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