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