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