves mentorship and guidance for professionals and small business owners. He is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Business School, and speaks, reads and writes in varying levels of proficiency Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese and Korean among other languages.
