People

Joshua Karp

Founder and CEO of Kumbuya (kumbuya.com).

Aaron Frazin

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

Kelsey Lutz

Venture Partner @dashfire. Startup advisor/investor

Lance Ennen

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

Leon Ginsburg

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

Manos Pontikakis

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

Mark Michuda

TextHub & CallOnTheGo

Raja Bhatia

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

Brian Axelrad

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

Brian Fields

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

Eli Rosenberg

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

Joe Pensinger

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

Nicole Staple

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

Greg Cardoni

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

D'Andre Fason

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

Joyce Schwarz

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

Lou Morales

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

Moses Hohman

Jared Steffes

Founder @tap-me-3, @tapme-games • Worked at @electronic-arts • Studied at @depaul-university - Love mentoring startups. http://www.@linkedin.com/in/jsteffes

Jason Seiden

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

Jonathan Ozeran

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

Ryan Fukushima

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

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

Chris Duesing

CTO of @mercaris