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