People
Meet 1318 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Oakland's tech scene.
Lorin David Kalisky
15+ years experience in product management, marketing, business development in US & EU. Adept at strategy and execution. Founder @zenlist & @franglo.
Jonathan Cobb
Founded Kiptronic (sold to Limelight). Currently building a new company, Cloudstead.
Katherine de León
Building and growing disruptive online entertainment products since 2006. Sony and @linden-lab alum.
Jesse Pollak
Founder at @clef. Previously @hackny, @buzzfeed, @pomona-college-2. I create things (code, 5,000+ stars on Github; blog, 50,000+ readers).
JumpStartDays
JumpStartDays is a mentoring program for seed-stage pre-funded, pre-revenue tech startups. Each month 12 startups present to a panel of Keiretsu Forum angels.
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.
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.
Dan Clay Ellis
Co-founder of @rallyteam - Platform for employee empowerment. Founder of @saturna - tech consulting. Worked @oracle-1. Studied @university-of-calgary
Kamal Shah
Founder/CEO of FotoNotes; Founder Invu Technology; Former Chief Architect Smashcast, Wakesoft. Developed 20 software products. M.Sc. Engineering, U of Toronto
Nancy Quan
Co-Founder, Dsg.nr. Stanford BS Mechanical Engineering. UCLA Anderson MBA. Restaurant Owner. 10+ Years Professional Designer: Interior, Product, Web & Graphic.
Brian Delaney
UI / UX Design & Front-End Code
Clem Bason
CEO of Dealbase. Former President of Hotwire. Worked at McKinsey, Gap Inc., and Accenture. Haas MBA 2000
Anastasia Hilinsky
I'm a digital agency owner with 6+ years experience, We have some pretty cool clients including Universal Music, Scion, Juicy Couture and Swarovski.
Nili Leeds
HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED SALES LEADER ONLINE ADVERTISING │ DIGITAL MEDIA │ BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Bill Young
Managing Director of EA Ready, & Head of Video Strategy at @electronic-arts
David Bowman
@blue Bottle, @stanford-graduate-school-of-business , @bcg, @university-of-virginia
Erik Smith
Entrepreneur, Engineer. Founder at Appsites. Lead Engineer @inmobi. Previous: Founder @hipset #YCS12 and @shuffle-interactive.
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)
Tiffany J Hopkins
Founder @5rooms-com, @yoo-mee-games • Worked at @mtv-networks, @rocket-internet • Studied at @university-of-california-san-diego, @university-st-gallen, @nanyang-technological-university
Avi Bar-Zeev
Designer/developer of Google Earth (@keyhole), Lead special projects at @walt-disney-imagineering, @microsoft-3, @amazon, President/CTO @syntertainment
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.
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
Wade Lagrone
CEO & Co-Founder of Rabbl, Inc. • Worked at @yahoo, @e-trade, @zopa, @scancafe • Harvard BA, Kellogg MBA
Aaron Imholt
A global product, bizdev, mrktg, sales hustler. VP @livwellhealth. Advisor @_zerosouth. Worked at @breezy, @TheNorthFace, @FlukeCorp: Founder @Kakaocoffee