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