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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CEO & Founder at Stilla
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Andrea Quagliata
Founder & Creative Director, Quagliata Advertising Design
Tony Rovello
Head of Product, Brand Mobility
Joshua Kauffman
Designer
Marc Barros
Co-Founder
Marcus Gosling
Design
Amy Jo Kim
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David Stewart
VP Business Development, Turo
Jeff Beene
Design Strategist for New Products, Samsung
Jennifer McCormick
UX Researcher
Evan Cooke
CTO & Co-founder
Antoun Nabhan
VP Corporate Development, Raptor Pharmaceuticals
Mike Smart
Co-Managing Director
Rory Carrillo
Medical Device Design & Development Consultant
Jeffrey Schox
Patent Attorney and Entrepreneur
Nadine Stocklin
Founder, PNG Counsel
Jonathon Triest
Managing Partner, Ludlow Ventures
James Clardy
Strategist
Ian Sweeney
Principal of Intersection X
Sharon Meers
Head of Strategic Partnerships
Amanda Gail Miller
Brand Strategy & Consumer Insight Consultant
Nick Pinkston
Founder & CEO, Plethora
Scott Sambucci
CEO & Founder SalesQualia
David Sperry
VP of Brand & Marketing at Motiv
Sophie Conti
Customer Experience & Support
Anuj Madan
Emerging Technologies Sourcing
Ron Hirson
Co-Founder
Rob Prickett
Product Manager, Designer
Sean Bonner
Co-founder and global director of Safecast
Chris Tolles
CEO & Co-Founder
Kristine Schaefer
Comms Coach
Ron Evans
Technologist
Brandon Drew
VP Finance and Ops, Signal Zero
Phil Baker
Tech Columnist
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Advisor to Software and Life Sciences Startups
Dakota Boin
Firmware Engineer
Chris Matthews
Marketing and Brand Advisor
Brian Frank
Investor & Mentor
Brian Lee
Sr Electrical Engineer
Ethan Imboden
Designer
Edd Dumbill
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Sohail Prasad
Founder & CEO, Equidate
Tom Dair
Independent Design Consultant
Aaron Gebauer
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Will Tidwell
Principal, Oxtet, LLC
Sonny Vu
Wearables
Anshu Agarwal
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Kenzi Connor
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Jamil Miles-Connell
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Renee Shenton
Community Manager
David Glickman
COO & Founder, Lively
Renee DiResta
Vice President of Business Development, Haven
Avery Lu
VP of Business Development at Focus PDM
Ryan Vinyard
Engineering Lead
Ryan Block
VP of Product
Mark Williams
Co-founder & General Partner, iotAces
Andre Neumann-Loreck
Founder & General Partner, Ops On Tap
Jyri Engestrom
Entrepreneur; Co-founder & Chairman, Jaiku
Mark Mian
Strategist
Shoaib Makani
Founder & CEO, KeepTruckin
Norman Liang
Venture Partner at WI Harper
Deepak Gupta
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Darrell Mockus
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Dave Merrill
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Madelynn Martiniere
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Alexander Baumgardt
Associate Partner, Futuredraft
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Megan Groves
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Julie Uhrman
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