Rebecca Love RN, BS, MSN, FIEL

Rebecca Love is an experienced nurse executive, the first nurse featured on Ted.com, and was recognized as one of Modern Healthcare's most influential people in healthcare in 2022. Rebecca was the first director of nurse innovation and entrepreneurship in the United States at Northeastern School of Nursing – the founding initiative in the country designed to empower nurses as innovators and entrepreneurs, where she founded the Nurse Hackathon, the movement that led to transformational change in the nursing profession. In early 2019, Rebecca, along with a group of leading nurses in the world, founded and is president of SONSIEL: The Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs & Leaders, a non-profit that quickly attained recognition by the United Nations as an Affiliate Member to 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 the managing director of U.S. markets, until its acquisition in 2019. Currently, Rebecca serves as the chief clinical officer of IntelyCare, Inc. Rebecca is passionate about empowering nurses and creating communities to help nurses innovate, create, and collaborate to start businesses and inventions to transform healthcare. Rebecca holds a M.S. in Nursing from Northeastern University, B.A. in International Relations/Spanish from Boston University, and sits on the board of NextGen Ventures, Health Science Entrepreneurs at Northeastern University & the Host Committee for the Massachusetts ACLU.