People

Melissa Winter

Over six years business development experience in the tech, e-commerce, and financial fields. Four years of international management experience. Wharton MBA.

Nav Chatterji

Designer, Entrepreneur.

Rachel Ergo

Startup Hustler, Growth Hacker, and Full-Stack Marketer

Raj Roy

Director of Operations at CleanEdison, bringing management and strategy consulting expertise from @booz-company to deliver profit to energy-focused startups.

Rishi Bhattacharya

Ryan Thrash

Founder @siphonlabs; Biz degree @smu; Strong marketing, writing and product mgmt skills, and know how to turn an Open Source project into a business with revenues.

Steven Frambes

Angel investor in Tech/Media/Telecom, Retail and CleanTech with previous investment banking experience has 11 current investments in USA, Europe.

Chattaboom News

Founder @chattaboom. Advertising b.g. with over 15 years of creative and management experience. Innovator, passionate, go-getter, and Mr. make it happen is part of the brand.

Malcolm Williams

Founder of @surgerylink. 13 years of sales & leadership in medical industry (J&J, @medtronic and Globus). Proud dad of 3 daughters.

Archer Hobson IV

Founder Chowventure

Hanns-Christian Hanebeck

VP, Product Management & Marketing at Revere Security

Jason Creel

CTO of FanTree. Self-professed geek who also has an MBA.

Robert C. Johnson

President / Founder at Muroc Systems, Inc. (TeamSupport.com)

Smoot Carter

Co-founder & CEO of Blownaway. Grad of @yale MA, @lsu.

Steve Harries

Consumer insight consultant, Specialist in innovation platform development

Zeeshan Yousuf

Developer at Fayceoff. Worked at SocialCubix as lead developer, developed @facebook application and Webs.

Ade Okunubi, CFA

Corporate VC / New Business Development (7-Eleven corporation) Harvard Business School MBA (2010) Princeton Unversity AB in Economics (2004)

Giri Rao

Adept at forging and building strategic partnerships in the mobile area. Deployed a leading mobile productivity application to 100s of millions of handsets.

John Lustig

CEO at National Health Care Provider Solutions; HCIT Angel; Actively Involved w/ Disque Foundation & Ronald McDonald House of Chicago

Michael Murray

Involved @ the intersection of data/insights, tech, new media & business since '88. Early internet leader from '93 on. Results, not presence, is the objective.

Sheldon Dsouza

Worked at @apple, @University of Texas at Dallas, @freelance • Studied at @university-of-texas-dallas, @university-of-mumbai

Tiffany Hughes

Early stage UX Design & Strategy. UX Advisor for @lecamping Led the creative over 6+ years for a site that at it’s peak was the 64th most trafficked site overall with 38+ million users. Co-Founded @songvote

Austin R. Maxey

Strong technical and management consulting background, Experience in SaaS and venture backed SMBs.

Chad Heinen

Product Manager @velocis • Worked at @qwiqq • Studied at @texas-a-m-university • Experience with 5 Products, 3 Startups, 1 Incubator, 1 Ent. Company.