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