Anne Balduzzi has decades of technology expertise. As TEDCO’s Director of Advisory Services, she oversees the Rural Business Innovation Initiative (RBII), Rural Pre-Seed Fund, Network Advisors, and other programs. Prior to joining TEDCO, her background included product development and marketing management roles at Apple, AOL (when it was a start-up), and Viewtron, an AT&T joint venture that helped pioneer the Internet. After working in Silicon Valley and launching Apple’s first online service, AppleLink-Personal Edition, she returned to the East Coast and founded Accelerate Partners where she mentored and advised a wide range of early stage and established national and international technology companies. Anne is also the founder of SameGrain, an award winning app and social data insight platform. In this role, she won pitch competitions, participated in accelerators, and secured seed funding as well as Phase I and II SBIR grants. Recognized as one of the region’s Top Women in Tech, Anne holds a patent on data match analysis and is a speaker and author on Artificial Intelligence (AI) topics and entrepreneurship. She has also helped predict world events as a participant in IARPA’s Good Judgement Project and is a member of Mindshare.