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Timothy Prestero is the founder and CEO of Design that Matters (DtM), a 501c3 nonprofit based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. DtM collaborates with social entrepreneurs to help them offer better services to the poor in developing countries. DtM’s design service involves a collaborative process by which students and professional volunteers design new tools to improve healthcare and education in Africa and Asia. DtM’s product successes include the Kinkajou Microfilm Projector and an improved intravenous (IV) flow controller. DtM’s most recent work focuses on newborn care, and the development of tools for infant warming, respiratory therapy and phototherapy. DtM’s goal is to help deliver a better life to one million beneficiaries by 2012.

Timothy is co-inventor on three patents for cholera treatment devices. A former Peace Corps volunteer, Tim has masters degrees in Mechanical and Ocean Engineering from MIT. He has worked in West Africa, Latin America and Asia. He is a Martin Fellow at the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, a Draper Richards Fellow, and was named an Ashoka Affiliate in 2004. He received the 2007 Social Venture Network Innovation Award, and the 2009 World Technology Award.