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