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