Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Chicago.
Co-Founder and Partner of Chicago Ventures. Founder of @Twin Capital and active angel investor. Former @doubleclick / @performics exec.
Managing Partner @promus-ventures, @masters-capital-nanotechnology-1 • Worked @Masters Capital (hedge fund), @merrill-lynch (M&A)
http://mikecollett.com
Troy Managing Director of Techstars in Chicago & founder of @surepayroll
Founder/CEO-BringIt (Cross Platform Engagement as a Service Through Games),
Founder-InStadium, Founder-Riverbank Capital. JD-Chicago Kent, BA-Wisconsin
Co-founder and Managing Partner of @lightbank
Managing Director @techstars • Co-founder @slicehost (acq by @rackspace)
Founder @valor-equity-partners, @harris-associates
Principal, @lightbank Ventures;
Founding member @peacock-equity-fund (NBCUniversal); @comcast-ventures
Entrepreneur. Founder & CEO @obaz. Former EIR & Investor @lightbank.
former CTO of @obama-for-america , former CTO of @threadless and Advisor at @sandbox-industries.
http://www.nata2.org
Founder & CEO at @okcupid.com
Founder @belly • Worked at @lightbank • Studied at @university-of-wisconsin-madison
Founder/CEO of @techstars. Investor in Amazing Startups. Geeky to the bone.
http://www.davidgcohen.com
http://www.davidgcohen.com/
Managing Director RPM Ventures
http://greatlakesvc.com
Former Co-Founder of FeedBurner and Google Product Manager, Mobile and Advertising. Current: Blinkfire Analytics
http://steveobd.blogspot.com
Partner at @lightbank
Founder, Investor or Advisor in companies including @lifecrowd, @shift-3, RetentionScience, @muckerlab, GradientX, Eventup, TheReceivablesExchange & @zynga (via Prism)
Managing Director of @HydeparkVP and @HydePark Angels, Professor at University of Chicago @BoothThinking School of Business, and former partner at RK Ventures
principal @ @lightbank - scrabble master - indie music aficionado - yoga enthusiast - cheese lover - physics buff
Analyst at lightbank, former management consultant, born and raised midwesterner, always eating, Michigan and Detroit sports fanatic
Angel; Founder: @rivs, InnFlux, iEstates, IrishAngels. @NotreDame, MBA @Kellogg
Growth & Customer Acquisition specialist. Former EIR @trinity Ventures, Co-Founder of @boundless, @viximo.
http://www.brianbalfour.com
General Partner, Apex Venture Partners
Chicago Angel, CEC, Xoogler, New World Ventures
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
Founder, CEO, @raise - Founder, @coupontrade
Entrepreneur - Investor - Technologist
Appetite for Big Markets & Hungry Entrepreneurs
VC: @lightbank;
@lehman-brothers , @barclays-capital , @ICICI Venture ; Sweat: @benchprep ; High-Performance Computing @inria, Studied CS @cornell-university , Chicago Booth MBA
COO @contextmedia, Partner @jumpstart-ventures
VC at @atlas-venture. Co-founded @grandbanks-capital. Believe in service-based approach for entrepreneurs.
@princeton-university graduate.
CEO of @picturelife. Founder of @omgpop.
http://www.setpixel.com
Managing Director at Hyde Park Venture Partners. Big fan of fast growth.
Partner, @new-world-ventures & @dfj-portage
http://www.vcconfidential.com/
Director and Board Member Techstars Chicago; Advisor Hyde Park Venture Partners; Member FireStarter Fund
COO @500px | Formerly at @extremestartups @relay-ventures @chegg. @netflix. @thomas-weisel-partners. @goldman-sachs. @accenture. | @ChicagoBooth @university-of-california-berkeley.
Worked at @dell-computer, @procter-gamble-2 • Studied at @washington-university-in-saint-louis
Vice President at @lightbank, former consultant @duff-phelps , @university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign Engineering, born and raised in @chicago
Vice President at @new-world-ventures
Founder of @opentable (NASDAQ:OPEN); Chairman at @grubhub
Founder @listen board member @raise, branding expert, creative storyteller investing time and money to turn ideas into brands.
General Partner at @oca-ventures. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at @booth-school-of-business.
chief of staff @groupon; former associate @lightbank, consultant @bain
Investor in @brighttag, @ycharts, @sittercity, @viewpoints, @ifbyphone.
CTO at eSpark Learning, where I manage the engineering team building the next generation of personalized learning using iPads.
http://disruptedstudent.org
VC @Pritzker Group Venture Capital (f.k.a. New World Ventures)
Partner at New World Ventures
Board Member Techstars Chicago
Founder @thinkequity-partners, @global-silicon-valley-advisors • Worked at @jp-morgan, @merrill-lynch
Founder @blue-flower-llc • Worked at @bank-of-america-merrill-lynch • Studied at @new-york-university
Angel Investor; BS/MS Computer Engineering, @carnegie-mellon-university University; CIO Top 100/InfoWorld Top 25 CTO
http://www.hubrix.com
Professional Trader, Genetic Algorithmist, Managing Partner @purvi-capital LLC.
CFO @ Castle Hill. Angel Investor @HPA. MBA 2011 @Babson. BS Mechanical Engineering 2003 @UVA
Managing Partner, RangeLight
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.
Co-Founder and Chairman, Timelines, Inc
ND Finance / Duke MBA
Founded 3 Companies - Medical Devices, Online Real Estate, Retail Wireless
Enjoy web 2.0 plays as well as med tech.
Angel Investor; Entrepreneur; Was Principal at Pangea Properties REIT; Ex-CIO, Co-Founder at @cashnetusa-com
Investor @trunk-club
Founder AvantCredit, SpringCoin • Worked at @enova-financial • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
Founder of Voomly: Founded DaytradeTeam (Sold in 2007), founded mytrade (Sold to TD Ameritrade).
http://www.andyswan.com
CEO @spartz (OMG Facts, GivesMeHope, Smartphowned) Founded MuggleNet.com, the #1 Harry Potter site, at age 12.
http://spartzmedia.com
Founded and sold @feefighters to @groupon. Bootstrapped @tss-radio to Inc500. UChicago MBA and undergrad. Previously worked at BCG and Longworth VP.
http://feefighters.com/blog
Founder/CEO, Vertere Group. Past Founder/MD Mediabrands Velociter (IPG). Past Founder/MD Denuo/VivaKi Ventures (Publicis Groupe); 20+ year ad/media veteran
Business Designer. Previously UX Designer + Innovation Strategist. Former @adaptive-path + @nike consultant.
General Partner Georgetown Angels. Author (McGraw Hill July 2013) The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital
http://georgetown-angels.com/blog/
Serial entrepreneur. Cofounder/COO/CTO at @sittercity. Director of Development at @obama-for-america. Social enterprise investor.
http://www.danratner.com/
CoFounder/COO @raise We are changing the conversation in the discount and incentive marketing industries. Give yourself a raise!
http://blog.coupontrade.com/
313 Ventures LLC
@getco
Trading Technologies, Inc
fredlabs, inc
@apple
Director of Product Management at @groupon
Founder @exe-technologies
quantitative trader in Chicago
Managing Partner at Pebble Creek Partners
Founder, StrategyLab, Inc.; Lecturer, Kellogg School of Management; Limited Partner, TechStars Chicago
http://www.andrewrazeghi.com/blog
Entrepreneur, investor, coach. Delighting customers and inspiring people.
@appolicious.com, AndroidApps.com
http://www.participate.com
Creating, developing, and investing in new businesses
General Partner at @new-enterprise-associates leading seed & early stage. Chairman of @harvard University Experiment Fund. Forbes Midas List.
VC at @PritzkerVC, Founder/CEO of VentureUP.info
Turns Concepts into Profits. Advisor, Connector, Co-Founder of @hydeparkangels, Angel Investor, Independent Trader, @pointsnfigures
http://www.pointsandfigures.com
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
VC @chicago-ventures Young Entrepreneur @foundation-capital
Chicago Booth MBA, @KauffmanFellow
Co-Founder & CEO of @ycharts • Vertical Manager at @google • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
Rewards and travel wonk. Built @groupon Rewards to 4k merchants, 2M consumers. Grew @united-airlines Mileage Plus to $1BN+ revenue. @stanford-university GSB.
CEO and Co-Founder of TechShop. Launched 3 Fortune 500 websites: Avery, Kinkos (ecommerce), & HealthNet's benefits ASP. Author, Speaker, MBA, Green Beret.
founder, author, advertising, social media, appssavvy
Partner at Serra Ventures. Mentor to seed stage start ups and accelerators.
http://www.robschultz.com
CEO of Apptimize • @y-combinator • @getco • @massachusetts-institute-of-technology Math with CS
http://nancyhua.com
Head of Platform Applications at Tradeshift. Creator of Box's developer platform. B.S. Computer Science from Illinois, MBA from Carnegie Mellon.
Founder @wedeliver • Worked at @apple • Studied at @columbia-college-chicago
SVP/GM Americas MediaMath. Formerly CEO Omnicom Media Group Digital, Founder @resolution-media
Co-Founder, @tempodb. UX Design at @grubhub, Marketing at @kraft-foods. Design & Business at U of Michigan.
http://justindelay.tumblr.com
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
Director at @digital-news-ventures
CEO of @tempodb. Co-founded 3 startups (two bootstrapped, current funded). Strong technical background (Computer Engineer, Motorola).
http://ajcronk.com
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
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.
Investor in @docusign, @ifbyphone, @epropertydata-com, @sentrilock, @ziplogix, @move-inc.
Owner, Guren Capital Management, LLC
Co-founder @lob. Worked at @aws, @citigroup, @google , @motorola • Studied at @university-of-michigan
Investor in @groupon, @sprout-social, @watermelon-express, @mediabank.
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
Director of Marketing @playerize. Co-Founder, Advisor at @foodtree & @donde . Advisor at 20 Something Bloggers. @stanford-university Soccer Captain.
http://dshan.me/blog/
Founder @total-attorneys
http://edscanlan.com
Into craft beer, delicious food, and innovative technology. Partner and code ninja at @sproutsocial (http://sproutsocial.com). Normally found in Chicago.
Founder & Managing Partner @cornerstone-angels
Designer/technologist, former CTO at @groupon, investor/advisor to @desktime, investor in Seaborn Networks, investor/partner at City Winery Chicago.
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
Currently focusing on consulting and investments. Formerly, CTO of GETCO.
Senior Vice President at Pritzker Group
Lead Software Engineer @caredox • Lead Developer of archon.org, an award-winning archival information software • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
Venture Partner at OCA Ventures
http://dwyerlab.com
Founder TicketLab • President at @trainsignal until acquired in 2013
http://www.imanjalali.com
Co-Founder & President @ Pear, Co-Founder @ Brand Accelerator, Board Member @ Worthee, Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center Advisory Board, former ibanker.
Worked at @coupons.com , @microsoft, @indiahomes • Studied at @haas-school-of-business School of Business, @IIT-Delhi
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
Co-Founder/CEO of @rant-media-network which owns and operates: Rant Sports, Rant Finance and Rant Creative.
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
CEO of @retrofit
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
Head of Operations @uber
Board of Miami University Institute for Entrepreneurship
Biz Dev @foursquare
Founder at @chasm-io. Former writer for @adage-com and @fastcompany. Former Adman. Passionate about the future of collaborative influence.@angelpad Alum.
https://plus.google.com/116963236140044523988/posts
Founded Trimmer Capital Management, Aurapoint Asset Management, and True Adventures. Rock climber, sailor, mountain biker, skier, mountaineer, world traveler.
Founder @gener8tor, @granite-med-systems • Investor @eatstreet • Studied at @university-of-wisconsin-milwaukee
Co-founder, President of @giveforward. TechStars (Excelerate Labs) Emory University, JD American University. Burritos.
http://ethansaustin.com
COO of Community Capital Investment. Managing Director and Principal of Emercor Partners. Active angel investor. Formerly of Allston Trading.
Angel Investor. M&A, IPO, financial analysis background. Passionate for bright investment opportunities. Investor @havoc @descomplica @onthego-platforms
Founder @parkwhiz • Worked at @ibm • Studied at @northwestern-university
@stagebloc founder. UX / UI and product obsessed. Past multiplatinum artist manager. Biomedical researcher. Science Teacher. Coach. Hip surgery guinea pig.
Founder Striking.ly • Worked at @yahoo, @goldman-sachs, @morgan-stanley
Studied at @new-york-university, @indiana-university-bloomington
Investor/Startup Advisor & Social Investor
Co-Founder @ WeDeliver.us • Entrepreneur • Jill of all trades • Mihaylo School of Business CSUF 2011' • edtech Product Marketer @symbalooedu.
http://socialskoop.com/blog/
Investor CEO of MiGym: Experience in successful startups including Betfair and The Coupons App & corporate experience at US Cellular and Allstate; Kellogg MBA
Crittercism, previous @wishery CTO/Co-Founder (AngelPad S11). @microsoft, founder @prefiat-llc: security, arch, cloud computing consultancy. MS ECE UIllinois.
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.
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.
@stagebloc Co-Founder, Founder @mirrorgram / Lead Developer, Object Orienter, Git Pusher, Apple Lover, College Dropout, Life Lover
Co-founder @aisle50, New York Times Bestselling Author of 2 books, Forbes columnist, Y Combinator Alumnus
http://blogs.forbes.com/christophersteiner
CEO and Co-Founder at @groovebug
http://integratedmarketing.tumblr.com
CEO at @upcity-formerly-diyseo
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.
Designer, developer, builder, entrepreneur, mentor. First designer at @groupon. Currently Head of Platform Experience @quirky
Co-Founder at @wedeliver. Worked at @uwi, Parity Systems and founded Coral Designs Ltd. Engineering graduate of @uwi
http://kirklashley.com
Founder Gremln.com (135K users).
Director, Costa Rican Software Firm (sold).
Computer Science. 15 years
http://blog.gremln.com
@stagebloc co-founder. Technical lead at The Uprising Creative. Formerly at Vice, Nintendo, and EA. Bar and record label owner.
Portfolio Manager at Ronin Capital, LLC
Co-Founder & CTO at @adyapper
Investor in @tynt, @divshare.
Managing Partner at Stonebridge Wealth Management
CRO at the EchoSystem, with over 10 years of experience growing businesses and most recently leading the digital charge at PHD/Omnicom
CEO + Founder @red-tricycle. Strong consumer background ( @meredith and @reed-elsevier ) Start-up experience includes Breathe Media and SFLodgings.com.
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
Co-Founder at @whittl. Ex-Yahoo. Sold previous startup. Carnegie Mellon & Cornell.
Venture Capital Analyst at Sandbox industries.
CEO/Co-Founder of @power2switch-acquired-by-choose-energy. Excelerate Class '11. Engineer. U of C Booth MBA 2010. Electricity/Energy Efficiency Expert. Persistent Intellectually Honest.
http://Seyifabode.com
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.
Founder & CEO @SpotHero Inc.
http://blog.spothero.com
IT Consultant, Studied Economics @university-of-chicago and investor with @kewpie-associates.
Sandbox Industries
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
Founder @gmm-nonstick-coatings • Investor @tred • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign , @kellogg-school-of-management-1
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.
Founder of Spyglass
Founder @smartnames • Worked at @transunion, @trymax • Investor @evoapp, @showingtime • Studied at @university-of-north-carolina-chapel-hill
Formerly product at Twilio. Currently working on my own projects.
http://future-bits.com
Founder @catapult-chicago-1 • Lawyer at @foley-lardner-llp
DRW Trading, University of Chicago - Booth, Boston College
Co-Founder, EVP New Business & Corporate Strategy / Exec. Director, focused on new strategic growth opps., biz/dev, marketing, fund-raising, operations
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
Former CEO/CTO of DVDPlay (Redbox techn./acq by NCR), founded X1, Ensemble, Opengrid, MXGO, worked at Sun, LSI, Siemens, Coinstar.
Co-Founder of gener8tor, a Wisconsin-based accelerator.
Product Designer @weebly. Formerly at @backplane and @viatask.
Founder and lead frontend dev @picturelife
http://jacobd.com
VP, @groupon Now! at @groupon; CMO at @vast.com; GVP, Alliance Marketing at @orbitz Worldwide, Inc.
Managing Director of @sandbox-industries, led a buyout of The NutraSweet Company and served as CEO
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
Founder/CEO @fooda • President at @echo-global-logistics, CFO/COO @innerworkings
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
Platform/API Engineer @SproutSocial; Co-founder @farehelper.com; Past life @motorola IC designer for wireless; UMich; Musician; Derivatives Investor
http://www.tekphile.com
COO at Crate and Barrel
VC Fund Investor at Northern Trust. VC Professor at University of Maryland.
http://lp2lp2vc.blogspot.com/
Startup jack of all trades, former bulge bracket financial analyst. Self-starter, fast learner, and ready to hit the ground running
IT Management Consultant. Passion for solution development. Self-driven. Values integrity and accountability. Worked at @adobe-systems, @transunion
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.
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
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
#innovator #entrepreneur #technologist #founder at Toodalu (acquired by Spring Marketplace)
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
Strong business, marketing, UX/design chops. Experience agency & client side. Kellogg MBA 2013.
Worked at @yahoo, @ixl
VP of Product at @grubhub.com. 10 years in online travel (@expedia, Site59, Travelocity) in product management, business development, and commercial roles.
Venture Capital/Angel Investor looking to help a multitude of start-ups....
Investment banker focused on providing merger & acquisition advice and raising capital for growing consumer & retail companies.
Worked at @belly, @campus-explorer, @redbox, Galt & Company
Product Designer @quirky. Co-founder of Paid, an iPhone app to manage your Stripe account. Formerly of @groupon
Founder (BigGroups.com, @catapult-chicago), BizDev (@halcyon-sequencing ), Lead Developer (ISWS), BS Biology (@university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign )
Chief Evangelist at @tracky PR. Social Media Correspondent. Animal lover. Birthed @twitter industry chats. #journchat #commentz [email protected]
http://sarahsfav.es
Associate @techstars
Exec @sparkcentral . Entrepreneurial mind set. Action oriented!
Venture Capitalist @OCAVentures and Founder of @MouseHouseApp
CEO & Founder @Ticket Scalpr. @groupon Senior Sales (Top 1%) - Founder @UndieRun - Director of Sales @Gourmet Ads - UW-Madison
Sr. Software Engineer @chooseenergy
CEO of @styleseek. NASA Space Shuttle Engineer
2x e-commerce exits. @massachusetts-institute-of-technology MBA, @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign MSE/BSE
CEO/Founder of @babbaco. Ready to rock my second consumer startup. Kellogg MBA. @brown-university University. Kraft brand management.
http://www.babbaco.com/blog
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.
Founder of Resolution Media
Currently: Co-founder at digit.co. Previously: MyZeus acquired by Groupon, 2011.
http://patrickalgrim.me
Partner at Origin Ventures - early stage venture firm in Chicago focused on e-commerce, software, and digital media. Ex-Feedburner, Ex-Google, Ex-Twitter.
Databases, big data, high performance.
Currency & Interest Rate Portfolio, DRW Holdings.
VC at @Hyde Park Venture Partners. Caught the startup bug at Techstars and Tapjoy.
Partner Skadden Arps and Angel Investor
technology finance and operating executive, former technology investment banker, former COO/CFO of ClearTrial (sold to Oracle in April 2012), Harvard MBA
CTO of Raise Marketplace Inc. Consultant to startups through Fortune100's. You conceive "it"; I build it, and the team around it.
Founder and president at Govoni Dentistry PC, Brushin'on Belmont. Board certified pediatric dental specialist.
Investments for @hvf and @mlevchin.
Founder @notelog, @athletepreneur • Worked at @tred, @coursemodo • B.S. & M.S. Economics & Sport Management at @FSU
Senior Vice President, Global Marketing and Corporate Development & Chief Marketing Officer at Hill-Rom
Angel Investor
http://N/A
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
eCommerce and retail consultant, product manager
Currently @farshore-partners Past work @zaarly • Studied Automotive Technology at @pittsburg-state-university University :::Web and Mobile Development Consulting
@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
Inventory Management at Raise.com • Worked at @coupontrade, @european-commission • Founder Blueshift Innovations Inc • Northeastern University JD 2003, Harvard University ALB 1999
Kellogg MBA/Northwestern MEM. McKinsey consultant, Capital One & SimpleTuition alum. Strong background in marketing/analytics, budding Rails/HTML/CSS/iOS dev.
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
Marketer & entrepreneur. Previously co-founded Wellthy & @leap. Former associate at @lightbank,
CTO of @mercaris
Product Manager, Analyst, INTP. Work at @science. Past at @ustream, @lek-consulting • Studied at @university-of-chicago, @massachusetts-institute-of-technology
Marketing and Business Development at @simplerelevance ; Worked at Bank of America; Furman (BA 2006), Vanderbilt (MBA 2012)
Creative Director at @coupontrade
entrepreneur. co-founder or early employee of 5 startups. 2 IPOs. Founded Media Chaperone pivoted business in '12 to @group-gift-service
Founder @tenantify, @dezzia and @bloominous. Strong business background (@mckinsey-company, @enova-financial, @google). Coder and MBA @kellogg-school-of-management-1.
http://www.husonghua.net
CEO of Striking.ly; Co-founder of Moneythink; Director of ECSEL; @university-of-chicago
An average guy, living an awesome life.
CEO at @buzz-digital, Inc. Former biz dev guy at @nextwave-media and Angie's List.
Musician and peanut butter connoisseur.
PhD dropout, MS Operations Research; Data Scientist, Risk I/O
http://blog.risk.io
Founder CEO @traity-1.
MBA (HHons) @booth-school-of-business. MEng in EE.
Previous experience in strategy, product management, sales
http://traity.com/blog
Full stack marketer specializing in early-stage and growth startups
Co-Founder of @technori and @insuranceagents-com
http://blog.sethkravitz.com
Founder @pawngo, @bodyshopbids • Worked at @lightbank • Studied at @university-of-pennsylvania
Worked at @belly, @groupon • Studied at @university-of-kansas
Software Developer at @SproutSocial, Amateur Philosopher, Maker of Things... Young Punk
Worked at @hft-quant-hedge-fund, @ibm. Studied Physics at UT: Dallas. 1st startup in high school. Solid technical background.
Michigan BA, Media planner and operations guru, customer service oriented, worked at interCLICK, acquired by Yahoo
Founder TicketFire • Worked at @cloudera, @belly • Studied at @ohio-state-university
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.
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
Co-founder of @styleseek, BizDev at @v2green (acquired 2008), VC at @highland-capital-partners, Analytics Lead at @accenture, 2 Patents, BSEE @UIUC, @MIT MBA.
Entrepreneur, startup advisor and TMT executive
Life is a game of sales, so don't sell yourself short. 24. Indiana University- Kelley School of Business. Sales Manager @raise. Chicago.
Product Manager; product development and operational strategy for two start-ups; Business degree from University of Kansas.
Leading teams that create & deliver data-driven strategies and solutions for some of the world's leading brands @circle-media @bazaarvoice @accenture .
MS in Product Design & Development Management @northwestern-university. Design, product, research and business focus.
Founder @inventables • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
http://blog.inventables.com
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
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
Seed investor via @ConfluenceCap, @kidblog @at-scene-llc Founder @boomboom. @university-guide (sold) . MBA @university-of-colorado-boulder, Carlson @university-of-minnesota-twin-cities
CEO at @homefinder-com. Director of Product at @orbitz.com. Founder AccentTraining.net, EasyUsability.com.
Director of Products, Stats & Finance Guru @ycharts. Studied at Chicago Booth (MBA) , UW-Madison, and @stanford-university.
http://www.nathanpinger.com
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
Founder and CEO of Kumbuya (kumbuya.com).
Partner and tech lead at Centup. My peers call me lots of things: Consultant, Manager, Strategist, Marketer Technologist and Designer.
Current: Co-founder @optyn; Past: @dealster-3, CRP, Acuity, COO @ecommlink ; COO @first-data-corporation , EPG; SVP, @general-electric; SVP, @barclays-bank
Advanced Media Sales at Comcast Spotlight
Founder @shortlist, @leasabl • Excelerate Labs 2011 • Pulitzer Prize 2008
Director of Product, Strategy and Operations: @DiscoveryComm. Former Director of Mobile Product: @carsdotcom & 2011 @ExcelerateLabs (now TechStars Chicago).
http://odower.com/
Managing Director at O'Keefe
Consultant and interim management in Change Management.
Angel investor and mentor to internet and mobile technology companies.
CEO & co-founder of @pictarine Love growth hacking, mobile and wine. Techstars Chicago Alum.
UX Researcher at Mozilla
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
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
CEO & co-founder @sideqik • I manage, advise & fund disruptive companies @nokia, @navteq, @vitrue • 12 US & international patents • Certified alligator handler
http://www.southerntechnologyleaders.com
Director of Engineering @ Obama for America.
Previously @threadless, @crateandbarrel.
I'm a big fan of the internets.
Co-founder of @buzz-digital, Co-founder of Element Bars.
Founder @centup - Digital Marketer - Writer - Expert at Nothing.
Chief Growth Officer @mightynest. Former CMO @threadless. Search / social marketing exec @vivaki / @performics. Product and marketing strategy and execution.
Builder. Formerly a co-founder of Technori, Adams Gilbert Co., @cloudbot
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
CFO - Finance, Marketing and Sales at @ycharts. Studied @chicago booth, worked @homefinder-com.
Proven business leader that has built and managed $mm sales, marketing and service teams, monetized products, formed strategic partnerships and raised capital.
Worked at @tempodb, @braintree-1
Worked at @heyzap
Fueling more vacations with Rocketmiles. Former consultant at Navigant. University of Texas McCombs School of Business Finance / Accouting grad.
Founder @cariloop, @healthsparx and Health 2.0 Dallas, Advisor, @purdue-university University alum, living in Dallas, TX.
http://healthsparx.com
Experienced codecrafter with a liberal arts flair.
Founder of eSpark, which helps schools leverage iPads and the vast ecosystem of educational apps to personalize learning, engage students and raise achievement.
Extensive Senior Management Experience (C Suite positions), over 30 years in a variety of Casino Gaming companies.
New England transplant living Chicago style. Senior Talent Manager at @sprout-social. @boston-college and @northwestern-university alum. Passionate about people.
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.
Former Co-Founder & Director of #CustDev at walk.by, Former GE management program grad looking to build culture changing procuts
http://eligratz.com
COO Fooda • Previously CEO Lightswitch; startup at Redbox; Wind Point; Bain. Engineering at UMichigan, Kellogg
Web Developer at @spartz . Writing code, crunching data, and moving forward.
Seed investor. ClientVoice founder. Brought social networking to legal. Worked at LexisNexis. NYU Law JD. Harvard Business School CEU.
Founder Versity (sold), @hireology, @UrbanBoundCo & @Homescout. Studied at @university-of-michigan.
http://thehungryentrepreneur.com/
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
Founder: @tourist-records
Co-Founder: ActiveFam
Past gigs: @the-active-network @eteamz-com @rollingnote @teamsnap @weplay @zaadz
Contemporary Pianist
Dad of 2
Founder ClaraStream • Worked at @best-online-universities-llc, @eretailing • Studied at @ohio-state-university, @depaul-university
http://[email protected]/pub/robert-brown/1/337/23b
CEO @socialcrunch. Strong finance, business development & product launch skills. Brit in Chicago. 1 exit so far.
http://blog.alexgriffiths.info
Creative Director at Visually; freelance designer
Founder of @rentstuff. Strong business background (@merrill-lynch). @princeton-university BA 2004 (Economics w/ honors).
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
Investor in @chromatin, @theranos, @plum-choice, @navicure, @divergence, @launchcyte, @darkstrand, @apt, @referme, Callisto, @tlcontact, @healthcare.
Founder of @orderbolt
BA in CS and an MBA from @southern-illinois-university-carbondale; Certified in International Business, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Management from GGSB
Start-up Junkie who connects the dots, creates results, and plays well with others.
http://www.buchar.net
Co-Founder and CEO @bucketfeet. Former Banker / PE guy. World traveler. Northwestern University.
http://blog.bucketfeet.com/
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
IUPUI Bioinformatics; Worked at Northwestern University
Co-founder @beebillion acquired 08/11. Strong Biz Dev, Customer Acquisition and eComm background.
http://www.gaber.me
Worked at @sprout-social, @groupon • Studied at @university-of-miami
Founder @scout • Previously founded @foodini.co • worked at @sandboxind, @lab42 , @jpmorgan-chase • Studied at @miami University BSA in Computer Science
Chicago Startups | Online Marketing | @google Adwords PPC | p. 773.888.ELAN
Co-founder of @goshi in Chicago. Drummer of In Threes.
CEO at @akta. Investor at @socialcrunch. Active angel, speaker and traveler.
Co-founder of @styleseek. Consumer market analyst; serial entrepreneur; brand developer; consumer, social and marketing strategist in fashion merchandising.
http://styleseekprivate.wordpress.com/
co-founder at walk.by • Studied at @NU
Co-Founder @paletteapp • 20+ years in design and marketing. Strong design sense and marketing experience to the design industry.
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
Worked at @gtrot, @benchprep, @kapture, @wavve
Co-founder and CEO of TradingView.
Founder & CEO @thoughtly Juris Doctor @loyola-university-chicago BBA in Finance @southern-methodist-university
http://thoughtly.co/blog
Co-Founder/VP of Sales at ClickQuoteSave, LLC. Worked at The American Medical Association; Managed complete sales process of Medical Coding Solutions
Founder of Opternative, which helps individuals gain greater accessibility in eye care, through unique technological innovations.
Co-founder of 900dpi. Entrepreneur and full-stack developer of eight years. @university-of-wisconsin-whitewater
http://www.aap.bz
Founder ClaraStream • Studied at @ohio-state-university Founded & bootstrapped e-commerce company into IR Magazine Top 1,000. 10 years technology sales & marketing experience.
Founder-in-Residence at Wavetable. Previously Co-Founder of HaveMyShift.com and PwC's Emerging Technology Lab.
Author of Design for Hackers (Debuted at #18 on @amazon) Mentor at 500 Startups. Changing the way you see design.
Founder+CEO PaletteApp 25 years in design and manufacturing. Created PaletteApp to disrupt the current system of introducing product to architects and designers
Co-founder of @learnmetrics real-time analytics for education. Obsessed with the power of education to change lives.
http://julianmiller.tumblr.com
Co-founded TradingView (COO), previously worked at MultiCharts (COO) and Canada Revenue Agency.
http://blog.tradingview.com
Founder @brideside. Tech investor @silicon-valley-bank. Strong business background (Monitor Group, @ubs-investment-bank). Kellogg MBA '12, Wellesley College '06
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
Co-Founder and COO @goodpeople
Founded @public-good-software, Director of UX & Product @obama-for-america, founding team @the-point, early UXer @orbitz, founder @fuzzy-math.
Design Director of Bloc.io, Lead Designer for High Gear Media. Founder of Made by Munsters.
Current: RVP, Sales - North America at @ringcentral. 12 years SMB Sales/Marketing experience - Loudcloud, WebEx, SuccessFactors, @ringcentral
Lead Developer @styleseek. Passion for building and shipping elegant web products.
VP of Product, co-founder at @gridium. Co-founder of @terrapass. Product and engineering at @tellme, @trilogy. @wharton-school MBA, @stanford-university BS.
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)
Founder yikes
Founder of @introfly, former attorney, Inventor & Founder of Gentleman's Vice Golf & Cigar Accessories.
http://blog.introfly.com
Builder. Fixer. Thinker. Rocker.
http://derek.broox.com
Founder of @digital-innovations, @neuros-technology and @sonr-labs. Inventor of consumer products totaling $350M in revenue.
In search of full-time role while currently freelancing & volunteering. Marketing/Jack-of-all trades at @olapic , @dropgifts , and @parse-ly. BA Econ UConn
CTO of @silvrspoon, Y Combinator Alum, Carnegie Mellon CASOS PhD researcher & MSIT grad, entrepreneur
http://georgekorsnick.com
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
VP Operations and Co-Founder at cleverbridge
http://www.buildingkeystones.com
Founder @stathat-2 • First CTO @okcupid • BA Computer Science @columbia-university in NYC.
Founder & CEO @cookitfor-us | Founder, MonksOfInvention.com | Founder, InnovationCenter.com | Intrapreneur - @american-express, GE Capital, @kraft-foods
http://blog.CookItFor.Us
Lead Platform @clover-technologies-group • Founder & CEO @yourenew (sold to Clover in '12) • Board Member @yale-university Entrepreneurial Institute
http://bobcasey.me
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/
CTO and co-founder of @whimseybox. Previously co-founded @bestfriendbox, worked at @gowalla, @amd, @vaynermedia
CEO Placebo Effect. Eight years leading philanthropic tech orgs. Relationship builder. One exit. Media magnet. BA Williams College.
PhD at @northwestern-university. Generalist: software/web development, data analytics, and communication.
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/
Founder and CEO - Future Simple Inc (futuresimpleinc.com) passionate about design, UX, entrepreneurship and management
Co-Founder of @elicit, Inc.
Founder @lost-crates • Studied at University of Michigan
Co-founder & CEO of Upscale Resale @moxiejeankids, @ExcelerateLabs class of '12, adviser @theImpactEngine #collcons #mom #startup
http://www.builtinchicago.org/member/sharonschneider
Blue Tide Founder // @parkwhiz Front-End // Love a good API // Design // JS // CSS // UI/UX // Optimism // SharkWeek // From Indianapolis, IN
http://blog.iamzachreed.com/
Investor in @tagnetics, @10x-technology, @advanced-diamond-technologies, @jiminy and @autonomic-materials Inc.
http://www.independence-equity.com
Co-Founder / CEO @tapfwd | Frmr VP @rapleaf (acquired) and Co-Founder @measy (Webby Award) | Kellogg MBA
Web & Mobile Software Engineer. CTO: @venyooz. Previously at @mahalo, @spire-io, @the-starter-league, & @recsolu. B.A., Honors in Philosophy.
http://cardoni.net
Principal & CEO, Pasky IP Law LLC. Patent Attorney. Founder, @data-2-0 (DeveloperWeek, DataWeek, API World) & @techweek. Mentor, @techstars, @healthbox
http://dataweek.com
Software Engineer @stacksocial • 1st employee @lasso • Studied at @madison
Serial entrepreneur 13 years. Currently obsessed with helping lead buyers buy smarter. Founder of @legitlead, FounderSensei.com & mentor @techstars Chicago.
http://legitlead.com/
CEO of Delightful. Kauffman Fellow (Class 18). Founder and Board Member of Quantitative Insights. Former: GM of OkCupid Labs. MBA from University of Chicago.
Founder and CEO of @couponcabin.com; director of The Kluth Family Foundation
http://www.couponcabin.com/blog
Founder @we-created-it-1 • Worked at Telenav, V-Vehicle (KPCB & GV startup), @venrock • Product & Marketing Background • @stanford-university MBA
Founder Ticket Scalpr, @bistro-studios
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
Worked at @parkwhiz, @red-foundry • Studied at @dartmouth-college, @kellogg-school-of-management
Investor & Health Tech Entrepreneur, focused on Finance & Business Development
http://positiveventures.blogspot.com/
CTO @weplann. Hacker-Software eCommerce guru. 13+ years @ebay & @intacct building solutions used on over 10,000 websites doing over $1 billion in transactions.
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.
Worked at @ribbon, @mobile-captain • Studying EECS at @university-of-california-berkeley. Web developer. Rails specialist.
Online brokerage: Barron's best for options trading, GM of research & marketing arm. Knowledge@Wharton advisor. IT & online media: CNET News.com, year 1.
http://www.gainline.us
VC at @cue-ball-capital
Information Security Engineer at Google, OSCP.
Security Halls of Fame: Google (4x), eBay, Yahoo!, Nokia, Opera, Mailchimp, Shopify.
http://miki.it/blog
Founder Monarc Brand
CEO and Co-Founder Cancer IQ • Worked at @mckinsey-company, @credit-suisse @UChicago Medical Center • Studied at @wharton-school
Co-founder, VP Application at @elicit
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)
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.
Founder & CEO of WebCurfew
https://www.webcurfew.com/parentalcontrols/DigitalLoitering.aspx
CEO of Birdsong Ventures, a collective of Angels, Advisors & Marketers focused on introducing brands to disruptive tech and investing in seed stage companies.
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/
A former FeeFighter who likes online marketing and finance
http://www.hadleycapital.com/blog/author/133
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
CCO at @sproutel | Co-founder & National Board Advisor at @design-for-america | @Northwestern Alum | "15 Women to watch in Tech 2012" by Inc
Founder Moxie Jean
Business Development Manager at Merchant Atlas: Fully Automating Sales, Masters at Hult International Business School, Venture Scholar at G51 Capital
http://merchantatlas.wordpress.com/
Co-founder & CMO at @cartavi
http://cartavi.com/blog/
Co-founder @r7-partners. Investor @bloom-energy, @tabula, @socialcrunch. Former board observer @wayport @amyris-biotechnologies @ooma @magnum-semiconductor.
I'm the Director of Communications for @doggyloot. Worked at domu and the Chicago Sun-Times. M.A. in journalism from @depaul-university University.
Entrepreneur & early stage investor. President @alameda Holdings, LLC, Co-Founder @tribal-technologies • Worked at @motorola, @lucent-technologies • Studied at @the-wharton-school
Co-Founder and CEO @blitsy
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
Ruby on Rails Engineer
Worked at @parkwhiz • Studied at @university-of-illinois-chicago
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.
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
Worked at @cakestyle • Studies at @yale-university
Seeking new startup position • Worked at @food-genius • Studied at @miami-university • Interned @ Tap.me • Co-founder of Alpine Children's Charity
Currently @quarterly, Previously bizdev @12society, consultant @nbcuniversal, strategy consultant @joneslanglasalle
Designer and Developer based in Chicago
CTO at @pear-formerly-apparel-media-group. Entrepreneur, advisor, technologist. Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign.
Founder @procured-health-1 • Worked at @citadel-investment-group • Studied at @yale-university
VP Solar Operations @kiwi-solar • Project Manager @grosolar • NAPCEP Certified Solar PV Installer
Founder CancerIQ, CancerIQ • Worked at @aqr-capital-management • Studied at @harvard-university, @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business
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
SVP at @parkwhiz. Serial entrepreneur and global market maker driving $400+ million in revenue that created $4+ billion in market capitalization.
Worked @anyperk • Studied @marquette
Marketing Manager at @good-co. Former Senior Account Manager at @socialkaty. @depaul-university-1 and @american-intercontinental-university Alumni.
http://blog.good.co
Worked at @silicon-valley-bank
Techstars mentor, start-up advisor. Currently @razorfish. Acquity Group and gravitytank alum. Experience design, mobile, omni-channel focus.
Team member of @cakestyle.
Co-Founder of Groupcharger, @nabthedeal and TheLunchDeal.Strong product development, technical strategy,operations and business development.2 startups sold.
Founder @monthlys-1, @mantra-labs-2 • Worked at @lightbank, @benchprep
Developer @modest-inc Helped to found @belly out of high school. Previously @lightbank. School during the day.
Operations Analyst at CakeStyle with a strong background in writing.
Lead front-end developer at @stagebloc, founder @mirrorgram. Hopelessly addicted to Doctor Who, awful puns, and Oxford commas.
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
CEO of Pangea. Prepaid, Telecom, Finance and Start-up experience. Investor and media background (Cerberus, Time Warner). BA, UPENN. MBA, Chicago Booth.
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.
Raconteur with a Capital R. Also CEO of @tech-li
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
Led product. Developed high-freq trading platform, risk mgmt platform. BSMS Physics, EE
http://jasonngan.com
Founder & CEO of @georama. Ex-Program Manager at @microsoft. Also was at @google. Digital Marketing Guru - Search, Display, Social. Entrepreneur, Visionary, Techy.
Co-founded, ran as CEO, and sold (two acquisitions) the first adaptive learning platform. Passionate about helping people learn.
Chicago Native. Young Professional. Tech Enthusiast. Lifelong Learner. First hire @LogisticalLabs Worked @mantra-1 @fooda @lightbank
CEO and Co-Founder of iMedia.fm's A7 solution, providing an Immersive Experience Learning for Kids, reach of over 160 Million.
Founder Resultly • Studied at @depaul-university
http://blog.resultly.com
CTO and Founder of @bikespike
8+ years of development experience. Embedded Hardware / Software Engineer & iOS Software Developer. 3 years experience @apple
at
@lightbank Associate, experimenting at @thelunchread, writing @ABrewingThought. Formerly @bcg and @university-of-michigan.
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
Founder @stork-stack • Worked at @h-i-g-capital • Studied at @wharton-school, @northwestern-university
http://blog.storkstack.com
CTO, Co-Founder @healthfinch
CEO @interior-define-1 • Studied at @harvard-business-school, @cornell-university
Founder @everyblock, @public-good-software • Worked at @democratic-national-committe, @center-for-neighborhood-technology
Co-founder and CEO of Fluid. Tech and business ninja. Built FDA-approved medical devices from scratch. Worked at Google X. Harvard Ph.D. Fearless hustler.
Primary Care Physician, Entrepreneur, Head of Informatics and Innovation for Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group, "20 People who make Healthcare Better"
http://drlyle.blogspot.com/
Founder @bivio-networks • Worked at @hewlett-packard, @cisco-systems-deleted-deleted • Studied at @national-university, @northeastern-illinois-university
Co-founder and CEO of heathfinch.
http://blog.healthfinch.com
Co-founder and CEO @earshotinc. Successful start-up experience and proven leader building and managing high performing teams.
VP Operations of Greenshoe. JD/MBA candidate Kellogg-Northwestern.
Founder @JRank site search engine, @stateuniversity • Worked at @camfind • B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics at @northern-illinois-university
Co-Founder of Popular Pays. Previously @ Leo Burnett working on the Allstate Mayhem campaign.
Founder @root3-technologies • Studied at @columbia-university, @university-of-chicago Worked at The Climate Group, Argonne Nat'l Labs Herman Fellow UChicago Booth
SVP Product at HelloWallet, formerly at NPR. Product, strategy, and ops background. JD UT Austin.
CEO & Co-Founder @swap-com-netcycler swap.com kid's online consignment. Board member Innofactor Plc. (IFA1V). Earlier VP in @first-hop. PhD, fusion reactor experiments.
Manage programs and advise start-ups at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Hyde Park Angels. UChicago AB and AM grad.
Serial entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, strategist, all-around builder • CFO at @everpurse • Studied at @kellogg-school-of-management and @northwestern-university
CEO at @toy-studio; Shareholder @playphone, Inc.; Founder @viveli, Inc; Advisor of Startups; Investments (Bright.com, Pixalate, @open-install (Sold December 2011))
CEO at @lasso (@excelerate'12) | Musician | Polyglot | Working with creative teams since age 12
Co-Founder @thyme • Worked at @microsoft, @isoftstone • Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university,@stanford-university
Developer at Social Sonar, Former Googler, Open Source Contributer
http://www.thatdorkjordan.com
@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
Venture Partner @dashfire. Startup advisor/investor
I absolutely love growing companies through marketing that actually results in sales- not just to anyone, but to the right customers.
MBA Candidate at Kellogg School of Management | Intern at Qualcomm Ventures
chief giving officer at @givby.com
http://givby.tumblr.com/
Founder @ www.prometheussprings.com, former advertising creative from Crispin Porter, Weiden Kennedy and Young & Rubicam
http://www.rahulpanchal.com
Rare combo of mobile tech startup + world-class ops, supply chain, and strategy at @toyota, @motorola, @palm. @harvard-university Kennedy School @university-of-louisville
Former Institutional Investor @ Citi, MBA Student @ UChicago, Scout @ LEO.COM, Small Angel, Aspiring entrepreneur
Founder @interior-define-1 • Studied at @northwestern-university
Co-founder of Packback. Marketer, musician, ed-tech enthusiast, and student affordability advocate.
Head of Digital @threadless.
Formerly User Happiness Officer @snapjoy.
Founder and CEO of @magister-technologies and developer of its core technologies
Product and founding team @trunk-club (www.trunkclub.com). Formerly @mckinsey
Co-Founder and CEO of GirlsGuideTo
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
Founder TapFit • Worked at @kpmg, @northwestern-university-1 • Studied at @vanderbilt-university
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
Co-founder, Smithfield Medical
Director of Sales & B.D., BetaSphere
Founder, Caspian Partners, LLC
Studied @university-of-california-berkeley
CIO & co-founder at @everpurse; creator of @nomorecreeps.com and occasional freelancer.
http://jessepinho.com
Entrepreneur, Designer, Teacher and Director at IDEO
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.
Founder and CEO @charlie-app a @dreamit-ventures backed company. Kauffman Global Scholar 2012 @ewing-marion-kauffman-foundation
CEO of @signal. Worked at @orbitz, E&Y. Excited about marketing, analytics, personal data and wearable tech.
http://www.jeffjudge.com
Founder Packback • Studied at @illinois-state-university. Striving toward more affordable and exciting content in higher-ed.
http://MikeShannonBlog.wordpress.com
Master's HCI student at Carnegie Mellon, with B.S. in Mechanical Engineering/Robotics. Worked as a generalist product designer/developer at Picplum.
Founder @darc-corporation, O2Works • Worked at @oracle-corporation • Investor @fantree, @klick-push • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
Former jQuery Core Team Member, CEO of appendTo.
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
Web developer specializing in Ruby on Rails application design, development, and deployment
http://www.breakpointer.co
Marketing Coordinator @opternative
Formerly @mentormob & @groupon
http://www.ericmpitt.com/blog
CTO at @lasso. First startup out of college. Programmer since I was 11.
VP Product at SET, builder of software from scratch. Previously at CAI, Starbelly, & Adchemy.
Investor at New World Ventures. Formerly at SV Angel, The Honest Company, Wharton, McKinsey, Swarthmore.
CEO and Co-Founder of @swiftiq
http://www.blog.swiftiq.com
Developed parallel backtesting software for stock trading firm. Haskell lover. Python guru. Strong web development background. Lead developer on many projects.
The original cloud networking company. With our VNS3 product, over 700 customers extend networks to create hybrid clouds.
http://blog.cohesiveft.com
Founder WisePatient • Worked at @accenture, @arcapita-inc • Studied at @vanderbilt-university, @kellogg-school-of-management
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
CPO @lasso - photographer of many things and ideas - former D1 tennis player - recovering CAA assistant - attended Art Center College of Design
Recent Oxford MBA grad, less-recent Northwestern journalism grad. Worked in reporting, writing and product launch for Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Politico.
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
Startup advisor. Biz dev guru. Strategist w/18 yrs brand, entnmnt & media relationships • Worked at @bear-stearns-co-inc • Studied at @northwestern-university
CEO and co-founder of @leaguevine. Started the company out of college. BS, MS in computer science, specializing in algorithms.
President / Co-Founder of Synchology. Payments disruptor.
Founder Project Travel • Pun Champion • 2013 "Hottest Women in Tech" @killerstartups • #Quadricorn #Hacker #Hustler
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
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
Founder of The FUNDA organization LLC
http://scottyiseri.com
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.
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
My passion is mentoring, advising, funding and founding tech startups. Seriously seasoned and savvy strategy, marketing and business development veteran.
http://tomdenison.tumblr.com/
Co-Founder of matchist & @entrepreneurs-unpluggd
ISD Corporation, Executive Chairman & CEO
Co-founder and iOS developer at @mobilex-labs – The best platform for building native mobile apps without any coding.
Computer Science at @cardiff-university.
CEO,Writer,Director, Producer @noci-pictures-entertainment Executive Producer @fremantlemedia Co-Executive Producer @SpikeTV. Cerebral,Transparent, Visionary.
options trader interested in all manner of investment opportunities.
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
Northwestern CS; Ruby and Clojure fan; real Rails experience at a startup (walkby); strong interest in programming (hackathons, github activity)
Founder of @the-founding-moms; ran two companies previously. @brown-university grad, lawyer, TED talker, lover of chocolate.
http://FoundingMoms.com/blog
Experienced venture capital associate, tech startup operator, strategist, advisor. Love to build things, namely products and organizations of awesome people.
Founder @contractor-hero • Worked at @redfin, @aq-construction • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
http://konradrodak.com
@zockster and @parametric • Worked at @google (public policy, HR tech), @obama for America (operations) • Studied at @Wash U (economics)
Experienced in growing sales teams for early stage and hyper-growth tech companies
Entrepreneur & Storyteller • Founder Hindex, Inc • Education and Business Development background • Worked at @img • Studied at @university of Miami, @Augustana
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/
Chief Medical Officer & Head of Product Innovation at Physicians Interactive Holdings; Creator of OMNIO; Advisor: Medikly; Supporter of "Health Artists"
http://gautamgulati.me/
Self-taught securities trader turned angel investor, incubator and entrepreneur.
http://www.stocktwits.com/claytoncohn
Founder and President of DigitalGroundUp and Digital4Startups. Digital marketing expert with experience at Google, agencies, and startups. Harvard grad.
Vanderbilt Engineering, mobile specialist w/ full stack experience, UX/UI design chops, launched 2 mobile apps, worked for Intuit, played semi-pro tennis.
Founder @reportedly • Worked at @gannett, @Advance Internet, @Knight Ridder Digital, @vendasta • Studied at @rutgers-university-new-brunswick
http://www.stanleygauss.com
The most persistent female bastard you ever met.
http://blog.8thlight.com/sue-kim/archive.html
Co-founder & CRO @morsel. Past restaurant publicist for Paul Kahan, Michael Jordan & Art Smith. Culinary degree & sommelier, Studied at @indiana-university-bloomington & @depaul-university
Head of Marketing and Customer Support @rapleaf; Princeton AB; excellent writer, editor, creative thinker. Former expat.
Founder @refstop-com (sold 2007), Currently @thepizzabutton and @sway-fm • Worked at @isocket • Studied at @indiana-university-bloomington
TextHub & CallOnTheGo
Founder @solarbridge-technologies, @advanced-diamond-technologies-inc • Worked at @microsoft, @ibm • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign, @university-of-chicago
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
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
Product Management & Marketing Exec; Startup vet, currently at Trunk Club; Previously at Cars.com, Apartments.com.
Aspiring serial entrepreneur.
I'm filling @startuphouse with early stage startups that want to change the world. Come tell us what you're working on!
http://www.karolis.info
Excelerate Labs 2010 Graduate. SEO, Analytics & Content Expert.
Lead Software Development Engineer and Co-Founder of @swiftiq
Founder dscout, @gravitytank • Worked at @wired-magazine • Studied at @stanford-university, @institute-of-design-illinois-institute-of-technology
President at @singlehop-llc, Inc
Integrated Marketing & Content Solutions Executive at CAA (@creative-artists-agency). Featured in Wired, Fast Company and Banff Media Festival.
http://www.andrewsaunders.com
I love the Internet, tech startups, math, statistics, sports analysis, game theory, writing, freestyle rhymes, craft beer & being an outsider.
Netcycler / Swap.com Co-founder
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
Co-Founder @whittl Strong business background (IBM, Motorola, Bridge Strategy Group). Kellogg & Michigan State
Co-Founder @thyme • Worked at @tallan-consulting @direct-energy • Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university
President / Board of Directors at Wi3 Inc.
Strategy consultant and entrepreneur. Founder of @furnishly, the local furniture marketplace.
http://www.furnishly.com/blog
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
Partner at a leading global management consultancy. UC @university-of-california-berkeley MBA.
Founder Ariso Partners • Worked at @mckinsey-company, @novartis • Investor @zocdoc, @tethys-bioscience • Studied at @northwestern-university
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.
Head of strategic partnerships at @groupon, formerly corporate development at @tribune-company
Founder workforce.io • Worked at @motorola, @honeywell • Investor @dscout • Studied at @illinois-institute-of-technology
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
Co-Founded @relify-1. Hustler & operator. @theironyard '12. Worked at Anheuser-Busch, Lehman Brothers, Aileron.
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.
Co-Founder @eprof - Dev/Design @StarterLeague - Ivey HBA 2012
http://blog.eprof.com
Founder @gunnallen-venture-partners, @israel-america-discovery-fund • Worked at @hercules-technology-growth-capital • Studied at @university-of-pennsylvania, @washington-university-in-saint-louis
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/
Founder @pubget • Worked at @enthuse, @iris-associates
http://ianconnor.blogspot.com
☃ at @espark-learning
http://www.alexkoppel.com
http://www.calderainvestmentgroup.com
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.
Entrepreneur, User-Experience Evangelist, Sense-Maker, Founder of Cicada Design Co. (2007), CrinklePaw Pet Innovations (2009).
ZipFit CFO
Energy Micro, Director of Sales
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Computer Engineer
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
Founder Impossible Ventures
http://impossiblehq.com
Founder @confluence-labs, @enthrive • Worked at @avid-life-media • Studied at @queen-s-university
Dan is a designer and developer, specializing in experience and interface design and front-end development.
Co-Founder @bolstr
Worked at @google, @citadel-investment-group • Studied Computer Science at @stanford-university. Python, Data Mining, Quant Finance
Marketplace Ops @recruitloop. All things Capital Markets and Music considered. Startup junkie. Aspiring VC. Left handed & footed. @IansFrancesSt & @groupon alum
http://paisleypattern.tumblr.com
Worked at @belly, @spothero • Studied at @university-of-michigan
Math Nerd, Director of Manufacturing Operations @maillift
Founder of @fantasy-player-exchange
CEO of @adalyze-technologies
CTO Advisory to many others
16 years of Software Development and IT Management experience
Product Manager at @fooda. Co-Founder of @soundofffm & @Canaryware. A jack of all trades, passionate technologist & entrepreneur. Obsessed with product vision.
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.
Business counselor and advisor: Chief Investment Officer at Beyond Capital Fund and business lawyer for startups and investors through Horwood Marcus & Berk
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!
CEO at @china-social-commerce-group (CSCG)
VP of Marketing at @power-tower
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.
Business leader, coach, and advisor; Stanford MBA and Princeton grad; McKinsey & Co. alum; Sr. VP at Aon plc; Advisor at Instasafe; Man of the people
http://www.marquisparker.com/blog
Co-founder / Chief Instigator @ www.saambaa.com. 3x entrepreneur: software, real estate, healthcare. Like heights. Love people. Enjoy creating things.
Opened MetLife Stadium as an employee of New York Jets, StubHub, Inc, Halogen Guides. Passion for startups, MA University of San Francisco.
Consultant @mckinsey-company, Revenue Leader @google, @base-crm and @texas-instruments • MBA @northwestern-university-1 (Kellogg), MS & BS Eng @virginia-tech
Founder @spaciety, @rocket-lease • Studied at @ut-austin
http://blog.ezliu.com
Co-founder of crowdfynd. Built meboxmedia.com & FlickLaunch.com. Working on location based mobile applications and iOS application development incubator.
Marketing and Bus Dev Entrepreneur with UW Wisconsin JD & Entrepreneurship and former Googler. Interested in Social and Environmental Entrepreneurship.
Completed BS @university-of-illinois-chicago then worked @tellabs then started @semiautomatic3d
Co-Founder @shopgab • Worked at @elance, @continental-automotive • Studied at @depaul-university, @bradley-university
http://shopgab.wordpress.com
CEO of @dealer-ignition and Dealy, Strong sales and Marketing, Product Development and Architecture. Work @ford-motor-company, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz.
http://saasceo.me
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
Develop and design apps. Dev/Design for @steamboat-labs-1 and @Brewerbox. Worked on @kloudless @deskhero
CTO @reverb
http://yanpritzker.com
Vast knowledge and extensive experience in all facets of business analysis, project management, implementation of corporate initiatives, and systems development projects.
Studied at @miami-university
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/
Co-Founder @spaciety
Founded Smilegiver, a mobile game start-up in Korea (sold to GFVC), worked on online game projects, Northwestern University. Current: Blinkfire Analytics
Co-Founder of Dude Products. Strong business background and possess extreme amounts of hustle.
Founder Peckish • Worked at @macquarie-bank • Studied at @university-of-california-los-angeles, @university-of-nebraska-lincoln
Founder at @rocket-lease
http://rocketlease.com/blog
Aspiring content marketer with a vision in mind: to change the way marketers think about marketing.
CEO LiveWatch Security and @SafeMart, Co-Founder @WildcatAngels and writing about #entrepreneurship, #startups, home #security #alarms, @Northwestern & #poker
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
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
Product designer, team builder & coder getting into some new trouble. Advisor to Chicago & Detroit startups. #GoWings #GoBlue #ChicagoStartups
Experience Manager for Manifest Digital; Strategy & Experience Advisor for Project Travel; BFA in Graphic design with a strong development background.
A little bit of everything
Community Manager, @kuapay
Editor, @tech-li
News Editor, Sprout Social
Marketing/Sales Hustler. 5 experiences in marketing and sales across different industries and company sizes, most recently interning at Google.
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
Founder @rawdesignr. Coder, Blogger, Connector.
http://www.robbieabed.com
Advisor to @define-my-style.
Wharton MBA, product fanatic with a couple of startups under my belt. Strong business background.
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.
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.
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
Entrepreneur.Technologist.Consultant - ETC
Technology Entrepreneur – Create, Design, Develop, Innovate
Director of Operations of Learnmetrics; Kellogg MBA 2013
New Business Development at @kumbuya.com
@proven SaaS Entrepreneur
Senior marketing pro. MBA. Specializations in tech, financial services, pets, SMB. Strong business background. Experienced across multicultural and distributed teams.
VP of Product Management and Engineering at Mediafly. Technology entrepreneur, management consultant, @booth-school-of-business MBA and UIUC Computer Science MS.
Founder @quick2launch • worked @ernst-young, @brandmuscle, @zodius-advisors
http://quick2launch.com/index.php/blog
Founder and CEO of @tempesta-media-1 • Held senior management positions at @leapfrog-online, @websidestory Studied at Indiana University, Bloomington
Founder of second startup. Seeking additional Angels. Geek. Author (of a physical book). Always trying to be better.
Senior executive and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience in marketing / comms, digital media, strategy, product management and operations.
Founder Saffron Technology • Worked at @northwestern-university-1, @massachusetts-institute-of-technology-1
http://paulhofmann.net/blogs
Founder CancerIQ • Worked at @hp, @centric-consulting • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign, @university-of-chicago
Jr iOS Developer. Passionate about building & creating. Worked in high pressure environments @goldman-sachs, @oklahoma-city-thunder • Studied at @university-of-michigan B-School
Founder Nextinit • Studied at @northwestern-university, @instituto-de-empresa
Clean energy & technology entrepreneur. CEO @kiwi-solar, founder @entessa (Sold 2010).
Co-Founder at Technori
CEO/Co-Founder @tablesavvy
CEO, entrepreneur and investor with 14+ years experience designing software solutions
Director of Public Relations at Kennedy Communications
Founder @medical Teknologix • Work @prism-capital • Worked at @nasa-ames, @canadian-space-agency • Studied at @university-of-toronto
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
Founder & CEO of @freebie, Consumer Behaivor Specialist - CRE Background with over $500m in transactions as Founder @titan-commercial-llc • Studied at @university-of-arizona
CoFounder @pxnow, Founded @cibola, Strategy @proofx, digital dev since 2001, Anthropologist, sustainably developed nearly $1B in Real Estate, @Penn + @Wharton
Entrepreneur and scientist Genomic Enterprise, CEO and Founder; @datagenno, Co-Founder From Brazil and living in the US
Co-Founder & CEO of @grabio. 2nd startup out of college. Strong business background (Ernst & Young), Founded [email protected] (1 million visitors/month)
Northwestern undergrad, coffee lover, Netflixer.
Product Marketing Manager with 6 years experience at Google in US and Asia Pacific.
Recent Davidson grad, founder and CEO of Campus Sherpas LLC, Dabble LLC intern, and freelance social media/brand strategist
http://Www.thecusp.co
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.
Founder Chicago Pixels Multimedia • Studied at @kendall-college
http://chicagopixels.blogspot.com/
MBA, Project Manager at SocialCrunch
Director of Operations at @drift-eyewear
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
Founder Owl Invest
VP of Interactive Marketing @nutshellmail (sold to Constant Contact)
http://www.owlinvest.com/blog
Co-founder Deepworld. Co-founder @outling.com. Co-founder @rentmixer-com. Degrees in Finance and Computer Science.
http://jasonpearl.com
Founder of startups @top-colleague, @wabunga • Founder of @envalent-interactive • Worked at @accenture for six years in business and tech strategy
Director at Urban Outfitters. Consumer growth operator/investor/advisor. Significant experience working and investing in growth stage to public companies.
CEO of SUNN, Strong Operations, Sales & Marketing Skills. Cornell MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, MEng in Systems Eng.
Manager - Business Development at Guardian News & Media
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
Founder Beamboard • Studied at @indiana-university-bloomington
Advisor to @introfly.
Worked at @scout, Teradyne/Eagle, Woodward/MPC, Argonne National Labs. Strong Systems and Interdepartmental Coordination
Founder @tabule. Web developer and designer. Graduate (magna cum laude) of @university-of-southern-california. I like beautiful code, food, and magic tricks.
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
Founder @tap-me-3, @tapme-games • Worked at @electronic-arts • Studied at @depaul-university - Love mentoring startups.
http://[email protected]/in/jsteffes
Works at @winestyr. Previously worked @giftrocket. @dartmouth-college '07, ex J.P. Morgan investment banker, always searching for the next great meal & bottle.
Member Experience Manager at Project Fixup (Techstars Chicago 2013); Previously Family Resource Specialist at large non-profit agency
Co-Founder @BetterWeekdays; @georgia-institute-of-technology Engineer; Worked @accenture, Product Development and User Experience; Love growth hacking
Founder @business-traveler-social, @curbninja • Studied at @university-of-illinois-chicago
http://www.tnhines.wordpress.com/posts
Founder of Ms.Tech • Worked with @hootsuite, @midventures • Studied at @purdue-university, @cleveland-state-university, @indiana-wesleyan-university
Worked at @braintree-1
Former Lower Middle Market Banker, Current Screening and Diligence Team Member @private-capital-alliance
http://privatecapitalalliance.blogspot.com/
Founder/CEO of @trainsignal (acquired by @pluralsight). Founder/CEO of Blue Whale Web. Looking to partner with people who want to make a difference.
Founder @vouched. Experienced Back-end Web Developer. Graph Databases, Real Estate App, Call Center Apps, Job Board App.
http://getvouched.wordpress.com/
Business innovator. Former Founder in Residence at Sandbox Industries - ideating, testing, launching new startups, including Lost Crates. Early Groupon employee
Foodlander helps you discover deals and products right around the corner at your local farmers market. #freshdeals #localfood
Business Development at Orbitz. Founder of Foodie Registry. Startup Leadership Program Fellow. Derivatives trader. Chicago Booth MBA 2010.
Founder of KSubasta. Business owner at age 20. Worked with Deloitte and @microsoft. Strong international management experience.
Web developer. Cocreated Django Web framework. Founded EveryBlock (sold to msnbc.com). Trained in journalism. I can both talk strategy and ship good code.
CTO of @citizen-made. Software engineer for Lifetouch, Navteq, IBM, Volvo. Product design consultant for Kinesis, Brightspark, Northwestern Medicine.
http://www.technofish.us/word
Founder of HireBrite • Formerly M&A, Private Equity & Business Development • Studied at @harvard-university, @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business
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/
Founder & CEO @procureapp-1
I'm passionate about new technologies and in helping corporation's to save expenses via new internet applications.
Incubator @rockhealth • COO @canceriq • Worked at @university-of-chicago-medical-center • Studied at @emory-university, @northwestern-university
Founder @symbiosis-health, Symbiosis Health, 4th Startup, 8 years experience in Revenue cycle management
4 years of operations & leadershp experience at Groupon, management consulting, Stanford MBA
CEO of @snapclass. Chicago Entrepreneur. Getting it done.
Design engineer currently working at @spark • Cook Engineering Design Fellow, B.E. Mechanical Engineering (2012) at @dartmouth-college College
Serial entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, technologist, strategist. Highly skilled at business/corporate dev, and closing strategic partnerships.
Team member of @lab42.
http://blog.lab42.com
Co-Founder and COO of @push-wellness • Worked at @northwestern-university-1 Feinberg School of Medicine • Grad school at Northwestern, UIC (Epidemiology)
Worked at @betterfly-1, @magnani-caruso-dutton • Studied at @northwestern-university
CEO of @silvrspoon. Full stack developer. BS/MS in Computer Science.
Founder @tabule • Developer & aspiring UX Designer • Studied CS + Psych + Business, graduated cum laude @illinois-institute-of-technology
http://metamorphium.com
Technical Co-Founder @careshare • Heavy-lifting Internet Engineer • Studied at @northwestern-university
http://blog.barrettgriffith.com
Lead engineer at @moneydesktop (rapidly growing PFM provider), co-founded @qbillion (online financial analysis), lead engineer at @i-tv (#1 TV app in appstore)
Co-founder of @rentalutions. Former Investment Banking Associate at @bmo-capital-markets . @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign '07 Finance & Accounting
@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.
www.linkedin.com/in/mjoel
President at Fundology. 7 years M&A Advisory. 7 years software development.
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
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
Founder/CEO Veebit
Experienced Entrepreneur with expertise in Talent Acquisition, Mobile/Web Solutions. Founder/CEO of @cmp-jobs & @loginaut. Bootstrap to $2m. EO NY Member.
Lateral thinker & Founder at @bb-media-global-group, Studied @stanford-university & DePaul University
Founder @riot-inc, @asset-harmony, @piepdx alum, worked at @manifest-digital, @arthur-andersen
I can talk to people through the interwebs as though I'm an actual person and not a robot.
Investor in @perceptual-networks & @oncam
Founder @netparty. Building suite of social discovery/networking sites/apps under ChemistryLab.co banner including Youngp.ro / WeJustClick.com / Tribester.com.
Co-Founder of @scholastica. Academic publishing experience at Callaloo (JHU Press). Designed at many Chicago software companies.
http://www.robwalshonline.com/blog/
CEO, Board Member & Advisor. Hyde Park Angel, UChicago, Hoopster & Author - never at the same time.
Operating Partner for Private Equity Group in Chicago. Masters in Information Technology from IIT in Chicago.
http://jmilbery.wordpress.com
Winner of 2011 Best Social Networking App & Best Reference App for Android. Previously Mobile Development Director for @thumb.
A licensed clinical psychologist, Leslie Pratch has led Pratch & Company as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since 1998.
http://drlesliepratch.tumblr.com/
Founder @heirlume
Co-founder & CEO at @sweetperk, Inc; Kellogg MBA, Levy Fellow; Global Product Manager for Embedded Software (Johnson Controls); Web start-up through undergrad.
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
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.
Founder LaunchEngine • Worked at @vivaki, @starcom-mediavest-group, @lightbank • Studied at @depaul-university
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
BCG Project Leader; artist, programmer, business developer, lawyer. JD/MBA from Chicago. Experience in strategy, ops, sales and marketing, and M&A.
#geek. Former @ibm, @obama-for-america; founding team @public-good-software • CS from @university-of-michigan
http://self.d-struct.org/
Systems Thinker, Hiker, Entrepreneur, Whole Systems Designer, Philosopher, Technologist http://about.me/brian.greenberg
http://briangreenberg.net
Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems
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.
BizDev for freemium business models and high volume distribution -- AVG, @sana-security, @crossloop
Founder of Covr (Stealth), Product Manager at InVisionApp, Editor at BetaList, Adobe Advisory Board Member, New Yorker.
Illini, launched 2 startups. Former-Team lead for a software startup, launched from inception to customers. Founder of a digital health startup @benecure
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
Ruby on Rails Developer at Dabble
Entrepreneur. Hacker. Founder. Hipster. IU Kelley School of Business.
Founded and worked his a** off for Trayn - a new web service for strength and conditioning coaches (currently available by invitation only)
Founder of @yourseniorliving Raising Angel Investment Round. Founding executive member @all-campus. Startup experience @snagajob-com @alloy-media-marketing
CEO of @lab42. Kellogg MBA. Contributor on @forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gaurisharma/
Founder & CEO, @uberloop
Co-Founder of ShowcaseU.
Former Professional Pitcher of 8 years.
http://www.showcaseu.com/blogs/jakestakes.aspx
Commercial lawyer experienced with technology and startup companies; accustomed to working with small teams and informal work environments; ex-Air Force officer.
COO & Co-Founder of Rippleshot. Former CTO of @fundspire. Previous experience in consulting specializing in open source and agile development.
Strong business background in emerging tech (Electric Vehicles, Smart Grid, Smart Meters). Kellogg MBA; @depaul-university University College of Law JD
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
Founder @yella • MBA @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business, VP Ops at $300 mm fund
Worked at @base-crm • Studied at @university-of-dayton
http://blog.getbase.com
Strategy/Investment/Financial Services professional, Mechanical Eng. @Yale, MBA @UofC
I am a Partner at @caldera-venture-partners
Founder and CTO at @base-10-labs. Specialist in Esoteric audio algorithms. Genetic Programming for Sound Synthesis. DSP and frequency domain magic.
COO of Critical Mass, creating extraordinary digital experiences that exceed clients business objectives
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
Founder of @edline. Investor in @blackboard, @edline, @chemical-information-services, @atco-crossroads, @clark-street-farm.
Founder @unbranded-designs, @revel-central • Worked at @zs-associates • Studied at University of Michigan
http://samernsaab.wordpress.com/
Award-winning pioneer in web publishing, online marketing and ecommerce.
Director of Business Development at @arborvita-associates
Co-Founder of @universitytutor-com
Associate at @oakwood-global-finance
MBA - @university-of-chicago
Helped 5 startups develop their products, wrote a couple of mobile apps and worked on several large projects
Chief Legal Rebel • Founder @attorneyfee • Bar Association President • Relentless Hustler
Founder at @firmology. Product Manager at @sears. BA, Economics at @indiana-university-bloomington. Fan of startup entrepreneurs and small business owners.
@harvard-university @ucla-anderson-school-of-management , Experience in private equity and financial analysis, Heavy into future tech
CTO and co-founder of @leaguevine. Senior software engineer at Motorola Mobility 2007-2012. BS Computer Engineering UIUC 2007.
Father, Husband, Mad web skills, currently handling the Marketing, Account Management and Sales for BarVision.
http://www.barvision.com
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.
Founder Zockster • Founder WayToSettle • Worked at @king-spalding-llp • Studied at @university-of-kansas, @john-marshall-law-school
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.
Founder and CEO of Jolokia Media and the Game Break Network. Marketing and product background with both startups and agencies.
CEO @QUE_social. Co-founder of Zocalo Group (Omnicom). Strong business/management background. Push limits of what's considered possible.
Recent Miami University graduate. Prior experiences include startups, advertising, marketing, sales, media, biz dev, and relationship building.
Computational Finance Student at @ohio-state-university
Former Tech/Media Investment Banker; Founder/Owner @GrassFedSteakhouse and Founder @startingbloc; Strong Operational / Finance / Biz Dev skills in FOOD & MEDIA
http://www.grassfedpartners.com
Designer/art director in Chicago with 15+ years digital/interactive. Most recently Creative Director at Threadless, previously at BBDO, Goodby, Arc, and HUGE.
Developer @dabble
Founder Patient-Advisor • Studied at @harvard-university, @kellogg-school-of-management
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
Co founder @bff-gemz
Co-founder @Doejo, Digital Agency of the year 2012, Advisor,
http://mapofthedead.com
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.
Founder @myfab5 • Studied at @university-of-michigan
http://blog.myfab5.com
Marketing Director @dabble
Co-founder and CEO of @recsolu and @RecPass. Everything I do is always both business and pleasure.
motorcyclist • world traveler • founder @riot-inc • alum of @piepdx • director of technology at @manifest-digital, @acquity-group
Co-Founder at @ourlabel; Former Technology Consultant at @accenture Technology Labs; B.S. Electrical Engineering @northwestern-university University.
Director of Dearborn Partners. Business development, raised money for Independent RIA in Chicago, established quarterly marketing programs. Created: http://www.thirdrivercapital.com
TRAINER ♦ SPEAKER ♦ Adjunct Faculty, Loyola University
http://www.makesocialsell.com/blog
Adam has spent his career learning to build companies. Before co-founding SparkReel, Adam spent 5 years with a Chicago-based private equity firm.
Founder @mdotm • Worked at @socialmedia-com, @siebel-systems • Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1
Consultant. Growth Hacker. Founder. Mentor. I help start-ups you've never heard of become companies you know.
Founder UrbanBuddy • Worked at @chicago Sculpture Works • Studied at @'Cuse
Problem-solver focused on product design, user experience, analytics and business strategy
Founder @algofast, Bouchard Trading
http://www.AlgoFast.com/our_blog
Strategy and Management Consulting Executive with 15 years of experience, Advisory Board Member of Endeavor, Member of Keiretsu Forum, ex-Accenture and comScore executive.
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.
Founder @fouryears, BBA Marketing @ohio-university University
VP of Strategy and Design, TodayTix. Designer, strategist, tech nerd, MBA. Love building companies. Columbia University and IIT Institute of Design grad.
associate @newworldvc, early-adopter, wahoo alumn, sportsfan, lover of any combination of food, music, and beer, happier when traveling
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
Kellogg MBA, worked in VC at MK Capital, past role in digital media strategy/incubator/partnership group at Discovery Communications.
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
Business Development @dabble.
http://blog.dabble.co/
Strategic Marketer w/experience at established companies & startups. Client & agency side. Worked at @j-walter-thompson, @pepsi • @yale-university undergrad, Kellogg MBA
President & CEO ► Problem Solver ► Analytics Expert ► Mentor/Advisor
Experienced entrepreneur with impressive track record as a consultant at Bain & Company. Finance and Psychology degree from Notre Dame.
Co-Founder of @stork-stack; @wharton-school MBA; Currently work full-time at Zipcar; Previous career at Nickelodeon and Nick Jr.
CEO of Microcinema Intl. Strong international business background. MBA @university-of-chicago.
Dealster, Daily Dealter and Chitown Deals
Co-founder @glossre • Head of Ops @dabble • Former investment banker • Studied at @babson-college
Founder Visual Information Technologies, inc. • Worked at @boeing • Studied at @thunderbird-school-of-global-management, @letourneau-university
CaptainU's CEO, @booth-school-of-business MBA, skateboarder and guitarist.
Worked at @reachlocal-nasdaq-rloc, @thumb-friendly • Studied at @university-of-south-carolina
Founder at @socioclean
Founder QUEsocial • Worked at @aon-hewitt • Studied at @university-of-iowa
Partner at Miller and Ferguson
AdWords and Analytics specialist. Former HTML / CSS student at The Starter League.
Founder @spotme • Studied at @university-of-chicago, @university-of-illinois-chicago
Craft wine visionary, formerly @wirtz-beverage representing @e-j-gallo-winery portfolio. Earned C.S.W. (Certified Specialist of Wine) in 2012.
Credentialed Health Care Actuary and MBA/MPH candidate at @yale-university; Consulting and Health Care background; experiences ranging from large companies to startups
Investor via Pipeline Fellowship, Board Member @philantech, student at Rutgers Business School
Founded @fitsby, Founded @designation
http://blog.kevinyun.co
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
Founder @jotlocker • Worked at @gather-1, @thoughtworks, @orby
Successful marketing consultant of Kulin Marketing, LLC.
Co-founder @cardoona. Loyola University Chicago BBA. Background in Private Equity & Wealth Mgmt @Northern Trust. Responsible for human & capital mgmt.
Founder @social-intelligence, Expert in Disaster Tech and Emerging Technologies • Studied at @northwestern-university
http://ryanbank.com/blog
Founded @ziczac, top Italian News Aggregator. Founder of @bestcreativity, a marketplace for creativity based on Crowdsourcing
Recovering tax accountant; Director, Internal Strategy Consulting @ibm; Past @ernst-young ; Bridge between our investments & the angels and VCs
Development leader. Takes projects from ideas to implementation.
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
CEO ano Co-Founder @studycloud
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
Chief Product Development Officer, experienced creating B2B and B2C services.
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.
Founder Lemonade Stand and Public Affairs Associate at the University of Chicago.
A jovial lad & professional fellow. Eau Claire native, Dad, Design Director, UI/UX #OFATech, community organizer, civic geek, placemaker & cyclist.
Technical co-founder of rfphunter with 13 years of coding and consulting experience.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Kl_G4yiwWXNFQ4Um9HdEZ0Uzg/edit?usp=sharing
Founder at Innoblative Designs • JD/MBA candidate @Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University School of Law • Former Consultant @deloitte-consulting
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
Founder of Konekt. Launched Startups on 3 continents. Former MD at Rocket Internet; Former Head of Sales Ops (Founding Team) Groupon Goods.
Over seven years of experience managing and selling in fast-paced start-up environments and publicly traded top-tier SaaS firms.
Executive Vice President CNC Strategy. Experienced strategic problem solver on cost and revenue side in various industries including consulting.
http://robsayre.resumeconnect.com
Co-Founder of SoapBox, graduate of @michigan-state-university University
Founder @plzadvize • Worked at @magnetic, @visus-video • Studied at @boston-university
Owner, RavWare Mobile Labs. I dream and love making and researching mobile apps on any platform every second of the day.
SVP, Products @centro, Ex-Microsoft, Ex-McKinsey, Wharton MBA; Product-focused Technologist, Entrepreneur & Investor in Online Media, Advertising, Mobile/Social
Entrepreneur (Vision, Strategy, Funding, Execution & Exit) • CEO at @gradebeam • Studied at @University of Wisconsin, Madison
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
Leader, mentor, developer, manager, polyglot. Organizer Startup Weekend, Stamford Tech Meetup. Led dev on $30MM U.C. product. Looking for my next adventure.
We connect people, information, and money with the best learning and performance solutions to MAXIMIZE business value worldwide.
Director of Business Development & Co-Founder @lock. Worked at Edward Don & Co as a National Account Salesman specializing in revenue growth.
Worked at @belly, @fango-software-systems • Studied at @depaul-university
Regional Sales Director at Groupon. Worked @Goldman Sachs • Studied at @Penn, @Wharton
Product Designer, formerly of Groupon, Scrapblog. Creator of Vidless. Focused on UX, design, front-end.
MD of Evergreen Equity, building great businesses and brands. Previously in marketing and general management for CPG food & beverages globally.
Vice President, Ops & Strategy at uKnow.com; Specialize in taking companies from idea to profitability. 1st software startup out of college sold to Oracle.
Worked at @groupon, Director of Revenue @granify • Studied at @queen-s-university, @hec-paris
Razorfish founding team member. Co-founder of GoSMILE (sold) VP, Digital @ Saatchi, VP, Innovation Director @ Cramer-Krassetl. Serial digital innovator.
http://www.brianmandelbaum.com
Entreprenuer looking for next opportunity. 14 years at last venture with successful exit. Stanford BA, University of Chicago Booth MBA.
Interaction designer for the noun project. Thinker at Simple.Honest.Work. Bassist for Glittermouse. Making for humanity.
Experience E-commerce Rockstar with a development and technology background and a degree in Marketing and a pedigree in business management
Founder of @gradmags. Worked at Dell. Two successful startups out of high school. @booth-school-of-business MBA.
http://blog.gradmags.com/
CEO at Windcastle Venture Consulting, Visiting Instructor of Economics at Kenyon College
Founder of DoerHub • Introduced, engineered, & managed profitable products for @nba Digital, @cnn-com, @Turner Broadcasting • Studied at @university Of Chicago
Founder @careerstarter.com. Committed web-tech attorney with experience in IP, HR and Data. Indiana Maurer School of Law graduate and economics fellow.
Founder Geofeedia • Worked at @priceline-com • Studied at @harvard-business-school
Founder of OpeningDesign.com--basically Github.com for Architects/Engineers (building/construction industry).
http://blog.openingdesign.com/
William Howe is a co-founder of empeopled. Strong business background with Stanford MBA. Worked at Citadel Investment Group, DLJ, Deloitte and tech start-ups.
Worked at @tomorrowventures, @obama-for-america • Studied at @brown-university
Erlang programmer. Opa enthusiast. Worked at eCDMarket on aggregation market system, Orbitz Worldwide on Core and IR/DM grad research.
http://blog.erlware.com
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
Founder @feed-forming-early-eating-decisions • Worked at @university-of-chicago-medical-center, @lurie-children-s-hospital • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign, @rush-university
Versatile front-end designer/developer with experience across multiple fields of design.
Founded CVM (sold to Altegrity), Founded Smart Dimensions, C-Level Exec, Masters in Computer Science with MBA from Kellogg, Worked for Shasta Venture
Operations, Warehouse and People Mgmt. McMaster-Carr Supply Mgmt. Alum. Dartmouth College & IMSA grad. Interested in tech startups and entrepreneurship.
CSO at 365 Retail. Strong finance and sales operations background. Startup to enterprise management expertise. Moderately irreverent.
Founder @touchpoints • Love building communities with @sandbox-network, @the-feast, @gust • Studied @yale-university • NYC & Chicago • Angel - VC - Entrepreneur •
http://www.chrislopresti.com
Previously an Software Engineer at Yodle, Inc. BS in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamaign.
Technical Guy with a Designer's Eye
Founder WeaveThePeople.com.
Worked at @everpurse • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
Co-founded HireBrite. Past: Software Engineer at Groupon, CS at University of Texas.
CEO Carematix/Blipcare,
Worked at McKinsey and Case New Holland
VP of Commercial Products @uShip. Previously Founder at Loadio, and Director of Product Management at Echo (IPO 2009), from 20 to 900 employees
Product Development Executive, Partner at Digital Intent
Technology Executive
http://@jasonmcsmith
Entrepreneur with ~15 years of experience at small, profitable startups. Software development background, Kellogg MBA, jack of all trades Internet biz leader.
President of NetVoices, Founder Intro America. Worked at Urban Ministries, HBO, Invensys and Microband. PMP Certified. Studied at Chicago Booth and NYU.
Chief Product Officer of @klick-push. Dev at @microsoft, @intel, Cisco, & @ibm in a former life. Evangelist at @microsoft and Marmalade. Math + CS @ UIUC
We fuel ideas that grow, helping startups & brands identify market opportunities and build the momentum they need.
If you want customers hire me. I am scrappier than a junk yard dog from the Bronx.
UofC MBA, mobile expert w/ start-up experience & algorithmic trading background. Leader & connector. Single SHS dad of 2. Problem solver & music lover.
Serial Entrepreneur
http://azizali.com
Generalist consultant with political and intellectual property background ready to be an innovative leader for a novel company with a respected team.
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).
Very strong Product Development Management & Product Management skills, which were honed both in a business and entrepreneurial environment. Love to create.
co-founder/ceo @arc-mobile. Formerly @gdine-group-dining-made-easy . My goal is to bring restaurants and tech together.
http://godutchapp.tumblr.com
Founder & CEO at @mantle
Hands-on CTO who gets business. Four successful companies: iExplore, Cars.com, Orbitz, Cappex.com
Founder/CEO KitchIn • VP at @georama (Chicago)• High honors at @depaul-university, @butler-university Univ.- Entrepreneurship & Management. Heavily involved in startup community.
Worked at @zynga, @oca-ventures • Studied at @kellogg-school-of-management, @indian-institute-of-technology-bombay
@govsm; Politics, Social Media, Gov20 & OpenGov; Student of Science, History, Judaism; Father; Husband, Chicagoan, Cubs & Vikings; Attorney; @whorunsgov blogger
Full Stack Engineer at Charlie. Creator of StewShare.com.
http://www.davidbrace.com
Senior Vendor Manager @amazon • Co-Founded @officefab, Former MD @rocket Internet • MBA @Kellogg, Economics @Bocconi University
IT Consultant and entrepreneur with nearly three decades of enterprise development experience.
20 years Digital Sales and Marketing experience at companies like Martha Stewart, Time Inc. iVlliage/NBCU, Newsweek The Daily Beast
Chicago MBA graduate, Consulting Experience, Full database skill set, Nerd w/ Personality. Flourished in all size companies (Startup, Mid, $1Bil corporation)
maker, mentor, connector. previously @ofatech, @mozilla, @uchicago.
VP Sales @grubhub (employee #5), sales & leadership roles StubHub, ESPN Radio Chicago, short stint as international basketball scout, MBA DePaul University
Hustler & Hacker wearing many hats. Current @tablexi, Former: @houlihan-lokey, @kelley-school-of-business-indiana-university-1
http://stephenpuiszis.com
Currently working as a Writer/Performer with a decade of experience in customer service, theatrical production, and administrative assistance.
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
i head up tech at @pitchforkmedia and @beergraphs. lover of python, js, golang. baseball is a lifestyle. from hell's heart i regress thee.
Works at @charlie-app. Plays a mean trumpet in a ska band.
Full Stack Web Developer with a Liberal Arts Skill Set
Threadless Optimization Manager and International Markets Manager; Strong business background; MA Johns Hopkins International Economics 2011
Senior Vice President
Founder @postster-com
Chicago-based Entrepreneur with base hit successes, all leading up to a home run.
Entrepreneur, Ops, Strategy, Process and People Pro
Co-founder @ourlabel. Software Developer and Project Management Consultant through work experience, Mechanical Engineer and Music Performer by degrees.
Front-End Developer
http://starterleague.chrismpeterson.com/
Marketing Professional
Graduate of @williams-college College. Work with start-ups throughout the country. Looking to help bring top technical talent to your firm.
Founder, Co-Founder, Innovation Fellow, looking for more hats. Past: corporate M&A, FDA reviewer, startup R&D operations. Stanford University B.S. and M.S.
http://cd2.northwestern.edu/blog
Co-founder and CTO of @beamboard. Strong history of technology leadership roles and building software and infrastructure to address various markets.
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.
Executive in Residence at NewCo (an affiliate of...) #Gamification expert, #outsourcing enthusiast, micro investor, avid biker & amateur landscaper
Co-Founder Terranova Inc. •
Senior public relations, marketing, and strategy executive driving growth and shareholder value.
Founder of @plusnavigator-1
http://blog.plusnavigator.com
I am an Entrepreneur at heart. No matter what I’m doing, I always think about how I can improve it.
Sustainability geek. Energy Engineer. Music addict. @DePaulU #Marketing Adjunct Prof. Fan of big ideas, passionate people, & #socent. BS UIUC, MBA/MSF DePaul.
http://drewdepriest.com/blog
Founder @6th-man-apps • Worked at @upto, @grand-circus • Studied at @university Of Michigan
Founder @blueloop-concepts-inc • Helping early stage co's analyze/identify new opportunities, define products/services & bring them to market quickly.
http://blog.rechtsteiner.me
Investor in @osborn-energy, @m37-marketing.
Studied at Boston College, Founded @fishingenthusiast-com, Online Marketing Analyst at Fusion Tree, Inc.
Worked at Obama for America • Studied at Yale
Founder @r-connor-associates-p-c • Studied at @harvard-business-school, @university-of-illinois-chicago
http://robertheist.wordpress.com/
Work at @progreso-financiero • Studied at @university-of-chicago, @university-of-minnesota-twin-cities
Co-founder of 1st Zoe Group LLC holdings, exceptional technology sales and marketing acumen, makes impossible happen
Skilled Senior Marketing Executive
Ruby, Rails & Front-end Web Developer. Partner at @3binary. @starterleague Mentor, former TA and alumn.
http://vgdub.com/blog
CEO of Clean Plate, a startup consolidating the independent restaurant industry. 14 year career on Wall Street focussed on Consumer-related investments.
Palantir forward-deployed engineer, former co-founder and CTO (sold to strategic acquirer), Stanford SymSys '05
Strong technical and management consulting background, Experience in SaaS and venture backed SMBs, GW MBA 2012.
Co-Founder at @a-drink-with. Passion for strong editorial content and unique digital media. Worked at @groupon, @cbs, @mtv-networks.
Business Development Professional, Launched 3 Startups, Looking for the next big thing
Entrepreneur@heart. Love 4 Tech Innovation Business Philanthropy & NonProfits. VP @PaylineData Blessed Father w/ a beautiful wife & 2 boys
http://www.paylinedata.com/blog
Son, Brother, Friend, Geek, Entrepreneur, Product Manager @ http://Cars.com
Highly varied educational background, including in pre-med sciences, psychology for UX/UI, and practical entrepreneurship. Now looking to specialize in CS.
Founder and CEO @stock-mfg, Founder @Left of Trend • Sales, Marketing, Brand Management at @careerbuilder • Journalism at @university-of-dayton
http://stockmfgco.tumblr.com/
Founder/CEO of OppenUp. GCU BA. I'm a passionate and social entrepreneur. I consult social enterprises. Proud Rotarian, Gangplank anchor and global citizen.
Founder @p360 • Worked at @vmware, @partners-simons • Studied at @union-college
Founder @speakerfeed - Changing the way people support their church. • Studied at @howard-university • Studied at The Starter League • Ruby on Rails
Dad | Founder of @localluxapp | Citizen of @appsterdamchi | Public Speaker | UX/UI Visual Designer | Programmer | Aspiring Serial Entrepreneur | Foodie |
http://www.iamrandyellis.com
Interactive Marketer/Business Strategy Professional. Web 3.0 Data Proponent. Worked at @expedia & @thomson-reuters. Currently at @responsys. Marine Corps Veteran.
Director of Outreach and Partnerships at @ontract @brandery 2012 Worked at @hyland-software • Studied at @case-western-reserve-university , @ohio-university
Founder, CEO at Big River Online
VP Development, Computer Associates
Director, AI Ware (acquired)
Founder GalaDo • Worked in consulting, studied at @stanford-university, @depaul-university
Senior UI Designer, 8 yrs of design exp., background in advertising, blend of product & advertising experience, passionate about building products and teams.
Sr. Manager/Architect. Extensive management and technology consulting (Deloitte, Cognizant). Notre Dame MIS, Chicago Booth MBA (Entrepreneurship, Strategy).
Experienced Lean Software Company Investor, Technology I-Banker, Company-grower, Deal 'de-risker'
Investment banking professional for five years with a history of sales and operational consulting. Experience wearing multiple hats. Booth MBA '08
Longtime Idea-Guy. Ex IT-Guy. Now RoR-Guy. Currently looking to join a solid team as a strong junior developer.
http://rudyonrails.tumblr.com
Founder of @agentrun. Insurance visionary. Application Developer. Husband. Insurance CRM disruptor.
Legal Council for Create Possible. Policy, tax, legal and non-profit background. Mississippi School of Law, Kentucky MPA and Illinois graduate.
Systems Developer
http://blakeapm.blogspot.com
Experienced finance, strategy and M&A professional; strong business background, extensive history in private equity.
Founder, ForMen2, Inc.
VP, IBCTV [Internet Broadcast Company Television]
Director, I-DEP LLC [Legal Depositions via Internet]
President of Eco Save Solutions, Inc. (Current Venture). Started my first business during college in wholesale liquidation in 2005. Conducted business in 13 countries.
CEO of Fandium, Proven background in start up and World class entrepreneurial opportunities.
startup and growth stage legal advisor, S.B. electrical engineering & computer science M.I.T.; J.D. Harvard
A leader with the ability to bring individuals together to create, develop, and implement complex concepts to reach customer, partner, & stakeholder goals.
Student @wharton-school & @PennEngineering, Chair of Pennvention tech innovation competition, Worked @GlobusGenomics
Startup & Growth Executive. Strategy, execution, operations, product management, build winning teams, international experience. Co-founded Vigilant Europe Ltd.
6 years Business to Business sales and marketing. Great at managing projects and recruiting talent. C and Ruby Rails programming experience.
Founder | Global Philanthropic Social News Community; (@mybigearth, @mybigearth.com)
Founder | Exec Agency (Synergistic Solutions, sylutions.com)
http://www.sylutions.com
Design Director. Unrepentant Internet addict and information junkie.
Worked at @cisco, @sentictechnologies • Studied at @hebrew-university-of-jerusalem
Founder @fitsby
Currently working on a project to make the world a better place, with the help of technology.
Co-Founder of Good Market. PhD Mass Media and Communication Studies. TS/SCI Security Clearance.
VP of Business Development at GenSyn Tech. Recent MBA grad from @Kellogg. Orbitz.com, Early Stage Partners, HighVista Strategies, Bank of America.
Founder of @apps-over-easy Corp and @world-life-networks LLC
Recently anointed software engineer. Washington University grad.
http://generalzhou.tumblr.com
Front-End/ UX Ninja, study javascript like its my job
President of @expertbids-2. Former corporate lawyer. Strong startup/business background.
Co-founder of HappyHealth. Also Founded @skinclick. Extremely passionate about healthcare technology with 6 years clinical experience and a Healthcare MBA.
Streaming media expert and builder of things - including @Weatherist and @Gearlance.
Founder Binary Mechanics LLC • Worked at @centro • Studied at @depaul-university
http://binarymechanics.com
Partner, R7 Partners
CEO of MeetBall. Veteran entrepreneur with deep technical expertise and a sales driven approach. Creative problem solver energized by the startup challenge.
http://backonthetra.in
IDEO Design Lead for Digital + Physical products and services. Mentor at Excelerate.
Studied at @wheaton-college
Innovative Product Manager and MBA Student at @Booth; Worked at @google, @BoozAllenHamilton, @QualiaLabs
Customer Experience @brideside; MBA Student ('13) from @kellogg-school-of-management-1; Worked at @boston-consulting-group, @target
Founder of JALBC. Social engineer. Freelance writer, dating coach and dance-party instigator in Chicago.
http://www.melissamalka.com
Founder @Noblewire• Making wireless sensor mesh networks accessible and fun• Worked @national-science-foundation Studied at @university-of-michigan MBA, @oberlin-college
CEO at CFN Services, Studied @university-of-massachusetts-amherst, @american-university
Founder @simplemarks. Founder @cardina-internet (sold). Senior Software Developer. Physicist & Astrophysicist.
http://www.snidersh.org
Founder/CEO @NuMat Technologies• Portfolio Ops @ $5B PE/VC fund • @booz-company, • JD-MBA @kellogg-school-of-management ,Engineering @northwestern-university
Startup marketing guy with news media and DC politics background + MBA.
http://blog.fourcher.net
Commercial Real Estate Professional. Marketing Expert. Deal Maker. Entrepreneur. Ideator. Thinker. Executer.
CMO/Founder @hunybe-labs, Inc.
If entrepreneurship is your life, then I'll be your life coach.
Booth MBA Student
Aspiring Entrepreneur
Experienced Management Consultant. Strong finance, operations, strategy & M&A background. BBA - University of Notre Dame, MBA - University of Michigan.
Dynamic executive leader with a broad and unique background leading strategy, product and service development, business development, and sales. Experienced with pharmaceutical, medical device, hospitals, and healthcare consulting organizations in both st
Worked at @orango @Coinstar/Redbox @McKinsey & Company • Studied at @university of Michigan
Consultant at @accenture. Data junkie, marathon runner, traveler, Cubs fan.
Worked at @slidegenius, @nulu • Studied at University of California, Santa Barbara
CEO Phenom Ventures LLC/Investor Media Inc. Current Editor Gold Investment Letter. Co founder GunnAllen Venture Partners
http://www.goldinvestmentletter.com/blog/
Kellogg MBA, studying Marketing. Strong writing skills. Experience with multi-billion companies and CEOs. Leadership experience.
Founder of @wikifun-and-wikiapps, a former McKinsey consultant with 20 yrs experience for Fortune 100 Cies in Organization Strategy and IS in Europe and the US
Co-Founder of Harvest Exchange Corp.
Founding team of Height Analytics & Height Securities.
14 years Investment Experience
Colby College, Vanderbilt MBA
Harvard Undergrad; University of Michigan MBA; 20+ years of management experience in roles emphasizing strategic planning and business/product development
M&A Strategy, Breakthrough Innovation, Product Development
Founder & CEO, American Homeowner Preservation, which purchases pools of distressed mortgages from banks and offers homeowners long-term solutions, while delivering attractive returns to investors
Co-founder @elysian-yields • Studied at @insead-1, @university-of-manchester
COO of MikiYaka, worked at Google and Orbitz, Design Freelancer for Hoodle Inc., Pivot Media, LLC., Sumpura, Inc., Gyantra, Inc., and Nuggets by Gyantra.
http://blog.mikiyaka.com
Expert in assessment and institutional research. PhD Ed Psych, UT Austin. Launched CarsonAssessment.com in 2013. Institutional research leadership (Kaplan U).
Worked at @cvs-caremark, @aon-hewitt • Studied at @university-of-illinois-chicago
Founder @chat-sports • Worked at @motorola • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign, @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business
Assistant Professor at @northwestern-university University's Medill School of Journalism
Brand Planner & Digital Strategist at the intersection of businesses, brands, and customers in a digital world. Writer motivated by how people think and evolve
Founder @sharemarket
Founder @leasemaid • Worked at @bank-of-america • Studied at Indiana University, Bloomington
Founder & Host @signal-tower. Interactive Producer @red-square-agency. Former marketer at @drchrono and @crowdfunder-com. Graduate from @the-starter-league.
Public speaker and entrepreneur. Hedge fund manager and chief option specialist.
Strategy and finance professional with passion for technology, strong analytic abilities, verbal and written communication skills, and personal credibility.
Worked at @domu-com, @atlas-software-technologies • Studied at @macquarie-university, @rowan-university
Founder ZupStream • Senior Technical Leadership at Motorola, Ingenient Technologies, PacketVideo. Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign, @missouri-university-of-science-technology
Tech Lead at MiGym. Graduate of University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Founder Team Interval • Studied at @winona-state-university, @argosy-university
http://www.teaminterval.com/blog
I like to make nothing into something. KU Grad, International exp, Fundraising and people Guru.
Co-founder @sitterworks-1 • Ranked in top 5% at RHI for nearly 10 years. Strong ad background. Studied at @university-of-wisconsin-madison
Versatile Aerospace Systems Engineer with over 14 years experience seeking lead engineering or related role with challenging team-oriented tasks and goals
Sales ninja, relationship expert, and strategic thinker.
Worked at @walls-360
Experienced Product Manager of consumer web/mobile applications, and e-commerce platforms. MBA. Partner engagement manager. Systems integrator. New father.
DePaul B.S. in Network Technologies. Programmer, systems administrator, configuration management enthusiast.
Entrepreneurial Minded Hustler: Founded Small Companies, Worked for Groupon and BrightTag.
I’m creative designer and front end developer for web and print. I love building ideas, websites and brands.
University of @booth-school-of-business MBA + 7 years CPG experience + 4 years Shopper Marketing agency experience + former college volleyball player
Manager of New Business & Digital Product at MNML Product Design. Successful restauranteur and interactive advertising web startup cofounder. Masters of Eng. in Product Design & Development - Northwestern University '12. Vanderbilt University '01.
http://www.lunatik.com
Founded Digital Criterion (IT consulting) and Atom Apps (web and mobile dev), financed start of Bytemark. Edu: BS EE UIowa
Worked at @trunk-club, @tpg-axon • Studied at @university-of-maryland-college-park
Inbound Marketing Specialist. 3-time Entrepreneur. Always Learning.
http://www.northcutt.com/blog/
Senior Associate at Jump Capital, a Chicago-based private investments firm.
CEO & Co-Founder of LyteShot. Managed design for global building icons (SOM) and emerging services (MDG). Architect; UIUC Strategic Tech Mngmnt Program.
Founder @idefi-axs
Founder at BeachFire Ventures
CEO & Co-Founder @mercier-jones. Strong background in engineering and product design and development (Insitu-Boeing, Radio Flyer, Fellowes).• Studied at @virginia-commonwealth-university
Kellogg MBA; Experienced Product Manager; founded job search site for experience professions; 5+ years of business consulting experience
Worked at @janvest • Investor @hybrid-security, @todacell • Studied at @indiana-university-bloomington
http://janvest.wordpress.com/
Worked as product/relationship/project manager and business analyst in financial tech for 15 years. MBA from Loyola University Chicago
techie, serial entrepreneur, founder/ceo aquavida, author, blue sky burning.
http://www.jasongonzo.com
Worked at @oracle-corporation • Studied at @boise-state-university
Worked at Fermi National Lab and @northrop-grumman. BSCS from UIUC. 12 years hardware/software integration and web dev/architecture. Worked on fighter jets.
I am the founder, lead architect & developer of @eventbin.com, an online app helping people save money without wasting their time.
http://discount-diary.com
MBA candidate at Chicago Booth; now working at @matchist. Former strategy consultant at The Cambridge Group
Experienced operations and people manager, 10+ years experience
Founder @rentspek • Worked at @nbc-universal, @comcast
Ideator, entrepreneur, avid learner, generalist
MBA Student at Univ. of Chicago Booth, Class of 2014; Strong Business background (Nomura IBD, ex-Lehman); Alto-saxophonist in jazz quartet; Afghanistan Veteran
Founder & CEO Local Viewpoints. Founding team member of Localeze (exit Neustar)
Digital Strategy & Business Development Consultant | Startup Advisor
Founder and Managing Director at Colonnade Advisors LLC
Founder Playmonks, @worthee-1 • Worked at @rocket-internet • Studied at @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business
Chief Technology Officer at @analyte-health, former CTO at @viewpoints-network, Chief Architect at @orbitz. Strong technology, leadership, and business skills.
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer @bennett-day-school. Strong business start-up background. IESE MBA, 2010.
http://bennettday.tumblr.com/
Worked at @hicx_solutions, @aravo-solutions, @cvm-solutions-llc • Studied at @university-of-colorado-boulder, @purdue-university
http://www.hicxsolutions.com/blog/
Sr. Consultant with IBM with focus on operations with industrial companies. Advanced technology background, adaptable, with a Kellogg MBA in 2011.
Founder @purchasing-platform. 15-year veteran of the real estate industry. Ran asset management for a $3B investment company.
Co-founder of @realync • Worked at @accenture • Studied at @northwestern-university
Studying Public Relations and Information Management and Technology at @syracuse-university University.
http://stostman.posterous.com
Senior Business Manager at Brightstar Corporation
Director of UX @ Reverb.com
http://nicholasevans.org
UChicago undergrad, founded 2 companies (one seeded, one sold), lots of startup work experience, looking for PM/Data/Design role this summer
Vice President of Operations @ @bright.com
Communicator, author & operations guy. Researcher for the History Channel's "Vietnam in HD"
Cofounder @prenovate Consultant with SA Ignite • Studied at @morehouse-college Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) DFMFFSO {Division of Financial Management} in 2012
Founder @calculated-risk-advisors
worked at CNA insurance. Studied at University of Illinois and University of Chicago.
Founder umYum • Worked at @bnp-paribas • Studied at @depaul-university, CFA Charter 2010
Digital marketer, Product manager, Entrepreneur, Active Trader. Skills: HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Drupal, CRM, SEO, SEM, Social Media, Investing/Trading
https://plus.google.com/+SimitPatel
Founder of @schoolsparrow-1. Strong business and real estate background, raised a fund buying foreclosures, managing broker of @new-urban. Kellogg MBA. Coder.
http://schoolsparrow.wordpress.com
Worked at @google, @morningstar, @apple-inc-1 • Studied at University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign
Social entrepreneur that is passionate about energy efficiency. MSESP from @university-of-chicago, as well as ten years as a firefighter.
http://www.verdeL3C.com/blog
Founding principal of N2TV Studio, LLC Architecture and Design firm.
Founder @Chisel. Product Designer, Marketer, and Technology Lover.
M.S. Candidate, Integrated Marketing Communications at Medill, NU.
Founder & CEO, Ve-Go • Studied @cornell-university, @university-of-texas-austin • Cornell Innovation Network • Hospitality & Travel Executive with Entrepreneurial Experience
Quantitative Researcher; Caltech PhD; High Frequency Algorithmic Trader
UIUC Engineering trained. Business and systems background gained at Deloitte Consulting. INSEAD MBA 2011.
Worked at @sg2, @west-monroe-partners • Studied at @university-of-chicago, @pennsylvania-state-university
Machine learning researcher; PhD in Physics; Worked at UT Austin and Networked Insights.
http://baoqiang.org
President of 2 businesses in financial services. Led Global sales organization and M&A practice. MBA from @university-of-chicago. Mgmt consulting experience.
Co-Founder of @rune17. Founder of Pickslyde Consulting & MidAmerican Psychological Institute. Expert in behavior-technology interfacing with Bluetooth LE sensors
Experienced product manager and marketer with startup experience
Studied at @williams-college
http://davidwebsterlaw.wordpress.com/
Awesome iOS developer.
Help Companies Use Digital Communications Effectively
http://vpena.com
Attorney Bock and his colleagues manage a complex caseload that includes dozens of ongoing, putative, class action suits in federal and state jurisdictions.
http://phillipbock.tumblr.com/
Technology commercialization and use case specialist. Investment portfolio with 10+ companies. Prefer tangible innovation over web-businesses.
Full stack developer. Full stack data analyst. Looking to make the world a better place.
Passionate technologist and strategist with a Kellogg MBA and an eagerness to help build the next major web property
http://www.prodigeek.com
Marketing Evangelist and Mindful Competitor
Entrepreneur, CEO of Avé Gourmet. Strong technical, design and business background.
Strategic Sales, Business Development & Marketing Professional
Co-founder @Trainerly. Dreamed to be a Ski racer but became a Technologist. Worked @andersen-consulting, @arthur-andersen, @ubid, @deutsche-bank, @northern-trust, @allstate, @the-warranty-group
http://blog.trainer.ly/
Startup, VC and emerging companies attorney at Silicon Legal Strategy.
Co-Founder, GroupTweet.com. A Group Twitter Platform. Multiple Contributors | One Twitter Account. www.grouptweet.com/examples
http://grouptweet.com/blog/
Creative and social strategist in advertising. Writer, art director, design director in past lives at agencies and startups. Available for freelance.
Former Managing Partner at Chicago Litigation Solutions, a litigation support firm serving corporate and legal clients in the Chicago area.
http://marcquinlivan1.wordpress.com/
Full stack web developer - Northwestern Engineering turned Dev Bootcamp grad
http://dontmitch.tumblr.com/
CEO @bespokeable
http://nicholasmarx.wordpress.com
Northwestern CS, interested in a full-time position with a combination of front-end development and UI/UX design work.
Northwestern University, MS Predictive Analytics. Statistical modeling and BI expert, python novice. Independently curious, plays well with others.
PhD Engineering Northwestern. 3 years of research in data mining & segmentation. Interested in data science, marketing, analytics.
Worked at @motorola-mobile-solutions • Studied at @northwestern-university, @massachusetts-institute-of-technology
Student - Web Developer - IT Consultant
Sherif Mityas is an experienced management professional with over two decades of combined experience in consulting, business, and engineering.
http://sherifmityas.tumblr.com/
Founder of Havenly; Worked at American Express, Huron Consulting Group.
http://www.blog.havenly.com
Founder @blue Elephant Capital Management • Worked at @lehman-brothers, @barclays-capital • Studied at @cornell-university, @northwestern-university
Digital Sales Professional - Top Performer - Hungry to learn, win, and make my mark.
Current Angel Investor in NYVS and GorillaSpot Media; Professional Sales; Early stage business development and fundraising.
Engineering, Kellogg MBA, 20 years of sales experience in digital media.
Architecture & Interaction Design. Job Captain for two National museum exhibitions. Owner of three companies and a miniature schnauzer.
http://www.TanaGreen.com
Dual masters, combining creative and business experience at global companies (Disney-ESPN) and startups. Passionate about creating social impact in everything I work on.
Analyst at BOLD Entertainment | Co-founder at SoapBox
Strong business and legal background: M&A investment banking, MBA UChicago, Northwestern Law.
Highly self-motivated and persistent. Coding is my favorite activity. I am well versed in the front end but enjoy back end the most.
Digital Media Expert Specializing in Programmatic Buying, Data Strategy, and Audience Design
@booth-school-of-business MBA'10; Venture Capital Due Diligence; Technology & Finance professional based in Chicago
Worked at @bank-of-america, @merrill-lynch • Studied at @pennsylvania-state-university, @university-of-rochester
Founder @vortura • Worked at @match-com, @leapfrog-online • Studied at @university-of-north-texas
CEO of R1 Ventures.
Founder of @buyvite. Experience carefully crafting and creating Internet marketing campaigns for major brands. BA Film MA Journalism. Much love for ecommerce.
Worked at @u-s-department-of-state, @accenture • Studied at @depaul-university
http://www.nninoss.com
Co-founder @realync • Worked at @accenture • Studied at @purdue-university
http://www.propertyinvested.com
CoFounder Scissorsfly- organize the web in your way • Worked at @linkedin. Data driven entrepreneur
Director of Finance @ Invenergy. Focused on transactions and financial analysis in the clean energy space. Negotiates financing for $500M+/yr in assets.
Computational chemistry PhD student at UChicago, seeks to leverage existing software engineering skills towards a non-academic career.
Most recently finished up working as a manager on a .net CRM roll out for a $1B publicly traded company.
Founder Printavo [Screen-printing shop management software] • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
Senior Sales Engineer, Kellogg MBA 2014, Illinois Engineering
BS student at UIUC CS; background in healthcare and software development. Worked at MGH and MIT as a researcher. Most recently interned at Atlas5D.
Consultant at Ernst & Young, MBA from USC, BS from MIT
Software engineer/entrepreneur at Purple Binder. Bringing 21st century technology to the world of social services. Studied at @university-of-chicago.
Traditional/Digital Media Manager on Retail Client at Mindshare. Worked in Advertising since 2007. Kellogg MBA December 2014
Hybrid cross-platform mobile first engineer - specialize in creating hardware accelerated JS apps - one code base, all platforms - Yo, Bower, JS, Node, Ruby
Studied at University of Michigan, Kellogg School of Management
Business Journalist writing about strategy, impact, and capital. Studied philosophy at @stanford-university and computer information systems @depaul-university. Loves to travel.
Marketing Associate at @dealsgoround-1, Podcaster at @InsightIntell, Post Rock enthusiast, Aspiring Designer... Oh yeah & I have rocking fiance @LindsayONeal
During her tenure as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Juliet Sorensen was responsible for convictions in several notable cases.
http://julietsorensen.tumblr.com/
Love turning data into images and images into results.
Mobile Software Engineer (iOS, iPhone, iPad)
http://[email protected]
"If you're winning, don't say shit, if you're losing, say even less...."- JW
Vice President; Global Treasury Sales Officer @bank-of-america-merrill-lynch
BBA; Finance & Religion Concentrations @goizueta-business-school
Worked at @commonwealth-edison, @vidiom-systems • Studied at @university-of-wisconsin-madison
CEO & Founder of @engage-a-pro. 10+ years selling and marketing financial and professional services. MBA in finance and marketing. Ex-chemical engineer.
http://Blog.engageapro.com
Founder @coursecloud-1 • Studied at @northwestern-university, University of Notre Dame
Founder @meridix • Worked at @oc-1, @mercantec, @university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign, @purdue-university University • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign, @purdue-university • Private Pilot
We bring expertise in a broad range of areas, including mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, roll-ups, bridge capital, and internal growth financing.
Founder @intake-me • Studied at @university-of-chicago
Chief Product Officer at @hippoteq • Studied at @university-of-notre-dame & @university-of-chicago
Chicago Booth MBA. Princeton Undergrad. Artist & Entrepreneur.
Design, UX, product focus with marketing chops. Previous work in real estate private equity at Walton Street Capital. Wharton grad. Quantitative background.
Thirty years of experience investing in publicly traded securities, derivatives, and private equity.
Founder & CEO of Votimo; Director of Operations for a boutique nonprofit; Previously CPA with KPMG in Chicago
http://www.philanthro.pe
Consultant in the world of Web and Mobile Design - User Experience, Usability, HCI, Information Architecture, SEO, Web and Mobile app programming, Social Media
Founder/CEO of Chicago startup, operating profitably for three years. Skilled in marketing, sales, community building, and partner development.
VP of Sales @truaxis-a-mastercard-company Built and led sales teams @google, @restaurant-com and @kgbdeals-com
Player-coach sales leader. Consumer & B2B Internet, community & local. I've built & led teams from zero to $100+ million a few times.
Interaction designer and front-end developer, CS background. Start-up enthusiast. STEM for girls advocate. Worked at dscout, Gravitytank, and VSA Partners.
Persistent. Patient. Big Thinker. Disruptive entrepreneur.
CEO at National Health Care Provider Solutions; HCIT Angel; Actively Involved w/ Disque Foundation & Ronald McDonald House of Chicago
Community Manager at G2 Crowd. Currently pursuing my MBA at The University of @booth-school-of-business School of Business.
Attorney/Entrepreneur
http://blog.jeremykissel.com
JD/MBA; launched Digital Membership platform for 40+ publications and hit quarterly growth goals; created and executed mobile product GTM plan in US and Europe
http://www.travelsages.com/
MBA candidate at Kellogg School of Management • Worked at @gap Piperlime.com, @williams-sonoma
Possess a keen ability to energize and build sales teams from the ground up.
Currently lead a team of six managers, fifty five sellers and over $100M of software revenue.
Founder of @garmental.com. Fashion expert represented by FORD Artists. Credits from The Oprah Show, Beyonce, Tim Gunn, ABC, WGN, FOX News and Crain's. JD 2003
http://slkstyle.tumblr.com
Sales Professional. Angel investor. Advisor. Business development and fundraising experience for early stage internet companies.
Founder ThinkCERCA
We put together high quality software for our clients. We are prolific in Rails, Backbone.js, Ember.js, TDD, Machine Learning & much more!
Engineering Student with one simple goal: To add value to people's lives and create a better world.
https://medium.com/@nahgeeah
Worked at @parknav, @siemens @gfk
Currently working on @chicagohour @denverhour (Networking and Happy Hours for entrepreneurs) and @startuptradeup a site for startups to barter with other co's.
Berkeley EECS. Have Built Risk Systems & Conducted Quantitative Financial Analytics. UChicago MBA in Analytic Finance, Statistics, and Entrepreneurship
VP Operations, @vayyoo Inc.
Responsible for creating and executing long term business strategy, go-to-market plans and establish the US base for @vayyoo.
Co-Founder/CFO @Madaket Health • Entrepreneur in Residence - Notre Dame • Strong Finance/Accounting/Strategy background, CPA • Angel Investor/Ex-Private Equity
http://www.scottsoderstrom.com/news
CS at UIUC, Full-stack developer with UI/UX experience, Creator of student entrepreneurship organization Founders.
Co-founder at @regroup-therapy LLC
Semi finalist in last year's Mai Bangkok Business Challenge.
MBA from IE
Ex-Director LatAm, Spain & Portugal @ CEB (CIOEB)
Co-Founder and Partner at NextRound Consulting.
Business Development & Strategic Partnerships at multiple Fortune 100 companies
Founder at ShelfFlip, 1st social network startup >10 years ago, strong technical & business background (worked at @microsoft, @mckinsey-co), @Kellogg MBA 2013
Worked tech support, startup, consulting firm, hardware lead vendor, top 5 financial powerhouse. Seeking disruptive technologies also interested in impact investments.
Full-stack humanist wants to empower people through the humanities; graduate of both Google Summer of Code and Vatican Secret Archives
Founder and CEO of @drishade. Strong risk-management skills (6 years trading equity and commodity options). @new-york-university Stern 2003.
Senior Digital & New Media Marketing. Passion is developing digital & video experiences to connect and entertain people across web, social & mobile platforms.
@university-of-michigan Econ '12, experience with nonprofit and startup business strategy, marketing analytics, and account management
Works at GVW in Highland Park, IL. GVW Group is a private investment and holding company.
Kellogg MBA, Developed growth strategy with several ed start-ups. Built investment portfolios for $1B+ endowments at Cambridge Associates
Investor @3tera, @lateraldata • Studied at @tulane-university
Northwestern Engineering Grad, Business background with Mercer & Google. Experience building/marketing orgs in Soc Ent, Music. Ready to learn, build, and hustle
https://twitter.com/sahmehta
COO of @georama. Worked at @ibm, @the-world-bank. MBA 2012 @depaul-university. Background: Entrepreneurship, Operations, Business Development
Entrepreneur and Matchmaker. Marketing, Lead Generation, Events, Direct Response Advertising and Marketing. 30 yrs creative & media buying
Founder/CTO @parknav
Exploration & Innovation
CEO of Origoh (Current). Rocket Engineer in JAXA, Public Officer in Japan, Statistian, Chicago Booth MBA 2013 (Sponsored by Government) and Art lover.
Studying at @kellogg-school-of-management • Worked at @spoon-university, @target-corporation • Studied at @northwestern-university
Vanderbilt Undergrad and Wash U. Law. Jack of all trades and solid-as-a-rock team player.
Co-founder and Marketing Director at @loopo • Studied Integrated Marketing Communications at @northwestern-university • Worked at TMX Finance and CME Group
Co-founder of @cardoona. Former lead engineer at @Tribune-Company. Former Developer at @allstate. Graduate of @northern-illinois-university in Computer Science.
Founder & CEO at IconBocs
Founder @esentry-security (beta testing).
Private Equity.
Engineering Consulting.
B.S. Aeronautical Engineering @massachusetts-institute-of-technology.
Chicago MBA, Columbia Engineering
Sales and marketing professional, specialize in customer acquisition & business operational growth through the use of data analysis & implementation of process
UI/UX Designer + FED.
Founder at Packanimal Creative. UX IA UI
http://matthewcopeland.me
Marketer at @iprospect; Founder @livepitch; Studied at @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business, @ohio-state-university-1 and @kent-state-university
Commercializes Startup and Corporate innovations
Director of Research/Due Diligence & Partner @lock. Worked at Grosvenor Capital Management LP specializing in portfolio allocation and risk mitigation.
CEO of Joint Loyalty, the largest loyalty platform in the world. I am extremely passionate about digital marketing. Strong background in sales,digital advertising, customer retention and search engines. I love algorithms!!
Graduating Student at @northwestern-university • Worked at @ooyala, @ford-motor-company
Shawna is an experienced consumer insights analyst with a proven track record of delivering actionable data driven insights through primary market research data. She is currently pursuing her master’s at Northwestern University with a focus on statistica
http://packagedesign.tumblr.com/
Strategy at @the-rubicon-project
http://markmceachran.com
http://www.joshbryan.com
Duke MS; Med Device focus; PLM consultant; Worked at PTC, Boston Scientific, Cleveland Clinic
Anonymous Investor- various NGO platforms for furthering tech in third world locations. AWS advocate, MS CS UChicago
Founder @esentry-security (beta testing).
Two years as Physical Security Analyst at @ares-corporation.
B.S. Mechanical Engineering @massachusetts-institute-of-technology.
25+ years startup software experience, founded four companies, CTO/VP Engineering, managed teams from 4 to 200
Associate at The Boston Consulting Group; Stanford BA Psychology/Neuroscience 2012, Phi Beta Kappa. Impassioned by the study of human brain and behavior.
Student at Goizueta Business school at Emory University. Majoring in finance and marketing and has taken classes in the areas of investments, private equity and venture capital, corporate valuation, international finance, non-profit management, and market
Active in a broad range of activities in the Chicago area, Claudine Tambuatco is particularly well known in philanthropic circles.
http://claudinetambuatco.org/
Chicago Android UX badass Top ten social profile which means I automate methods to get into social graphs, the new app discovery system of the world.
http://grottworkshop.blogspot.com
Over 27 years of third party debt collection experience running operations for well known national agencies. Expertise in government and student loan debt, including United States Department of Education.
William S. Kirsch established a reputation as one of America’s top lawyers focused on private equity, corporate transactions, and crisis management.
http://williamkirsch.tumblr.com/
Long-time collaborator on multiple projects. Design, strategic input, developing sites & branding from start to finish.
Mobile designer and developer with strong foundation in native iOS apps; Lead dev/designer for PocketCab.
Brown University Grad; Headed Brown Entrepreneurship Program; Performance Poet; Lover of Ideas; Wanderer of Words and Worlds
http://hamadachronicles.wordpress.com/
Hustler, Relationship and Account Management Specialist, Problem Solver
Quantitative Trader, Professional Engineer, Consultant... I understand the energy industry from the finance, engineering, and strategy angles.
Data mining researcher & Master student at UIUC CS. #hackathons, #startups. Co-founder of StylePuzzle.
Entrepreneurial leader. Top-level Marketing, Sales Mgt., Ops., & Tech oversight w. global brands & high-growth ventures. Travel, hospitality, tech, B2B and B2C.
Worked at @blackrock-private-equity-partners • Investor @baird-venture-partners
COO of Justice Bid - Chicago startup connecting legal professionals with service providers.
Advisor to @prevail-health-solutions.
Conceived & developed first 7 years of John Madden Football, participated in launching startups thru IPO, Harvard Masters in Ops&Mgmt - disruptive technology.
Founder Chicago's Original City Guide - CenterstageChicago.com and Product Development leader.
Agile, innovative, omni-channel, consumer and technical product manager and leader of teams. Client and agency-side experience in multiple industries.
Founder @umyum • Worked at @new-york-university-1 • Studied at @new-york-university, @cornell-university
Experienced launching products from beta to thousands of users. Management Consultant. University of Illinois Engineer.
Co-Founder at Tactical Marketing Labs - Passionate Entrepreneur - Digital Marketing Strategist - Lean Startup Advocate - Startup Advisor - Only Results Matter
Co-Founder @shopgab • Worked at @sprint, @pureadds
Founder Bikefrastructure, LLC
BS / MS Electrical Engineering; 4 years of engineering product / project development; University of Chicago MBA and 3 years of Strategy Consulting with McKinsey
Founder @youthful-savings · Founder @cpa-for-the-people | Worked @walmart International · @ernst-and-young
Looking to further experience in project management & analytics. Interested in opportunities within cyber security, tech consulting, or software design.
Founded SoundOff.fm. Started at SPM Marketing and Communications and went to Performics to work in SEM, now employed at @google. Play drums in numerous bands.
http://www.soundofffm.posterous.com
Marketing and Pricing strategist; management consulting background with food industry experience
Worked at @accenture • Studied at @western-michigan-university
PhD student at TTI Chicago, Masters at University of Alberta. Specializes in machine learning and computer vision.
UChicago, economics
Data-driven product, engineering and customer support services for startups and like-minded pioneers. Looking to thrive, big time.
Full stack developer interested in building new networks to solve old problems.
Founder Griot Enterprises • Worked at @draftfcb, @adobe • Studied at @UMich, @School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Founder of @youtopia : Re-Imagining Good. Seasoned entrepreneur with 18 years experience in design and management.
University of Chicago Booth MBA 2013, Accomplished Solution Architect, worked at Eaton Corporation and CDW
Chicago · Entrepreneur · Biz Dev @freebie · University of Arizona
Created new beer keg tap called The Uber Tap, founded adventure sports media and e commerce site called SoulGear.com
Recent Graduate of University of Michigan, Strong communication skills combined with a technical degree. Interned at ePrize, Merrill Lynch and FSA
Successfully launched multiple new positions within Groupon. Helped Groupon stabilize new merchant-facing products. Freelance analytical (Excel) projects.
Founder @kurfuffl • AM @eprize • Writer/Performer in Chicago • @princetonuniversity grad • Vegetarian
Founder KNOWLEDGEO, Spare to Share • Worked at @motorola, @continental-automotive • Studied at @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business
Worked at @mit-media-lab, @bytemobile, @citrix-systems
iOS Developer
Studied at University of Michigan, @colgate-university
http://garyskoien.tumblr.com/
All-around business athlete seeking opportunity to take ownership and build a robust enterprise in a driven, collaborative culture. AT Kearney, Oxford, Indiana
Sales pro, top performer at WebMD, Wolters Kluwer and Merck.
Leader with experience generating sustainable value in turnaround, transformational and high growth environments. Strong business background. UofC Booth MBA.
LAMP stack, generalist, self-starter. Ready to tackle tough challenges.
Co-founder, COO at Origami Creative. Recent UChicago graduate. ChicagoBooth MBA Class of 2017 Admit. Health, Energy, Art.
@intel Engineer; Tenacious Technologist;
Executive level Sales & Marketing leader; owner of Blossom Growth Services; worked at Mercer, Alvarez & Marsal, and PR Newswire; Mentor to start ups and 1871
Giel Stein joined the Social Security Administration as assistant regional counsel in 2009 after spending eight years working for private law firms.
http://gielstein.tumblr.com/
Private equity professional, seeking involvement in exciting new start ups. Interested in investment opportunity and working for equity.
CEO @mashmetv, a way to sync your moments through an enriched video chat. Entrepreneur, engineer, traveler. Studies at UPM & Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://blog.mashme.tv
Founder @athletepreneur, @dash Stone Capital • Worked at @deloitte & Touche • Studied at @florida State MBA. Former pro athlete, 2 time Olympian, 4th place in 2008
Worked at @cme-group, @studentcity • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign, @depaul-university
MBA Student at Kellogg, strong business and consulting background, health IT, consumer analytics, market research
- Founder of http://evcm.tv
- 4 years a Co-Mng Partner @ sched.org
- 4 years investment banking at JPMorgan
- Univ. Valedictorian
- Degrees in Finance & PoliSci
http://mmctaw.com
Management consultant, Kellogg MBA, "Product guy"
Data analyst turned web developer; Strong Ruby skills, production experience using Ruby on on Rails and TDD; Student @ Startup Institute Chicago
Dynamic Revenue Strategist and Sales Leader. Founded, won funding, and sold two start-ups, developed and sold software start-up and created two patents.
LEGO Key Account Mgr. Only new college grad hired as a LEGO Mgr. Strong record of driving sales growth and developing customer relationships.Williams College BA
Content and Marketing Manager at Georama. Recent graduate of Drexel University and have a keen interest in the online field.
Founder of Circlekick.com
Founder of @tigerstartups.com
Founder of Koowie.com
Winner of SocialDevCamp Hackathon Guerrilla Coder award
http://koowie.com/pete
Owner of Catalyses LLC built from the brand Aspire Technologies. Please take a look at my personal profile and the new website.
An Avid Domain Trader and Business Brain-stormer
ThinkBank & ThinkTank Member
Looking for Mentors and Possible Partners/Inve
Works at @georama • Studied at @indiana-university-bloomington
Studied at @indiana-university-bloomington
Worked at @bottlenotes • Studied at @yale-university
M.S. student at @columbia-university University. Database marketing, strategy, and analytics consulting background.
http://blog.seatsync.com
Founder and CEO @fitcline • College student • Tech and fitness enthusiast. • Self-taught; web developer and graphic designer.
Investor in @musicdealers-com, @www-neurostechnology-com.
Product Manager & Dev. I like finding problems and creating solutions, from end to end. Creativity drives me.
IT Strategy & Ops Consultant. Northwestern BS 2010.
JD Candidate at UChicago. Founded and sold Mousa, LLC. MBA from Katz at UPitt.
Managing Partner and leading investor for Tend Venture Capital based in Chicago, IL - helped build CDW, ChicagoTribune.com, Vantage Blue, and CareerBuilder.com - BA from Iowa State University, MBA from UMass-Amherst, and MPPA from Northwestern.
E-Commerce Product Development, Strategy, & Operations Consultant. Co-Founder @Hookah Life, Inc, Project Manager @Lyons Consulting Group
Software Engineer. Security Researcher. Entrepreneur.
An impact venture fund which supports game changing energy-tech companies, and empowers consumers to harness the benefits of the energy-tech revolution.
Design, Tech, Startups
Founder @fundamentals-llc • Worked at @shoplocal, @metromix, @forsalebyowner-com • Studied at University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign
Founder FunPower • Studied at @university-of-chicago
Indiana University Kelley school of business - marketing. Built and sold 2 companies by age 33.
Serial Entrepreneur with VC background, founder and CEO of SENACTIVE, a leading SW for CEP, Big Data, Predictive Analytics and Decision Mgmt.
Founder D2D Associates • Studied at @ohio-state-university
strategy, project management, aviation
Founded GVK Internships (sold in 2012). I have worked in Fashion, Healthcare, Marketing/PR, Consulting and Tech. I'm on to my next challenge - Health Tech!
http://geetkhosla.tumblr.com/
Energetic Sales Executive Looking to Drive Growth with a Strong Tech Startup Team. Solution sales focused. MBA.
Engineer. Marketer. Worked for Nolan Bushnell. Failed many times. Learned. Obsessed with discovering a way to replicate change.
2013 MBA Candidate @university-of-iowa | Awarded 2013 Leadership Legacy Hawkeye Award | NYC Media Background | Founder of Under Par Voice Over
Harvard Gov and Stats, Fall Associate at 270 Strategies, founded civic startup in college, civic tech blogger.
http://newcivics.tumblr.com/
MBA Student Chicago Booth(2013), Looking for jobs in Venture Capital or for a funded startup where I can add value. I have an amazing gut feel for markets.
Founder at @roomations-1. Passionate about interior design. Loves Marketing. MBA from Michigan's Ross School of Business.
Co-Founder of Overgrad, Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
Founder @spare-to-share-1, @diamond-management-and-technology-consultants • Worked at @paynet-inc • Studied at @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business, @depaul-university
Good business needs good marketing. Good design is good marketing. MIT grad turned UX/Product Designer - translating user needs into useful & valuable products.
Harvard Gov and Stats, Associate at 270 Strategies, founded civic startup, civic tech blogger.
http://newcivics.tumblr.com/
VP Product at MeetMe. Doer of things. Juggler of priorities in a resource-constrained environment. Strategy, analytics, UX design, and whatever needs doing.
Studied at @columbia-college-chicago
Undergrad @ohio, worked as analyst @Oppenheimer(NYC), sales @Deutsche Bank(Chicago) sales @Goldman Sachs(Chicago), now pursuing Entrepreneurial passion @lightswitch
Designer, engineer, scientist and entrepreneur. Taught seniors as a freshman, made LEDs which emit sunlight, and am Fellow at VC firm. Inventor to a good home.
Work at investment/merchant bank.
B2B business builder with 10 years sales, marketing, & management experience. Engineer & MBA. Advisor to Bison Pallet. Materials, industrial, cleantech.
Michigan BBA. Consultant at PwC. Freelance Nonprofit Consultant.
Founder @m-a-e-k-entertainment-1, @m-a-e-k-entertainment-1 • Worked at , @farnsworth-consulting • Studied at University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign (BA, MS)
Multi-lingual exec, worked at @gerson-lehrman-group, @corporate Executive Board • Studied @university-of-chicago, @johns-hopkins-university • Strat - Ops - Research Leadership
Client service superhero meets digital ad ops guru; Worked at Google
BA Computer Science at UIUC; Co-Founded 2 startups; Intense iOS developer;
http://jc-subida.tumblr.com
UC Berkeley History alum, background in bizdev (UK focused). Director of bizdev at Ditto Trade, looking to connect with investors and other professionals.
Founder @elmspring-chicago • Studied at @university-of-michigan
@carbonmade @magnum-ci @instafeed; MS @UIUC; PhD @university-of-illinois-chicago and so on
Founder RESUSstudio • Studied at @university of Chicago, @uic
Software engineer from Uruguay. Passionate about helping and studying how teams and businesses grow from the ground up.
Successful media and marketing leader with extensive cross-functional team management.
SDA Bocconi School of Management; UC Berkeley BA; background in global health; interned for CHAI; interested in working with startups
Agile Project/Product Manager. Worked at Thoughtworks, and Groupon.
building new products. previously corporate growth strategy, data science, marketing strategy.
Entrepreneurial MBA | Marketing & Sales
Law student at WashU in St. Louis; Worked at Facebook; Assist startups with entity formation and intellectual property protection; B.A. in Economics.
CRM technical with a seasoned business background that includes internet start-ups and consulting.
Client Facing Digital Marketing PM.
Founder KNOWLEDGEO, @karaoke-octopus-comics • Worked at @alief-isd, @cy-fair-isd • Studied at @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business
Lead Developer at @supported-intelligence-llc • MA in economics @northwestern-university, BEc (graduated 1st in economics honors class) @university-of-sydney
Software Solutions Architect
Founder of Nimby Games with first title Confidence: The Game available on the App Store (beta).
Web developer for Gorilla, a rapidly growing e-commerce agency in Downtown Chicago. Creative thought process to help clients solve problems is the name of the game.
Where do I begin...
Drawing from broad reserves of practical training and experience, Hollie Sobel serves as an assistant professor at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
http://holliesobel.tumblr.com/
Northwestern Ph.D. candidate, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, changing career tracks to do more applied problem solving and product research
Director of Product Management for Mobile & Platform. Technology Junkie with skills to turn everyday business needs into market changing innovations.
Worked at @every-last-morsel, @american-hospital-association • Studied at @north-central-college
Enterprise Front End Software Engineer, Consultant
User Experience Craft-titioner
Chicago Native, DePaul grad, worked at @groupon, currently at @google
Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
IIT Engineering, MBA Kellogg, Worked with McK, Co-founder intern with OfficeYes,Passion for startups,working with portfolio company of a PE fund while at school
Medill Grad (journalism/marketing/communications background), currently freelancing for IT dept at the world's largest pharmaceutical company.
Vice President, Loyalty & Business Dev.
United Airlines
MBA at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, Former Marketer and Investment Banker
Technologist
Founding Member at @every-last-morsel, Worked for @happyfantickets • Studied at @depaul-university
Freelance writer/editor/publicist seeking a full-time role or freelance opportunities. BA/MS.
http://Statementscene.com
Worked at @uspin • Studied at @northeastern-university, @university-of-illinois-chicago
Strategic Minded Marketer and Problem Solver. Vast Experience with Fortune 100 Clients and Top Retailers. Pretty Awesome Dude.
COO at @moneythink-1
Founder @crowdfynd, @onlocation-media-group-llc • Worked at @kpmg, @true-north-communications • Studied at @university-of-iowa
General Management for high acceleration to value situations.
Very Experienced Agile Project/Program Manager
UPenn grad, web product designer. I create great web experiences and I make good web experiences better.
Brand Communications Consultant, MS, IMC, Northwestern University. Specialties include counseling senior management, affiliate marketing and crisis communications. Experience in tech, financial and healthcare fields.
Fintech biz dev. Obsessed with product. Driving growth for a new platform at FactSet. Engineering undergrad, Chicago Booth MBA.
Creative, strategic and innovative business and marketing professional. Successful in leading entrepreneurial teams to achieve growth and marketing strategies.
University of Chicago, MS in Statistics, 3 Years work experience in Finance in Deutsche Bank & Apollo Global Management
Known for helping high-growth companies achieve their hiring goals
http://www.lindzsays.com
MSU BS 2008, Finance; UMICH MS 2010, Human Computer Interaction. Strong business and technical background. Currently advisory consultant at EY.
Yale grad, clever writer, good baker.
Founder KNOWLEDGEO • Worked at @bain-company, @korean-reinsurance-company • Studied at @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business
Working at @yorn • Studying @temple-university
CTO at @bigmarker-3 • Lead Architect at YC based Aisle50.com • Studied at @depaul-university
http://billgloff.com
Co-Founder at Reppio
Victory Park Hedge Fund (Consumer Tech)
Lazard Freres Investment Bank (Restructuring)
Studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign
VP of Marketing at Georama • Studied at @michigan-state-university
For more than two decades, Joanne Matousek has focused her legal career on insurance law.
http://joannematousek.tumblr.com/
Professor @erikson-institute • Principal Investigator, Early Mathematics Education Project • Advisor @BennettDay • Ph.D. in Applied Child Development, @tufts-university University
Asst. Professor of Medicine at the Univ of Chicago. Experienced in clinical research & medical education. I want to change how we all think about health care.
Digital Project Manager for a start-up magazine/alternate-reality game and web developer for a trade publication in Chicago
http://semanticdrift.wordpress.com
D.C. Crenshaw President & Ceo of Fete Select TV. He is a food and lifestyle personality and a two-time Emmy nominated TV Host and Executive Producer.
http://www.efete.ent
Associate at Northwestern Capital Partners. We are a boutique investment banking and consulting firm specializing in start-ups, from strategy to growth equity.
Former senior Systems engineer, 1 year PhD course work in Bioinformatics
Founder Jamernot • Studied at @iu, @university-of-denver
Founder @ardhiview • Worked at @jones-lang-lasalle • Studied at @university-of-michigan
Founder @donotrent-1.com
Product driven, Major launch increasing sales 20%, multi mini launches sustaining current growth
http://summittomar.tumblr.com
Principal / Director of Design+Planning at @civic-artworks.
Award-winning urban designer+planner. ENR Midwest 2012 "Top 40 Under 40" honoree.
http://civicartworks.tumblr.com/
ReUsense CEO (Diabetes Testing sold in India)
Revasyst CEO (Health IT)
McKinsey + Senior roles at Medtronic, Elsevier.
MD, India; MS, PhD(abd) UIUC
Founder @bayescamp
Worked at @amc-networks, @u-s-ambassador • Studied at @northwestern-university, Trinity
Founder of @musefy & Proptone
Co-Founder and Partner at NextRound Consulting. Business development and strategic partnership experience at Fortune 100 company
Co-founder at http://shono.co, Full Stack Developer, Worked at eBay and Groupon, UIUC Computer Science 2014.
http://irtefa.tumblr.com
Computer Science BS from UT, wrote MoonStocks on Android Play Store, high stakes Poker pro and coach, options software dev, worked at eBay
http://jeffmeyerson.com
Worked at @dev-bootcamp, @us-navy • Studied at @university-of-michigan, @depaul-university
http://blog.geoffcrittenden.com
Master of design from top art school. Mobile designer, Built 4 apps (2 iOS, 1 Android, 1 Chrome)
University of Chicago Booth School of Business MBA 2103; Strong relationship, business development, and operations background (C.H. Robinson and PepsiCo)
Chicago Public Schools’ administrator Erin Roche has served at multiple levels in several school districts.
Tech-savvy Sales & Marketing Consultant. B2B Sales Expert. Media Sales. Social Selling.
Duke University, Marketing and Advertising, Digital and Social Media; worked at Akira Chicago and Nordstrom
Product manager, new product development at Orbitz and Cars.com.
Founder Talkroute
Pretty cool, energized, talented, fun girl
Glen Joffe has built his career on authenticity and respectfulness for items used by their indigenous culture.
http://glenjoffe.wordpress.com/
Founder/Owner of Left Field Management/Freeze Our Youth. 1/3 Attorney 1/3 Management 1/3 TBA
Exploring the power of factual storytelling for content marketers. Worked at Nat Geo, Sirius XM, and Siskel/Jacobs.
Software Engineer at @brighttag, Past-President at @drexel-university Smart House
Intuitive multi-platform product builder. Information consumer. Startup junky. Interactive Art Director and UI/UXer for mobile at Draftfcb Chicago.
Technical & business consultant in IT industry before UNC Chapel Hill, KFBS MBA 2013; Product marketing summer intern; Strong technical and business marketing skills; Well-traveled;
Seeking Full-Time Business Development position at an exciting startup, University of Michigan 2014
http://www.harrisonforman.com
I'm helping build a great community at G2 Crowd
Worked at @tech-li, @clearstream • Studied at @university-of-michigan
Founder of Andresen & Associates P.C., a Chicago-based law firm that focuses its offerings in the areas of sports law, entertainment, IP and corporate matters.
Project manager and analyst with technical background looking to make the world better. Obsessive organizer. Ruthless minimalist. Highly opinionated about maps.
Founder @blue-lane-groceries • Worked at @safco-dental-supply • Studied at @university-of-michigan
Specialized in the technology and finance industries in New York in both human resources and commercial real estate analysis. Worked for @appnexus.
Agile Product Manager - Ecommerce consumer focused
Founder of Hunear. Director of Inspired Beings Ltd. President of European Dream.
Program and project manager with experience in: entrepreneurship and product creation, account management and team leadership, project planning from resource allocation, cost and schedule management, to long-term forecasting.
Founder HE SWIM • Worked at @beckman-coulter, @telluride-ski-and-golf-resort • Studied at @boston-college, @university-of-massachusetts-amherst
Small-mid Cap Hedge Fund Analyst
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Economics, Project Manager for Illinois Business Consulting, Led consulting project for small chemical software startup
Founder of two beverage companies, student at Northwestern, marketing guru. Currently leading company of $300,000+ annual revenues and 30+ team members.
Founder FasterTable. Founder/CEO of MindBuilder Group, Inc. (software consultant) and Salsalito, Inc. (restaurants). Former founder and CEO US Office Equipment.
Content Producer at New Methods. Former online business owner and affiliate marketer. Strong background in marketing, SEO, and social media. UChicago BA 2012.
http://janyasor.tumblr.com/bio
Founder & CEO at ThirdPartyTrust
Co-Founder and Midwest Lead at The Rethink Agency
Founder @popad
Medic@1stRangerBn
Analyst@Mckinsey
Yut@Groupon
Worked at @active-mind-technology, @elevate-studios
Founder/CFO/Developer Project SAM, Founder/Front-End Developer UChicagoEvents • Studied at @university-of-chicago
Experienced .Net engineer with proven leadership track record. Worked at Infinium, Intel and Boeing. Degrees from USC and Boston College.
Strategy Consultant, Procurement and Supply Chain Management, Social Media. Expertise in contingent labor workforce, consumer goods, IT consulting / training.
Founder @insighthd.com
Commercial Pilot, Naval Officer - Fighter pilot, Naval intelligence at NSA
Worked at @built-in-chicago, @belly • Studied at @abilene-christian-university
http://www.bodyshopbids.com
Military Veteran with telecom background, Brown University Economics; Worked at Morgan Stanley Tech IBD, William Blair.
More adivsor than middleman, I work with amazing clients & candidates - do storytelling to empower dev teams and devs when choosing employees/employer.
http://www.bullhornreach.com/user/125852_matt-hoffman
MIT Sloan MBA '07, recovering consultant turned entrepreneur
Environmentally motivated, eco-conscious, Food start-up Entrepreneur, Experienced sales and customer relations skills
Founder @sprout-products
Worked @adobe @greenvolved @global-village-fruits-inc
// Technology, Entrepreneurship, Design
http://jeremycai.wordpress.com
Worked at @grubwithus, @groupon • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
!4 years of experience. Funded and launched mobile marketing startup 2011. Entrepreneurial and business minded technologist.
Tech Leader at NuMat. Expertise in managing the interface between tech & business (Finance from Lehigh, Chem. Eng. from NU). Pythonista and lover of automation.
http://patrick-fuller.com/
Co-Founder & CEO, g.Maarifa
Writer
http://www.evannahu.wordpress.com
Product Manager @ Windows (Microsoft) • Chicago Booth MBA ' 14. Strong experience in consumer electronics and software at Bose and Mathworks.
PhD (applied math), data scientist, Bayesian probabilistic modeler, working with data in social networks, bioinformatics, finance. Works/ed at RedOwl, NSA
Co-founder; Ed.D Org. Leadership; 2nd startup; Developed first tested tot-sports model in sports research; Author; Parent of two toddlers; The Coach Pickles
Founder FunPower
Worked at @networked-insights, @nm-incite-a-nielsen-mckinsey-company • Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1, @pennsylvania-state-university
Leader, Entrepreneur, Innovator, Self-Starter, Team-Builder, Workhorse, Cold Caller, Closer: Launched a successful venture; Self-taught web developer
Northwestern University, PhD/MS in Electrical Engineering, specializing in solid state devices and optoelectronics.
Founder @roundarch • Worked at @deloitte-consulting • Studied at @university-of-chicago, @the-catholic-university-of-america
Founder @zaptones • Studied at @university-of-wisconsin-madison, @butler-university
Founder & CEO @zag-media-arts, background in media & design, with a focus on UX across multiple media formats.
Marketing and Social Media, Social Responsibility.