Nora Peterson

Nora co-founded Halo Incubator in 2018 out of the need and passion for women to get more resources and funding at earlier stages of their startups. In addition to Halo, she teaches Entrepreneurship as an Adjunct at NYU, and is a strategy & operations executive at an IT & Technology company. She’s held positions as VP of Operations at a credit card startup, as VP of Strategy at WSJ and has held various positions in finance, marketing, and business development, including as Head of Business Development at Aon’s Innovation & Analytics Center in Singapore, where she led a corporate incubator team of data scientists and product engineers.

Nora has an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business .

julia mcinnis

Julia McInnis is a co-funder and the Director of Programming at Halo Incubator. She leads the development of materials and speaker topics for Halo’s cohort and workshop sessions. She also presents to Halo’s founders on Customer Discovery, Product Market Fit, Crafting Pitch Decks, Sales 101.

Outside of Halo, Julia is an Adjunct Instructor at New York University, where she teaches entrepreneurship and innovation in the sports industry. In addition to founding the sports industry talent marketplace Lancealot, Julia helped grow The Players' Tribune’s international storytelling division. She is currently a Senior Producer and Head of Content Operations for the newly launched sports organization, Athletes Unlimited. Julia was brought onto Athletes Unlimited to establish its creative voice and develop its visual content.

Julia started her career as a producer for the documentary filmmakers DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus. She received her BA from Trinity College, CT, and her MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. While attending Booth, she was the senior associate for the Chicago Media Angels' VC investment group and a contributor to the Financial Times.