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