Connie Hu has over a decade of experience as an award-winning entrepreneur and mission-driven corporate executive leading large teams and business units. After significant soul-searching and healing from trauma, she decided to retire from corporate life. Connie aspires to become a licensed clinical psychologist, is currently volunteering with the Crisis Textline, and is writing a poetry collection. She is greeting each day with joy.

She was most recently the GM of In-Store at DoorDash where she was responsible for the GTM strategy of DoorDash’s acquisition of the company, Bbot. As GM, she was responsible for leading the entire 130-person business unit and was the ultimate owner of the P/L.

Prior to DoorDash, Connie was the Vice President of Central Operations and Supply Chain at Spin, an electric scooter company that is part of the Ford Mobility portfolio. There she led an amazing 63-person global team focused on scooter inventory management, labor productivity, market innovation, Spin Hubs infrastructure, truck/van fleet management, warehouse operations, repair operations, operations training, and safety.

Prior to Spin, she was the Director of Operations and Logistics at ThirdLove, an eCommerce company building bras and underwear for every body that Forbes recently named as the next billion dollar startup. There Connie oversaw the strategy and execution of all movement of inventory and orders, including: managing inbound freight from overseas suppliers, working relationships with multiple freight forwarders, 3PL warehouse operations, outbound small parcel shipping to customers, reverse logistics, eCommerce packaging, customs compliance, cross-border logistics, and ThirdLove’s global donations program.

Connie was the CEO and Co-Founder of ArcBotics, an award-winning robotics company whose mission is to make learning robotics easy and affordable. She and the rest of the ArcBotics team believe that anyone should be able to learn robotics, no matter their background. To that end, ArcBotics has created two flagship robots – Sparki and Hexy the Hexapod – to teach students and adults alike robotics, coding, and electronics. Connie was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30: Education in 2017, and her entrepreneurship work has been featured on Fast Company, Discover, Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, The Great Courses, in the book Make: 21st Century Robot, and more.

ArcBotics’ robots are used by over 2000 schools and top universities like Stanford, MIT, and Purdue to teach 150,000 students robotics and coding. ArcBotics has self-funded through profitable growth since starting in 2012, beginning with multiple successfully shipped Kickstarter campaigns totaling over $400,000 USD to 2500 backers. Their robots are now sold by over 20 global distributors including Barnes and Noble, Adafruit, and Micro Center.

Before ArcBotics, Connie was a management consultant at The Bridgespan Group (incubated by Bain and Co), the leading consultancy for global foundations and nonprofit organizations on strategic planning.

Connie has an Honors B.A. in Anthropology from Dartmouth where she was President of the social enterprise society, President of the Casque and Gauntlet Senior Society, and worked on a 2-year thesis project investigating microfinance programs where she conducted original fieldwork in rural China over 4 months. She is a StartingBloc Fellow and a New Sector Alliance Fellow.

Connie is a highly sought after speaker. She has spoken on topics such as scaling a hardware startup, entrepreneurship, international business expansion, channel management, and encouraging more women to start businesses. Among her speaking engagements have been Grace Hopper, the American Leaders Conference, MakerCon, and Middlesex Business School.

In her spare time, you can find Connie competing in national west coast swing dance competitions, sailing, creating music, learning to fly, and of course, writing nonfiction and poetry. Connie immigrated from rural China, grew up in Kansas, and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Muffin.