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