Mentors - Business & Marketing
Michal Habdank-Kolaczkowski
Michal helps incredible companies and community organizations to tell their stories.
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Michal helped launch Waze in the US and lead PR through its acquisition by Google in 2013. He has helped produce several local TEDx events, worked with local non-profit GrayArea to launch their prototyping festival, and been a representative of the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation.
Sometimes he arts.
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Ethan Imboden
Designer
Edd Dumbill
VP of Strategy & Marketing, Silicon Valley Data Science
Nick Pinkston
Founder & CEO, Plethora
Julie Uhrman
Founder & CEO, OUYA
Sharon Meers
Head of Strategic Partnerships
Sean Bonner
Co-founder and global director of Safecast
Jeffrey Schox
Patent Attorney and Entrepreneur
Avery Lu
VP of Business Development at Focus PDM
Amanda Gail Miller
Brand Strategy & Consumer Insight Consultant
Alexander Baumgardt
Associate Partner, Futuredraft
Mike Lin
Founder & Chairman at Fenix International
Andrea Quagliata
Founder & Creative Director, Quagliata Advertising Design
Elin Elkehag
CEO & Founder at Stilla
Deepak Gupta
Director, Startup Advisor UC Berkeley
Kenzi Connor
President & Founder, Cloud City Development
Ryan Vinyard
Engineering Lead
Phil Baker
Tech Columnist
Shoaib Makani
Founder & CEO, KeepTruckin
Calvin Chin
Co-founder & CEO, Transist Impact Labs
Anuj Madan
Emerging Technologies Sourcing
Dakota Boin
Firmware Engineer
Ian Sweeney
Principal of Intersection X
Xenia Apena
Product Lead, Vave Health
Valery Komissarova
Principal, Grishin Robotics
Mark Williams
Co-founder & General Partner, iotAces
David Stewart
VP Business Development, Turo
Madelynn Martiniere
Director of Community, Fictiv
Dave Merrill
VP of Enabling Technology, 3D Robotics
Darrell Mockus
CTO, CPP Innovation Labs
Marcus Gosling
Design
James Clardy
Strategist
Evan Cooke
CTO & Co-founder
Rory Carrillo
Medical Device Design & Development Consultant
Imraan Aziz
Industrial Designer
Sonny Vu
Wearables
Chris Matthews
Marketing and Brand Advisor
Sophie Conti
Customer Experience & Support
Kristine Schaefer
Comms Coach
Rob Prickett
Product Manager, Designer
Jamil Miles-Connell
Marketing Consultant
Jennifer McCormick
UX Researcher
Aaron Gebauer
Mechanical Design Engineer, Orbio Technologies
Ryan Block
VP of Product
Brad Younggren
Emergency Physician, Physician Administrator, and Digital Health Entrepreneur
Anne Merritt
Emergency Clinician
David Sperry
VP of Brand & Marketing at Motiv
Renee Shenton
Community Manager
Joshua Kauffman
Designer
Jyri Engestrom
Entrepreneur; Co-founder & Chairman, Jaiku
Mike Smart
Co-Managing Director
Mark Mian
Strategist
Tony Rovello
Head of Product, Brand Mobility
Robert Lee
Advisor to Software and Life Sciences Startups
Ron Evans
Technologist
Scott Sambucci
CEO & Founder SalesQualia
Brian Lee
Sr Electrical Engineer
Brent Quan Hall
VP, DxO
Sohail Prasad
Founder & CEO, Equidate
Antoun Nabhan
VP Corporate Development, Raptor Pharmaceuticals
Ron Hirson
Co-Founder
Nadine Stocklin
Founder, PNG Counsel
David Glickman
COO & Founder, Lively
Norman Liang
Venture Partner at WI Harper
Roy Bahat
Investor; Head of Bloomberg Beta
Jonathon Triest
Managing Partner, Ludlow Ventures
Marc Barros
Co-Founder
Renee DiResta
Vice President of Business Development, Haven
Jonah Becker
VP, Industrial Design, Fitbit
Brandon Drew
VP Finance and Ops, Signal Zero
Brian Frank
Investor & Mentor
Chris Tolles
CEO & Co-Founder
Andre Neumann-Loreck
Founder & General Partner, Ops On Tap
Megan Groves
Early Stage Branding & Marketing
Amy Jo Kim
Cofounder, Shufflebrain; Creator, Getting2Alpha
Anshu Agarwal
User Experience
Jeff Beene
Design Strategist for New Products, Samsung
Will Tidwell
Principal, Oxtet, LLC
Tom Dair
Independent Design Consultant