Jessica Berg will take over as director of the state’s largest startup competition, the Minnesota Cup, starting Dec. 12, Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship director John Stavig confirmed to Minne Inno.
Berg is coming from PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she was most recently a client strategy leader for the company’s consumer market sector. She is also the president and co-founder of WomenConnect, an organization promoting personal and professional growth for women.
“She has a terrific background in professional services and leading a volunteer organization,” Stavig said in an email. “[I’m] very excited to work with her to lead the continuing expansion of MN Cup.”
The previous Minnesota Cup director, Melissa Kjolsing, left the position at the beginning of November. (Read Minne Inno’s "Exit Interview" with Kjolsing here.) In August, Kjolsing told the University of Minnesota, the institution that organizes the Minnesota Cup, that she planned to step down from her position at the end of the 2017 program. Kjolsing is currently working on her own startup, Recovree, which she co-founded with her brother.
