Mark Your Calendar: The WBUR Breakfast Club Brings Together Founders and CEOs Reshaping Fashion, Gaming and Biotech This Fall

WBUR, Boston’s NPR, as we speak introduced the autumn lineup for The WBUR Breakfast Club, an occasion collection that includes conversations with influential enterprise leaders. The collection returns to WBUR CitySpace on Tuesday, September 15 with Kerry Docherty, co-founder of way of life and clothes model Faherty, in dialog with Tiziana Dearing, host of WBUR’s Morning Edition.

Following Docherty, WBUR will welcome Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks on Wednesday, October 21; Noubar Afeyan, founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering and chairman of the board of Moderna on Wednesday, November 18 and Warby Parker co-founder and CEO Neil Blumenthal on Wednesday, December 9.

“From the boardroom to the newsroom, from Boston to the world, WBUR is reimagining how consequential issues in business and society get discussed and understood, elevating the conversation to help shape what comes next,” mentioned WBUR CEO Margaret Low. “The Breakfast Club is a chance for Boston decision makers to gather for intimate conversations with some of the country’s most fascinating business leaders. We’re grateful to the Mehrotra Institute for helping bring it to life.”

Sponsored by the Ravi Ok. Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets, and Society at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, The WBUR Breakfast Club launched in January with Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert within the highlight. The debut season additionally featured the leaders of Bombas, Whoop and JetBlue. The collection provides Boston’s enterprise neighborhood a possibility to listen to immediately from executives who’re navigating the challenges and alternatives shaping their industries.

• Sept. 15: Kerry Docherty cofounded the approach to life clothes model Faherty together with her husband and his an identical twin. Faherty, which mixes high-quality design with surf tradition, launched in 2013 with a “Beach Shack on Wheels,” and has changed into a $250 million model bought worldwide. There are greater than 80 retail shops throughout the U.S., together with seven in Massachusetts with places starting from Newbury Street in Boston to downtown Nantucket. Her new memoir “Selfish” was printed by Harmony at Penguin Random House in April 2026.
• Oct. 21: Chris Cocks was named Hasbro’s Chief Executive Officer and Director in 2022 and has pushed the corporate’s evolution to develop into a serious participant in digital gaming, guiding strategic licensing agreements and establishing a community of online game studios to place Hasbro as a number one AAA online game developer and writer. He additionally serves on the boards of Lifespan and The Paley Center for Media.
• Nov. 18: Noubar Afeyan is co-founder and Board Chairman of Moderna, and the founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering. During his profession as an inventor, entrepreneur and CEO, he has cofounded and helped construct over 100 life science and know-how startups.
• Dec. 9: Neil Blumenthal is the co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker, a life-style model that provides designer eyewear, named essentially the most revolutionary firm on the earth by Fast Company in 2015.

“Fashion, gaming and biotech look like three unrelated industries on the surface, but the leaders running them are wrestling with a similar question: what role should this business play in the society it operates within? This question is the center of our work at the Mehrotra Institute, and WBUR is one of the few places in Boston where it gets asked of decision makers directly. We are excited to continue our partnership with WBUR and are looking forward to bringing business leaders together to engage in this critical discourse,” mentioned Kris May, Executive Director, Ravi Ok. Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets, and Society

The Breakfast Club’s return comes amid sturdy viewers momentum for WBUR, which has ranked or tied for first place in Boston radio in April, May and July, based on Nielsen Audio rankings.

The Breakfast Club is an growth into morning programming at CitySpace, WBUR’s state-of-the-art efficiency area at 890 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. Tickets to The Breakfast Club are $75 every and might be bought right here. Doors open at 7:30 a.m. for a networking breakfast adopted by the featured dialog from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. To study extra about upcoming WBUR occasions, subscribe to the WBUR Events publication.