People

Ron Stimmel

Columbia MBA, VC and Startup Experience, work at Amazon

Susan Clare

Founded @longshot-apparel-2. Entrepreneurially bombastic & insightful. Devoted to connecting the dots between companies, consumers and the real world.

Todd Meldahl

VaultPAD

Travel startup accelerator. Managing partners worked at @expedia, @datalex, @everbread, Boeing. Aggresive mentoring program + data and commercial support.

Alec Matias

CEO of Pawzii with strong engineering experience on high-profile sites (Zillow, NFL, NBC).

andrea flamini

UX Consultant - Founder @decoravi-com, @flamini-associates • VP of Product Design @pictureiq - Worked @microsoft, @adobe-systems @landor-associates

Ben Ries

Founder @viska. PhD student @university-of-washington. Research in Statistical modeling lab (data mining). Strong programming background.@draper-university alum

Chad Barry

Founder/CTO of @funtini. Over 18 years developing multiplayer and MMO games for companies/brands like @microsoft, Sony and Marvel. VP at Smith & Tinker.

Chris Bifone

Cos Roberts

Founder @urbantech-systems • Investor @myunfold • Studied at @university-of-washington

Edan Krolewicz

Studied Finance and CS at M.I.T, Program Manager at Microsoft.

Joe Lawandus

Founder/CEO of @funtini. Strong general management, strategy, marketing and brand experience with Disney, Cranium and @hasbro. Founder/CEO of @smith-tinker.

Kaushal Sanghavi

Ex-Amazon, Saffronart (Sequoia backed) & CK-12 (Khosla-founded).CS from @university-of-california-berkeley, MBA @ISB.

Marcelo Alcantara

Chief Product Officer at @apphere . Built 1st software startup out of college. Worked as VP Solutions at @spring-wireless.

Mark Shesser

Moved to Seattle to be Associate @techstars Seattle. Now a project manager with @remitly .

Marty Taylor Collins

Emerging Media Brand Strategist focused on media companies and Start-ups. 10 yrs at Msft running digital media strategy & innovation marketing teams

Paul Pearson

Content editor @microsoft (Zune, @Xbox Live, @msnmusic), freelance music correspondent @seattletimes, interviewer and writer.

Roxanne Skelly

@microsoft, @linden-lab, @skytap, @pure-networks Decades of software development experience. Security, Networking, Cloud. @carnegie-mellon-university ECE '91.

Steve Lamb

April (Yong Kyung) Kim

Founder @chattingcat-co • Worked at @ibm, @ibm Global Business Services • Studied at @kellogg-school-of-management, @yonsei-university

Fraser Black

Investor in @valueappeal.

Hermann C.

CEO of UserNest. Serial entrepreneur & angel investor. Formerly at Xerox PARC and GE. Wharton MBA and lifelong software nerd, wrote my own OS at age 12.

Iain Evans

COO of Living Lab at @ubc. Experience as CTO and VC in tech sectors. PhD Cantab.

Jessica Chao

Health/UXUI Hacker • Prev. Cofounder @healtho; @johns-hopkins-hospital, @uwmc, PharmD @university-of-washington, MBA @johns-hopkins-university