Colleen Heidinger

Colleen Heidinger is the president of 43North, a startup accelerator program that invests $5 million annually to attract and retain high-growth companies in Buffalo, New York. Born and raised in the First Ward neighborhood of Buffalo, Colleen went on to Babson College for her undergraduate studies, the top-rated university for entrepreneurship in the country.
Her career then took her to Los Angeles and New York City for a decade, where she managed global events and built national partnerships in the film and television industry for companies like Dreamworks Animation and Fremantle Media, before returning to Buffalo.