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