Jennifer French

 Jennifer French is founder of Volitional Ventures and the senior contributing editor of Neurotech Reports. She is the founder of Neurotech Network, a nonprofit organization formed in 2003, that intently tracks the neurotechnology industry, gains end-user feedback and coordinates patient engagement initiatives. Jennifer has been featured in several media outlets and is an accomplished writer and speaker and is well versed on patient focused organizations and patient engagement initiatives. She has addressed such audiences as the National Academy of Sciences, the World Science Festival, TEDx Talks, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration and many more.  French has helped launch successful divisions is such organizations as Bombardier Capital and PC Connection, Inc. as well as several not-for-profit organizations.  French holds a Bachelor’s degree in Aviation Science and an MBA in marketing and entrepreneurship. She serves on several advisory boards including the IEEE Neuroethics initiative, NINDS Common Data Elements, DOD CDMRP Spinal Cord Injury Research program, the Brown Institute for Brain Science, and the American Bionics Project. Jennifer is also the co-founder and current Vice-President of the North American Spinal Cord Injury Consortium. She is a silver medalist from the 2012 Paralympic Games and is the 2012 Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year. She is the author of On My Feet Again (Neurotech Press, 2013), her personal story of rehabilitation using neurotechnology and Bionic Pioneers (Neurotech Press, 2014), a collection of personal experiences of neurotechnology end-users