BIANYS STAFF
Regina Gwynn
Executive Director
Regina is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in venture, business development and strategic partnerships
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Regina Gwynn is the Co-Founder of Black Women Talk Tech, the largest resource platform for diverse women technologists. It educates, amplifies and funds women to create wealth by leading billion dollar businesses. Our award winning technology conference, called Roadmap to Billions (RTB) has grown into a global event series hosted in NYC, London and Toronto. BWTT curates pitch competitions, AI trainings and tech recruiting events online and in local markets, and engages over 150,000 followers across its social channels. As Co-Founder, Regina co-leads marketing, business strategy, and strategic partnership development.
Regina Gwynn launched her first tech startup in 2014 with TresseNoire, a platform that empowers women of color to celebrate their textured hair with a personalized beauty routine that works. Its virtual beauty coach takes the guesswork out of finding the right natural hair products & services by matching your individual hair profile to a beauty regimen designed by experts. The startup was selected for the first cohort of Google for Entrepreneurs’ Black Founder Exchange program, Backstage Capital Accelerator (Philadelphia) and additional venture funding.
After graduating from the Kellogg School of Management with her MBA, Regina was a management consultant with the Monitor Group (now Monitor/Deloitte Consulting) and worked with clients within the media and healthcare industries. She was then tapped to lead marketing at The Apparel Group, where she built the department from scratch and launched the company’s first ecommerce site for its signature brand, Foxcroft Collection.
Regina has been named one of the 100 Most Powerful Women by Entrepreneur Magazine and Top Ten Women in Tech by Essence Magazine. Her features include Forbes Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Crain’s Business and more. She’s a Women.nyc Advisor, EY EAN Alum, an Adjunct Professor and is a member of the Leadership Network of the AmplifyHer Foundation. Regina is an avid spirits collector, loves to travel, dance and watch football (Go Giants!).
Kim Grant
Deputy Director
Kim has been an advocate for entrepreneurs for over two decades
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Kim Grant, Biography
Kim joined BIANYS in May 2025 as Deputy Director overseeing membership and program services. She launched her own consulting firm, KBG Business Development in January 2025 after having spent twenty years of her career helping entrepreneurs. Her clients include public, private, institutional and academic collaborations with a focus on innovation, entrepreneurism and economic development.
Previously, Kim was Vice President of Business Development at Western New York’s economic development agency, Invest Buffalo Niagara, where she led the team that attracted and retained businesses that generated over 1500 new jobs and a billion dollars in capital investment. Kim also worked as Business Development Executive at the University at Buffalo for the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and the UB Jacobs School of Medicine as the Director of the Surgical Simulation Lab helping innovation minded clinicians navigate the Start UP process.
Kim is a Leadership Buffalo graduate from 2011, and received her Bachelor’s in Business Studies from Buffalo State.
Our Mission
Expand: resources available to incubator-based enterprises, working with policy-makers on matters affecting them.
Promote: entrepreneurial activities of incubators within the state.
Network: business incubators, incubated companies, and others interested in the innovation economy of New York State.