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