Rebecca Love, RN, BS, MSN, FIEL
Rebecca is an experienced nurse executive and the first nurse featured on Ted.com and part of the inaugural nursing panel presented at SXSW 2018. Rebecca was the first US Director of Nursing Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Northeastern School of Nursing – the founding initiative In Chora designed to empower nurses as innovators and entrepreneurs, where she founded the Nurse Hackathon, the movement led to transformative changes in the Nursing Profession. In early 2019, Rebecca, together with a group of world-leading nurses, founded and is President of SONSIEL: The Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs & Leaders, a non-profit organization that was quickly recognized by the United Nations as an Associate Member in the UN. Rebecca is an experienced Nurse Entrepreneur, founding HireNurses.com in 2013, which was acquired in 2018 by Ryalto, LTD UK, where she served as CEO of US Markets, until its acquisition in 2019. Currently, Rebecca serves as Principal Innovation, Clinical, OptimizeRx. Rebecca is passionate about empowering nurses and building communities to help nurses innovate, create and collaborate to launch businesses and inventions to transform healthcare.
Rebecca holds an MA in Nursing from Northeastern University, a BA in International Relations/Spanish from Boston University and serves on the board of NextGen Ventures, Health Science Entrepreneurs at Northeastern University & the Host Committee for the ACLU of Massachusetts. She currently lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts with her husband and 3 children.