David Cohen

Founder/CEO of @techstars. Investor in Amazing Startups. Geeky to the bone. http://www.davidgcohen.com
http://www.davidgcohen.com/

David Wald

Analyst at lightbank, former management consultant, born and raised midwesterner, always eating, Michigan and Detroit sports fanatic

Brian Ficho

Entrepreneur. Founder & CEO @obaz. Former EIR & Investor @lightbank.

Stuart Larkins

Co-Founder and Partner of Chicago Ventures. Founder of @Twin Capital and active angel investor. Former @doubleclick / @performics exec.

Harper Reed

former CTO of @obama-for-america , former CTO of @threadless and Advisor at @sandbox-industries.
http://www.nata2.org

Paul Lee

Partner at @lightbank

Sam Yagan

Founder & CEO at @okcupid.com

Ryan Jeffery

Founder @belly • Worked at @lightbank • Studied at @university-of-wisconsin-madison

Brad Keywell

Co-founder and Managing Partner of @lightbank

Bill Pescatello

Principal, @lightbank Ventures; Founding member @peacock-equity-fund (NBCUniversal); @comcast-ventures

Woody Levin

Founder/CEO-BringIt (Cross Platform Engagement as a Service Through Games), Founder-InStadium, Founder-Riverbank Capital. JD-Chicago Kent, BA-Wisconsin

Bong Koh

Founder, Investor or Advisor in companies including @lifecrowd, @shift-3, RetentionScience, @muckerlab, GradientX, Eventup, TheReceivablesExchange & @zynga (via Prism)

Victoria Levine

principal @ @lightbank - scrabble master - indie music aficionado - yoga enthusiast - cheese lover - physics buff

Steve Olechowski

Former Co-Founder of FeedBurner and Google Product Manager, Mobile and Advertising. Current: Blinkfire Analytics
http://steveobd.blogspot.com

Vic Morgenstern

Founder @valor-equity-partners, @harris-associates

Mike Collett

Managing Partner @promus-ventures, @masters-capital-nanotechnology-1 • Worked @Masters Capital (hedge fund), @merrill-lynch (M&A)
http://mikecollett.com

Troy Henikoff

Troy Managing Director of Techstars in Chicago & founder of @surepayroll

Marc Weiser

Managing Director RPM Ventures
http://greatlakesvc.com

Ira Weiss

Managing Director of @HydeparkVP and @HydePark Angels, Professor at University of Chicago @BoothThinking School of Business, and former partner at RK Ventures

Jason Seats

Managing Director @techstars • Co-founder @slicehost (acq by @rackspace)

Kevin Willer

Chicago Angel, CEC, Xoogler, New World Ventures

David Wieland

Angel; Founder: @rivs, InnFlux, iEstates, IrishAngels. @NotreDame, MBA @Kellogg

Matthew McCall

Partner, @new-world-ventures & @dfj-portage
http://www.vcconfidential.com/

Saurabh Sharma

VC: @lightbank; @lehman-brothers , @barclays-capital , @ICICI Venture ; Sweat: @benchprep ; High-Performance Computing @inria, Studied CS @cornell-university , Chicago Booth MBA

Jeff Cantalupo

Founder @listen board member @raise, branding expert, creative storyteller investing time and money to turn ideas into brands.

Lon Chow

General Partner, Apex Venture Partners

Brad Purdy

COO @contextmedia, Partner @jumpstart-ventures

Ryan Moore

VC at @atlas-venture. Co-founded @grandbanks-capital. Believe in service-based approach for entrepreneurs. @princeton-university graduate.

George Bousis

Founder, CEO, @raise - Founder, @coupontrade Entrepreneur - Investor - Technologist Appetite for Big Markets & Hungry Entrepreneurs

Andy Yang

COO @500px | Formerly at @extremestartups @relay-ventures @chegg. @netflix. @thomas-weisel-partners. @goldman-sachs. @accenture. | @ChicagoBooth @university-of-california-berkeley.

Steve Kallmeyer

Worked at @dell-computer, @procter-gamble-2 • Studied at @washington-university-in-saint-louis

Marina Dedes

Vice President at @lightbank, former consultant @duff-phelps , @university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign Engineering, born and raised in @chicago

Charles Forman

CEO of @picturelife. Founder of @omgpop.
http://www.setpixel.com

Darwin Ling

Founder @thump-games •Chief Architect at @jaxtr, Sr Director @skyfire ( Acquired by Opera ), Hacker/Data Nerd, BS/MS @purdue-university , MBA @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business

chuck templeton

Founder of @opentable (NASDAQ:OPEN); Chairman at @grubhub

Steve Farsht

Director and Board Member Techstars Chicago; Advisor Hyde Park Venture Partners; Member FireStarter Fund

Brian Balfour

Growth & Customer Acquisition specialist. Former EIR @trinity Ventures, Co-Founder of @boundless, @viximo.
http://www.brianbalfour.com

Jumpstart Ventures

Guy Turner

Managing Director at Hyde Park Venture Partners. Big fan of fast growth.

Jeffrey Maters

Vice President at @new-world-ventures

Kapil Chaudhary

Investor in @brighttag, @ycharts, @sittercity, @viewpoints, @ifbyphone.

Brian Hand

Co-Founder and Chairman, Timelines, Inc

Ravi Srivastava

Professional Trader, Genetic Algorithmist, Managing Partner @purvi-capital LLC.

Jason Heltzer

General Partner at @oca-ventures. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at @booth-school-of-business.

John Sun

Founder AvantCredit, SpringCoin • Worked at @enova-financial • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign

Jordan Curnes

ND Finance / Duke MBA Founded 3 Companies - Medical Devices, Online Real Estate, Retail Wireless Enjoy web 2.0 plays as well as med tech.

Tao Huang

Managing Partner, RangeLight

Karin O'Connor

Sasha Gribov

chief of staff @groupon; former associate @lightbank, consultant @bain

Mark Friedgan

Angel Investor; BS/MS Computer Engineering, @carnegie-mellon-university University; CIO Top 100/InfoWorld Top 25 CTO
http://www.hubrix.com

Gabe Greenbaum

VC @Pritzker Group Venture Capital (f.k.a. New World Ventures)

Arthur Watson

CFO @ Castle Hill. Angel Investor @HPA. MBA 2011 @Babson. BS Mechanical Engineering 2003 @UVA

Luke Shepard

CTO at eSpark Learning, where I manage the engineering team building the next generation of personalized learning using iPads.
http://disruptedstudent.org

Deborah Quazzo

Founder @thinkequity-partners, @global-silicon-valley-advisors • Worked at @jp-morgan, @merrill-lynch

Adam Koopersmith

Partner at New World Ventures Board Member Techstars Chicago

Alexander Goldstein

Angel Investor; Entrepreneur; Was Principal at Pangea Properties REIT; Ex-CIO, Co-Founder at @cashnetusa-com

Betsy Ziegler

Investor @trunk-club

Christopher Jensen

Principal at Anderson Pacific Corp., entrepreneur, angel investor with a focus on telecom, media, SaaS or any great idea backed by a strong management team.

Christopher Chan

Founder @blue-flower-llc • Worked at @bank-of-america-merrill-lynch • Studied at @new-york-university

Andy Swan

Founder of Voomly: Founded DaytradeTeam (Sold in 2007), founded mytrade (Sold to TD Ameritrade).
http://www.andyswan.com

Judd Morgenstern

Business Designer. Previously UX Designer + Innovation Strategist. Former @adaptive-path + @nike consultant.

Andrew Romans

General Partner Georgetown Angels. Author (McGraw Hill July 2013) The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital
http://georgetown-angels.com/blog/

Peter Liu

VC at @PritzkerVC, Founder/CEO of VentureUP.info

Dan Ratner

Serial entrepreneur. Cofounder/COO/CTO at @sittercity. Director of Development at @obama-for-america. Social enterprise investor.
http://www.danratner.com/

Andrew Razeghi

Founder, StrategyLab, Inc.; Lecturer, Kellogg School of Management; Limited Partner, TechStars Chicago
http://www.andrewrazeghi.com/blog

Bradley Wasz

CoFounder/COO @raise We are changing the conversation in the discount and incentive marketing industries. Give yourself a raise!
http://blog.coupontrade.com/

Brett Keintz

Director of Product Management at @groupon

Fred Monroe

313 Ventures LLC @getco Trading Technologies, Inc fredlabs, inc @apple

Tim Hanlon

Founder/CEO, Vertere Group. Past Founder/MD Mediabrands Velociter (IPG). Past Founder/MD Denuo/VivaKi Ventures (Publicis Groupe); 20+ year ad/media veteran

Lauren DeLuca

BoD @rivs, Founder: Sumo Capital, Victory Networks Investor: @tradingview-2, @techstars, @qoin, @archively @ginkgotree, Row One. Member @irishangels. MBA @kellogg-school-of-management currently, graduated Cum Laude @university-of-notre-dame 2001

Jeffrey Carter

Turns Concepts into Profits. Advisor, Connector, Co-Founder of @hydeparkangels, Angel Investor, Independent Trader, @pointsnfigures
http://www.pointsandfigures.com

Dave Galanis

Managing Partner at Pebble Creek Partners

Nigel Bahadur

Founder @exe-technologies

Sandbox Industries

Creating, developing, and investing in new businesses

Harry Weller

General Partner at @new-enterprise-associates leading seed & early stage. Chairman of @harvard University Experiment Fund. Forbes Midas List.

Emerson Spartz

CEO @spartz (OMG Facts, GivesMeHope, Smartphowned) Founded MuggleNet.com, the #1 Harry Potter site, at age 12.
http://spartzmedia.com

Alan Warms

@appolicious.com, AndroidApps.com
http://www.participate.com

Syed Karim

Director at @digital-news-ventures

Michael Burke

founder, author, advertising, social media, appssavvy

Nancy Hua

CEO of Apptimize • @y-combinator • @getco • @massachusetts-institute-of-technology Math with CS
http://nancyhua.com

Sam Guren

Owner, Guren Capital Management, LLC

Jimmy Odom

Founder @wedeliver • Worked at @apple • Studied at @columbia-college-chicago

Zack Christensen

M&A and capital markets attorney and registered CPA. Worked at @citigroup, @sidley-austin, @deloitte-touche • Investor @drchrono, @sendhub, @true-co • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign

Andrew Cronk

CEO of @tempodb. Co-founded 3 startups (two bootstrapped, current funded). Strong technical background (Computer Engineer, Motorola).
http://ajcronk.com

Matt Spiegel

SVP/GM Americas MediaMath. Formerly CEO Omnicom Media Group Digital, Founder @resolution-media

Shawn Carpenter

Co-Founder & CEO of @ycharts • Vertical Manager at @google • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign

Leore Avidar

Co-founder @lob. Worked at @aws, @citigroup, @google , @motorola • Studied at @university-of-michigan

Mark Hatch

CEO and Co-Founder of TechShop. Launched 3 Fortune 500 websites: Avery, Kinkos (ecommerce), & HealthNet's benefits ASP. Author, Speaker, MBA, Green Beret.

Frank Gruber

CEO & Co-founder Tech Cocktail a media company focused on tech startup news, research & events. Former developer turned product development at @aol & @tribune-interactive.
http://tech.co

Justin DeLay

Co-Founder, @tempodb. UX Design at @grubhub, Marketing at @kraft-foods. Design & Business at U of Michigan.
http://justindelay.tumblr.com

Ezra Galston

VC @chicago-ventures Young Entrepreneur @foundation-capital Chicago Booth MBA, @KauffmanFellow

Rob Schultz

Partner at Serra Ventures. Mentor to seed stage start ups and accelerators.
http://www.robschultz.com

Greg Caplan

Investor in @groupon, @sprout-social, @watermelon-express, @mediabank.

Jay Hoffmann

Rewards and travel wonk. Built @groupon Rewards to 4k merchants, 2M consumers. Grew @united-airlines Mileage Plus to $1BN+ revenue. @stanford-university GSB.

Gautam Ramdas

VP & Dir Northern Tech Intn'l Corp ($57M-$120M - 5 yrs; NASDAQ NTIC); Co-founder Dot Com Infoway-Top5 mobile app co in India; B.E.Guindy; MBA UMich, Ann Arbor.

Jared Golden

Co-Founder & President @ Pear, Co-Founder @ Brand Accelerator, Board Member @ Worthee, Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center Advisory Board, former ibanker.

Michael Gruber

Founder & Managing Partner @cornerstone-angels

Kris Petersen

Co-founder & CEO @morsel, Co-founder & CTO @betterfly-1 (acq. @takelessons) , Founder & CEO @dealsgoround-1 (acq. @betterfly-1). Past IBM & PwC Tech Consultant. 26.2.
http://krispetersen.com

Lauren Flanagan

Former sw entrepreneur; invested in 34 companies over past 8 years. Run 2 early stage funds: BELLE Capital USA, LP & Phenomenelle Angels Fund.
http://laurenslens.net

Paul Sorensen

Lead Software Engineer @caredox • Lead Developer of archon.org, an award-winning archival information software • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign

Grant Brown

Co-Founder/CEO of @rant-media-network which owns and operates: Rant Sports, Rant Finance and Rant Creative.

Michael Sheng

Ken Pelletier

Designer/technologist, former CTO at @groupon, investor/advisor to @desktime, investor in Seaborn Networks, investor/partner at City Winery Chicago.

Jeffrey Kalmikoff

Designer. Husband. Friend to startups. Maker of things. Avid fan: scary movies, loud music. Work: CXO @betable. Past: @threadless, @digg, @simplegeo.
http://www.callmejeffrey.com

Iman Jalali

Founder TicketLab • President at @trainsignal until acquired in 2013
http://www.imanjalali.com

Eddie Lou

Co-Founder & CEO of @shiftgig;General Partner OCA Ventures; Co-founder of Us Empowered & Chicago SVP; 2010 Crain 40U40; 2011 Chicago United BLC
http://www.eddielou.com

Derek Shanahan

Director of Marketing @playerize. Co-Founder, Advisor at @foodtree & @donde . Advisor at 20 Something Bloggers. @stanford-university Soccer Captain.
http://dshan.me/blog/

Jeff Hyman

CEO of @retrofit

Ed Scanlan

Founder @total-attorneys
http://edscanlan.com

Deepak Goel

Worked at @coupons.com , @microsoft, @indiahomes • Studied at @haas-school-of-business School of Business, @IIT-Delhi

Joseph Dwyer

Venture Partner at OCA Ventures
http://dwyerlab.com

David Albrecht

Crittercism, previous @wishery CTO/Co-Founder (AngelPad S11). @microsoft, founder @prefiat-llc: security, arch, cloud computing consultancy. MS ECE UIllinois.

George Monical

Investor CEO of MiGym: Experience in successful startups including Betfair and The Coupons App & corporate experience at US Cellular and Allstate; Kellogg MBA

Dana Severson

Founder at @chasm-io. Former writer for @adage-com and @fastcompany. Former Adman. Passionate about the future of collaborative [email protected] Alum.
https://plus.google.com/116963236140044523988/posts

Joe Pensinger

COO of Community Capital Investment. Managing Director and Principal of Emercor Partners. Active angel investor. Formerly of Allston Trading.

Aashish Dalal

Founder @parkwhiz • Worked at @ibm • Studied at @northwestern-university

Ethan Austin

Co-founder, President of @giveforward. TechStars (Excelerate Labs) Emory University, JD American University. Burritos.
http://ethansaustin.com

Tom Giles

@stagebloc founder. UX / UI and product obsessed. Past multiplatinum artist manager. Biomedical researcher. Science Teacher. Coach. Hip surgery guinea pig.

Colin Young

I build products that run on browsers, iPhones, & Macs @polymathic. @angelpad W'10 founder alum @cloudbot. DePaul CS. My dog Rue and are Chicago-based.

Rick Desai

Investor/Startup Advisor & Social Investor

Erik Severinghaus

Founder @simplerelevance • Worked at @ibm, Founding Team @icontact • Studied at @kellogg-school-of-management, @university-of-north-carolina-chapel-hill. Patent in Data Optimization & experience closing 9-figure deals.
http://blog.simplerelevance.com

Dafeng Guo

Founder Striking.ly • Worked at @yahoo, @goldman-sachs, @morgan-stanley

Dan Armbrust

Founder @gener8tor, @granite-med-systems • Investor @eatstreet • Studied at @university-of-wisconsin-milwaukee

Tom Trimmer

Founded Trimmer Capital Management, Aurapoint Asset Management, and True Adventures. Rock climber, sailor, mountain biker, skier, mountaineer, world traveler.

Ryan Graves

Head of Operations @uber Board of Miami University Institute for Entrepreneurship Biz Dev @foursquare

Dmitry Kobyshev

Angel Investor. M&A, IPO, financial analysis background. Passionate for bright investment opportunities. Investor @havoc @descomplica @onthego-platforms

Asif Khan

Founder & CEO of caremerge. 20 years Tech; 12 years with GE, 8 with GE Healthcare IT in Global Leadership roles; Booth MBA; 6 Sigma Black Belt.

Josh Holat

@stagebloc Co-Founder, Founder @mirrorgram / Lead Developer, Object Orienter, Git Pusher, Apple Lover, College Dropout, Life Lover

Christopher Steiner

Co-founder @aisle50, New York Times Bestselling Author of 2 books, Forbes columnist, Y Combinator Alumnus
http://blogs.forbes.com/christophersteiner

Daniela A Bolzmann

Co-Founder @ WeDeliver.us • Entrepreneur • Jill of all trades • Mihaylo School of Business CSUF 2011' • edtech Product Marketer @symbalooedu.
http://socialskoop.com/blog/

Kyle Gay

Venture Capital Analyst at Sandbox industries.

Dan Malven

Dan Olson

CEO at @upcity-formerly-diyseo

Chris Plahm

Managing Partner at Stonebridge Wealth Management

Jeremiah Seraphine

CEO and Co-Founder at @groovebug
http://integratedmarketing.tumblr.com

Kirk Lashley

Co-Founder at @wedeliver. Worked at @uwi, Parity Systems and founded Coral Designs Ltd. Engineering graduate of @uwi
http://kirklashley.com

Tony Bombacino

Former CMO of @restaurant-com with experience on client and agency side. Start-up experience as an employee, advisor and investor w/ a passion for learning.

Ryan Spraetz

Problem Solver. I like bouldering, building, coding, and winning. Co-Founder @keen-io-1 . 4+ years technical product experience at @salesforce. UIUC Engineering.
http://blog.keen.io

Mike Zivin

Co-Founder at @whittl. Ex-Yahoo. Sold previous startup. Carnegie Mellon & Cornell.

Ryan Bell

Founder Gremln.com (135K users). Director, Costa Rican Software Firm (sold). Computer Science. 15 years
http://blog.gremln.com

Mark Lawrence

Founder & CEO @SpotHero Inc.
http://blog.spothero.com

Andrew Chomer

CRO at the EchoSystem, with over 10 years of experience growing businesses and most recently leading the digital charge at PHD/Omnicom

Wojo Wietecha

Co-Founder & CTO at @adyapper

Steven Walker

Designer, developer, builder, entrepreneur, mentor. First designer at @groupon. Currently Head of Platform Experience @quirky

Eli Rosenberg

COO of @food-genius; Managed Search at @norvax and @smg-search; Director of Operations, Sales at Qualtex Corp; Graduate of @depaul-university University, Computer Science.

Jacqui Boland

CEO + Founder @red-tricycle. Strong consumer background ( @meredith and @reed-elsevier ) Start-up experience includes Breathe Media and SFLodgings.com.

Dan Roarty

VP, @groupon Now! at @groupon; CMO at @vast.com; GVP, Alliance Marketing at @orbitz Worldwide, Inc.

Hans Pusch

DRW Trading, University of Chicago - Booth, Boston College

Jonathan Sheinkop

Co-Founder, EVP New Business & Corporate Strategy / Exec. Director, focused on new strategic growth opps., biz/dev, marketing, fund-raising, operations

Shahed Khan

Product Designer @weebly. Formerly at @backplane and @viatask.

Jens Horstmann

Former CEO/CTO of DVDPlay (Redbox techn./acq by NCR), founded X1, Ensemble, Opengrid, MXGO, worked at Sun, LSI, Siemens, Coinstar.

Nick Rosa

Managing Director of @sandbox-industries, led a buyout of The NutraSweet Company and served as CEO

Orazio Buzza

Founder/CEO @fooda • President at @echo-global-logistics, CFO/COO @innerworkings

Phillip Herrejon

French Press coffee loving R.E. Investor turned Tech Startup Pro/Non-Profit Advocate/Social Entrepreneur. LIFE LESSONS: Fail fast, live humbly, pay it forward.
https://plus.google.com/112561773071530065274/posts

Jan Davis

Founder @smartnames • Worked at @transunion, @trymax • Investor @evoapp, @showingtime • Studied at @university-of-north-carolina-chapel-hill

Daniel McCormick

Founder and COO of KapowEvents.com. Providing a more efficient way for business to book corporate events through a curated marketplace of local event packages.

Ravin Gandhi

Founder @gmm-nonstick-coatings • Investor @tred • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign , @kellogg-school-of-management-1

Joel Abraham

Co-Founder of gener8tor, a Wisconsin-based accelerator.

Jacob DeHart

Founder and lead frontend dev @picturelife
http://jacobd.com

Tim Krauskopf

Founder of Spyglass

Matt Helbig

Previously at @square , @cloudbot , @azadi-incorporated • Studied at @university-of-california-berkeley and @depaul-university University • Founder of @tedx at DePaul University • @impact-engine alumnus

Galen Mason

Founder @catapult-chicago-1 • Lawyer at @foley-lardner-llp

Jessica Sheft-Ason

IT Consultant, Studied Economics @university-of-chicago and investor with @kewpie-associates.

Jason Weaver

Founded Shoutlet, Inc. Liquidated position in March 2013. Currently running Spendship, LLC (mobile commerce) and Halo, LLC (a tech sales consulting firm).
http://www.jasonweaver.com

John Bradburn

Sandbox Industries

Daniel Zarick

Formerly product at Twilio. Currently working on my own projects.
http://future-bits.com

Kris Chinosorn

Founder (BigGroups.com, @catapult-chicago), BizDev (@halcyon-sequencing ), Lead Developer (ISWS), BS Biology (@university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign )

Beth Birnbaum

VP of Product at @grubhub.com. 10 years in online travel (@expedia, Site59, Travelocity) in product management, business development, and commercial roles.

Andy Lai

IT Management Consultant. Passion for solution development. Self-driven. Values integrity and accountability. Worked at @adobe-systems, @transunion

Bo Patel

Venture Capital/Angel Investor looking to help a multitude of start-ups....

Claire Schlafly

Startup jack of all trades, former bulge bracket financial analyst. Self-starter, fast learner, and ready to hit the ground running

Paul Spiller

Worked at @belly, @campus-explorer, @redbox, Galt & Company

Sascha Bopp

COO at Crate and Barrel

Joseph Omansky

Serial entrepreneur in financial technology. Trusted Insight, largest platform for LPs and GPs, and SkyRank, patented hedge fund rating, sold IP to Morningstar.
http://www.josephomansky.com

Dave Hoover

Latent human potential pisses me off. So I'm working on decentralizing education. Trying to be a great father, husband, son, believer, and squirrel.
http://nuts.redsquirrel.com

Andy Narayanan

Strategy and bus. dev executive with over 15 yrs exp in consumer web services, fintech, payment and data analytics. Worked at Booz, dealigee. Chicago Booth MBA
http://www.venturegabble.com

Shobhan Thakkar

Former Biglaw, Big4, GC and Executive. Assisted in sale of Weather Central to Weather Channel; 1st Place in WI Business Plan Contest-IT Category. MACC and JD.

Trey Hart

VC Fund Investor at Northern Trust. VC Professor at University of Maryland.
http://lp2lp2vc.blogspot.com/

Lori Annoreno Penoyer

Worked at @yahoo, @ixl

Ryan Scherf

Product Designer @quirky. Co-founder of Paid, an iPhone app to manage your Stripe account. Formerly of @groupon

Sarah Evans

Chief Evangelist at @tracky PR. Social Media Correspondent. Animal lover. Birthed @twitter industry chats. #journchat #commentz [email protected]
http://sarahsfav.es

John LeVert

Investment banker focused on providing merger & acquisition advice and raising capital for growing consumer & retail companies.

Kevin Stanton

Platform/API Engineer @SproutSocial; Co-founder @farehelper.com; Past life @motorola IC designer for wireless; UMich; Musician; Derivatives Investor
http://www.tekphile.com

Daniel Novaes

CEO of @mobilex-labs - Simplified Mobile App Creation Platform For Brands & Businesses, $2M/YR Elekteks Inc. as a H.S. Senior, Kelley School of Business 2011
http://TheFoundersDesk.com

Todd O'Hara

#innovator #entrepreneur #technologist #founder at Toodalu (acquired by Spring Marketplace)

Mike Fiorillo

Strong business, marketing, UX/design chops. Experience agency & client side. Kellogg MBA 2013.

Patrick Algrim

Currently: Co-founder at digit.co. Previously: MyZeus acquired by Groupon, 2011.
http://patrickalgrim.me

Robert Govoni

Founder and president at Govoni Dentistry PC, Brushin'on Belmont. Board certified pediatric dental specialist.

Ian Connell

Adam Sidney

2nd employee at @bonobos now at Trumaker. Operations, leadership, and creative background honed at one big old company and a few seed stage start ups.

Tyler Spalding

CEO of @styleseek. NASA Space Shuttle Engineer 2x e-commerce exits. @massachusetts-institute-of-technology MBA, @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign MSE/BSE

John Affourtit

Exec @sparkcentral . Entrepreneurial mind set. Action oriented!

Milo Todorovich

CTO of Raise Marketplace Inc. Consultant to startups through Fortune100's. You conceive "it"; I build it, and the team around it.

Ryan Fukushima

VC at @Hyde Park Venture Partners. Caught the startup bug at Techstars and Tapjoy.

Alex Ognev

Databases, big data, high performance.

Brent Hill

Partner at Origin Ventures - early stage venture firm in Chicago focused on e-commerce, software, and digital media. Ex-Feedburner, Ex-Google, Ex-Twitter.

Patrick O'Brien

CEO & Founder @Ticket Scalpr. @groupon Senior Sales (Top 1%) - Founder @UndieRun - Director of Sales @Gourmet Ads - UW-Madison

Jessica Kim

CEO/Founder of @babbaco. Ready to rock my second consumer startup. Kellogg MBA. @brown-university University. Kraft brand management.
http://www.babbaco.com/blog

Chirag Garg

Currency & Interest Rate Portfolio, DRW Holdings.

Michael Bruns

technology finance and operating executive, former technology investment banker, former COO/CFO of ClearTrial (sold to Oracle in April 2012), Harvard MBA

Imran Ahmad

Venture Capitalist @OCAVentures and Founder of @MouseHouseApp

Jake Lumetta

Sr. Software Engineer @chooseenergy

Peter Krupp

Partner Skadden Arps and Angel Investor

Mike Khristo

Head of Solutions Eng at @shift-3. Helped close multi-MM deals with F100 brands & top agencies. Tech/Product Builder. Entrepreneur. Tech Advisor. Get-it-done-er.
http://blog.mikekhristo.com

Peter Sellis

Product Manager, Analyst, INTP. Work at @science. Past at @ustream, @lek-consulting • Studied at @university-of-chicago, @massachusetts-institute-of-technology

Ed Lewis

entrepreneur. co-founder or early employee of 5 startups. 2 IPOs. Founded Media Chaperone pivoted business in '12 to @group-gift-service

Chris Duesing

CTO of @mercaris

Angie Taormina

Creative Director at @coupontrade

Alen Malkoc

@northwestern-university. Co-Founder @optyn; Co-Founder @dealster-3 (Sold); Co-Founder @chitown-deals (Sold); @half-off-depot; National Champion & All-American (Soccer). Avid Chess Player. Love creating new products.
http://www.alenmalkoc.com

Jordan Dalton

Angel Investor
http://N/A

Mike Fingado

Founder @notelog, @athletepreneur • Worked at @tred, @coursemodo • B.S. & M.S. Economics & Sport Management at @FSU

Evan Kostorizos

Inventory Management at Raise.com • Worked at @coupontrade, @european-commission • Founder Blueshift Innovations Inc • Northeastern University JD 2003, Harvard University ALB 1999

Philip Settimi, MD

Senior Vice President, Global Marketing and Corporate Development & Chief Marketing Officer at Hill-Rom

James Dickerson

Marketer & entrepreneur. Previously co-founded Wellthy & @leap. Former associate at @lightbank,

Hunter E. Bradford

An average guy, living an awesome life.

Eric Scott

Investments for @hvf and @mlevchin.

Christopher Mozzocchi

Kellogg MBA/Northwestern MEM. McKinsey consultant, Capital One & SimpleTuition alum. Strong background in marketing/analytics, budding Rails/HTML/CSS/iOS dev.

David Haisha Chen

CEO of Striking.ly; Co-founder of Moneythink; Director of ECSEL; @university-of-chicago

Brian Curliss

Entrepreneur. Cofounder of @maillift #500Strong (Batch 007) Once Solo-Bootstrapped to $20k/mo in 6mo Specializes in SEO, pricing, analytics, users, and growth.
http://www.BrianCurliss.com

Noah Ney

Currently @farshore-partners Past work @zaarly • Studied Automotive Technology at @pittsburg-state-university University :::Web and Mobile Development Consulting

Jacob Gable

Software Developer at @SproutSocial, Amateur Philosopher, Maker of Things... Young Punk

Adam Taylor

Michigan BA, Media planner and operations guru, customer service oriented, worked at interCLICK, acquired by Yahoo

Patrick Madden

Worked at @hft-quant-hedge-fund, @ibm. Studied Physics at UT: Dallas. 1st startup in high school. Solid technical background.

Michael Roytman

PhD dropout, MS Operations Research; Data Scientist, Risk I/O
http://blog.risk.io

Liz Thompson

Product Manager; product development and operational strategy for two start-ups; Business degree from University of Kansas.

Kris Davis

MS in Product Design & Development Management @northwestern-university. Design, product, research and business focus.

Cristobal Alonso

Entrepreneur, startup advisor and TMT executive

Eric Kerr

Founder TicketFire • Worked at @cloudera, @belly • Studied at @ohio-state-university

Jonathan Krieger

Full stack marketer specializing in early-stage and growth startups

Jordan Linville

CEO at @buzz-digital, Inc. Former biz dev guy at @nextwave-media and Angie's List. Musician and peanut butter connoisseur.

Derick Thompson

Founder @DailyDigital. Full service agency, for startup founders, that want to turn their product ideas into a growing, profitable company, in less than a year.

Nicholas McEvily

VP of Product @mantra-1 • Founder @agrowculture • First hire @Mouth Foods • B.Sc and M.Sc @Cornell • Graphic and UI design, Product Developer
http://www.nickmcevily.com

Chris Walti

Co-founder of @styleseek, BizDev at @v2green (acquired 2008), VC at @highland-capital-partners, Analytics Lead at @accenture, 2 Patents, BSEE @UIUC, @MIT MBA.

Zachary Brenner

Life is a game of sales, so don't sell yourself short. 24. Indiana University- Kelley School of Business. Sales Manager @raise. Chicago.

Kevin Leland

Founder @pawngo, @bodyshopbids • Worked at @lightbank • Studied at @university-of-pennsylvania

Juan Cartagena

Founder CEO @traity-1. MBA (HHons) @booth-school-of-business. MEng in EE. Previous experience in strategy, product management, sales
http://traity.com/blog

Seth Kravitz

Co-Founder of @technori and @insuranceagents-com
http://blog.sethkravitz.com

Vince Leung

Founder (@mentormob). Comp Eng @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign at 20yrs old, Eng/Mgr at @hewlett-packard and @motorola, core team original RAZR phone, 5 patents awarded/pending

Joshua Karp

Founder and CEO of Kumbuya (kumbuya.com).

Lou Morales

Current: Co-founder @optyn; Past: @dealster-3, CRP, Acuity, COO @ecommlink ; COO @first-data-corporation , EPG; SVP, @general-electric; SVP, @barclays-bank

Alex Pak

Founder of FindIt. Former Publisher of The Harbus, worked at General Mills, Kimberly-Clark, and Kraft Foods. Harvard Business School MBA 2013.
http://www.getfindit.com/blog

Jason Goodrich

Founder @shortlist, @leasabl • Excelerate Labs 2011 • Pulitzer Prize 2008

Nathan Pinger

Director of Products, Stats & Finance Guru @ycharts. Studied at Chicago Booth (MBA) , UW-Madison, and @stanford-university.
http://www.nathanpinger.com

Jim Larrison

Co-Founder @dynamic-signal, live in Chicago area, early @ @comscore & @adify. Interests: Movies, Politics, NFL, Consumer Behavior, Social Media & Brand Marketing
http://larrison.blogspot.com

Bryan Shepard

CEO/Co-founder of @sweepio-1. Start-up Guy, three startups, two successful exits, one IPO. Dad of 2, husband of 1.
http://fatboylabs.com

Ryan Broshar

Seed investor via @ConfluenceCap, @kidblog @at-scene-llc Founder @boomboom. @university-guide (sold) . MBA @university-of-colorado-boulder, Carlson @university-of-minnesota-twin-cities

Guillaume Martin

CEO & co-founder of @pictarine Love growth hacking, mobile and wine. Techstars Chicago Alum.

Coleman Greene

ceo/co-founder of @sqord . worked five years in financial services in sales and management. caught startup bug founding Dore Duds. studied at @vanderbilt-university, @university-of-north-carolina-chapel-hill

Andy O'Dower

Director of Product, Strategy and Operations: @DiscoveryComm. Former Director of Mobile Product: @carsdotcom & 2011 @ExcelerateLabs (now TechStars Chicago).
http://odower.com/

Kurt Uhlir

CEO & co-founder @sideqik • I manage, advise & fund disruptive companies @nokia, @navteq, @vitrue • 12 US & international patents • Certified alligator handler
http://www.southerntechnologyleaders.com

Dylan Richard

Director of Engineering @ Obama for America. Previously @threadless, @crateandbarrel. I'm a big fan of the internets.

Jonathan Kelley

Co-founder of @buzz-digital, Co-founder of Element Bars.

Doug Breaker

CEO at @homefinder-com. Director of Product at @orbitz.com. Founder AccentTraining.net, EasyUsability.com.

Gemma Petrie

UX Researcher at Mozilla

Tyler Mayoras

Managing Director at O'Keefe Consultant and interim management in Change Management. Angel investor and mentor to internet and mobile technology companies.

Jim Conti

New England transplant living Chicago style. Senior Talent Manager at @sprout-social. @boston-college and @northwestern-university alum. Passionate about people.

Nick Kocinski

CFO - Finance, Marketing and Sales at @ycharts. Studied @chicago booth, worked @homefinder-com.

Michael Krasman

Founder Versity (sold), @hireology, @UrbanBoundCo & @Homescout. Studied at @university-of-michigan.
http://thehungryentrepreneur.com/

Daniel Fohrman

Fueling more vacations with Rocketmiles. Former consultant at Navigant. University of Texas McCombs School of Business Finance / Accouting grad.

David Vinca

Founder of eSpark, which helps schools leverage iPads and the vast ecosystem of educational apps to personalize learning, engage students and raise achievement.

Len Kendall

Founder @centup - Digital Marketer - Writer - Expert at Nothing.

Cam Balzer

Chief Growth Officer @mightynest. Former CMO @threadless. Search / social marketing exec @vivaki / @performics. Product and marketing strategy and execution.

Matthew Wolf

Product Manager,@sharethrough @wikia; Associate PM at @bump-technologies, Consultant, CGI Federal; IT Advisory Intern, @kpmg; B.B.A. Computer Information Systems, @james-madison-university.

Erik Kostelnik

Proven business leader that has built and managed $mm sales, marketing and service teams, monetized products, formed strategic partnerships and raised capital.

Jason Stulberg

COO Fooda • Previously CEO Lightswitch; startup at Redbox; Wind Point; Bain. Engineering at UMichigan, Kellogg

Michael Hofer

Web Developer at @spartz . Writing code, crunching data, and moving forward.

Eli Gratz

Former Co-Founder & Director of #CustDev at walk.by, Former GE management program grad looking to build culture changing procuts
http://eligratz.com

Patrick Schless

Worked at @tempodb, @braintree-1

Martial Jefferson

Experienced codecrafter with a liberal arts flair.

Michael Walsh

Founder @cariloop, @healthsparx and Health 2.0 Dallas, Advisor, @purdue-university University alum, living in Dallas, TX.
http://healthsparx.com

Zack Gilbert

Builder. Formerly a co-founder of Technori, Adams Gilbert Co., @cloudbot

Pete Liguori

Extensive Senior Management Experience (C Suite positions), over 30 years in a variety of Casino Gaming companies.

David Voiss

Worked at @heyzap

Tony Amoyal

Technical Co-Founder @sidewalk. Previously Technical Co-Founder @pinweel. Hacking on startups for 5+ years. Computer Eng @university-of-maryland-college-park
http://tonyamoyal.com

Elan Mosbacher

Chicago Startups | Online Marketing | @google Adwords PPC | p. 773.888.ELAN

Benjamin Wasson

Founder of @orderbolt BA in CS and an MBA from @southern-illinois-university-carbondale; Certified in International Business, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Management from GGSB

Gerri Blackmon, Project Manager

EVP, Sales & Marketing - Nu-B-2B @ibm Sys. Integration, Proj. Mgmt, Instructor (Retired) B.S. Business, @Purdue M.A. Education MBA @texas Woman's University

Mohammad Gaber

Co-founder @beebillion acquired 08/11. Strong Biz Dev, Customer Acquisition and eComm background.
http://www.gaber.me

Dave Shapiro

Founder @scout • Previously founded @foodini.co • worked at @sandboxind, @lab42 , @jpmorgan-chase • Studied at @miami University BSA in Computer Science

Brian Thibault

Founder ClaraStream • Worked at @best-online-universities-llc, @eretailing • Studied at @ohio-state-university, @depaul-university

Christopher Jaeger

Founder of @rentstuff. Strong business background (@merrill-lynch). @princeton-university BA 2004 (Economics w/ honors).

Rob Costlow

Founder: @tourist-records Co-Founder: ActiveFam Past gigs: @the-active-network @eteamz-com @rollingnote @teamsnap @weplay @zaadz Contemporary Pianist Dad of 2

Jack Eisenberg

Co-founder of @goshi in Chicago. Drummer of In Threes.

Jared Fanning

Creative Director at Visually; freelance designer

Yogesh Pandit

IUPUI Bioinformatics; Worked at Northwestern University

Thomas Buchar

Start-up Junkie who connects the dots, creates results, and plays well with others.
http://www.buchar.net

John Roa

CEO at @akta. Investor at @socialcrunch. Active angel, speaker and traveler.

Alex Griffiths

CEO @socialcrunch. Strong finance, business development & product launch skills. Brit in Chicago. 1 exit so far.
http://blog.alexgriffiths.info

Robert Brown

http://[email protected]/pub/robert-brown/1/337/23b

Bob Shapiro

Investor in @chromatin, @theranos, @plum-choice, @navicure, @divergence, @launchcyte, @darkstrand, @apt, @referme, Callisto, @tlcontact, @healthcare.

Raaja Nemani

Co-Founder and CEO @bucketfeet. Former Banker / PE guy. World traveler. Northwestern University.
http://blog.bucketfeet.com/

Adam Robinson

Co-Founder/CEO of Hireology. Serial entrepreneur with 14 years of technology and HR-related start-up experience. MBA from @depaul-university University.
http://www.BetterHiringToday.com

Zach Supalla

CEO of @spark. Business + engineering + design. Alumnus of @mckinsey-company and @groupon. @Kellogg MBA and Northwestern MEM 2012, @dartmouth-college BA 2007.
http://blog.sparkdevices.com

David Goldschmidt

Cofounder @buycentives, Founder @greatfamilyrentals-com. CMO @intrago. MBA Marketing Michigan (Ross). Also @frog-design, @leo-burnett, @jwt, and Saturn.
http://www.google.com/patents/US20100280700

Michael Elberts

Co-Founder and COO @goodpeople

Alex Smith

Worked at @gtrot, @benchprep, @kapture, @wavve

Julian Miller

Co-founder of @learnmetrics real-time analytics for education. Obsessed with the power of education to change lives.
http://julianmiller.tumblr.com

Nicole Staple

Founder @brideside. Tech investor @silicon-valley-bank. Strong business background (Monitor Group, @ubs-investment-bank). Kellogg MBA '12, Wellesley College '06

Jason Kunesh

Founded @public-good-software, Director of UX & Product @obama-for-america, founding team @the-point, early UXer @orbitz, founder @fuzzy-math.

Adam Perkins

Co-founder of 900dpi. Entrepreneur and full-stack developer of eight years. @university-of-wisconsin-whitewater
http://www.aap.bz

Drew Gilliam

Founder-in-Residence at Wavetable. Previously Co-Founder of HaveMyShift.com and PwC's Emerging Technology Lab.

Stan Bokov

Co-founded TradingView (COO), previously worked at MultiCharts (COO) and Canada Revenue Agency.
http://blog.tradingview.com

Nicolas Roth

co-founder at walk.by • Studied at @NU

Jeremy Crane

Serial Entrepreneur. Into parking and technology. Lover of people, business and life.
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/doug_moe/article_5f92b3e2-badb-11df-b741-001cc4c002e0.html

David Kadavy

Author of Design for Hackers (Debuted at #18 on @amazon) Mentor at 500 Startups. Changing the way you see design.

Brian Hawkins

Co-founder of @styleseek. Consumer market analyst; serial entrepreneur; brand developer; consumer, social and marketing strategist in fashion merchandising.
http://styleseekprivate.wordpress.com/

Matt Tortora

Founder ClaraStream • Studied at @ohio-state-university Founded & bootstrapped e-commerce company into IR Magazine Top 1,000. 10 years technology sales & marketing experience.

Chase Perkins

Founder & CEO @thoughtly Juris Doctor @loyola-university-chicago BBA in Finance @southern-methodist-university
http://thoughtly.co/blog

Dennis Globa

Co-founder and CEO of TradingView.

Steven Lee

Founder of Opternative, which helps individuals gain greater accessibility in eye care, through unique technological innovations.

Joe Born

Founder of @digital-innovations, @neuros-technology and @sonr-labs. Inventor of consumer products totaling $350M in revenue.

Vipin Shri

In search of full-time role while currently freelancing & volunteering. Marketing/Jack-of-all trades at @olapic , @dropgifts , and @parse-ly. BA Econ UConn

Moshe Tamssot

Founder & CEO @cookitfor-us | Founder, MonksOfInvention.com | Founder, InnovationCenter.com | Intrapreneur - @american-express, GE Capital, @kraft-foods
http://blog.CookItFor.Us

Stephen Meade

Have built several companies. 1st big win- ecom company 1996, recently- Cenoplex- new mobile technology, current- My WetRock- big environmental impact product.
http://stephenmeade.wordpress.com/

Joaquin (Kino) Aguilar

PhD at @northwestern-university. Generalist: software/web development, data analytics, and communication.

Adam Stein

VP of Product, co-founder at @gridium. Co-founder of @terrapass. Product and engineering at @tellme, @trilogy. @wharton-school MBA, @stanford-university BS.

Bob Casey

Lead Platform @clover-technologies-group • Founder & CEO @yourenew (sold to Clover in '12) • Board Member @yale-university Entrepreneurial Institute
http://bobcasey.me

Patrick Navarro

CTO and co-founder of @whimseybox. Previously co-founded @bestfriendbox, worked at @gowalla, @amd, @vaynermedia

Joey Kirk

Design Director of Bloc.io, Lead Designer for High Gear Media. Founder of Made by Munsters.

Frank Yang

Lead Developer @styleseek. Passion for building and shipping elegant web products.

Ariane Fisher

Chief Operating Officer @storymix-media. Mech. Engineering w/ Honors, Stevens Tech. @apple Certified FCP & Motion Graphics. Engine Design and Field Service Engineer @ford-motor
http://storymixmedia.com/weddings/blog

Daniel Jacobs

CEO Placebo Effect. Eight years leading philanthropic tech orgs. Relationship builder. One exit. Media magnet. BA Williams College.

George Korsnick

CTO of @silvrspoon, Y Combinator Alum, Carnegie Mellon CASOS PhD researcher & MSIT grad, entrepreneur
http://georgekorsnick.com

Kevin Melgaard

Founder of @introfly, former attorney, Inventor & Founder of Gentleman's Vice Golf & Cigar Accessories.
http://blog.introfly.com

Craig Vodnik

VP Operations and Co-Founder at cleverbridge
http://www.buildingkeystones.com

Chris Phenner

First BD role was on behalf of the Mosaic browser from Spyglass, and roles at RollingStone.com, Napster (v1), CNET, Audible & Thumbplay (now Clear Channel)

Dave DeMink

Current: RVP, Sales - North America at @ringcentral. 12 years SMB Sales/Marketing experience - Loudcloud, WebEx, SuccessFactors, @ringcentral

Derek Brooks

Builder. Fixer. Thinker. Rocker.
http://derek.broox.com

Chip Aubry

Co-Founder of @elicit, Inc.

Alex Wasserman

Co-Founder / CEO @tapfwd | Frmr VP @rapleaf (acquired) and Co-Founder @measy (Webby Award) | Kellogg MBA

Jack Wheeler

Founder @lost-crates • Studied at University of Michigan

Dave Linhardt

Serial entrepreneur 13 years. Currently obsessed with helping lead buyers buy smarter. Founder of @legitlead, FounderSensei.com & mentor @techstars Chicago.
http://legitlead.com/

Hari Srinivasan

Founder @we-created-it-1 • Worked at Telenav, V-Vehicle (KPCB & GV startup), @venrock • Product & Marketing Background • @stanford-university MBA

Rob McLennan

Worked at @parkwhiz, @red-foundry • Studied at @dartmouth-college, @kellogg-school-of-management

Brian Luerssen

CEO of Delightful. Kauffman Fellow (Class 18). Founder and Board Member of Quantitative Insights. Former: GM of OkCupid Labs. MBA from University of Chicago.

Rod Rakic

Growing @openairplane Professional pilot, husband, father, nerd. Passionate about user experience + aviation. Find me on a computer, or in a cockpit.
http://blog.aopa.org/opinionleaders/category/authors/rod-rakic/

Zachary Friedman

Software Engineer @stacksocial • 1st employee @lasso • Studied at @madison

Laurence Hayward

Investor in @tagnetics, @10x-technology, @advanced-diamond-technologies, @jiminy and @autonomic-materials Inc.
http://www.independence-equity.com

Zach Reed

Blue Tide Founder // @parkwhiz Front-End // Love a good API // Design // JS // CSS // UI/UX // Optimism // SharkWeek // From Indianapolis, IN
http://blog.iamzachreed.com/

Suzanne H. EL-Moursi

    Suzanne is a trained Interaction Designer who has over 15 years as a practioner applying the methodology of Design Thinking and Human-Centered Design to various projects across industries in healthcare, financial services, automotive, telecommunicatio

Dallas Beek

CTO @weplann. Hacker-Software eCommerce guru. 13+ years @ebay & @intacct building solutions used on over 10,000 websites doing over $1 billion in transactions.

Sharon Schneider

Co-founder & CEO of Upscale Resale @moxiejeankids, @ExcelerateLabs class of '12, adviser @theImpactEngine #collcons #mom #startup
http://www.builtinchicago.org/member/sharonschneider

Greg Cardoni

Web & Mobile Software Engineer. CTO: @venyooz. Previously at @mahalo, @spire-io, @the-starter-league, & @recsolu. B.A., Honors in Philosophy.
http://cardoni.net

Jonathan Pasky

Principal & CEO, Pasky IP Law LLC. Patent Attorney. Founder, @data-2-0 (DeveloperWeek, DataWeek, API World) & @techweek. Mentor, @techstars, @healthbox
http://dataweek.com

Spencer Morris

Founder Ticket Scalpr, @bistro-studios

Scott Kluth

Founder and CEO of @couponcabin.com; director of The Kluth Family Foundation
http://www.couponcabin.com/blog

Muneeb Khawaja

Senior Developer at @caremerge. Working on @node-js, @ios-development @ruby-on-rails-1 & @backbone-js ..a true full-stack engineer. Studied at @university-of-york

Paul Koziarz

Co-founder & CMO at @cartavi
http://cartavi.com/blog/

Jon Turow

I build global businesses. Founded knockknock (funded by 500 startups). Cloud, mobile, NoSQL, connected devices,(Kellogg MBA, @wharton-school BSE, @amazon-web-services, @accenture Strategy)

Rod da Silva

Founder & CEO of WebCurfew
https://www.webcurfew.com/parentalcontrols/DigitalLoitering.aspx

Feyi Olopade

CEO and Co-Founder Cancer IQ • Worked at @mckinsey-company, @credit-suisse @UChicago Medical Center • Studied at @wharton-school

Brian T. Edwards

Disrupting status quo from forefront of innovation in biomedical informatics with @jcsilverstein and the HealthGrid.org team. I blog for @imedicalapps.
http://www.imedicalapps.com/author/brian-edwards/

Jeff Froom

Co-founder, VP Application at @elicit

Tyler V. Engh

Co-founder @r7-partners. Investor @bloom-energy, @tabula, @socialcrunch. Former board observer @wayport @amyris-biotechnologies @ooma @magnum-semiconductor.

Joseph D Ryan

Business Development Manager at Merchant Atlas: Fully Automating Sales, Masters at Hult International Business School, Venture Scholar at G51 Capital
http://merchantatlas.wordpress.com/

Sandra Pinter

Founder Moxie Jean

Lindsay Cohen

CEO and Co-Founder @getafive, I like to think creatively and operate leanly. A dozen years in corporate America pre-start up will do that to ya.

Amrit Ayalur

Worked at @ribbon, @mobile-captain • Studying EECS at @university-of-california-berkeley. Web developer. Rails specialist.

Marc Summe

A former FeeFighter who likes online marketing and finance
http://www.hadleycapital.com/blog/author/133

Natasha Sawlani

VP of @kitchin. MBA/MSA student at Loyola Quinlan GSB. Summer quarter student at @the-starter-league. Worked at @edelman in Biz Dev, Marketing, PR and Finance.

Adam Hallett

Ruby on Rails Engineer

Patrick Daday

Has previously worked at two startups. Looking to help Raise take their Loyalty Platform to the next level. Eager to get back in the startup world of Chicago.

Alberto Moriondo

Entrepreneur & early stage investor. President @alameda Holdings, LLC, Co-Founder @tribal-technologies • Worked at @motorola, @lucent-technologies • Studied at @the-wharton-school

Chuck VonDrehle

VP Solar Operations @kiwi-solar • Project Manager @grosolar • NAPCEP Certified Solar PV Installer

Dean Bravos

SVP at @parkwhiz. Serial entrepreneur and global market maker driving $400+ million in revenue that created $4+ billion in market capitalization.

Mark De Avila

Currently @quarterly, Previously bizdev @12society, consultant @nbcuniversal, strategy consultant @joneslanglasalle

Kevin Lillie

Econ/finance background: Angel investing and micro-lending. Operating side at venture backed Power2Switch as business analyst. Previously in politics in D.C.
https://medium.com/@klillie7

Mark Stratman

Worked at @parkwhiz • Studied at @university-of-illinois-chicago

Matt Williams

Designer and Developer based in Chicago

Mike Fisher

CEO @storymix-media. Aerospace Eng Deg U of Mich; System Eng at @ford-motor: worldwide sales presentations, Options Trader in Chicago: 5+M trading profits

Charles Michael

Worked @anyperk • Studied @marquette

Mitch Posada

Advisor of Fast Air Buy LLC, co-chair Heartland Mobile Council's Summit 2012, former digital strategy consultant at Chicago Fire Soccer Club. UC @university-of-california-berkeley MBA.
http://www.mitchellposada.com

Chris Molnar

CTO at @pear-formerly-apparel-media-group. Entrepreneur, advisor, technologist. Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign.

Jack DeTrempe

Seeking new startup position • Worked at @food-genius • Studied at @miami-university • Interned @ Tap.me • Co-founder of Alpine Children's Charity

Frank V. Pinto

Founder @monthlys-1, @mantra-labs-2 • Worked at @lightbank, @benchprep

Edward Domain

Raconteur with a Capital R. Also CEO of @tech-li

Gavenraj Sodhi

CEO and Co-Founder of iMedia.fm's A7 solution, providing an Immersive Experience Learning for Kids, reach of over 160 Million.

Jonah Grant

Developer @modest-inc Helped to found @belly out of high school. Previously @lightbank. School during the day.

Timothy James Henry

Chicago Native. Young Professional. Tech Enthusiast. Lifelong Learner. First hire @LogisticalLabs Worked @mantra-1 @fooda @lightbank

Dominik Mazur

Founder CamFind, Studied @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign computer science and mathematics, Founded the search engine - JRank.org and StateUniversity.com Helicopter Pilot for a hobby

Lisa Marie Chatroop

Marketing Manager at @good-co. Former Senior Account Manager at @socialkaty. @depaul-university-1 and @american-intercontinental-university Alumni.
http://blog.good.co

John Ciasulli

David, I received your email intro via angle.co and am encouraged by your progress thus far. I would be happy to speak with you via phone or over coffee. Feel free to email me at [email protected] or [email protected] Sincerely, Joh

JD Hartley

Lead front-end developer at @stagebloc, founder @mirrorgram. Hopelessly addicted to Doctor Who, awful puns, and Oxford commas.

Lauren Nelson

Team member of @cakestyle.

Cece Yu

UI at @alltuition and brilliant.org. Contributed to @food-genius and @betterfly. UChicago economics grad. Loves product, IxD, and brands that span the digital and the physical.

Sal Cilella

Techstars mentor, start-up advisor. Currently @razorfish. Acquity Group and gravitytank alum. Experience design, mobile, omni-channel focus.

Nihal Advani

Founder & CEO of @georama. Ex-Program Manager at @microsoft. Also was at @google. Digital Marketing Guru - Search, Display, Social. Entrepreneur, Visionary, Techy.

Jason Ngan

Led product. Developed high-freq trading platform, risk mgmt platform. BSMS Physics, EE
http://jasonngan.com

Satish Kodukula

Co-Founder of Groupcharger, @nabthedeal and TheLunchDeal.Strong product development, technical strategy,operations and business development.2 startups sold.

Howard Tullman

Tyler Coppock

Operations Analyst at CakeStyle with a strong background in writing.

Rahier Rahman

CEO of Pangea. Prepaid, Telecom, Finance and Start-up experience. Investor and media background (Cerberus, Time Warner). BA, UPENN. MBA, Chicago Booth.

Corbett Drummey

Co-Founder of Popular Pays. Previously @ Leo Burnett working on the Allstate Mayhem campaign.

Ozzie Diaz

Founder @bivio-networks • Worked at @hewlett-packard, @cisco-systems-deleted-deleted • Studied at @national-university, @northeastern-illinois-university

Tom Harness

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Adam London

@lightbank Associate, experimenting at @thelunchread, writing @ABrewingThought. Formerly @bcg and @university-of-michigan.

Lyle Berkowitz, MD

Primary Care Physician, Entrepreneur, Head of Informatics and Innovation for Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group, "20 People who make Healthcare Better"
http://drlyle.blogspot.com/

Bradford Folkens

Founder @JRank site search engine, @stateuniversity • Worked at @camfind • B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics at @northern-illinois-university

Jonathan Baran

Co-founder and CEO of heathfinch.
http://blog.healthfinch.com

Josh Billions

CTO and Founder of @bikespike 8+ years of development experience. Embedded Hardware / Software Engineer & iOS Software Developer. 3 years experience @apple

Christopher Nakutis

Founder @stork-stack • Worked at @h-i-g-capital • Studied at @wharton-school, @northwestern-university
http://blog.storkstack.com

Allison Hannon

Founder @root3-technologies • Studied at @columbia-university, @university-of-chicago Worked at The Climate Group, Argonne Nat'l Labs Herman Fellow UChicago Booth

Ilya Beyrak

Founder Resultly • Studied at @depaul-university
http://blog.resultly.com

Michael Yoch

SVP Product at HelloWallet, formerly at NPR. Product, strategy, and ops background. JD UT Austin.

Joyce Schwarz

Advisor 75 early-stage venture funded firms -- emusic to Primesense. 50 new product rollouts. Bestselling author, speaker,past president USC Film Alumni assn
http://www.hollywood2020.net

David Rush

Co-founder and CEO @earshotinc. Successful start-up experience and proven leader building and managing high performing teams.

Paul Smith

Founder @everyblock, @public-good-software • Worked at @democratic-national-committe, @center-for-neighborhood-technology

Ash Gupta

CTO, Co-Founder @healthfinch

Ashley Elsner

VP Operations of Greenshoe. JD/MBA candidate Kellogg-Northwestern.

Bill Scheurer

chief giving officer at @givby.com
http://givby.tumblr.com/

Kelsey Lutz

Venture Partner @dashfire. Startup advisor/investor

Kasey Gandham

Co-founder of Packback. Marketer, musician, ed-tech enthusiast, and student affordability advocate.

Dustin Henderlong

Head of Digital @threadless. Formerly User Happiness Officer @snapjoy.

Stephen Sullivan

Former Institutional Investor @ Citi, MBA Student @ UChicago, Scout @ LEO.COM, Small Angel, Aspiring entrepreneur

Joseph Holleman

Founder and CEO of @magister-technologies and developer of its core technologies

Neil Kamireddy

Product and founding team @trunk-club (www.trunkclub.com). Formerly @mckinsey

Dan Salcedo

@everpurse Founder & CTO. Aircraft builder & pilot by 14, entrepreneur at 18, top exec at #25 INC 500 startup by 24. Obsessed with the efficient.
http://thinkbiz.me

Rahul Panchal

Founder @ www.prometheussprings.com, former advertising creative from Crispin Porter, Weiden Kennedy and Young & Rubicam
http://www.rahulpanchal.com

Wes Dearborn

CEO at @lasso (@excelerate'12) | Musician | Polyglot | Working with creative teams since age 12

Brett Gough

CEO at @toy-studio; Shareholder @playphone, Inc.; Founder @viveli, Inc; Advisor of Startups; Investments (Bright.com, Pixalate, @open-install (Sold December 2011))

Varun Jain

MBA Candidate at Kellogg School of Management | Intern at Qualcomm Ventures

Juan M. Hernandez

Serial entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, strategist, all-around builder • CFO at @everpurse • Studied at @kellogg-school-of-management and @northwestern-university

Kiley Williams

Co-Founder @thyme • Worked at @microsoft, @isoftstone • Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university,@stanford-university

Karthik Chandramouli

Rare combo of mobile tech startup + world-class ops, supply chain, and strategy at @toyota, @motorola, @palm. @harvard-university Kennedy School @university-of-louisville

Jonathon Schuster

I absolutely love growing companies through marketing that actually results in sales- not just to anyone, but to the right customers.

Jordan Bouvier

Developer at Social Sonar, Former Googler, Open Source Contributer
http://www.thatdorkjordan.com

Jason Wadler

Brette Borow

Co-Founder and CEO of GirlsGuideTo

Jeff Judge

CEO of @signal. Worked at @orbitz, E&Y. Excited about marketing, analytics, personal data and wearable tech.
http://www.jeffjudge.com

Mike Hostetler

Former jQuery Core Team Member, CEO of appendTo.

Christopher Brauchli

CTO at @lasso. First startup out of college. Programmer since I was 11.

Christopher Ross

CEO & Founder of @fotojelly-1. Accomplished technologies with exp. as developer, CTO, sw sales exec and CEO of a small ISV. Founder Institute graduate.
http://blog.christopherross.net

Steve Mohebi

Co-founder, Smithfield Medical Director of Sales & B.D., BetaSphere Founder, Caspian Partners, LLC Studied @university-of-california-berkeley

Gabriel Grisé

Cofounder and CTO of @glancee, inc. Software engineer graduated from Ecole de technologie superieure. Worked at Ericsson, CAE and collaborated with @massachusetts-institute-of-technology.

Aaron Frazin

Founder and CEO @charlie-app a @dreamit-ventures backed company. Kauffman Global Scholar 2012 @ewing-marion-kauffman-foundation

Nick Cromydas

Founder TapFit • Worked at @kpmg, @northwestern-university-1 • Studied at @vanderbilt-university

Rob Volk

Builds highly scalable web apps. Loves skiing, climbing, traveling, & listening to live music. CTO @charlie-app past: CTO Beyond Diet, Sr. Consultant @avanade
http://robvolk.com

Teddy Zmrhal

Entrepreneur, Designer, Teacher and Director at IDEO

Brian Chamberlain

Web developer specializing in Ruby on Rails application design, development, and deployment
http://www.breakpointer.co

Jason Block

Master's HCI student at Carnegie Mellon, with B.S. in Mechanical Engineering/Robotics. Worked as a generalist product designer/developer at Picplum.

Mike Shannon

Founder Packback • Studied at @illinois-state-university. Striving toward more affordable and exciting content in higher-ed.
http://MikeShannonBlog.wordpress.com

Eric Pitt

Marketing Coordinator @opternative Formerly @mentormob & @groupon
http://www.ericmpitt.com/blog

AJ Archibald

Principal at Startup Culture. Been involved intimately with Social and Mobile Games for the last 5 years. Strong Biz Dev relationships built over the last 15yrs

Jesse Pinho

CIO & co-founder at @everpurse; creator of @nomorecreeps.com and occasional freelancer.
http://jessepinho.com

Matt Tillman

VP Product at SET, builder of software from scratch. Previously at CAI, Starbelly, & Adchemy.

Mark Clark

Founder @darc-corporation, O2Works • Worked at @oracle-corporation • Investor @fantree, @klick-push • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign

Chad Kruse

Creator of products & new markets. Sideline hacker. BizDev/product/COO @ @greengoose, @forkfly, @bonanza. Early career @intuit and @saic in CorpDev & strategy.
http://www.chadkruse.com

Ariel Alexovich

Recent Oxford MBA grad, less-recent Northwestern journalism grad. Worked in reporting, writing and product launch for Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Politico.

Justin Jarvinen

Startup advisor. Biz dev guru. Strategist w/18 yrs brand, entnmnt & media relationships • Worked at @bear-stearns-co-inc • Studied at @northwestern-university

Kyle Hanson

Developed parallel backtesting software for stock trading firm. Haskell lover. Python guru. Strong web development background. Lead developer on many projects.

Mark Liu

CEO and co-founder of @leaguevine. Started the company out of college. BS, MS in computer science, specializing in algorithms.

Tim Jahn

Co-Founder of matchist & @entrepreneurs-unpluggd

Jason Lobel

CEO and Co-Founder of @swiftiq
http://www.blog.swiftiq.com

Nishant Patni

Founder CultureAlley. Past @boston-consulting-group, @enphase-energy. Kellogg MBA'12 (Beta Gamma Sigma honor); Engineer @indian-institute-of-technology-bombay
http://www.blog.culturealley.com

Donna White

Exceptional recruiter, strong biz acumen. Fearless, smart, strategic. Passionate about building extraordinary startup teams/culture. Will commute NYC, SF, SV
http://www.hirethoughts.blogspot.com

Jennifer Thomas

Founder Project Travel • Pun Champion • 2013 "Hottest Women in Tech" @killerstartups • #Quadricorn #Hacker #Hustler

CohesiveFT

The original cloud networking company. With our VNS3 product, over 700 customers extend networks to create hybrid clouds.
http://blog.cohesiveft.com

John Morgan

Founder/CEO of @motozuma-1. Founded Synergy Marketing Partners in 2007. Extensive automotive marketing background. Studied at University of Notre Dame
http://blog.motozuma.com

Art Roldan

ISD Corporation, Executive Chairman & CEO

Tom Denison

My passion is mentoring, advising, funding and founding tech startups. Seriously seasoned and savvy strategy, marketing and business development veteran.
http://tomdenison.tumblr.com/

Doug Bobenhouse

President / Co-Founder of Synchology. Payments disruptor.

Kenneth Wyche

Founder of @glittergates-corp, The go to business guy. Over 20 yrs investing in start-up companies. Advisor, Investor, Deep Thinker from beginning to the end.

Chris Carter

Founder WisePatient • Worked at @accenture, @arcapita-inc • Studied at @vanderbilt-university, @kellogg-school-of-management

Scotty Iseri

Founder of The FUNDA organization LLC
http://scottyiseri.com

Craig Carapelho

Founder and CEO of @3d-travel, a travel-tech startup that raised $3.5MM. Founder and CEO of @team-vision, a successful interactive agency for over 15 years.
http://3dhawaii.com/blog

Yuri Rutman

CEO,Writer,Director, Producer @noci-pictures-entertainment Executive Producer @fremantlemedia Co-Executive Producer @SpikeTV. Cerebral,Transparent, Visionary.

Abtin Hamidi

Experienced in growing sales teams for early stage and hyper-growth tech companies

Clayton Cohn

Self-taught securities trader turned angel investor, incubator and entrepreneur.
http://www.stocktwits.com/claytoncohn

Stan Gauss

Founder @reportedly • Worked at @gannett, @Advance Internet, @Knight Ridder Digital, @vendasta • Studied at @rutgers-university-new-brunswick
http://www.stanleygauss.com

Paul Foley

Founder Nimbus, helping start-ups and SMB's utilize cloud apps. Previous: Market Expansion Belly, and Technology Analyst for Deloitte Consulting
http://www.thenimbusclouds.com/

Garrett Buxton

Experienced venture capital associate, tech startup operator, strategist, advisor. Love to build things, namely products and organizations of awesome people.

Gautam Gulati

Chief Medical Officer & Head of Product Innovation at Physicians Interactive Holdings; Creator of OMNIO; Advisor: Medikly; Supporter of "Health Artists"
http://gautamgulati.me/

Aaron Robinson

@zockster and @parametric • Worked at @google (public policy, HR tech), @obama for America (operations) • Studied at @Wash U (economics)

Konrad Rodak

Founder @contractor-hero • Worked at @redfin, @aq-construction • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
http://konradrodak.com

Gursimran Singh

Northwestern CS; Ruby and Clojure fan; real Rails experience at a startup (walkby); strong interest in programming (hackathons, github activity)

Kiran Panesar

Co-founder and iOS developer at @mobilex-labs – The best platform for building native mobile apps without any coding. Computer Science at @cardiff-university.

Willie Myers

Head of Marketing and Customer Support @rapleaf; Princeton AB; excellent writer, editor, creative thinker. Former expat.

Sue Kim

The most persistent female bastard you ever met.
http://blog.8thlight.com/sue-kim/archive.html

Ellen Malloy

Co-founder & CRO @morsel. Past restaurant publicist for Paul Kahan, Michael Jordan & Art Smith. Culinary degree & sommelier, Studied at @indiana-university-bloomington & @depaul-university

Paul A. Linden

Entrepreneur & Storyteller • Founder Hindex, Inc • Education and Business Development background • Worked at @img • Studied at @university of Miami, @Augustana

Jill Salzman

Founder of @the-founding-moms; ran two companies previously. @brown-university grad, lawyer, TED talker, lover of chocolate.
http://FoundingMoms.com/blog

Scott Kacyn

Vanderbilt Engineering, mobile specialist w/ full stack experience, UX/UI design chops, launched 2 mobile apps, worked for Intuit, played semi-pro tennis.

Jason Seiden

Co-founder & CEO of @ajax-workforce-marketing, a social media training company with a scalable, 1:1 training model. Background in both training & web technologies.
http://jasonseiden.com

Sam Rosen

Andrew Saunders

Integrated Marketing & Content Solutions Executive at CAA (@creative-artists-agency). Featured in Wired, Fast Company and Banff Media Festival.
http://www.andrewsaunders.com

Tim Grace

Product Management & Marketing Exec; Startup vet, currently at Trunk Club; Previously at Cars.com, Apartments.com.

Hemant Kashyap

Co-Founder @whittl Strong business background (IBM, Motorola, Bridge Strategy Group). Kellogg & Michigan State

Jared McKiernan

I love the Internet, tech startups, math, statistics, sports analysis, game theory, writing, freestyle rhymes, craft beer & being an outsider.

Patrick Griffin

Mark Michuda

TextHub & CallOnTheGo

Amber Porter Telfer

Partner leader at Lithium. Agency background. Digital and social strategy experience: BofA, Coca-Cola, etc. Product development at a dot com. U.S. Army Veteran

Ross Gordon

CEO/Founder CraftJack (sold in June 2012). Co-founder @mystery-tackle-box • Worked at @leo-burnett, @arc-worldwide . Big ideas followed by precise execution.
http://www.builtinchicago.org/member/rossgordon

michael winnick

Founder dscout, @gravitytank • Worked at @wired-magazine • Studied at @stanford-university, @institute-of-design-illinois-institute-of-technology

Dan Kuthy

Excelerate Labs 2010 Graduate. SEO, Analytics & Content Expert.

Dave Walker

Co-founder of @bizhive; founder/principal of @synthacis, intra-incubator consultancy; founder/ceo of 2010 agency of the year geomentum; former US cmo of Toys R Us

Nicholas Haynes

Co-Founder @thyme • Worked at @tallan-consulting @direct-energy • Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university

Jordan Wolf

Aspiring serial entrepreneur.

Jordan Feldstein

Founder @refstop-com (sold 2007), Currently @thepizzabutton and @sway-fm • Worked at @isocket • Studied at @indiana-university-bloomington

Neil Kane

Founder @solarbridge-technologies, @advanced-diamond-technologies-inc • Worked at @microsoft, @ibm • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign, @university-of-chicago

Brent Rickles

Sustainable, Long-Term ROI Growth Strategist. Founded my 1st company in Chicago. 5 years in S.F. working for two E&Y entrepreneur of the year award winners.

Kunal Kalro

Founder @outtrippin. Speaks 4 languages. Lived on 4 continents. 2 time travel-tech entrepreneur. Former mgmt consultant. Travel nerd with a business background.
http://kckal.tumblr.com

Yael Hochberg

Entrepreneurship and Finance professor at MIT Sloan School of Management; executive education professor at Kellogg School of Management. VC, entrepreneurship and innovation guru. Startup advisor. Former entrepreneur.

Alexander Koppel

☃ at @espark-learning
http://www.alexkoppel.com

Justin Peddycoart

Entrepreneur, User-Experience Evangelist, Sense-Maker, Founder of Cicada Design Co. (2007), CrinklePaw Pet Innovations (2009).

Teresa Boucas

One of the top and most tenured sales performers at Trunk Club, Fluent in four languages, Philanthropist primarily in support of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Piano and Ping Pong enthusiast, and #technerd #ihearttechteams

Chris Campbell

Fan of making dollars and spending pesos. Entrepreneur. Hustler. World Traveler. Life Hacker. Vagabond. Chaser of Dreams & Endless Summers- CEO @ReviewTrackers
http://www.chrisrcampbell.com/blog/

Neal Goyal

http://www.calderainvestmentgroup.com

Ian Connor

Founder @pubget • Worked at @enthuse, @iris-associates
http://ianconnor.blogspot.com

Scott Herkelman

President / Board of Directors at Wi3 Inc.

Chris Conley

Founder workforce.io • Worked at @motorola, @honeywell • Investor @dscout • Studied at @illinois-institute-of-technology

Chiara Piccinotti

Self taught R developer & data viz geek. Founder of edu-tech startup Apply in the Sky. Solid biz background (Lazard, Booth MBA 2012). B.A. in Math & Philosophy.

Aristo Partners

Founder Ariso Partners • Worked at @mckinsey-company, @novartis • Investor @zocdoc, @tethys-bioscience • Studied at @northwestern-university

Evan Lewis

Co-Founder @eprof - Dev/Design @StarterLeague - Ivey HBA 2012
http://blog.eprof.com

Bryon Finke

Strategy consultant and entrepreneur. Founder of @furnishly, the local furniture marketplace.
http://www.furnishly.com/blog

Mark Solovy

Founder @gunnallen-venture-partners, @israel-america-discovery-fund • Worked at @hercules-technology-growth-capital • Studied at @university-of-pennsylvania, @washington-university-in-saint-louis

John Krebsbach

Co-Founded @relify-1. Hustler & operator. @theironyard '12. Worked at Anheuser-Busch, Lehman Brothers, Aileron.

Brian Fields

Head of strategic partnerships at @groupon, formerly corporate development at @tribune-company

Nikki Rostollan

Math Nerd, Director of Manufacturing Operations @maillift

Meghan Bakken (O'Shaughnessy)

I'm helping startups and brands stand out in a world full of chatter. A life-long learner, I believe the best way to live life is by experiencing it!

Nima Elyassi-Rad

Marketplace Ops @recruitloop. All things Capital Markets and Music considered. Startup junkie. Aspiring VC. Left handed & footed. @IansFrancesSt & @groupon alum
http://paisleypattern.tumblr.com

Erik Brown

Founder @earshot-2 • One of the first 10 employees at @west-monroe-partners • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign. Software Engineering and Management Consulting background.

David Israel-Rosen

CEO at @china-social-commerce-group (CSCG)

Raja Bhatia

Founder @confluence-labs, @enthrive • Worked at @avid-life-media • Studied at @queen-s-university

Cyprian Francis

VP of Marketing at @power-tower

Joel Runyon

Founder Impossible Ventures
http://impossiblehq.com

E. Jeffrey Lyons

M&A Advisor at City Capital, Founder/BOD - PRIMIS (52% IRR), Pres./BOD - BigTime Software (VC-backed), Adj. Entrep. Faculty at NU, Kellogg & Techstars Mentor

Nicholas Brown

ZipFit CFO Energy Micro, Director of Sales Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Computer Engineer

Manos Pontikakis

Worked at @google, @citadel-investment-group • Studied Computer Science at @stanford-university. Python, Data Mining, Quant Finance

Ben Rowland

Jimmy Skuros

Product Manager at @fooda. Co-Founder of @soundofffm & @Canaryware. A jack of all trades, passionate technologist & entrepreneur. Obsessed with product vision.

Gary Dollinger

Founder of @fantasy-player-exchange CEO of @adalyze-technologies CTO Advisory to many others 16 years of Software Development and IT Management experience

Dan Nelson

Dan is a designer and developer, specializing in experience and interface design and front-end development.

Brian Axelrad

Business counselor and advisor: Chief Investment Officer at Beyond Capital Fund and business lawyer for startups and investors through Horwood Marcus & Berk

Cameron Smith

Co-Founder and CEO @bennett-day-school, a PreK-8 private school company. Board member at Royall & Co., the leading higher ed enrollment marketing services firm.

Alexander Kruger

Worked at @belly, @spothero • Studied at @university-of-michigan

Zenah Khawaja

Completed BS @university-of-illinois-chicago then worked @tellabs then started @semiautomatic3d

Shital Chheda

Consultant @mckinsey-company, Revenue Leader @google, @base-crm and @texas-instruments • MBA @northwestern-university-1 (Kellogg), MS & BS Eng @virginia-tech

Dave Anderson

Founder JiSu, CMO Entrigna. Established business leader (United Airlines, Tap Pharamceutical). Former consultant (ZS Associates) and academic (PhD Applied Math)
http://www.jisushopping.com/blog/

Samuel Frith

Studied at @miami-university

Pinaki Saha

Co-founder of crowdfynd. Built meboxmedia.com & FlickLaunch.com. Working on location based mobile applications and iOS application development incubator.

Brian WIlkin

Co-Founder of Dude Products. Strong business background and possess extreme amounts of hustle.

Yan Pritzker

CTO @reverb
http://yanpritzker.com

Josh Saunders

Busy disrupting the hospitality & beverage industry. Past experience in startups related to sustainability. Have held senior roles in operations mgmt & biz dev.
http://www.joshuasaunders.com

Matt Voigt

Co-founder / Chief Instigator @ www.saambaa.com. 3x entrepreneur: software, real estate, healthcare. Like heights. Love people. Enjoy creating things.

Sheila Guo

Founder Peckish • Worked at @macquarie-bank • Studied at @university-of-california-los-angeles, @university-of-nebraska-lincoln

Andrew Dennis

Co-Founder @spaciety

Tim Skaggs

Develop and design apps. Dev/Design for @steamboat-labs-1 and @Brewerbox. Worked on @kloudless @deskhero

Sibila Bijedic

Vast knowledge and extensive experience in all facets of business analysis, project management, implementation of corporate initiatives, and systems development projects.

Steven Wagner

CEO of @dealer-ignition and Dealy, Strong sales and Marketing, Product Development and Architecture. Work @ford-motor-company, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz.
http://saasceo.me

Marc Philobos

Opened MetLife Stadium as an employee of New York Jets, StubHub, Inc, Halogen Guides. Passion for startups, MA University of San Francisco.

Richard Hankison

Marketing and Bus Dev Entrepreneur with UW Wisconsin JD & Entrepreneurship and former Googler. Interested in Social and Environmental Entrepreneurship.

Khan Sung Won Lee

Founded Smilegiver, a mobile game start-up in Korea (sold to GFVC), worked on online game projects, Northwestern University. Current: Blinkfire Analytics

Kyle Joseph

Co-Founder @shopgab • Worked at @elance, @continental-automotive • Studied at @depaul-university, @bradley-university
http://shopgab.wordpress.com

Ezl Liu

Founder at @rocket-lease
http://rocketlease.com/blog

Drew Wade

Wharton MBA, product fanatic with a couple of startups under my belt. Strong business background.

Marcy Capron

Partner/CEO: @polymathic We build products for nontech entrepreneurs & intrapreneurs. I live for: Logan Sq, DIY/interior design, planning stuff, & heavy beats.
http://wearepolymathic.com/blog

Andrew Gluck

Founder Ox&Pen • Portfolio Manager at @harris-associates • stock analyst/portfolio manager at Shoreline Micro-Cap fund, MBA: Finance/CFA; Studied at @university-of-california-santa-barbara

Jonathan Ozeran

Product designer, team builder & coder getting into some new trouble. Advisor to Chicago & Detroit startups. #GoWings #GoBlue #ChicagoStartups

John Pitocco

Technology Entrepreneur – Create, Design, Develop, Innovate

Chris Kiser

Marketing/Sales Hustler. 5 experiences in marketing and sales across different industries and company sizes, most recently interning at Google.

Harrison Leavitt

University of Colorado at Boulder Graduate (BA); Worked at logistics firm that grossed $300 million in revenue in 2012; current Sales Associate for Lua Technologies.

Samantha Harris

New Business Development at @kumbuya.com

David Perlmutter

Disruptive Technology Strategist, worked for 3 start-ups, consulted numerous tech companies on how to work with brands and advertising agencies, adept a transforming networking into revenue

Robbie Abed

Founder @rawdesignr. Coder, Blogger, Connector.
http://www.robbieabed.com

Kevin Kent

A little bit of everything

Terry Howerton

Founder of a tech association, partner at a venture collaborative/incubator, entrepreneur, education booster. Gifted boat rocker that connects people & ideas.
http://www.terryhowerton.com

Monthlys

Founder @monthlys-1, @mantra-1 • Worked at @benchprep, @manifest-digital - UX expert with front-end and back-end chops. 14 years in industry, know how to market.

Ezekiel Binion

Experience Manager for Manifest Digital; Strategy & Experience Advisor for Project Travel; BFA in Graphic design with a strong development background.

John Thomson

Director of Operations of Learnmetrics; Kellogg MBA 2013

Brad Morehead

CEO LiveWatch Security and @SafeMart, Co-Founder @WildcatAngels and writing about #entrepreneurship, #startups, home #security #alarms, @Northwestern & #poker

Thomas Pham

Entrepreneur.Technologist.Consultant - ETC

Maria Santacaterina

Aspiring content marketer with a vision in mind: to change the way marketers think about marketing.

Tomás F. Serna

Founder Nextinit • Studied at @northwestern-university, @instituto-de-empresa

Hank Ostholthoff

My mom told me work hard, be kind to people, and success will follow. Co-Founder of @freebie Family & friends first kinda guy. Growth hacker / biz builder

John Andrews

Jr iOS Developer. Passionate about building & creating. Worked in high pressure environments @goldman-sachs, @oklahoma-city-thunder • Studied at @university-of-michigan B-School

Godard Abel

@proven SaaS Entrepreneur

Paul Hofmann

Founder Saffron Technology • Worked at @northwestern-university-1, @massachusetts-institute-of-technology-1
http://paulhofmann.net/blogs

Phil Alexander

Founder @quick2launch • worked @ernst-young, @brandmuscle, @zodius-advisors
http://quick2launch.com/index.php/blog

Arun Sivashankaran

Clean energy & technology entrepreneur. CEO @kiwi-solar, founder @entessa (Sold 2010).

Adam Scott Riff

Senior executive and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience in marketing / comms, digital media, strategy, product management and operations.

Peter Raisch

Director of Public Relations at Kennedy Communications

Michael Marchese

Founder and CEO of @tempesta-media-1 • Held senior management positions at @leapfrog-online, @websidestory Studied at Indiana University, Bloomington

Jeremy Klein

CEO/Co-Founder @tablesavvy

Ben Rosenfield

Founder & CEO of @freebie, Consumer Behaivor Specialist - CRE Background with over $500m in transactions as Founder @titan-commercial-llc • Studied at @university-of-arizona

Paul Fung

Founder CancerIQ • Worked at @hp, @centric-consulting • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign, @university-of-chicago

Leon Ginsburg

CEO, entrepreneur and investor with 14+ years experience designing software solutions

Jaidev Bhola

Founder of second startup. Seeking additional Angels. Geek. Author (of a physical book). Always trying to be better.

Magda Walczak

Senior marketing pro. MBA. Specializations in tech, financial services, pets, SMB. Strong business background. Experienced across multicultural and distributed teams.

Horatiu Boeriu

Co-Founder & CEO of @grabio. 2nd startup out of college. Strong business background (Ernst & Young), Founded [email protected] (1 million visitors/month)

Sean McClure

Manager - Business Development at Guardian News & Media

Andy Person

Director at Urban Outfitters. Consumer growth operator/investor/advisor. Significant experience working and investing in growth stage to public companies.

Rich Levy

Founder Beamboard • Studied at @indiana-university-bloomington

James Adams

Managing Partner, M4; Sold PE-backed company to (NASDAQ: ABFS) for $180M. Proven GM, Sales Exec in B2B, B2C and B2G. MBA, U of Chicago, '98; BSME, UIUC, '91.

John Ciecholewski

CEO of SUNN, Strong Operations, Sales & Marketing Skills. Cornell MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, MEng in Systems Eng.

Genevieve Marie

Recent Davidson grad, founder and CEO of Campus Sherpas LLC, Dabble LLC intern, and freelance social media/brand strategist
http://Www.thecusp.co

Lance Ennen

Founder & CTO at @big-astronaut-1, Mentor @devbootcamp, former consultant @obtiva, @university-of-advancing-technology @university-of-iowa, born and raised in @chicago http://LanceEnnen.com http://RocketFuelLabs.com
http://lanceennen.com/blog

Sean Story

Founder & CEO, @silver-step. Effective relationship builder with strong business background (JPMorgan, Northern Trust). Kellogg MBA, @princeton-university BA.
http://www.builtinchicago.org/profile/SeanStory

Greg Tarczynski

Founder Chicago Pixels Multimedia • Studied at @kendall-college
http://chicagopixels.blogspot.com/

Jason Pearl

Co-founder Deepworld. Co-founder @outling.com. Co-founder @rentmixer-com. Degrees in Finance and Computer Science.
http://jasonpearl.com

Connor Regan

Northwestern undergrad, coffee lover, Netflixer.

Simcha Kanter

Founder of startups @top-colleague, @wabunga • Founder of @envalent-interactive • Worked at @accenture for six years in business and tech strategy

Shelby Naake

MBA, Project Manager at SocialCrunch

Fabricio F Costa, PhD

Entrepreneur and scientist Genomic Enterprise, CEO and Founder; @datagenno, Co-Founder From Brazil and living in the US

Mahrinah von Schlegel

CoFounder @pxnow, Founded @cibola, Strategy @proofx, digital dev since 2001, Anthropologist, sustainably developed nearly $1B in Real Estate, @Penn + @Wharton

Evan Hareras

Director of Operations at @drift-eyewear

Talia Gibson

Product Marketing Manager with 6 years experience at Google in US and Asia Pacific.

Nirav Batavia

Founder Owl Invest VP of Interactive Marketing @nutshellmail (sold to Constant Contact)
http://www.owlinvest.com/blog

Tim Hines

Founder @business-traveler-social, @curbninja • Studied at @university-of-illinois-chicago
http://www.tnhines.wordpress.com/posts

Ian McCreadie

Former Lower Middle Market Banker, Current Screening and Diligence Team Member @private-capital-alliance
http://privatecapitalalliance.blogspot.com/

Leilani Chee

Member Experience Manager at Project Fixup (Techstars Chicago 2013); Previously Family Resource Specialist at large non-profit agency

Robert Oswald

Worked at @braintree-1

Max De Marzi

Founder @vouched. Experienced Back-end Web Developer. Graph Databases, Real Estate App, Call Center Apps, Job Board App.
http://getvouched.wordpress.com/

Jack Wheeler

Business innovator. Former Founder in Residence at Sandbox Industries - ideating, testing, launching new startups, including Lost Crates. Early Groupon employee

Guillermo Maldonado Ibarguen

Founder of KSubasta. Business owner at age 20. Worked with Deloitte and @microsoft. Strong international management experience.

Adrian Holovaty

Web developer. Cocreated Django Web framework. Founded EveryBlock (sold to msnbc.com). Trained in journalism. I can both talk strategy and ship good code.

Nicole Yeary

Founder of Ms.Tech • Worked with @hootsuite, @midventures • Studied at @purdue-university, @cleveland-state-university, @indiana-wesleyan-university

Eric Trinh

Founder @tabule. Web developer and designer. Graduate (magna cum laude) of @university-of-southern-california. I like beautiful code, food, and magic tricks.

Jared Steffes

Founder @tap-me-3, @tapme-games • Worked at @electronic-arts • Studied at @depaul-university - Love mentoring startups. http://[email protected]/in/jsteffes

Ben Reid

Business Development at Orbitz. Founder of Foodie Registry. Startup Leadership Program Fellow. Derivatives trader. Chicago Booth MBA 2010.

Sairam Rangachari

Daniel Lindmark

Worked at @scout, Teradyne/Eagle, Woodward/MPC, Argonne National Labs. Strong Systems and Interdepartmental Coordination

Scott Skinger

Founder/CEO of @trainsignal (acquired by @pluralsight). Founder/CEO of Blue Whale Web. Looking to partner with people who want to make a difference.

Kunal Parbadia

Co-Founder @BetterWeekdays; @georgia-institute-of-technology Engineer; Worked @accenture, Product Development and User Experience; Love growth hacking

D'Andre Fason

I'm a cabinet-maker & designer of furniture. I am looking to build with the right investor from my garage to our own woodshop! http://www.4frontfurniture.biz

Randy Anderson

Foodlander helps you discover deals and products right around the corner at your local farmers market. #freshdeals #localfood

Chris Zamierowski

Worked at @betterfly-1, @magnani-caruso-dutton • Studied at @northwestern-university

Ryan Coon

Co-founder of @rentalutions. Former Investment Banking Associate at @bmo-capital-markets . @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign '07 Finance & Accounting

Barrett Griffith

Technical Co-Founder @careshare • Heavy-lifting Internet Engineer • Studied at @northwestern-university
http://blog.barrettgriffith.com

Eugene Revzin

COO of @silvrspoon. Founded tech consulting and development firm for startups in 08. Strong business background BS in Mgmt & Intl Bus from Kelley School (IU)
http://blog.silvrspoon.com/

Neil Gupta

Founder @tabule • Developer & aspiring UX Designer • Studied CS + Psych + Business, graduated cum laude @illinois-institute-of-technology
http://metamorphium.com

Prem Panchal

@bikespike @matchist @travelocity @getninjas @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business @southern-methodist-university-1, practitioner of finance, business development and strategy, avid cyclist, travler and tennis player; smart worker.

Derek Beckmann

Serial entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, technologist, strategist. Highly skilled at business/corporate dev, and closing strategic partnerships.

Scott Mandel

CEO of @snapclass. Chicago Entrepreneur. Getting it done.

Jonathan Pirc

Team member of @lab42.
http://blog.lab42.com

Charlie Zei

Co-Founder and COO of @push-wellness • Worked at @northwestern-university-1 Feinberg School of Medicine • Grad school at Northwestern, UIC (Epidemiology)

Phil Hammer

Founder & CEO @procureapp-1 I'm passionate about new technologies and in helping corporation's to save expenses via new internet applications.

Michele Joel

www.linkedin.com/in/mjoel

Nick Terkay

CEO of @silvrspoon. Full stack developer. BS/MS in Computer Science.

Zach Finley

4 years of operations & leadershp experience at Groupon, management consulting, Stanford MBA

William Hart

Design engineer currently working at @spark • Cook Engineering Design Fellow, B.E. Mechanical Engineering (2012) at @dartmouth-college College

Guy Harding

Lead engineer at @moneydesktop (rapidly growing PFM provider), co-founded @qbillion (online financial analysis), lead engineer at @i-tv (#1 TV app in appstore)

Scott Shepard

Terri Persico

Founder/CEO Veebit

Austin Asamoa-Tutu

Co-founder & CEO at @sweetperk, Inc; Kellogg MBA, Levy Fellow; Global Product Manager for Embedded Software (Johnson Controls); Web start-up through undergrad.

Elaine Russell

Founder @heirlume

Paul Spata

Winner of 2011 Best Social Networking App & Best Reference App for Android. Previously Mobile Development Director for @thumb.

Kimberly Chulis

CEO of Core Analytics and Game Loyalty. Analytics Expert, covering social, mobile, games, web and offline data analysis. Architect of BrandMeter (TM)
http://clickinsights.blogspot.com

Jim Milbery

Operating Partner for Private Equity Group in Chicago. Masters in Information Technology from IIT in Chicago.
http://jmilbery.wordpress.com

Chris Hacker

Co-Founder of Tectonic Data Systems • Co-designer of @tectonicdb • Former @kirkland-ellis-llp Lawyer • JD @northwestern-university-school-of-law, @UW-Madison
http://www.myshorttrack.com/blog

Leslie Pratch

A licensed clinical psychologist, Leslie Pratch has led Pratch & Company as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since 1998.
http://drlesliepratch.tumblr.com/

Rohit Sankaran

Founder @riot-inc, @asset-harmony, @piepdx alum, worked at @manifest-digital, @arthur-andersen

Bob Zukis

CEO, Board Member & Advisor. Hyde Park Angel, UChicago, Hoopster & Author - never at the same time.

Aji Abraham

Tech entreprenuer. Chicago. Strong in PHP. Worked at Motorola, Brickfish. Founder of @iscripts , @supportpro , @socialdefender . MBA and MS from Arizona State.
http://www.ajiabraham.com

Jeff Strank

Founder @netparty. Building suite of social discovery/networking sites/apps under ChemistryLab.co banner including Youngp.ro / WeJustClick.com / Tribester.com.

Boris Rozman

Experienced Entrepreneur with expertise in Talent Acquisition, Mobile/Web Solutions. Founder/CEO of @cmp-jobs & @loginaut. Bootstrap to $2m. EO NY Member.

Rob Walsh

Co-Founder of @scholastica. Academic publishing experience at Callaloo (JHU Press). Designed at many Chicago software companies.
http://www.robwalshonline.com/blog/

Alexandra Kehoe

I can talk to people through the interwebs as though I'm an actual person and not a robot.

Byron Burke

Lateral thinker & Founder at @bb-media-global-group, Studied @stanford-university & DePaul University

Evan Kuchar

Ruby on Rails Developer at Dabble

Chris Carlson

Former Co-Founder of Tap.Me (Acquired by MediaMath). Experienced digital media executive with proven ability to build and lead successful sales teams--in start-up, growth-stage, and at-scale organizations.

Muhammed Fazeel

Illini, launched 2 startups. Former-Team lead for a software startup, launched from inception to customers. Founder of a digital health startup @benecure

Brad Romney

BCG Project Leader; artist, programmer, business developer, lawyer. JD/MBA from Chicago. Experience in strategy, ops, sales and marketing, and M&A.

Chris Gansen

#geek. Former @ibm, @obama-for-america; founding team @public-good-software • CS from @university-of-michigan
http://self.d-struct.org/

Jake Chapman

Co-Founder of ShowcaseU. Former Professional Pitcher of 8 years.
http://www.showcaseu.com/blogs/jakestakes.aspx

Don Chartier

Versatile manager/doer who sells new technology and services. Drives faster adoption and greater revenue. Was told that I'm "interstitial." Sounds good to me.
http://www.ranchodeluxe.blogspot.com

Brandon Middleton

Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems

Neal Jagtap

Commercial lawyer experienced with technology and startup companies; accustomed to working with small teams and informal work environments; ex-Air Force officer.

Joshua Dean

Founder & CEO, @uberloop

Brian Greenberg

Systems Thinker, Hiker, Entrepreneur, Whole Systems Designer, Philosopher, Technologist http://about.me/brian.greenberg
http://briangreenberg.net

Gauri Sharma

CEO of @lab42. Kellogg MBA. Contributor on @forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gaurisharma/

A

Entrepreneur. Hacker. Founder. Hipster. IU Kelley School of Business.

Ahmed Zedan

Founder LaunchEngine • Worked at @vivaki, @starcom-mediavest-group, @lightbank • Studied at @depaul-university

Jeff Bajayo

Founder of Covr (Stealth), Product Manager at InVisionApp, Editor at BetaList, Adobe Advisory Board Member, New Yorker.

Matthew Reese

BizDev for freemium business models and high volume distribution -- AVG, @sana-security, @crossloop

Phil Dziedzic

MS Engineering Design from Northwestern, led NU Solar Car Team, 1st campus solar installation. Worked at GM & Northrop. Founded 1st tech startup in class at NU.

Alex Pinter

Founded and worked his a** off for Trayn - a new web service for strength and conditioning coaches (currently available by invitation only)

Romil

Founder of @sayclip and TVDeck. Also investor and owner of multiple franchise QSRs. Fun fact: Once raised Nuance's market cap $600MM in intraday trading.
http://venturelevel.com

Kyle Shea

Founder of @yourseniorliving Raising Angel Investment Round. Founding executive member @all-campus. Startup experience @snagajob-com @alloy-media-marketing

Adil Mezghouti

Helped 5 startups develop their products, wrote a couple of mobile apps and worked on several large projects

John Nelson

Director of Business Development at @arborvita-associates Co-Founder of @universitytutor-com Associate at @oakwood-global-finance MBA - @university-of-chicago

Pat Kelly

Strategy/Investment/Financial Services professional, Mechanical Eng. @Yale, MBA @UofC

Roger Wang

CTO and co-founder of @leaguevine. Senior software engineer at Motorola Mobility 2007-2012. BS Computer Engineering UIUC 2007.

Graham Beatty

@harvard-university @ucla-anderson-school-of-management , Experience in private equity and financial analysis, Heavy into future tech

Chris Ziobehr

I am a Partner at @caldera-venture-partners

Jon Abrams

Founder of @edline. Investor in @blackboard, @edline, @chemical-information-services, @atco-crossroads, @clark-street-farm.

Christopher Pauly

Strong business background in emerging tech (Electric Vehicles, Smart Grid, Smart Meters). Kellogg MBA; @depaul-university University College of Law JD

Nikos Avlonas

Nikos Avlonas is founder and President of the Centre for Sustainability & Excellence (CSE) a global Sustainability Strategic advisory and Training organization based in Chicago, Brussels and Athens active in more than 25 countries

John McLaughlin

COO of Critical Mass, creating extraordinary digital experiences that exceed clients business objectives

Philip Nowak

Founder at @firmology. Product Manager at @sears. BA, Economics at @indiana-university-bloomington. Fan of startup entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Brian Lastovich

Worked at @base-crm • Studied at @university-of-dayton
http://blog.getbase.com

BeiBei Que

Chief Legal Rebel • Founder @attorneyfee • Bar Association President • Relentless Hustler

Rahmal Conda

Founder and Platform Architect of @boxes, Founder and CEO of @poolati, Chief Architect of TripTrace, Experienced technical leader, MS in Computer Science.
http://blog.rahmalconda.com

Samer Saab

Founder @unbranded-designs, @revel-central • Worked at @zs-associates • Studied at University of Michigan
http://samernsaab.wordpress.com/

Lucas Ward

COO & Co-Founder of Rippleshot. Former CTO of @fundspire. Previous experience in consulting specializing in open source and agile development.

Christopher Pursuitist

Award-winning pioneer in web publishing, online marketing and ecommerce.

Daniel Rezko

Founder @yella • MBA @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business, VP Ops at $300 mm fund

Darren Marshall

Co-founder @Doejo, Digital Agency of the year 2012, Advisor,
http://mapofthedead.com

Sean Donohue

Designer/art director in Chicago with 15+ years digital/interactive. Most recently Creative Director at Threadless, previously at BBDO, Goodby, Arc, and HUGE.

Brian Pigott

Serial entrepreneur using tech to ease pain points in the B2B and B2C spaces. I cut my teeth as an engineer at Motorola for 5 yrs before heading out on my own.

Josh Liss

Over 1 million people use products I've lead teams in creating. Strategy consulting and bus dev experience with Fortune 50. Written about in the WSJ. UChicago
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/weclickd-social-network-things-wedding-110000224.html

Blake Bible

Former Tech/Media Investment Banker; Founder/Owner @GrassFedSteakhouse and Founder @startingbloc; Strong Operational / Finance / Biz Dev skills in FOOD & MEDIA
http://www.grassfedpartners.com

Bobby Gylling

Recent Miami University graduate. Prior experiences include startups, advertising, marketing, sales, media, biz dev, and relationship building.

John T. Karantonis

Entrepreneur, innovative digital media and technology executive. Formerly CoFounder of a leading location-based digital media network (now part of RMG Mall Media). Worked at various telecom, media and technology companies. Loyola University Chicago.

Avelo Roy

Co founder @bff-gemz

Patrick Rooney

CEO @QUE_social. Co-founder of Zocalo Group (Omnicom). Strong business/management background. Push limits of what's considered possible.

Meghan Hammond

Marketing Director @dabble

John Gulbronson

Founder @myfab5 • Studied at @university-of-michigan
http://blog.myfab5.com

Aaron Post

Father, Husband, Mad web skills, currently handling the Marketing, Account Management and Sales for BarVision.
http://www.barvision.com

Douglas Harrington

Founder Patient-Advisor • Studied at @harvard-university, @kellogg-school-of-management

Jason Weingarten

Co-founder and CEO of @recsolu and @RecPass. Everything I do is always both business and pleasure.

Cl. Alex. Chien

Inventor, "Med-Surg Onshoring" (pat. pend.). Project leader $50MM ILEC COs. Leading Wall St. analyst Cable-Modem 1.0. MBA, UNC-Chapel Hill. U-Mich. award.

Logan Frederick

Computational Finance Student at @ohio-state-university

Trent Jurewicz

motorcyclist • world traveler • founder @riot-inc • alum of @piepdx • director of technology at @manifest-digital, @acquity-group

Jim Carini

Founder and CEO of Jolokia Media and the Game Break Network. Marketing and product background with both startups and agencies.

Robert R. Meyer

Developer @dabble

Anthony Richardson

Consultant. Growth Hacker. Founder. Mentor. I help start-ups you've never heard of become companies you know.

Cem Baydar

Strategy and Management Consulting Executive with 15 years of experience, Advisory Board Member of Endeavor, Member of Keiretsu Forum, ex-Accenture and comScore executive.

Justin Bouchard

Founder @algofast, Bouchard Trading
http://www.AlgoFast.com/our_blog

Peter Liu

associate @newworldvc, early-adopter, wahoo alumn, sportsfan, lover of any combination of food, music, and beer, happier when traveling

David Speigel

Kellogg MBA, worked in VC at MK Capital, past role in digital media strategy/incubator/partnership group at Discovery Communications.

Pete Stam

Founder UrbanBuddy • Worked at @chicago Sculpture Works • Studied at @'Cuse

Asaf Elani

Co-Founder at @ourlabel; Former Technology Consultant at @accenture Technology Labs; B.S. Electrical Engineering @northwestern-university University.

Anthony Marnell

Currently BD & Sales @mailjet Formerly @techstars NYC and @ubs • Studied at @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business, @university-of-kansas
http://www.vacationanthony.com

Brian Busche

Founded RPMworld, an online drag racing game that had 2.7 million users. Worked for several large ad agencies as a key member of the digital development team.
http://rendition.posterous.com

George Eid

Founding partner at @area-17, an interactive agency in New York City and Paris, France. Our products include @krrb-local-classifieds, @slash-paris and @subfolio.

Adam Hirsen

Adam has spent his career learning to build companies. Before co-founding SparkReel, Adam spent 5 years with a Chicago-based private equity firm.

Amy Kirsch

Director of Dearborn Partners. Business development, raised money for Independent RIA in Chicago, established quarterly marketing programs. Created: http://www.thirdrivercapital.com

Sahil Bhagat

Problem-solver focused on product design, user experience, analytics and business strategy

Elisa All

Max Talbot-Minkin

VP of Strategy and Design, TodayTix. Designer, strategist, tech nerd, MBA. Love building companies. Columbia University and IIT Institute of Design grad.

Matthew Moore

Matt Dellen

Andrew Katz

Worked at @reachlocal-nasdaq-rloc, @thumb-friendly • Studied at @university-of-south-carolina

John Geis

Co-founder @glossre • Head of Ops @dabble • Former investment banker • Studied at @babson-college

Tom Wright

AdWords and Analytics specialist. Former HTML / CSS student at The Starter League.

Mike Dwyer

Founder QUEsocial • Worked at @aon-hewitt • Studied at @university-of-iowa

Avi Stopper

CaptainU's CEO, @booth-school-of-business MBA, skateboarder and guitarist.

Robert Wilson

Craft wine visionary, formerly @wirtz-beverage representing @e-j-gallo-winery portfolio. Earned C.S.W. (Certified Specialist of Wine) in 2012.

Patrick Kwiatkowski

CEO of Microcinema Intl. Strong international business background. MBA @university-of-chicago.

Jeffrey Osowski

Experienced entrepreneur with impressive track record as a consultant at Bain & Company. Finance and Psychology degree from Notre Dame.

William Underwood

Founder @spotme • Studied at @university-of-chicago, @university-of-illinois-chicago

Jasmin Besic

Dealster, Daily Dealter and Chitown Deals

Thomas M. Sparico

John Hancock

Founder Visual Information Technologies, inc. • Worked at @boeing • Studied at @thunderbird-school-of-global-management, @letourneau-university

Justin Carr

Strategic Marketer w/experience at established companies & startups. Client & agency side. Worked at @j-walter-thompson, @pepsi • @yale-university undergrad, Kellogg MBA

Conor Barnes

Investor via Pipeline Fellowship, Board Member @philantech, student at Rutgers Business School

Peter Mantas

President & CEO ► Problem Solver ► Analytics Expert ► Mentor/Advisor

Anthony B. Ferguson

Partner at Miller and Ferguson

Christopher Jones

Founder Lemonade Stand and Public Affairs Associate at the University of Chicago.

Ravi Pilla

CEO ano Co-Founder @studycloud

Maggie Keen

Co-founder @cardoona. Loyola University Chicago BBA. Background in Private Equity & Wealth Mgmt @Northern Trust. Responsible for human & capital mgmt.

Hope Gurion

Chief Product Development Officer, experienced creating B2B and B2C services.

Tasos Chatzakis

Managed and directed a diversified business in tourism and real estate over the last 10 years. I am currently working in the USA. I am not a US citizen.

Brian Begy

Development leader. Takes projects from ideas to implementation.

David Kormushoff

Founder @jotlocker • Worked at @gather-1, @thoughtworks, @orby

Giulio Ardoino

Founded @ziczac, top Italian News Aggregator. Founder of @bestcreativity, a marketplace for creativity based on Crowdsourcing

Elizabeth Kulin, M.S.

Successful marketing consultant of Kulin Marketing, LLC.

Steve Gradman

Founder @mrs-judd-s-games • Education startup - 15 Years of marketing leadership expertise at fortune 500 CPGs. Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign, @washington-university-in-saint-louis

Aaron U. Salmon

A jovial lad & professional fellow. Eau Claire native, Dad, Design Director, UI/UX #OFATech, community organizer, civic geek, placemaker & cyclist.

B.J. Mendelson

B.J. Mendelson is the author of the controversial and top-selling book, Social Media Is Bullshit, now in stores everywhere from St. Martin's Press
http://www.bjmendelson.com

Amanda Cannan

Recovering tax accountant; Director, Internal Strategy Consulting @ibm; Past @ernst-young ; Bridge between our investments & the angels and VCs

Joshua Rogers [email protected]

Strategy consultant and MBS trader. Worked at BCG and McKinsey, Partner at KPMG, 10 years experience in Russia, fluent in Russian. MBA 2000 Chicago Booth

Sami Arayssi

Stanford MSEE (2007) and Chicago Booth MBA (2013); Worked in Software Engineering at Cisco Systems and Strategy Consulting at L.E.K. Consulting; Multi-lingual

Kevin Yun

Founded @fitsby, Founded @designation
http://blog.kevinyun.co

Naveen Aggarwal

Technical co-founder of rfphunter with 13 years of coding and consulting experience.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Kl_G4yiwWXNFQ4Um9HdEZ0Uzg/edit?usp=sharing

Rob Sayre

Executive Vice President CNC Strategy. Experienced strategic problem solver on cost and revenue side in various industries including consulting.
http://robsayre.resumeconnect.com

Bryan Jurewicz

Entrepreneur (Vision, Strategy, Funding, Execution & Exit) • CEO at @gradebeam • Studied at @University of Wisconsin, Madison

Mukund Chopra

Worked at @groupon, Director of Revenue @granify • Studied at @queen-s-university, @hec-paris

Marty Trzpit

Worked at @belly, @fango-software-systems • Studied at @depaul-university

Allan Ziegler

Regional Sales Director at Groupon. Worked @Goldman Sachs • Studied at @Penn, @Wharton

Raj Naik

Vice President, Ops & Strategy at uKnow.com; Specialize in taking companies from idea to profitability. 1st software startup out of college sold to Oracle.

Jordan Fulghum

Product Designer, formerly of Groupon, Scrapblog. Creator of Vidless. Focused on UX, design, front-end.

Benjamin Forgan

Founder of Konekt. Launched Startups on 3 continents. Former MD at Rocket Internet; Former Head of Sales Ops (Founding Team) Groupon Goods.

Isaiah Andrew

Co-Founding partner of M+I Creative, and CitizenMade. I'm also a partner at TalkSession and I provide consulting services in UX Design and Digital Strategy.
http://dynasteeinc.com

Raju Malhotra

SVP, Products @centro, Ex-Microsoft, Ex-McKinsey, Wharton MBA; Product-focused Technologist, Entrepreneur & Investor in Online Media, Advertising, Mobile/Social

Ravi Singh

Owner, RavWare Mobile Labs. I dream and love making and researching mobile apps on any platform every second of the day.

Adam Burck

MD of Evergreen Equity, building great businesses and brands. Previously in marketing and general management for CPG food & beverages globally.

Nic De Castro

Founder @plzadvize • Worked at @magnetic, @visus-video • Studied at @boston-university

Zishan Ahmad

Leader, mentor, developer, manager, polyglot. Organizer Startup Weekend, Stamford Tech Meetup. Led dev on $30MM U.C. product. Looking for my next adventure.

Brian Mandelbaum

Razorfish founding team member. Co-founder of GoSMILE (sold) VP, Digital @ Saatchi, VP, Innovation Director @ Cramer-Krassetl. Serial digital innovator.
http://www.brianmandelbaum.com

Greg Hunter

Over seven years of experience managing and selling in fast-paced start-up environments and publicly traded top-tier SaaS firms.

Jay Alter

Entreprenuer looking for next opportunity. 14 years at last venture with successful exit. Stanford BA, University of Chicago Booth MBA.

Ankur Mittal

Founded CVM (sold to Altegrity), Founded Smart Dimensions, C-Level Exec, Masters in Computer Science with MBA from Kellogg, Worked for Shasta Venture

Tristan Sloughter

Erlang programmer. Opa enthusiast. Worked at eCDMarket on aggregation market system, Orbitz Worldwide on Core and IR/DM grad research.
http://blog.erlware.com

Ryan Schultz

Founder of OpeningDesign.com--basically Github.com for Architects/Engineers (building/construction industry).
http://blog.openingdesign.com/

Erin Little

Scott Gosnell

CEO at Windcastle Venture Consulting, Visiting Instructor of Economics at Kenyon College

Alex Pyatetsky

Founded The HOTH (Acquired by Next Net Media 2013). Perpetual Immigrant. Compulsive connector. Occasional advisor/consultant. Let me know how I can help.
http://www.hungrymisfit.com

Geremy Good

Interaction designer for the noun project. Thinker at Simple.Honest.Work. Bassist for Glittermouse. Making for humanity.

Shuja Rahman

Founder of @gradmags. Worked at Dell. Two successful startups out of high school. @booth-school-of-business MBA.
http://blog.gradmags.com/

Jeff Pittelkow

Experience E-commerce Rockstar with a development and technology background and a degree in Marketing and a pedigree in business management

Matthew Caston

CSO at 365 Retail. Strong finance and sales operations background. Startup to enterprise management expertise. Moderately irreverent.

Chris LoPresti

Founder @touchpoints • Love building communities with @sandbox-network, @the-feast, @gust • Studied @yale-university • NYC & Chicago • Angel - VC - Entrepreneur •
http://www.chrislopresti.com

James Blacher

Versatile front-end designer/developer with experience across multiple fields of design.

Diana Zink

Founder of DoerHub • Introduced, engineered, & managed profitable products for @nba Digital, @cnn-com, @Turner Broadcasting • Studied at @university Of Chicago

James Valadez

Operations, Warehouse and People Mgmt. McMaster-Carr Supply Mgmt. Alum. Dartmouth College & IMSA grad. Interested in tech startups and entrepreneurship.

David D. White, J.D.

Founder @careerstarter.com. Committed web-tech attorney with experience in IP, HR and Data. Indiana Maurer School of Law graduate and economics fellow.

Sukhwant Khanuja

CEO Carematix/Blipcare, Worked at McKinsey and Case New Holland

DeVaris Brown

Chief Product Officer of @klick-push. Dev at @microsoft, @intel, Cisco, & @ibm in a former life. Evangelist at @microsoft and Marmalade. Math + CS @ UIUC

Sean Kung

Worked at @everpurse • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign

Phillip Birtcher

Co-founded HireBrite. Past: Software Engineer at Groupon, CS at University of Texas.

Lloyd McWhorter Jr.

President of NetVoices, Founder Intro America. Worked at Urban Ministries, HBO, Invensys and Microband. PMP Certified. Studied at Chicago Booth and NYU.

Daniel Fell

If you want customers hire me. I am scrappier than a junk yard dog from the Bronx.

Paul Caswell

Founder WeaveThePeople.com.

Doejo

We fuel ideas that grow, helping startups & brands identify market opportunities and build the momentum they need.

Eric Dyoniziak

Previously an Software Engineer at Yodle, Inc. BS in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamaign.

Tim Kearney

Entrepreneur with ~15 years of experience at small, profitable startups. Software development background, Kellogg MBA, jack of all trades Internet biz leader.

Timur Eligulashvili

VP of Commercial Products @uShip. Previously Founder at Loadio, and Director of Product Management at Echo (IPO 2009), from 20 to 900 employees

Sean Johnson

Product Development Executive, Partner at Digital Intent

Aziz Ali

Serial Entrepreneur
http://azizali.com

Jason Smith

Technology Executive
http://@jasonmcsmith

Ismail Mohammed

Erik Peterson

Technical Guy with a Designer's Eye

Jennifer Ducharme

Currently working as a Writer/Performer with a decade of experience in customer service, theatrical production, and administrative assistance.

Leo Akselrud

Co-founder @Trainerly. Sports and Fitness Aficionado. Very Few Strengths but Plethora of Weaknesses. Worked at @arthur-andersen and @ernst-young.
http://blog.trainer.ly

Josh Shpayher

@govsm; Politics, Social Media, Gov20 & OpenGov; Student of Science, History, Judaism; Father; Husband, Chicagoan, Cubs & Vikings; Attorney; @whorunsgov blogger

Nick Kellermeyer

VP Sales @grubhub (employee #5), sales & leadership roles StubHub, ESPN Radio Chicago, short stint as international basketball scout, MBA DePaul University

Robb Beal

Award-winning software product exec with start-up DNA. Worked for Laszlo Systems (General Catalyst Partners) and LucidEra (Benchmark) and have an exit to Sun (Karelia).

David A. Cornelson

IT Consultant and entrepreneur with nearly three decades of enterprise development experience.

Adil Shakour

Eric Watson

Chicago MBA graduate, Consulting Experience, Full database skill set, Nerd w/ Personality. Flourished in all size companies (Startup, Mid, $1Bil corporation)

Stephen Puiszis

Hustler & Hacker wearing many hats. Current @tablexi, Former: @houlihan-lokey, @kelley-school-of-business-indiana-university-1
http://stephenpuiszis.com

Corey Anand

Founder/CEO KitchIn • VP at @georama (Chicago)• High honors at @depaul-university, @butler-university Univ.- Entrepreneurship & Management. Heavily involved in startup community.

Panos Karouzos

Senior Vendor Manager @amazon • Co-Founded @officefab, Former MD @rocket Internet • MBA @Kellogg, Economics @Bocconi University

Mari Huertas

maker, mentor, connector. previously @ofatech, @mozilla, @uchicago.

Gina Johnson

20 years Digital Sales and Marketing experience at companies like Martha Stewart, Time Inc. iVlliage/NBCU, Newsweek The Daily Beast

Lucien Carter

Generalist consultant with political and intellectual property background ready to be an innovative leader for a novel company with a respected team.

Tyler Mendoza

co-founder/ceo @arc-mobile. Formerly @gdine-group-dining-made-easy . My goal is to bring restaurants and tech together.
http://godutchapp.tumblr.com

Vaibhav Goel

Worked at @zynga, @oca-ventures • Studied at @kellogg-school-of-management, @indian-institute-of-technology-bombay

Mike Fogarty

Founder & CEO at @mantle

Dave Brace

Full Stack Engineer at Charlie. Creator of StewShare.com.
http://www.davidbrace.com

Jace Mouse

Hands-on CTO who gets business. Four successful companies: iExplore, Cars.com, Orbitz, Cappex.com

Jorge Vazquez-Pallares

Very strong Product Development Management & Product Management skills, which were honed both in a business and entrepreneurial environment. Love to create.

Contessa Gibson

Founder of @plusnavigator-1
http://blog.plusnavigator.com

Matt Dennewitz

i head up tech at @pitchforkmedia and @beergraphs. lover of python, js, golang. baseball is a lifestyle. from hell's heart i regress thee.

J. David Morris

Marketing Professional

Ardean Christian

Founder @postster-com

Scott Golas

Executive in Residence at NewCo (an affiliate of...) #Gamification expert, #outsourcing enthusiast, micro investor, avid biker & amateur landscaper

Joshua Nickell

Threadless Optimization Manager and International Markets Manager; Strong business background; MA Johns Hopkins International Economics 2011

Christopher Curtis

Works at @charlie-app. Plays a mean trumpet in a ska band.

Aaron Zeitner

Chicago-based Entrepreneur with base hit successes, all leading up to a home run.

Andy Stankiewicz

Co-Founder Terranova Inc. • Senior public relations, marketing, and strategy executive driving growth and shareholder value.

George Tung

I am an Entrepreneur at heart. No matter what I’m doing, I always think about how I can improve it.

James Kouris

Mentoring students in the Entrepreneur program at Kellogg in addition to working at “1871” assisting startup companies with technology and go-to-market strategies including fundraising.

Ryan Lupo

Graduate of @williams-college College. Work with start-ups throughout the country. Looking to help bring top technical talent to your firm.