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