Jacqueline Olich, PhD
Strategic Advisor
Jackie has decades of academic, corporate, and non-profit leadership. A historian by training, she co-founded, grew, and sold Diba Industries, a family-owned health and diagnostics components business, before going on to serve as a faculty member at UNC Chapel Hill in history and global studies and as the VP of University Collaborations at RTI International, the science-based research organization. Jackie is a member of the Chief women’s executive network and xElle Ventures. Jackie’s worked with Elysia to strengthen its connections to the local entrepreneurship ecosystem as well as develop its strategy for the global application of its products.