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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Deepak Gupta
Director, Startup Advisor UC Berkeley
Mark Mian
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Norman Liang
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Elin Elkehag
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Ron Hirson
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Sohail Prasad
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David Stewart
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Amanda Gail Miller
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Ryan Vinyard
Engineering Lead
Sharon Meers
Head of Strategic Partnerships
Brent Quan Hall
VP, DxO
Ron Evans
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Mark Williams
Co-founder & General Partner, iotAces
Dave Merrill
VP of Enabling Technology, 3D Robotics
Rory Carrillo
Medical Device Design & Development Consultant
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Founder, PNG Counsel
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Designer
Roy Bahat
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Sean Bonner
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Jonathon Triest
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Ethan Imboden
Designer
James Clardy
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Brian Frank
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Brandon Drew
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Jeffrey Schox
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Robert Lee
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Madelynn Martiniere
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User Experience
Kristine Schaefer
Comms Coach
Rob Prickett
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Tom Dair
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Customer Experience & Support
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Megan Groves
Early Stage Branding & Marketing
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Emerging Technologies Sourcing
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Tony Rovello
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Chris Tolles
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Jeff Beene
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