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