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