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