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