Meet the Mentors - Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship

Markus Adhiwiyogo

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Amazon Web Services

Ashok Agarwala

Owner/CEO, Exprow LLC

Arjun Aggarwal

Chief Product Officer, Desktop Metal

Raheela Ahsan

Attorney

Hahna Alexander

CEO & Co-Founder, Sole Power LLC

Alison Alvarez

CEO & Co-Founder, Blastpoint

Prashant Ambe

Board Member & Charter member, TiE Pittsburgh

Sean Ammirati

Partner, BIrchmere Ventures & Professor of Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business

Phil Anderson

Senior Product Manager, Amazon

Elaine Ann

Fractional (Chief Xperience Officer) for Tech Startups, Kaizor Innovation

Ben Babcock

Leader - UXR Team, Facebook AI

Ramesh Babu

Director of Engineering R&D, MeShare Inc

Scott Bachik

Chief Executive Officer, Enkompas BI

J.G. (Pete) Ball

CEO, Performance Partners Inc.

Cheshta Balwani

Clean Transportation Solution Architect, Black & Veatch

Namrata Banerjee

Director, Venture Bridge/Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Swartz Center & Venture Partner, Republic

Tony Bansal

Angel Investor/Executive-in-Residence Education & Healthcare Industries, Bishop and Lee LLC

Laurie Barkman

Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business & Executive-in-Residence, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship

Nick Bartel

Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Idelic

Matthew Bauch

Staff Autopilot Engineer/Computer Vision, Tesla Motors

Joe Belechak

Senior Manager, Accenture

Nicki Zevola Benvenuti

CEO, AEK Solutions Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ResearchEverything

Jill Berardi

Marketing Strategy Consultant & Owner, BerardiGroup LLC

Jim Berardone

Adjunct Professor & Executive-in-Residence, College of Engineering & Chief Customer Officer, OnlyBoth Inc.

Tony Berkman

Managing Director & Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Two Sigma

Doug Bernstein

Co-Founder & CEO, PECA Labs

Carlos Bhola

Managing Director, Celsius Capital

Tobiah Bilski

Product Implementation Manager, JLL Technologies

Daniel Bishop

CEO & Co-Founder, Qualaris Healthcare Solutions

Jeffrey Bloom

Managing Partner, Bowline Hospitality

Eric Boduch

Founder & VP Marketing, Pendo i.o.

Nik Bonaddio

Founder & CEO, BigBrain

Tomer Borenstein

Co-Founder & CTO, Blastpoint

Kirk Botula

Managing Partner, Total Bank Solutions

Ryan Bove

Founder, Aurochs Brewing Company

Peter Boyce II

Partner, General Catalyst

Chuck Brandt

Deputy Director, ARM - Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing

John S. Brendel

Shareholder, Dentons Cohen & Grigsby

Wade Brogdan

Cheif Revenue Officer, Tovuti LMS

Sean Brosmith

Chief Creative Officer, MAESA

Sheila Brown

Former Finance Director, Progressive Insurance (Retired)

Anthony Bucci

Owner, B&V Staffing

Eric Buffkin

Founder & CEO, Pelagic Group LLC

Thomas Burke

Senior Management Consultant, The Clear Thinking Group LLC

Monica Bush

Senior Global Product Manager, Philips

Jason Cahill

Business Development Manager, AWS VC & Startups

Cecil Callahan

Senior Investment Manager/Business Development, Ancore Investment Development

Rick Cancelliere

Founder & CEO, Treatspace

Mike Capsambelis

Product Management Lead/Product Data, Google

Brendan Carroll

Growth Catalyst, Independent Consultant/Freelance

Rodrigo Carvalho

Founder & CEO, Flying Manta

Susan Catalano

Chief Scientific Officer, CODA Biotherapeutics

Sam Cates

Managing Director, Positive Sum

Andy Chan

Lead Product Manager/Innovator, SWORD Health

Melissa Chan

Senior Director of Grid Solutions, Fermata Energy

Cindy Chepanoske

Director of Technology Licensing, Center for Technology Transfer

Steve Cherin

Founding Partner, Cherin Law Offices

Sophia Chiang

Global Business Finance (Saas/Cloud/Support), Oracle

Jim Chrise

Performance Improvement Consultant (Independent)

Jared Christian

Principal, Scalar

Alan Chung

Venture Partner, ER Accelerator

Zachary Ciccone

Managing Principal, Partnered Company/Adjunct Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Eric Close

President & CEO, Flash Surgical

Taya Cohen

Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior & Theory, Tepper School of Business

Susanne Cole

President & CEO, Pressley Ridge

Kelly Collier

Product Manager, UPMC Enterprises

Phil Compton

Chief Financial Officer, Locomation

Foo Conner

Chief Executive Officer, Jekko Inc.

Adam Cortez

Owner, ARC Creative Co.

Steve Cotter

Head of Software Development, Kinertia LLC

Liz Crawford

Chief Product & Technology Officer, Flare

Doug Cunningham

Chief Digital Officer, Monster

Chris Cynkar

Principal Consultant, Expense Reduction Analysts

Marta Dalton

Global eCommerce Director, Unilever

Stephanie Dangel

Professor of Practice, University of Pittsburgh Law School

Michael Darweesh

Co Founder, Google Hangouts

Michael Deem

Product Lead, Headstorm

Matthew Delaney

Founder, Stealth

Frank Demmler

Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business

Shekhar Deo

Chief Product Officer, Mars Digital

Ketaki Desai

VP Business Development, Ontario Centre of Innovation

Angela DeVanney

Founder, goShadow

Kan Devnani

Chief Executive Officer, Comtex News Network Inc.

Aditya Dhere

VP of Business Development & Strategy, Millie's Homemade

Ilana Diamond

Managing Partner, 412 Venture Fund LP

George Dickos

Partner, K&L Gates LLP

John Dieser

President & COO, Carbon Freight Company

Bob DiMaggio

Vice President/Product, Othot

Michael Donohue

Technical Co-Founder, HalloApp

Chip Dougherty

Associate Director/Intellectual Property, Center for Technology Transfer

Dave Drach

Vice President/Innovation Sales, Techstars

Patrick Driscoll

Venture Lead, BMNT

Randy Eager

Founder & Managing Director, Founder Institute

Ryan Eberhard

Chief Product Officer, ZipRecruiter

Uriel Eisen

Prototype Development Consultant, Iterology LLC

Reem Eldawud

Manager, Strategy & Consulting - Accenture

Jeff Ellington

Growth PM, Coalition Inc.

Tom Emerson

Distinguished Career Professor of Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business

Edward Engler

Managing Partner, Pittsburgh Equity Partners

Molly Ensby

Geoff Entress

Managing Director, Pioneer Square Labs

Phil Estep

Strategic Account Manager, BMC Software

LD Fedoruk

Strategy & Executive Lead, GPS Research & Advisory

Christine Ferguson-Rau

Founder/CEO, Ferguson Financial Consulting Inc.

Greg Fichtl

Assistant Professor, Community College of Beaver County

Alysia Finger

Co-Founder, AE Dreams

Brian Finneran

Owner, Finneran & Associates LLC

Bill Flanagan

Chief Corporate Relations Officer, Allegheny Conference on Community Development

Steve Fleck

Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship

Matt Fleckenstein

Head of Product Strategy/Commercial & Consumer Mixed Reality, Microsoft

Tim Fletcher

Design Thinking Facilitator & Owner, One BusinessDesign LLC

Brian Frezza

Co-Founder, Emerald Cloud & Emerald Therapeutics

Eduardo Frias

Chief Technology Officer, MONAT Global

Jeffrey Friedrich

Associate, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP

Frank Fucile

Senior Director Regulatory Affairs, STERIS Corporation

Sreekar Gadde

Executive Director, Blue Tree Allied Angels

Nehal Gajjar

Founder & CEO, iMetalx Group

Suresh Ganapathy

Director of Product Management, Facebook

Adwait Gandhe

Founding Engineer and Robotic Systems Lead, Vayu Robotics

Alberto Gandini

CEO & Co-Founder, Accel Diagnostics LLC

Ben Garber

Vice President, 7 Mile Advisors

Sanna Gaspard

CEO & Founder, TechStars Company

Chris Gassman

Co-Founder & Chief Commercialization Officer, MAAL Associates Inc. & COO, Center for Sustainable Business at the University of Pittsburgh

Michael Gersh

Co-Founder, Codestream

Emma Gielata

Account Director, Matter Communications

Robert Gimson

Vice President, Goldman Sachs

Andrei Girenkov

Senior Managing Director & Chief Technology Officer, Greystar

Valerie Glyptis

Co-founder/Chief Executive, Betty's Best Products

Diwakar Goel

Senior Development Engineer, Expeto Wireless

Chuck Goldstone

CEO & Chief Story Catalyst, Chuck Goldstone Strategies and Stories

Vivian Gomes

Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer, SHNORH Corp.

Ben Gorman

Principal, F-Prime Capital Partners

Scott Allen Graham

Operating Partner, Growth & Marketing - Diversis Capital

Jonathan Gray

Founder & CEO, Hermosa Startup Lab

Danya Grayson

Co-Founder & General Partner, Construct Capital

Mary Beth Green

Chief Innovation Officer, Sheetz

Oded Green

Partner, K&L Gates

Karin Gregory

Account Director, Robots and Pencils

Stefano Gridelli

Co-Founder & CEO, NetBeez, Inc.

Matt Grover

Principal Technical Architect/Emerging Technologies in HPC & AI, Walmart

Marc Guldimann

Founder & CEO, Adelaide

Phaneendra Gullapalli

Co-Founder, Polyverse

Elora Gupta

Regulatory Advisor, Drug and Device Advisory Group

Kartik Gupta

Software Engineer, June

Euan Guttridge

Founder, Reinforced Ventures

Carissa Habsburg

Tax Manager, Sisterson & Co. LLP

Eleanor Haglund

Founder & CEO, Aspire360

Tim Haluszczak

Co-Founder & Partner, SteelBridge Labs

Jacob Hanchar

CEO, Digital Dream Labs

Drew Hannah

Founder & CEO, Drew Partners LLC

Mustafa Harcar

Vice President of Supply Chain Automation, Albertsons Companies

Brad Harkavy

VP Product, Oracle Energy and Water

Rebecca Harris

President, RUH Consulting LLC

David Hart

Treasurer, Soaring Society of America

Arjun Hattiangadi

Health Advisor, Videntity

LeeAnne Haworth

Senior International Trade Specialist, International Trade Administration

Thomas Healy

Founder & CEO, Hyliion

Max Henkart

Owner, Commonlands

Dan Hersh

Founder & President, Engaged Prospect

David Hersh

Head of Product, Codestream

Chris Hjelm

Partner, Connetic Ventures

Enes Hoşgör

Senior Vice President/AI & Research, caresyntax

Matt Humphrey

CEO & Co-Founder, LendingHome Corporation

Lila Ibrahim

Chief Operating Officer, DeepMind

Damola Idowu

Chief Executive Officer, Toyz Electronics LLC

Kevin Israel

Partner, Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP

Vanessa Jameson

Senior Engineering Manager, Duolingo

Benjamin Jang

Investment Professional, Sonoma Brands Partners

Jeremy Jarrell

Founder and Principal, LiftPoint

Jim Jen

Co-founder, AlphaLab accelerators

Peter Johnson

Growth & Innovation Advisor, Novak Acceleration

Douglas Jones

Co-Founder & CEO, MoneyGeek

Wayne Jones

CEO, Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship

Will Kaigler

Assistant Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business

Bryan Kaplan

Chief Information Officer, Juvare

Raj Kapoor

Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Business/Self Driving, Lyft

Adam Kelson

Partner, K&L Gates

Afshan Khan

Portfolio Executive, Hardware, Innovation Works

Kariithi Kilemi

Enterprise Clouds Partner Manager/GMS Partnerships, Facebook

Andrew King

Partner, Bastille Ventures

Peter Kinney

Gameplay Engineer, Sledgehammer Games

Carlos Kirk

Senior Engineering Manager, Apple

Ben Klaber

Associate - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP

Eric Kline

Partner, Pepper Hamilton LLC

Lina Kontos

Partner, Hogan Lovells

Jeff Kovacs

Partner, Berdon LLP

Justin Krauss

Executive Director, JP Morgan

Kipp Krukowski

Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship, Colorado State University

Sarosh Kumana

Board Director & Strategic Advisor, SAF Holdings LLC

Ashish Kumar

Managing Partner, Morphic LL

Manu Kumar

Founder & Chief Firestarter, K9 Ventures

Priya Ranjan Kumar

CTO Evangelist for Cloud, Mobile, IoT & Digital Transformation, EasyM2M Technologies

Cynthia Kuo

Associate Professor of the Practice, Information Networking Institute

Jason Kuo

Investor, Tech Square Ventures

Laurie Kuzneski

Director of Operations, Kuzneski Insurance Group

Kathleen Kuznicki

Attorney, The Lynch Law-Group LLC

Harper LaFave

Co-Founder, Trance

Paul Lambert

VP of Mergers, Acquisitions & Strategic Development for PSSI, a Blackstone portfolio company

Lisa Lane

Sr. Design Manager/Azure AI Platform, Microsoft

Tu Le

Managing Director, Sino Auto Insights; Entrepreneur / Expert in Residence - Mobility Innovation, Techtown Detroit; Co-host / Producer, China EVs & More podcast

Larry Lebowitz

Chair, Immigration Practice Group, Dentons Cohen & Grigsby

David Lehman

Attorney, K&L Gates

Marion Lewis

CEO, Boardbookit

George Likourezos

Senior Partner and Patent Attorney, Carter, DeLuca & Farrell LLP, intellectual property law firm

Yuchia Lin

Senior Director of Business Development/Asia, Tuxera

Steve Linowes

Strategic Advisor/Consultant/Investor, O8 Partners

Joe Lipple

Head of Product, Markup

Dave Lishego

Senior Financial Analyst, Duolingo

Himo Liu

Head of Product/Marketplace, Life.ai

Rich Loevlie

Vice President of Business Banking, PNC

Sara Longo

Program Manager, AlphaLab

Aziz Lookman

Founder & Chief Analytics Officer, RationalAi

Anthony LoRubbio

Founder, Recal Travel

David Lucchino

Co-Founder, President & CEO, Frequency Therapeutics

Rich Lunak

President and CEO, Innovation Works & Managing Director, Riverfront Ventures

Will Lutz

Entrepreneurship, Commercialization & Enterprise Development - New Jersey Innovation Institute

Daniel Lynch

Owner, The Lynch Law Group LLC

Kelley Lynch

CFO & VP Operations, Othot Inc

Rui Ma

Principal, Frees Fund

Gavin MacDonald

Co-Founder, iAccess Life

Mike Macedonia

Experienced Founder & CEO, Independent Consultant

Zach Malone

Partner, Magarac Venture Partners

Kartik Mandaville

CEO, Springworks

Philip Marchetti

Product Manager, Aurora

Tom Marchok

Business Development/Private Equity, Amazon

Bill Marino

Senior Product Manager, Applied Science and Machine Learning, Adobe

Craig Markovitz

Assistant Teaching Professor, Tepper School of Business

Jimmy Marsanico

Head of Data, Imgur

Steve Martocci

Co-Founder & CEO, Splice

Alireza Masrour

General Partner, Plug and Play Tech Center

Balu Masti

Co-Founder, HUM Consulting Services

Sonal Matai

Market Leader/Sleep & Respiratory Care, Philips Respironics

Mike Matesic

President & CEO, Idea Foundry

Tom Matta

Head of Business Development, PARSIQ

Dave Mawhinney

Executive Director, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship

Patrick McCarthy

Director of Emerging Markets and Technologies, Corning Incorporated

Cathy McCollom

Principal, McCollom Development Strategies

Jeffrey McDaniel

Executive in Residence, Innovation Works

Mara McFadden

Chief Executive Officer, Endolumik

Alicia McGinnis

Partner, Audrey's Kitchen

Jerry McGinnis

Founder, Respironics

Reed McManigle

Mentor-in Residence, CMU Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation

Nathaniel McNamara

President & Founder, Studio (Techstars)

Tim McNulty

Associate Vice President for Government Relations, Carnegie Mellon University

Todd Medema

Staff Product Manager, Tesla

Prahlad Menon

Chief Data Scientist, QuantMD

Shini Menon

Principal/Business Consulting, Infosys Consutling

Nick Merich

Co-Founder, Songlink/Odesli

Meredith Meyer Grelli

Co-Founder & Co-Owner, Wigle Whiskey Distillery

Michele Migliuolo

Entrepreneurship Professor Nova Southeastern University, Managing Director Angel Bridge Partners, Commercialization Expert LifeX, Certified Advisor FedTech

Andrew Millberg

Vice President, JLL

Kevin Miller

Chief Executive Officer, LegalSifter

Larry Miller

Executive in Residence/Life Sciences, Innovation Works

Chris Min

Security Engineer, Walmart

Max Mirho

Host and Speaker, EntrepreNerd & Hacker-in-Residence, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship

Chris Moehle

Managing Director, The Robotics Hub

Ipsita Mohanty

Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Salesforce

Alessandro Molteni

Business & Service Management Analyst/Platform Applications, Computing Services

Patrick Morand

President Management Company & Partner, Open Prairie Ventures

Michael Moreno

Product Marketing Manager, Facebook

Don Morrison

President and CEO, Sustainable Composites

Rida Moustafa

Distinguished Data Scientist/Enterprise Decision Scientist, Walmart

Jonathan Mow

Chief Executive Officer, PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals

John Moyer

Managing Partner, The Founders Corner LP

Stephan Mueller

Managing Partner, Preis Capital

Nicole Muise-Kielkucki

Director/Economic innovation, Fourth Economy

Alex Muller

Founder, SAVVI AI

Michael Muller

Product Manager, Triton Systems Inc

Lauren Murray

Associate, K&L Gates

Steven Murray

Senior International Trade Specialist, U.S. Commerce Service

Robb Myer

Computer Vision Advisor, Innotescus & Founder, 99 Tartans LLC

Kit Needham

Assistant Dean for Entrepreneurship Initiatives, School of Computer Science & Director - Project Olympus, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship

Stevie Nembo

ECR Manager, Tado

Anand Nukala

Experienced Product Management and Marketing professional, helping multiple startups

Lara O'Brien

Independent Advisor, Consultant, Board Director

Molly O'Brien

Writing, Marketing & Digital Development - Innovu

Desmond O'Connor

Chief Operating Officer, Reli

Bill O'Donnell

IT Director & Finance Director, Stony Brook Primary Care

David Oberdick

Partner - Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP

Kevin Ogrodnik

CEO/President, Sherpa Software (acquired in 2021)

Laura Ohlund

Commercialization Expert, LifeX Lab

Chris Olsen

Co-Founder & Partner, Drive Capital

Justin Olshavsky 

Founding Partner, Pioneer Bio+Health Fund. Previously: Co-founder and CTO, Voyage Bio (YC S19, acquired by NYSE:PEN)

Malcolm Ong

Co-founder, Skillshare

Giridhar Padmanabh

Founder, AppFaktors

Mark Painter

President, EverGuide Financial Group LLC

Luke Panza

Interim Director of Marketing, Sequoia Waste Solutions

Peter Papagianakis

Managing Member, Business Law Firm LLC

Roberto Pareja

Director & Advisor, Cognistx

Navin Parmar

Vice President, Interlink Analytics Inc.

Nina Patel

Senior Manager of Revenue Operations, Sounding Board; Leadership and Career Coach

Nirav Patel

Founder and CEO, Framework

Priya Patel

Senior Hardware Program Manager, Microsoft

Kathy Pattison

Independent Fractional CMO

Adam Paulisick

Serial Entrepreneur & Professor

Carolyn Pengidore

President & CEO, ClearChoice Energy

Akul Penugonda

Founder, Stealth

Peter Pezaris

Founder & CEO, CodeStream

Glenn Philen

CEO, Carbon Freight Company

Miguel Pinilla

Principal, Salduba Technologies

Robert Pinkerton

SVP, Oracle

Mel Pirchesky

Matt Podwika

Director, Headstorm

Jacob Poliskin

Head of Investments, Darco Capital

Alexander Polzin

Director, Business Strategy, IA Collaborative

Lynne Porter

Physician Executive-in-Residence, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship

John Powers

Owner, The Powers IP Law Firm

Aswin Pranam

Senior Manager - Strategy & Corporate Initiatives, T-Mobile

Chris Quish

Vice President - Mergers and Acquisitions, OpenText

Ari Rabban

CEO, Phone.com Inc.

Andrew Rabin

General Partner, 412 Venture Fund LP

David Radin

CEO, Confirmed

Joey Rahimi

Founder, Aiken House

Bharanidharan Rajakumar

CEO, TRANSFR Inc.

Ed Rakiewicz

Research Fellow, PPG

Chris Ramirez

Co-Founder & President, Superbloom

Brett Randall

President & CEO, Aliner

Vivek Rao

Previously Senior Vice President of Products at Solutions by Text

Ulvi Rashid

Investment Director, Mindrock Capital

Ajay Rayasam

Associate, Osage University Partners

Prashant Reddy

Chief Architect for Data & AI, J.P. Morgan

Bill Richardson

Tax Partner, Sisteron & Co. LLP

Chris Rigatti

Product Manager/Connected Sensors & Security Solutions, BEA Sensors Americas

Alessandro Rinaldi

Director of Innovation, Launch Factory

Monica Robinson

Sr. Marketing Manager, Microsoft

Skylar Roebuck

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Rocket Wagon

Matt Rogers

Founder & CEO, Chewie Labs Inc. & Founder, Incite.org

Benita Rohm

Attorney, Rohm & Monsanto PLC

Arden Rosenblatt

Business Launch Specialist, SBTDC

Maura Rosenfeld

Chief Business Officer, MindUP 

Patti Rote

Executive Education Professional, SCS and Co-Founder, Girls of Steel Robotics

Jim Ruiz

Director, Amazon

Benjamin Running

Director of Design, Noom Inc.

Brad Runyon

Manager of Business Development and Licensing, CTTEC

Sean Ruppert

Principal Attorney, Ruppert Law Firm LLC

Ivan Ruzic

Senior Vice President, Corum Group Ltd.

Justin Sabo

Founder, CEO & Lead Developer/Designer - Poccade

Mehdi Samadi

CEO, Intellipse

Paul Sandburg

Co-Founder & CEO, PHRQL Inc.

Raji Sankar

Co-CEO, Wholesome International

Arshad Sayyad

President and Head, Fidelity Investments India

Kyle Schlotman

Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer, Connectic Ventures

Benjamin Schmidt

CTO, Michelin Mobility Intelligence

Kyle Schriver

Project Leader, Headstorm

Mark Schrott

VP National Office Facilities, Crown Castle International Corp

Aimee Sealfon Kassana

Co-Founder & Creative Director, Content BK

Seán Sebastian

Partner, Birchmere Ventures

Ruth Segall

Regulatory Affairs Specialist, Arthrex

Bill Seibel

Advisor to the CEO, Matter Unlimited

John Seiffer

Business Advisor, CEO Boot Camp

Nobuhiro Seki

Co-founder & Chief Investment Officer, Monozukuri Ventures

Craig Setter

Founder & CEO, Street Ventures

Mike Shackleton

Managing Partner, Shackleton & Associates

Amir Shahir

Sr. Director, Product Management - Platform, FabFitFun Inc.

Justin Shaka

Chief Executive Officer, Rebion

Mark Shapiro

Founder & Chief Engagement Officer, Agile Product Marketing Group

Megan Shaw

Portfolio Executive, Innovation Works

John Shearer

Co-Founder & Board Member, Early X Foundation

Pamelyn Shefman

Executive Director, Planning and Assessment - University of Houston - Clear Lake

Jeff Silva

Co-Founder & Creative Director, Content BK

Eric Silver

Founder, Alt Capital LLC

Robert Simon

Managing Director Prime Sales, Barclays Capital Markets

Adam Simone

Co-Founder, Leaf Shave

Trey Sisson

Co-Founder & COO, BABOON TO THE MOON

Alejandro Sklar

Senior Product Development Manager, Smith & Nephew

Jessica Slean

Senior Manager, KPMG

Bruce Smith

Principal, Achieving Sales Results LLC

Mike Smocer

Vice President of Global Sales, Citrine Informatics

Michael Smolens

Founder/Chairman/CEO, dotSub

Boris Sofman

Director of Engineering & Head of Trucking/Perception, Waymo

Jason Somma

Managing Director, Palq IP and Shareholder, Saxton & Stump LLC

Sheng Song

Engineering Director, Meta Platforms Inc.

Neil Soni

Innovation/Growth Consultant (Self-Employed) & Founder, Unlimited Brewing Company

Joseph Soriano

Founder, EpiVision LLC

Alexander Soto

Founder & CTO, Interview Schedule

Ryan Splenda

Business & Economics Librarian, University Libraries

Joe Stafura

CEO, The Affective Computing Company

Matt Stanton

Senior Mechanical Engineer, AMP Robotics

John Starr

SVP Solution Delivery Centers, SAP

Laura Stentz

Senior Manager, IBM

Peter Stern

Chief Executive Officer, Voyant Photonics

Danyelle Stewart

Senior Director - Clinical Supply Management, Loxo Oncology, Lilly

Matt Stewart

Field Engineering Coordinator, Oculus Research Pittsburgh

Deborah Stine

President, Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Analysis & Education LLC

Mike Stuart

Senior Associate, CBRE

Mike Stubler

Partner, Magarac Venture Partners & Managing Director, Draper Triangle Ventures

Matt Swanson

CEO, Augment & Managing Partner, Silicon Valley Software Group

Scott Sykora

Co-Founder, Pixite LLC

Evan Tahler

CTO & Co-Founder, Grouparoo

Sola Talabi

Adjunct Professor of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Services, University of Michigan

Hanns Tappeiner

Director of Product Development, Apple

Marc Tata

Spine Sales Consultant, Depuy Synthes Spine

Daniel Teadt

Assistant Teaching Professor, College of Fine Arts

Suzy Teele

Chief Strategy Officer, Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute

Mary Beth Thanhouser

Associate Director/Business Development, Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures

David Thiemecke

Startup Client Manager, University of Buffalo & Entrepreneur in Residence, Launch NY

Ashton Thomas

Associate Director Engineering, Carvana

Karl Thomas

Henry Thorne

CEO/CTO, Safest Seats LLC & Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship

Jeremy Toeman

Founder, Aug X Labs

Noah Tovares

Founder, Vinos Chidos

Adam Towvin

Angel Investor, TBD Angels

Alex Trader

Relationship Manager, TrueFit

Niko Triulzi

Co-Founder & CTO, AE Dreams

Matthew Turnshek

Founder, Iliad

Matt Udvari

Co-Founder & CTO, Aquifer Motion

Srinath Vaddepally

CPO & Co-Founder, Orbis Financial Technologies LLC

James W. Van Buren

Managing Director & Principal, Generational Transfer Enterprises LLC

Grant Vandenbussche

Chief Category Officer, Fifth Season

Mark Vanderhelm

Vice President/Energy & Facilities Management, Walmart

David Vap

Founding Partner, Yellowstone Growth Partners

Tanmay Varma

Managing Consultant, IBM

Anthony Vennare

Cofounder at Fitt Insider, Partner at Fitt Capital

Eric Vishria

General Partner, Benchmark Capital

Rahul Walawalkar

Global Lead/Emerging Technologies, Customized Energy Solutions India

William Walker

Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Bincheng Wang

Chief Executive Officer, Lawfin Consulting

Jayon Wang

Co-Founder & CEO, X-COR Therapeutics

Jillian Ward

Head of Product, Redflag AI

Glenn Watson

Principal Consultant/Capital Markets & Business Advisory Group, Free Vector Advisors LLC

Larry Weidman

Chief Financial Officer, Diamond Kinetics

Justin Weinberg

Founder & CEO, Aktiv Learning

Spencer Whitman

Product Manager, Google

Bryan Whittington

Managing Member, ebsGrowth

David Wible

CEO, Work.sofware

Jennifer Wilhelm

Chairwoman of the Board, Invest PGH

Matthew Wilkinson

Co-Founder & CEO, New Venture

Courtney Williamson

CEO, Abililife Inc.

Brandon Wirakesuma

General Manager/Global Supply Diversification, WIsh

Aaron Wise

Director/Bioinformatics, Encodia Inc.

Eric Wise

Founder/CEO, Wise Telemetry LLC

Doug Wnorowski

Chief Operations Officer, Colibri Learning

James Wolfe

Manager/Additive Manufacturing, Covestro

Cole Wolfson

Senior Program Manager, AlphaLab Gear

Jim Wrubel

Software Portfolio Executive, Innovation Works

John Xin

Co-founder/CEO, Lunewave

JJ Xu

Founder & CEO, TalkMeUp

Sue Xu

Managing Partner, Amino Capital

Hong (Henry) Xue

Partner, Cybernaut Investment Silicon Valley Fund

Amir Yahyavi

Software Engineering Manager, Palo Alto Networks

Jeff Yang

Intercim CTO, Lyfebulb & Managing Partner, Yang Consulting Group

Lynn Yanyo

Executive Director, ISBM & President/Business Builder, DeNovo Ground

Daryl Yeo

Product Manager, Bot MD

Wei Yu

Principal, Wayfarer Patent Law LLC

Kiumarse Zamanian

VP Product Management, Oracle

Snow Zhang

Project IP Manager, CMU, Biometrics Research Center, ECE Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Co-founder, Ultron-AI, LLC

Jie (Jay) Zhao

Executive Vice President & Head of Delos Labs

Veronica Zheng

Staff Software Engineer, Coinbase

Chad Zimmerman

Senior Manager/Global Digital Marketing, Life Fitness

Seth Zimmerman

Chief Operating Officer, Aionx Antimicrobial Technologies, Inc.

Brett Zubiate

President & Principal, Inflexion Strategies Consulting LLC

Monte Zweben

Co-Founder CEO, Splice Machine

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