People
Meet 1550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Chicago's tech scene.
Peter Shen
Founder of Circlekick.com Founder of @tigerstartups.com Founder of Koowie.com Winner of SocialDevCamp Hackathon Guerrilla Coder award
Ayinde Arnett
Cofounder @prenovate Consultant with SA Ignite • Studied at @morehouse-college Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) DFMFFSO {Division of Financial Management} in 2012
Chris Ziobehr
I am a Partner at @caldera-venture-partners
Daniel Jacobs
CEO Placebo Effect. Eight years leading philanthropic tech orgs. Relationship builder. One exit. Media magnet. BA Williams College.
Josh Saunders
Busy disrupting the hospitality & beverage industry. Past experience in startups related to sustainability. Have held senior roles in operations mgmt & biz dev.
Rahier Rahman
CEO of Pangea. Prepaid, Telecom, Finance and Start-up experience. Investor and media background (Cerberus, Time Warner). BA, UPENN. MBA, Chicago Booth.
Kimberly Chulis
CEO of Core Analytics and Game Loyalty. Analytics Expert, covering social, mobile, games, web and offline data analysis. Architect of BrandMeter (TM)
Brian Hawkins
Co-founder of @styleseek. Consumer market analyst; serial entrepreneur; brand developer; consumer, social and marketing strategist in fashion merchandising.
E. Jeffrey Lyons
M&A Advisor at City Capital, Founder/BOD - PRIMIS (52% IRR), Pres./BOD - BigTime Software (VC-backed), Adj. Entrep. Faculty at NU, Kellogg & Techstars Mentor
Ethan Austin
Co-founder, President of @giveforward. TechStars (Excelerate Labs) Emory University, JD American University. Burritos.
Julie Hauldren
Data-driven product, engineering and customer support services for startups and like-minded pioneers. Looking to thrive, big time.
Matthew Reese
BizDev for freemium business models and high volume distribution -- AVG, @sana-security, @crossloop
Raju Malhotra
SVP, Products @centro, Ex-Microsoft, Ex-McKinsey, Wharton MBA; Product-focused Technologist, Entrepreneur & Investor in Online Media, Advertising, Mobile/Social
Jim Milbery
Operating Partner for Private Equity Group in Chicago. Masters in Information Technology from IIT in Chicago.
Zack Christensen
M&A and capital markets attorney and registered CPA. Worked at @citigroup, @sidley-austin, @deloitte-touche • Investor @drchrono, @sendhub, @true-co • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
Dmitry Kobyshev
Angel Investor. M&A, IPO, financial analysis background. Passionate for bright investment opportunities. Investor @havoc @descomplica @onthego-platforms
Noah Ney
Currently @farshore-partners Past work @zaarly • Studied Automotive Technology at @pittsburg-state-university University :::Web and Mobile Development Consulting
Phil Hammer
Founder & CEO @procureapp-1 I'm passionate about new technologies and in helping corporation's to save expenses via new internet applications.
Christopher Deutsch
Investor in @perceptual-networks & @oncam
Craig Vodnik
VP Operations and Co-Founder at cleverbridge
Dave Walker
Co-founder of @bizhive; founder/principal of @synthacis, intra-incubator consultancy; founder/ceo of 2010 agency of the year geomentum; former US cmo of Toys R Us
Jack Wheeler
Founder @lost-crates • Studied at University of Michigan
Jason Pearl
Co-founder Deepworld. Co-founder @outling.com. Co-founder @rentmixer-com. Degrees in Finance and Computer Science.
Jens Horstmann
Former CEO/CTO of DVDPlay (Redbox techn./acq by NCR), founded X1, Ensemble, Opengrid, MXGO, worked at Sun, LSI, Siemens, Coinstar.