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