Lisa Hammitt

Chairwoman
Scintillate
Lisa Hammitt photograph

Technology executive, board chair, and board member with restructuring successes and deep operating experience. Nine-time inventor, top-rated spokesperson, and passionate team builder. UC Berkeley degrees and board training at Harvard and Stanford. 

Currently founder and CEO of Scintillate, a photonics data management system start-up with applications in space, defense, smart cities, infrastructure monitoring and robots. 

► Restructuring: chaired board of directors at Intelsat from its post-bankruptcy emergence to its $3.1 B purchase in 2025nby SES; board director for Clear Channel Outdoor from its own debt-laden emergence to taking it private in 2026 in a pending $6.2 B purchase. As described in the press, "Clear Channel Outdoor’s journey from a subsidiary of a radio conglomerate to a targeted, private U.S. media leader is a masterclass in corporate restructuring." 

► Operating depth: deep managerial and executive experience at Oracle, HP, IBM, and Salesforce. 

► Innovation: Nine patents in artificial intelligence, search, analytics and data discovery