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