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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Norman Liang
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Robert Lee
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Darrell Mockus
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Jyri Engestrom
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Scott Sambucci
CEO & Founder SalesQualia
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Emerging Technologies Sourcing
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VP of Strategy & Marketing, Silicon Valley Data Science
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Ian Sweeney
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Amy Jo Kim
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Co-founder & General Partner, iotAces
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Firmware Engineer
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Head of Product, Brand Mobility
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VP Finance and Ops, Signal Zero
Marcus Gosling
Design
Renee Shenton
Community Manager
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Founder & CEO, OUYA
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