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