Mona – منى – means wish in Arabic.
Mona was incubated and launched at Stanford University. Our goal is to empower entrepreneurs and their purpose-driven companies to achieve their most aspirational wishes, beginning with world-class design.
Our founder + chief storyteller
Andrew Leon Hanna is a Forbes U30 entrepreneur, author of a Financial Times Book of the Year, a Harvard lawyer, a UChicago Booth professor of entrepreneurship, and the founder of Mona Studios. Andrew co-founded and led DreamxAmerica, whose PBS film was nominated for a Chicago Emmy® and which connects small businesses to zero-interest loans. He was a senior associate at McKinsey.
Andrew received an MBA with honors from Stanford, where he was a Knight-Hennessy and Siebel Scholar, and a JD with honors from Harvard, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review.