Aimee Rose (she/her)
Executive Managing Director
Aimee Rose is executive managing director of Activate, where she oversees and supports the managing directors at each of Activate’s four fellow communities. An experienced science-to-product technology leader, Rose was previously founding chief technology officer at Advanced Functional Fabrics of America. Before that, she spent 11 years with an explosive detection startup launched from her doctoral research, eventually acquired by FLIR Systems (now Teledyne Flir). Rose obtained four patents and received several honors related to this work, including the U.S. Army’s Greatest Invention Award, TR35 Young Innovator Award, and Humanitarian of the Year from MIT Technology Review. Rose holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT and a B.S. in chemistry from Saint Michael's College.