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