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