Maureen “Reen” Lepatan brings together analytical training, experience across leading organizations and hands-on entrepreneurial leadership. Her background includes work at McKinsey & Company and experience spanning technology, commercial real estate and higher education. As Chief Operating Officer of Renzaire Group, she applies that experience to developing Strathwell, a venture focused on helping businesses assess opportunities in underused spaces.
The Boston-based business executive and technology entrepreneur studied at the University of Oxford and MIT, and received a Women in Business Scholarship and a Global Citizen Scholarship. Her work connects those analytical foundations with a practical operating question: how can organizations turn information into decisions, and decisions into coordinated action?
Education that informs problem framing and analysis
Lepatan’s education is part of the foundation for an approach that brings analytical thinking to business decisions. Framing a problem clearly, examining available evidence and identifying operational priorities are useful skills when an organization must decide which initiative to pursue or how to develop an early-stage venture.
Her Women in Business Scholarship and Global Citizen Scholarship add leadership and international dimensions to that foundation. These experiences have helped shape her perspective on questions that cut across business strategy, technology and execution.
From consulting and technology experience to operational ownership
Lepatan’s professional background includes work at McKinsey & Company and experience associated with Amazon, Google, CBRE and Tufts University. Those organizations span consulting, technology, commercial real estate and higher education. She also serves as a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador, supporting greater participation by women in technology and innovation.
At McKinsey & Company, her responsibilities included tracking European progress and automating monitoring activities. The work supported visibility into organizational progress, addressing a familiar operational problem: leaders need reliable information about initiatives to understand where attention is required. Monitoring and reporting can connect day-to-day activity with broader priorities, particularly when multiple pieces of work must be followed over time.
Her experience also encompasses business analytics, artificial intelligence, digital transformation and operational coordination. Applied work involving machine learning, forecasting and optimization adds a technical perspective to her business background.
For organizations dealing with fragmented reporting or unclear priorities, that combination is relevant because the problem is often as much operational as technical. Information needs to be understandable to decision-makers, while teams need a shared view of what to do next. Lepatan’s background in tracking and monitoring provides a concrete example of work at that intersection.
Leadership at Renzaire Group and the development of Strathwell
As Chief Operating Officer of Renzaire Group, Lepatan works on the development of AI-driven technology ventures. Strathwell gives that responsibility a specific commercial focus: the venture is developing solutions at the intersection of artificial intelligence, events and commercial real estate.
The problem begins before an event can be planned in detail. Organizers and property stakeholders must determine whether a space is suitable, understand operational requirements and identify relevant permitting processes. That information can be scattered among different parties. An unconventional venue, such as a parking garage, church or underused commercial property, may introduce questions that are harder to resolve through a standard venue search.
Strathwell is exploring how AI could organize site information, identify relevant requirements and reveal dependencies between planning decisions. The proposed approach is intended to help stakeholders assess feasibility earlier, when an event concept is still taking shape.
Earlier assessment could help organizers avoid spending time on plans that cannot proceed and help property owners recognize potential uses for their spaces. A clearer view of constraints could also make conversations among organizers, owners and other stakeholders more productive.
Lepatan’s contribution is to connect the venture’s business direction and operational execution to the problem it is trying to solve. Her experience with analytics and progress monitoring informs the emphasis on organizing information for decisions, while her background spanning strategy and commercial real estate gives context to the coordination challenges facing prospective users.
Startup ecosystem and industry participation
Lepatan is a member of Founder University’s Cohort 12, the startup-building program founded by Jason Calacanis, an early investor in Uber and Robinhood. Through the program, she participates in a startup-building community alongside her work developing Strathwell.
In May 2026, Lepatan was selected to pitch Strathwell in the PITCH startup competition at Web Summit Vancouver, presented in partnership with KPMG. The opportunity placed her venture among emerging businesses presenting their concepts in an international startup environment.
Innovation judging and technology leadership
2027 Edison Awards appointment
Lepatan has been selected as an expert reviewer and official judge for the 2027 Edison Awards, with assigned areas including Commercial Technology, Software Solutions, and Cultural Impact & Education. The appointment draws on a perspective that spans technical ideas and commercial execution.
For an innovation to matter in practice, its proposed solution must address a relevant problem, its performance claims need supporting evidence, and its implementation and commercial potential deserve scrutiny. Lepatan’s experience with analytics, operations and venture development informs her approach to examining innovation.
As a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador, Lepatan supports women’s participation in technology, innovation and education. The appointment adds a community-facing dimension to her work and provides a setting in which her multidisciplinary perspective can be useful to others navigating technology careers.
In 2023, she also participated in a team that placed among the top three at the MIT Policy Hackathon. The team worked on data systems for human rights, producing a policy memo, pitch and application prototype while considering security and access.
What Lepatan brings to organizations and mentees
Lepatan’s experience speaks to practical needs faced by businesses and founders: clearer reporting, better coordination between technical and business teams, and decisions grounded in usable information. Her work on progress tracking and monitoring automation offers a basis for understanding how operational processes can make an organization’s priorities more visible.
For someone building a venture or navigating a multidisciplinary career, her trajectory also offers a way to think about the work. Define the problem before choosing a solution, examine the evidence available, and consider what coordination will be needed to carry a decision forward. Those principles provide a practical starting point for discussing complex work.
Lepatan’s distinctive strength lies in connecting analytical thinking with operational responsibility. Her experience across established organizations and early-stage ventures informs how she defines problems, prioritizes work and coordinates execution. Through Renzaire Group and Strathwell, she is applying those capabilities to a concrete commercial challenge: helping businesses understand how underused spaces could become viable opportunities.