Alicia Cannon Mullen is a principal at Washing Pond Ventures, concentrating on growing technology-enabled companies through internal incubation and external investment. As a seasoned digital product leader, Alicia is the founder of Aprium, an AI-powered productivity and MVP development platform used by multiple privately held businesses. Alicia is a founding board member of The Nantucket Project, an annual invitation-only thought leadership conference since 2011. She is a board member at Represent.US, a non-partisan organization that promotes democracy reform, and a board advisor to Brave New Software, which created the government-funded Lantern platform that provides internet access to the censored world. Past advisory roles include Beme, a social media platform that CNN acquired, and founder of the award-winning Clustered Apps. 

 Her past positions include CIO/CTO of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and First Options of Chicago (acquired by SLK/Goldman Sachs), following her start on Wall Street. During her earlier career, Alicia was selected as one of Businessweek’s Top Women in Technology for her role in pioneering wireless handheld technology on professional trading floors.   

Alicia obtained her B.A. in Computer Science from Boston University while playing on the varsity tennis team; she currently sits on the university’s Board of Trustees. Alicia is also active in promoting public art and was a past president and board member of Chicago’s Redmoon, and has stealth-launched a new public art initiative.  She serves as a Palm Beach Civic Association Executive Committee member and court-appointed Guardian Ad Litem for Palm Beach County. She co-leads the Mullen Family Foundation, which supports a broad array of educational and civic initiatives.

Alicia, a Chicago-area native, moved to Palm Beach with her husband, Tim, in 2015. She has a daughter at the University of Michigan and four grown children.