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