Karen Gordon Mills served in President Barack Obama's cabinet as the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration from 2009 until August 2013.  She is currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School, where she is part of the entrepreneurship faculty. Mills is the President of MMP Group and a longtime venture capitalist and private equity investor. She is the author of the book Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, as well as several papers on small business lending and supply chains.