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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Customer Experience & Support
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Industrial Designer
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Technologist
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Strategist
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Aaron Gebauer
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Andre Neumann-Loreck
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Valery Komissarova
Principal, Grishin Robotics
David Sperry
VP of Brand & Marketing at Motiv
Rob Prickett
Product Manager, Designer
Jeff Beene
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David Glickman
COO & Founder, Lively
Deepak Gupta
Director, Startup Advisor UC Berkeley
Sohail Prasad
Founder & CEO, Equidate
Marcus Gosling
Design
Kenzi Connor
President & Founder, Cloud City Development
Antoun Nabhan
VP Corporate Development, Raptor Pharmaceuticals
Jonah Becker
VP, Industrial Design, Fitbit
Calvin Chin
Co-founder & CEO, Transist Impact Labs
Dave Merrill
VP of Enabling Technology, 3D Robotics
Elin Elkehag
CEO & Founder at Stilla
Mike Smart
Co-Managing Director
Mike Lin
Founder & Chairman at Fenix International
Scott Sambucci
CEO & Founder SalesQualia
Ron Hirson
Co-Founder
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VP of Business Development at Focus PDM
Shoaib Makani
Founder & CEO, KeepTruckin
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Amanda Gail Miller
Brand Strategy & Consumer Insight Consultant
Anshu Agarwal
User Experience
Alexander Baumgardt
Associate Partner, Futuredraft
Megan Groves
Early Stage Branding & Marketing
Phil Baker
Tech Columnist
David Stewart
VP Business Development, Turo
Ryan Block
VP of Product
Jeffrey Schox
Patent Attorney and Entrepreneur
Amy Jo Kim
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Brent Quan Hall
VP, DxO
Jonathon Triest
Managing Partner, Ludlow Ventures
Nadine Stocklin
Founder, PNG Counsel
Jennifer McCormick
UX Researcher
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Will Tidwell
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Marc Barros
Co-Founder
Sean Bonner
Co-founder and global director of Safecast
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Investor & Mentor
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Norman Liang
Venture Partner at WI Harper
Evan Cooke
CTO & Co-founder
Chris Tolles
CEO & Co-Founder
Brandon Drew
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Tom Dair
Independent Design Consultant
Mark Williams
Co-founder & General Partner, iotAces
Joshua Kauffman
Designer
Ian Sweeney
Principal of Intersection X
Nick Pinkston
Founder & CEO, Plethora
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Advisor to Software and Life Sciences Startups
Sharon Meers
Head of Strategic Partnerships
Rory Carrillo
Medical Device Design & Development Consultant
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Emergency Clinician
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Sr Electrical Engineer
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