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