People
Meet 1550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Chicago's tech scene.
Eric Scott
Investments for @hvf and @mlevchin.
Irem Mertol
Investor & Health Tech Entrepreneur, focused on Finance & Business Development
Kris Chinosorn
Founder (BigGroups.com, @catapult-chicago), BizDev (@halcyon-sequencing ), Lead Developer (ISWS), BS Biology (@university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign )
Max De Marzi
Founder @vouched. Experienced Back-end Web Developer. Graph Databases, Real Estate App, Call Center Apps, Job Board App.
Philip Settimi, MD
Senior Vice President, Global Marketing and Corporate Development & Chief Marketing Officer at Hill-Rom
Shobhan Thakkar
Former Biglaw, Big4, GC and Executive. Assisted in sale of Weather Central to Weather Channel; 1st Place in WI Business Plan Contest-IT Category. MACC and JD.
Stan Gauss
Founder @reportedly • Worked at @gannett, @Advance Internet, @Knight Ridder Digital, @vendasta • Studied at @rutgers-university-new-brunswick
Doug Bobenhouse
President / Co-Founder of Synchology. Payments disruptor.
Peter Sellis
Product Manager, Analyst, INTP. Work at @science. Past at @ustream, @lek-consulting • Studied at @university-of-chicago, @massachusetts-institute-of-technology
Ryan Scherf
Product Designer @quirky. Co-founder of Paid, an iPhone app to manage your Stripe account. Formerly of @groupon
Sue Kim
The most persistent female bastard you ever met.
Adam Stein
VP of Product, co-founder at @gridium. Co-founder of @terrapass. Product and engineering at @tellme, @trilogy. @wharton-school MBA, @stanford-university BS.
Andy Narayanan
Strategy and bus. dev executive with over 15 yrs exp in consumer web services, fintech, payment and data analytics. Worked at Booz, dealigee. Chicago Booth MBA
Ben Reid
Business Development at Orbitz. Founder of Foodie Registry. Startup Leadership Program Fellow. Derivatives trader. Chicago Booth MBA 2010.
Cece Yu
UI at @alltuition and brilliant.org. Contributed to @food-genius and @betterfly. UChicago economics grad. Loves product, IxD, and brands that span the digital and the physical.
Dan Olson
CEO at @upcity-formerly-diyseo
Daniela A Bolzmann
Co-Founder @ WeDeliver.us • Entrepreneur • Jill of all trades • Mihaylo School of Business CSUF 2011' • edtech Product Marketer @symbalooedu.
John Sun
Founder AvantCredit, SpringCoin • Worked at @enova-financial • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
Zenah Khawaja
Completed BS @university-of-illinois-chicago then worked @tellabs then started @semiautomatic3d
Alex Pak
Founder of FindIt. Former Publisher of The Harbus, worked at General Mills, Kimberly-Clark, and Kraft Foods. Harvard Business School MBA 2013.
Michael Burke
founder, author, advertising, social media, appssavvy
Seyi Fabode
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.
Simcha Kanter
Founder of startups @top-colleague, @wabunga • Founder of @envalent-interactive • Worked at @accenture for six years in business and tech strategy
Cyprian Francis
VP of Marketing at @power-tower