Erik Smith

Entrepreneur, Engineer. Founder at Appsites. Lead Engineer @inmobi. Previous: Founder @hipset #YCS12 and @shuffle-interactive.

Tony Bako

Technology Leader. CTO at @mosaic-2, formerly VP of Engineering at @chegg, @cramster.

Kyle Killion

Co-Founder of @suiteness • VP of Product for @apartment-list, PM for @yelp, @coupa • Founder with multiple successful exits • University of Minnesota
http://blog.suiteness.io

Peter Hizalev

Founder at @kato. Product fanatic. Electronic communication enthusiast. Computer architecture geek.
http://petrohi.me

Ketu Patel

Co-founder and CTO of @rockbot. UC @university-of-california-berkeley EECS grad '03.

Ryan Merket

@appstores.com (acquired by InMobi), Ping.fm (acquired by @seesmic),Partner Engineer at @facebook, Product guy with UI/UX and coding chops.

Naveen Jain

CMO and Co-Founder @immunity-project • CEO @sparkart • Investor / Advisor @rally, @gyft, @hifi, @truevault, @bellabeat @trnio, @zesty-1 - Y Combinator Alum (W14)

Jereme Monteau

Lead Developer at @shortform. 15 year startup developer veteran. ISP, enterprise, cloud, geo, web apps. Java, Py, Ruby and more. Full stack, front to back.
http://www.jmoe.com

Brian Martinez

Co-Founder at @madesolid (@y-combinator W14) Previously Founder/CEO at @tioki. B.A. Business/Entrepreneurship - UC Santa Barbara. Worked at @adroll and @cbiz
http://blog.madesolid.com

Alan Caudill

Co-Founder of @dygest. Multiple experiences as "day one" engineer successfully delivering products from scratch. @carnegie-mellon-university CS

Jesper Andersen

I co-founded http://bloom.io and do other projects at http://certaintylabs.com.

Mandela Schumacher-Hodge

Co-Founder & COO of @tioki. Ph.D candidate at @university-of-california-los-angeles Graduate School of Education. Masters in Education Administration & Policy. @teach-for-america alumna.

Oren Jacob

Cofounder, CEO ToyTalk. "Lean Launchpad" instructor @stanford-university, @university-of-california-berkeley. Mentor 500 Startups. EIR AugustCapital. CTO @pixar. Supervising Tech Dir "Finding Nemo".

Maggie Utgoff

VP of Operations @hackreactor • Founder @Louder • Led Social Media for Jerry Brown Campaign • Led Operations @rally • Helped @twitter grow from 20 to 250
http://mutgoff.com/

Zach Hanna

Uptime
http://hannacabana.wordpress.com

Shadiah Sigala

Cofounder & Head of Customer @honeybook. Previous @activehours. Studied public leadership @harvard-university, @pomona-college.

Dan Rosen

CEO of Mosaic. Solar obsessed geek since I was a kid. 2x 30-under-30 by Forbes for Energy.

Brennen Byrne

Founder @clef, • Worked at @adobe-systems, @h-bloom • Studied at @pomona-college
http://blog.getclef.com

Garrett Dodge

Co-Founder of @rockbot and @massachusetts-institute-of-technology grad. Previously, founded @fido-factor. Working on loyalty and engagement for brands & local businesses.

Dan Clay Ellis

Co-founder of @rallyteam - Platform for employee empowerment. Founder of @saturna - tech consulting. Worked @oracle-1. Studied @university-of-calgary

Nicholas Livingston

Co-Founder & CEO @honeit, Director of Global Recruiting @tubemogul, MBA @BerkeleyHass, Former Director of Talent Acquisition @mtv Networks / @viacom #HRTech
http://www.digitalsourcer.com

Eli Altman

Creative Director @a-hundred-monkeys. Mentor @500startups. Author of dontcall.it/that. Formerly Brand Strategist @metadesign. @university-of-california-los-angeles design 2007.

John Hurliman

@syntertainment. @mox-1. Sold @cull-tv-1 as cofounder, published on scalable realtime computing at @intel. Student of prod. dev, ML, and neuroscience.
http://jhurliman.org/

Tuyen Vo

Product Manager and Marketer with years of entrepreneurial experience. Founder @linepeek @centrro @gplay. Graduate @university-of-california-berkeley.
http://www.tuyennhatvo.com

Nick Fassler

Product at @yammer • Founder of @thrive-ly-deadpool-1 • User growth advisor to startups and nonprofits
http://nickfassler.com

Patrick Ford

Experienced software engineer and manager. Experience from start ups to major corporations.
http://www.patrickford.com

Bilal Ahmed

Entrepreneur, engineer, hustler, hacker, designer, yogi, musician and author.
http://bilalahmed.org

Rob Kelly

CEO of Ongig: The Employer Branding SaaS; I've bought, sold & failed businesses; Author of An Enlightened Entrepreneur
http://robdkelly.com

Avi Bar-Zeev

Designer/developer of Google Earth (@keyhole), Lead special projects at @walt-disney-imagineering, @microsoft-3, @amazon, President/CTO @syntertainment
http://www.realityprime.com

Sean Wycliffe

Co-founder of @dealflicks. Co-founded and grew last business to $1.5M+ revenue in 5 yrs. Founded NGO Project Pueblo. UCB '10 Econ, summa cum laude.
http://www.seanwycliffe.com

Matt Zuvella

Founder at SportsVault. Born to innovate. Growth hacker, social media fiend + fantasy sports addict.

eric stromberg

Seasoned tech/infrastructure exec, currently consulting in the bitcoin space, launching SF Bitcoins and advising to Armory Technologies, Inc. Looking for addtional bitcoin ventures.

David Feinberg

JavaScript UI engineer and full stack python developer. Entrepreneurial background, started and sold a web hosting business, ran product at (mt) Media Temple.
http://makerberg.com

Noah Abelson

Co-founder/CEO at ShareRoot • Worked at @wildfire-interactive, @adparlor • Studied at @university-of-maryland-college-park

Mark Hudnall

Founder @clef. Worked at @minted, @ning. Studied Computer Science at @pomona-college. I build apps with hundreds of thousands of downloads.
http://markhudnall.com

Sasha Cagen

Natural born communicator with exceptional writing, PR, marketing, product development, and community-building skills.

Kwame Garrett-Price

Ex-Airbnb and Weddington Way. Former Founder at Physicians Prima; Studied at @oklahoma-state-university-1
https://medium.com/@kwameprice

Josh Gillespie

Senior AE @quote-roller, @panda-doc • Founder @sugar-knife • Head of Sales @Pinchit • AE at @yelp • Studied at @university-of-british-columbia

Chris Lindsey

Founder of @Schizofriend.me • Editor & Structured Data Project Lead at @yahoo • Writer (portfolio: robochris.tumblr.com) • Drummer

Josh Steiner

Founder at @shotlist and @scal-io. Hacker, brewer, mobile and web tech enthusiast.

Chia-Lin Simmons

Digital Media exec. VP, Marketing & Content Programming & BD. Expertise in mobile, digital distribution, e-commerce and connected cars

Sander Pick

I work on companies and projects that aim to make the world more transparent and easier to understand.

Lynzi Ziegenhagen

Founder/CEO @schoolzilla. @stanford Symbolic Systems, MS in CS. Was VP Technology @ Aspire Public Schools. Worked at startup @gearworks @Booz @microsoft.

Kirk Crenshaw

CMO @2lemetry and Advisor @tylr-mobile • Previously VP @appirio, @demandbase • Studied at @uc-berkeley-haas-school-of-business
http://www.2lemetry.com/blog

Alex Bernstein

Founder of @north-social (exit in 2011), North Venture Partners, Echo Networks, Athleticode, & Inoak. Employee at Virgin, PTC, C-Bridge, & the NFL

Casey Wilson

Full-stack developer at popexpert.com. Fmr lead developer for Flowful.me. Fmr Founder & CEO of Wokai. 6 years founding and operating experience.

Scott

co-founder at SolSource, early at OpenTable, RMG, PracticeFusion, E la Carte

Lance Pickens

CEO and Founder MadeSolid, Inc. • Worked at @institute-for-creative-technologies • Studied at @university-of-southern-california, @illinois-institute-of-technology

Jason Kim

Co-founder of @bombfell. Lead developer at @lolapps. Co-founded @foodoro (YC '09). Developer at @microsoft and @goldman-sachs. @harvard-university MS/BA in CS.

Ryan Dawkins

Founder & President @project-sport-llc | Running/Cycling Production + Entertainment. Worked @montgomery-securities. 2 successful exits 2012/2014.
http://instagram.com/ryandawkins

Vidya Spandana

Founder, Principal at Neppalli

Andrei Soroker

Founder at @kato. Code, product, team, fundraising.
http://lechat.quora.com/

Kalimah Priforce

Biz dev for @qeyno Labs | 2013 Echoing Green Fellow | Educator-In-Residence at Hidden Genius Project
http://blog.priforce.me

Rand Fitzpatrick

Product Management. Cofounder and former Chief Product Officer of @okcupid-labs. System designer with a focus on search, recommendation, and nlp.

Avi Brown

Founder @brandads

Alex Henry

CDO of BriteHub. 14 years experience as an entrepreneur, designer, and front-end developer. Founded designer studio cypher13 and VP of Product for Tommaso bikes. CU Boulder BA 2003.

Vikram Babu

Designing meaningful products that communicate brilliance and beauty to users.
http://www.tapefamous.com

Paul Cowgill

Full-stack engineer. Previously, cofounder and CTO of RaftOut (music tech). @harvard-university M.S. in Systems Biology. NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Kamal Shah

Founder/CEO of FotoNotes; Founder Invu Technology; Former Chief Architect Smashcast, Wakesoft. Developed 20 software products. M.Sc. Engineering, U of Toronto

Fergus Noble

Founder Swift Navigation • Worked at @joby-energy • Studied at @university-of-cambridge

David Ragones

VP Platform & Mobile @successfactors. Founder @dreamcommerce. Previously, @nvidia exec, Engineering Lead @ KPCB/Benchmark/DFJ startups. @princeton-university CS / @university-of-michigan MBA.
http://www.dreamcommerce.co/blog

Jennifer Loh

Founder @vault29 + Entrepreneur + Winelover + @university-of-california-berkeley alum

Dana Frasz

Social Entrepreneur, Connector & Organizer

Fay Johnson

Founder & CEO of deliberateLIFE • Social Impact + Design Thinking + Business Savvy • Former @us-house-of-representatives • Studied at @ucla, @georgetown

Namane Mohlabane

Community organizer, educator and CA Wellness Foundation Fellow out of high school. Serial Entrepreneur in various verticals of music & entertainment industry

Greg Lutze

@vsco Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer
http://greg.vsco.co

Kent Suzuki

Founder @right-brain-electronics-llc • Studied at @harvey-mudd-college

Zennie Abraham [LION] - toplinked.com

Founder @sports-business-simulations, @zennie62media • Studied at @university-of-california-berkeley, @university-of-texas-arlington
http://zennie62blog.com/

Shaun Tai

Executive Director at Oakland Digital (ODALC.org). M.A, B.S, B.A | eMarketeer, creative strategist, and tech philanthropist. More shauntai.com and @shaun-tai.
http://www.odalc.org

Ash Monif

CEO & Founder of Grimm Bros, LLC. Entrepreneur and Executive manager. Worked at EA, Atari, Bioware/Pandemic, Subatomic Studios and Human Head Studios.

Lorin David Kalisky

15+ years experience in product management, marketing, business development in US & EU. Adept at strategy and execution. Founder @zenlist & @franglo.

Arthur Coulston

Co-founder, VP of Product at Mosaic. Founder, Internet Director at largest youth climate activism organization in the world.

Megan Jones

Founder/CEO of @lokion-interactive. Listed 4 consecutive years on Inc mag's Fastest Growing Private Companies.

Jared Hanson

Lead Engineer at @nodeprime. Previously Founding Engineer at Aspera (acq. by @ibm). Ongoing open source developer.
http://www.backdrifter.com/

Brad Miller

Consumer, Mobile and Tech fanatic; Strategy, Consulting and GSD; Created and Worked at @square6-group
http://apertur.es

Joanna Adler

Founder/CEO @bluemorph-1, @jack-london-mail-sold • Worked at @beyond-com, @cybersource • MBA & BSBA from @california-state-university-east-bay

Cameron Matthews

COO of Vehicle Data Science. Studied @stanford-university. Startups, data, baseball, family.

Paul Sebexen

Chief Scientist, REX Computing CEO & Co-Founder, Evolutionary Solutions "20 Under 20" 2012 Thiel Fellow

Daniel Roesler

Founder @utilityapi PM @terraverde-renewable-partners CTO @fitocracy PM @cleanair-engineering

Russell Hyzen

Biz Builder. Raised capital at Elanex. VP Biz&CorpDev/1st empl at XOOM.com/NBCi(IPO, Merge w/ NBC); BizDev at Quote.com/5th empl (Sequoia, Sold to Lycos)

Robert X. Trencheny Jr.

Big companies, big ideas.

Dan McAulay

Engineer at heart who enjoys building new things, working in fast paced environments and surpassing expectations. www.prixfixeapp.com

Krys Freeman

Product Manager • Founder @HeLLaRides • Worked at @greenbiz-group • Studied at @occidental-college • A firm believer in technology as a vehicle for radical change.

David Delcourt

Founder @SivaCycle @makemesustainable • Worked at @nera-economic-consulting • Studied at @wesleyan-university

India Alston

I connect the dots between what you need, who you need and show you how to get it. I build the relationships you need to grow your brand in new markets.

Ninh Tran

Founder @trucksome-inc • Worked at @dai-soai-inc, @hoangmai-hotels • Studied at @university-of-california-berkeley

Gianni Argiris

Product Manager @crunchbase | iOS Hacker, Inventor, Writer

Nancy Quan

Co-Founder, Dsg.nr. Stanford BS Mechanical Engineering. UCLA Anderson MBA. Restaurant Owner. 10+ Years Professional Designer: Interior, Product, Web & Graphic.
http://blog.dsg.nr

Adrian Walker

Founder Rippld, First Element Entertainment • Studied at @university-of-michigan

Steve DeAngelo

Erik Svenson

Founder and COO of Dan's Plan, helping members achieve Optimal Health in a Modern World. Investment Banking. Private Placements. CFA Program.

Sam Reader

CEO of @INFIN3D Motion Picture Technology, 3D Production & Sound.

Adam Huie

CEO at Sway Networks, Founder at Hatch Labs (Tinder), & Journeyer at IAC. I get excited about Product, Strategy & Anything Mobile.

Ryan Bethencourt

VC @Indbio, CEO Berkeley Biolabs, my 3rd Angel funded Biotech (Halpin Neurosciences and Genescient Pharma). Prev Big Pharma/Biotech exp. Cambridge U Alum

Kasey Brown

Award winning teacher/math coach. Created math intervention program for CA School District. Awarded $700k EETT Grant. Programmer-Analyst at HP for 9 years.
http://www.digitwhiz.com/digiblog/

Nick Resnick

Founder @deci • Worked at @teach-for-america • Former NCAA Division I Soccer Captain • Studied Business at University of Maryland, @university-of-maryland-college-park

Joan Martin

Strategic & Financial Consultant

Diego Schmunis

Sr Product Manager @studionow . Founder @discotec - Product Development Leader @eztweets, @scrumitup, @baskitlabs @sendori
http://www.blog364.com

Michael McAllen

His company has produced corporate meetings & media for Oracle, HP, Yahoo, PepsiCo, Sanofi, Siemens Medical Solutions, Genzyme, Restoration Hardware, Gap, Avon

Chadwick Horn

Graduated with a double major in Computer Science and Biology from @stanford-university. Avid sweat equity investor in promising startups.
http://www.ChadHorn.com/

Ricky Y. Choi, MD, MPH

Pediatrician, blogger, health and wellness expert, health care leader, Co-Founder HealthBegins
http://blog.sfgate.com/rchoi/

Jon Levin

Worked at @yodlee, @Groundwork Open Source @nextweb-wireless-covad @libritas-inc @dslnetworks @xipcom-inc

Guillermo Garcia

CTO and co-founder of Heliotrope Technologies. In charge of all product development.

Naresh Singhal

VP, Mobile Products at Trunomi, pioneering B2ME for the financial industry

Anthony Garcia

CEO and co-founder of GuideOn - Translating skills for U.S. Military Veterans for better career opportunities; Cornell MBA 2009; US Army Captain

Drew Hendricks

Social Media, Business and Environmental Addict - Contributing Writer at Forbes, Entrepreneur and The Huffington Post
http://DrewAHendricks.com

Alison Wiener

Owner/Director of Operations at Evermore Pet Food, Inc.

Ikon Eco

UX/Product Designer - I design experiences for web and mobile applications.
http://www.ikon-eco.com/

Pablo Schuhmacher

Founder & CEO at onehackmind. Strong experience in product ideation, management and large-scale event planning. Studied @columbia University.

Skylar Craig

Founded @teleb, Grok Business Solutions, and Rouge Chef. Killer salesman.
http://skylarcraig.blogspot.com/

Mohammed Soriano-Bilal

Media executive, MBA, Design Strategy

Sarfaraz Rydhan

Lead software engineer @delivery-agent. 12 yrs in e-commerce as engineer and founder. Started e-commerce company as sophomore at UCLA. Classifieds power seller.

Odette Pollar

Management Consultant with 20 years experience. MTM's service is scalable due to Odette's business process consulting experience.

Brian Co

Founder & CEO @LogradoInc

Karan Jain

Co-Founder @tinygive • Founder @clovest • Worked at @board-of-governors-federal-reserve • Studied at @tufts-university • Fellow @startingbloc

LaShawn James

Computer Science undergrad with MBA. Strong business background (P&G, and PepsiCo). Stanford MBA 2006.

Dave Chiu

Founder @txt2wrk • Worked at @frog-design, @altera-corporation • Studied at @university-of-delaware, MA in IxD from Interaction Ivrea

Mack Fuller

Founder Velvet Ape • Worked at @go-com, @blue-lithium • Studied at @bethany-college

Ward Wolff

Co-founder of @recess; Sponsorship marketing lead at City Parks Foundation and SummerStage; event production professional + parks advocate; B.A. @middlebury

AJ Chan

Co-Founder/CEO of @foss-hill-labs. Recent @wesleyan-university University grad. Founded first company in college and sold in Dec 2011.

Julie Trinh

Program Coordinator for international nonprofit. Background in nonprofits focusing on programming and community engagement.

Lisa Perdichizzi

Founder of TinSaucer Productions. Visionary of the alien invasion. Saver of CommerceOne BuySite and PeopleSoft i8. I don't believe in the Kobayashi Maru.

James McBryan

Founder of Prep.a.Trip. Starting businesses to help people get connected, outside.

Andrew Bowman

E-Commerce, CRM, Marketing Automation, Salesforce, Sales Operations, Logistics, SAAS, Startups

Marisela Feldman

founder of maison zahara. hoya saxa.
http://tumblr.maisonzahara.com

Shingai Samudzi

Founder @projectvision. Solution design and project management at Cerner, @kaiser-permanente. @carnegie-mellon-university grad in Decision Science.
http://www.projectvision.org/blog

Il Hong Yoo

An experienced finance professional with deep knowledge & understanding of analytics, financial models, and tech industry. BS Math. MA Economics, FRM and CFA L2

liza sonia wallach

Adam Kryder

Multi Lingual International Business Experience and Creative Problem Solving Specialist

bruce rinehart

creativity engineer: expert in the internet stack, the business stack and the social science stack - 20 years of net dev - teaching python this Summer('14) @UCB
http://startinvestingresponsibly.com

Denyelle Bruno

Founder Swappin • Worked at @Peet's Coffee & Tea • Studied at @University of California, Santa Cruz

Tane Ross

10+ years doing UX and Product Design. A mind for business. Highly collaborative with tech and biz. Plus front end chops-css, javascript, jquery.

Jeff Pilisuk

Founder at iEnso Consulting, marketing & biz dev whiz, eco-entrepreneur, social media junkie, health fanatic, coffee snob, and curious about all things tech.

Robert Preskill

California lawyer for entertainment/digital deals, licensing/franchise agreements and business development consulting.

Rashad Alaiyan

Recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin - Madison looking to begin a career in Social Media, Advertising, and Marketing.

Randy Thieben

Randy Thieben furnishes mobile satellite uplink and downlink solutions for network news organizations and other clients through Central Coast Uplink.Our mobile KU satellite van is proud to be the only independent full service mobile dual path HD redundant
http://mrrandythieben.wordpress.com/

Patrick Martin

Founder @martin-marino • Studied at @babson-college

Ehab Bandar

Seasoned UX/startup guy.
http://drawntosimplicity.tumblr.com

Paul Bryzek

Founder of CIeTY. Mobile app developer since 07. Lots of experience taking app from idea to production fast. Android, iOS, J2ME & server side. EE/CS - UCLA.

Moly Yim

Freelance Designer (Graphic & Web) @ moly.me

Steve Hull

BetOn Studios cofounder, Rails fullstack developer.

Ashley Lee

Founder @lee-gardens-www-haveagarden-com • Worked at @vo-s-restaurant, @animal-safehouse-of-brevard • Studied at @university-of-central-florida

Anne Gordon

Founder @kinderloop B.A. Princeton University, J.D. Univ of Michigan. Legal work: teaching at UC-Berkeley Law School, work with California and US Government.

Seth Peterson

I've spent most of my career in finance until co-founding All You Can Arcade. I've also spent time working in the legal and accounting industries.
http://blog.allyoucanarcade.com

Jason Bolden-Anderson

Founder of Gamer's Guild of America, 1st start up company out of college. BA in Business management from Boise State University. Worked in QA at EA for 2 years.

Tab Dangerfield

Music Director of Dorsett Round Table for NBC Sports Net. Managing Partner of SMG Holdings; Author of A Dangerfield Manifesto; Ghostwriter for many.

Jamie Evora

The Bicycle Network, Inc.

Jonathan Cobb

Founded Kiptronic (sold to Limelight). Currently building a new company, Cloudstead.

Eric Clayton

Owner Nacho Hut LLC. Looking to open an expanded version of Nacho Hut type restaurants throughout the bay area.

Joseph McDonald

Co-Founded Sherwood Forest, an SEC registered firm in Virginia. The company manages the Sherwood Forest Alternative Mutual Fund (Ticker: SFCMX)

Jon Trask, CMP, CMM

Currently at Grass Shack Events & Media, over 25 years in the meetings industry, mostly in audio visual, staging and technical production of events.
http://www,meetingspodcast.com

Dominick Scala

Entrepreneur, Writer & Publisher

Mike Pauletich

Co-founder of The Hamel Group & BioView.com (both sold to Monster Worldwide), MBA Finance & Marketing Univ. of Washington

Tony F.

Combiz Saleh

Aspiring Engineer, Inspiring Peer. CEO Study Savior. Web-app enthusiast.

Ronnia Cherry

W* Founder & Director. Idea whisper & creative goddess (in training). Known for waking people up in the middle of their dreams, to go out & make them come true.
http://wakeupwynwood.com

Mucheru Njaga

Founder Uzaa Networks • Studied at @hunter-college

Holley M. Murchison

Studied at @university-of-the-pacific, @brooklyn-college

Artur Moczulski

worked as Software Developer at Asperity Employee Benefits Ltd, pureholidahomes.com