Naashom Marx

Naashom Marx is Director of Strategic Innovation and Advanced Mobility at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG), a top 10 cargo airport in North America and Skytrax’s Best Regional Airport in North America for 2020. Her innovation role focuses on advancing mobility for the region. In this role, she helps lead change at the airport, working with universities, startups, colleagues and business partners to reinvent the airport experience. Born and raised in the Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati, OH, her adventurous ways first took her across the U.S. to the top of the Grand Teton and over to Regis University in Denver where she received a BA in Liberal Arts. As a United States Peace Corps Volunteer, Naashom served in Bangladesh from 2003 to 2005. She earned a master’s degree in community planning and economic development from the University of Cincinnati as a Peace Corps Fellow. She went on to work for NGO’s in Bangladesh and Uganda to bridge gaps between the non-profit, entrepreneurial and for-profit sectors. Upon moving back to her hometown, she served as Director of the Kentucky Innovation Network (a subsidiary of KSTC), Business Development Manager for the City of Covington, KY, and Vice President of Business Growth and International Trade at the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. Notably, in those roles she not only supported the NKY startup ecosystem with incentives for UpTech, BioLogic and Bad Girl Ventures, but she also supported numerous entrepreneurs opening their businesses. Most recently, she was Director of BigCo Connections at Cintrifuse, where she worked with complex organizations to innovate with emerging technologies. Focusing on connecting startups to their next customer. This work assisted companies to gain education on and direct connections with technology that met their needs.

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Presentation

Driving innovation – the ideal innovation architecture

The panel will discuss the solutions which were presented by the startups and will discuss methods and structures which strengthen innovation, the sourcing of innovation through startups and the deployment of new technologies and business models in postal and logistics companies.