Haven Allen

Haven Allen, chief executive officer and co-founder of mHUB and managing partner of the Product Impact Fund, is an entrepreneur and technology strategist focused on creating economic opportunity through hardtech and manufacturing entrepreneurship. Over the past 7 years, efforts that he has built and led have translated into supporting over 550 startups and 250 manufacturers that have engineered and designed over 1,550 products, and awarded over 535 patents, attracting over $1.89B in investment and exits, generating over $1.5B in revenue and creating over 6,100 jobs. Prior to launching mHUB, Haven was an economic development strategist at World Business Chicago where he focuses on manufacturing economy. During his first graduate program, Haven served as a Mayoral Fellow at the City of Chicago and as a Graduate Student Instructor where he taught public management reform. In order to serve his country, Haven joined the Peace Corps as a community economic development volunteer in Panama where he worked to strengthen the management and leadership capacities of rural cooperatives and local organizations in order to increase economic opportunities. Haven started his career as an entrepreneur in the event production and publishing industries. Haven was named Crain’s 40 Under 40 in 2018 and a Leader in Sustainability in 2024 and to the Chicago Tribune Blue Sky Innovation Blue Network of Chicago tech and innovation leaders. Haven’s civic engagements include a political appointment to the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership Board of Directors where he also serves as a member of the Executive Committee and Finance Committee; Argonne National Labs Chain Reaction Innovation’s Advisory Board, and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and Economic Club of Chicago. Haven has a Master of Public Policy with a concentration in economic policy and a Certificate of Graduate Studies in Science, Technology and Public Policy from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2021, Haven was selected by The University of Chicago Booth School of Business as a Neubauer Civic Scholar Fellow, and, as part of the program, he will earn a Master of Business Administration.