Cristina Dolan is a Co-founder of iXledger and insideCHAINS.

Career

Cristina started her career in 1984, working in Marketing & Sales at IBM. In addition, from 1988 to 1994 she was a Member of the US BobSled and Skeleton Team.^[1][2]

From 1994 to 1999, Cristina served as a Director of Operations at iCUBE, Hearst, ABC Multimedia Group and Oracle. In 1998, she became a Co-founder of the Geographic Communities at OneMain. Later, Cristina served as a President at WordStream and General Partner at Rudyard Partners. From 2009 to 2017, she was a Global Head of Marketing, Content, Communities & Communications Products at TradingScreen.^[2]

Currently, Cristina is a Co-founder of iXledger and insideCHAINS. In addition, she is a partner at FIX Trading Community, Forbes Technology Council, Dream it. Code it. Win it. and Smartmatic.^[4]

Education

Cristina has a Master of Media Arts and Science from the MIT Media Lab, where she also took courses at Sloan and HBS. She also has a Master of Computer Science Engineering and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with concentrations in Computer Science, Communications Technologies and Business.^[3]

Leadership and Volunteering

Currently Cristina serves on the MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City board and the MIT Alumni Association Selection Committee. She is the former President of the MIT Club of New York.^[4]

In 2014, Dolan was honored by Traders Magazine with a Charitable Works Award for her work with Dream it. Code it. Win it.^[4]

The table below outlines all of Dolan's various leadership and volunteer efforts.

Organization	Role	Duration	Field
Dream it. Code it. Win it.	Organizer and Founder	October 2013 – Present	STEM, Education
MIT Enterprise Forum of New York	Officer and Secretary	June 2010 – Present	Education
MIT Alumni Association Selection Committee Member	MIT AA Representative, Elected by Alumni	July 2012	Education
MIT Enterprise Forum Global Board	Board Member	July 2014 – Present	Science, Technology
MIT Club of New York (MIT Alumni Association)	President of the MIT Club of New York	July 2006 – June 2008	Education
MIT Club of New York (MIT Alumni Association)	VP of Communications and EVP	July 2003 – June 2006	Education
MIT Enterprise Forum Global Board	Director, Sponsorship Chair	July 2005 – June 2008	Science Technology
Kauffman Foundation	Innovation Accelerator Foundation	June 2007 – July 2009	Education
MIT Council for the Arts	Director and Member	July 2008 – Present	Education, Art
Teaching Matters	Director	July 2009 – June 2012	Education
New York Venture Capital Association (Formerly VIANY)	Executive Director	June 2009 – November 2010	Science Technology
New York City Opera	Member of Education Board and Internet Advisor	June 1996 – June 2005	Education
Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich Connecticut	Officer, Treasurer and Nominating Chair and Director	June 1999 – June 2006	Education
Convent of the Sacred Heart	Alumnae Board Director and Officer (Secretary)	July 2004 – July 2009	Education
NFTE - National Association for Teaching Entrepreneurialism	Mentor	October 2001 – June 2003	Education
Guggenheim Museum	Co-Executive Producer	June 1996 – September 1997	Art, Culture
MIT Corporate Joint Advisory Council	MIT Corporation Joint Advisory Council Member (Student)	September 1992 – June 1994	Education
MIT Athletics Board	Board Member	June 1992 – July 1994	Education, Sports
IEEE	Board Member - Computer Society and Communications Society Committees	June 1988 – June 1990	Education

Dream it, Code it, Win it.

In October 2013, Dolan launched Dream it. Code it. Win it., a "Create-A-Thon" to award high school and college students more than $70,000 in cash and prizes for their creations using computer science tools.

Dream it. Code it. Win it. held its inaugural "create-a-thon" at the Cooper Union Great Hall in New York City on the evening of April 30, 2014. The awards ceremony was preceded by a panel discussion, which included: Joi Ito from the MIT Media Lab, Mike Perlis the CEO of Forbes, Jeanne Sullivan the co-founder of StarVest Partners, Philippe Buhannic the CEO of TradingScreen, Erik Nordlander an Engineering Partner at Google Ventures, Teresa A. Dahlberg the Dean at Cooper Union, and Alex Diaz the Head of Product Development at Yahoo!.^[1]

The contest was sponsored by Cooper Union, TradingScreen, Silicon Valley Bank, MedAffinity EHR, SorinRand, and Richard Berman Publications. The prize money was sponsored by the MIT alumni community, Tekserve, TradingScreen, and other small organizations.^[4]

The Dream it. Code it. Win it. contest was positively received by the media and thought leaders in the Computer Science and STEM space. Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson wrote a piece about the contest on his blog, which was also featured on Business Insider.  The Better (TV series) Show interviewed contest organizer, Cristina Dolan, and Ernie Anastos from Fox 5 News also covered the event as well.  Winners were interviewed by their local school newspapers as well.^[2]