Heather Hiles
Heather has committed her life to closing the education and employment achievement gaps for youth and adults. Her leadership experience spans more than 20 years, during which she founded and led several private and public sector organizations. Her roster of leadership roles includes: Commissioner, San Francisco Unified School District; Executive Director of Silicon Valley Social […]
Kate Drane
Kate Drane believes in the power of “we” over “me.” Crowdfunding is a perfect demonstration of this. Last fall she ran a campaign for her small business The Can Van, which helped her to hone her skills and understanding of crowdfunding. Additionally, she is lucky enough to live and breathe crowdfunding everyday in her day […]
Natalia Oberti Noguera
Natalia (aka Ms. Oberti Noguera) is Founder and CEO of the Pipeline Fellowship, an angel investing bootcamp for women philanthropists. The Pipeline Fellowship works to increase diversity in the U.S angel investing community and creates capital for women social entrepreneurs. Natalia holds a BA in Comparative Literature & Economics from Yale. She has been featured […]
Aaron Eden
Aaron Eden is the director of Gangplank Tucson, co-founder & CEO of Webglimmer Internet Solutions, founder of Garious and Vice President of Atrevete, Inc. For more than 20 years, Aaron has utilized his passion for innovation, entrepreneurship and customer empathy to start over 10 businesses in industries ranging from information technology, real estate, online continuing […]
Richard Kerby
Richard Kerby joined Venrock in 2012. He focuses primarily on identifying and evaluating early-stage investments. Prior to joining Venrock, Richard was an Associate at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), where he focused primarily on identifying and evaluating later-stage investments. While at IVP, Richard worked with IVP portfolio companies such as Dropbox, Klout, Twitter, Shazam, Sugar, and […]
Laura Klein
Laura Klein is a user experience designer and recovering engineer and has been working with Silicon Valley tech companies for more than 15 years. She writes about Lean UX and product management on her blog, Users Know, and is the author of UX for Lean Startups from O’Reilly. Currently, Laura is a partner and co-founder […]
Jason Young
Jason Young is a co-founder of Mindblown Labs. Jason started his first business when he was 9 and three others prior to college (including a tutoring company and travel agency). He was a part of the founding team of Wikinvest and worked in Finance at Merrill Lynch. He’s a master of saying ridiculous things. Jason […]
Lisa Nicole Bell
Named a Strong Entrepreneur to Follow on Twitter by Women 2.0, Lisa Nicole Bell is an award-winning content creator who uses media to move the social and economic progress agendas forward. As an entrepreneur, on camera personality, international speaker, and executive producer, Lisa creates media properties that enriches and entertains audiences across multiple platforms including […]
Jareau Wade
Co-founder and Director Growth at Balanced, a payments platform for online marketplaces. Previously, he was the 1st employee and head of data acquisition at Milo.com, which is now part of eBay. Jareau started his career as a teaching fellow at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology in Accra, Ghana. Jareau studies electrical engineering and entrepreneurship […]
Chris Bennett
Chris Bennett is the co-founder and CEO of Soldsie, a way for merchants to sell via their Facebook feed. He is passionate about social change, innovation, and the Internet. He has a background founding businesses from an early age and his last startup, LiquidBooks, was a success on the University of Pennsylvania campus. In his […]
Kurt Collins
Kurt Collins co-founded and operates Enole — a mobile identity company. He also works in youth development at Youth Radio and as a co-founding mentor at The Hidden Genius Project. As a founding mentor for The Hidden Genius Project, he mentors high school-aged black males in learning STEM-related skills through learning about technology. Kurt has […]
Felecia Hatcher
Felecia Hatcher is the author of How to Start a Business on a Ramen Noodle Budget, a social entrepreneur and the Chief Popsicle of Feverish Ice Cream & Gourmet Pops. Before launching Feverish, Felecia worked as a experiential marketing manager for Nintendo, Sony and the WNBA. Hatcher has been honored by the White House as […]
Sabrina Harvey
Sabrina has worked in the field of communications, marketing and project management for over 10 years and has worked on campaigns for Loreal cosmetics, Citizens Trust Bank, Grady Hospital and Stedman Graham. A serial entrepreneur, Sabrina now finds herself the Chief Creative Officer of Art of Genius Tech Education company and Women Interactive, the first […]
Craig Davis
Craig Davis is the Founder and CEO of Relevvant, the leading enterprise-level marketing platform that is helping brands understand their customers more intimately by gathering, analyzing, and making big data actionable across multiple communication channels. Craig has now taken his complex background and expertise to focus on developing a robust platform that allows brands and […]