Mark P. Gorenberg became chair of the MIT Corporation in 2023. He has 33 years of venture capital experience and is the founder and managing director of Zetta Venture Partners, a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on AI. 

He joined the MIT Corporation in 2001, becoming a life member in 2012. He has served on many of the Corporation’s committees, including the MIT Investment Management Company Board, the Executive Committee, the 2022 Presidential Search Committee, and the Development Committee. He has also served on the Visiting Committees for the departments of linguistics and philosophy, aeronautics and astronautics, political science, and mechanical engineering, as well as the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.

Mark has participated in multiple MIT fundraising committees and campaigns over the last two decades. He cochaired the Campaign for a Better World, which raised $6.24 billion to help the people of MIT tackle humanity’s urgent global challenges. He also served on the steering committee for the Campaign 2000 and cochaired the Campaign for Students. He was on the board of directors of the MIT Club of Northern California for 14 years and serves on the steering committees for the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation and the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.

He is a director of several Zetta Venture Partners’ portfolio companies and is a past director of the National Venture Capital Association. Prior to his career in venture capital, he served as a software executive, entrepreneur, and member of the first Sparcstation team at Sun Microsystems. He serves on the boards of numerous successful startups. In 2011, he was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.