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