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