People
Meet 1550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Chicago's tech scene.
Patrick O'Brien
CEO & Founder @Ticket Scalpr. @groupon Senior Sales (Top 1%) - Founder @UndieRun - Director of Sales @Gourmet Ads - UW-Madison
Ryan Jeffery
Founder @belly • Worked at @lightbank • Studied at @university-of-wisconsin-madison
Kurt Uhlir
CEO & co-founder @sideqik • I manage, advise & fund disruptive companies @nokia, @navteq, @vitrue • 12 US & international patents • Certified alligator handler
David Kadavy
Author of Design for Hackers (Debuted at #18 on @amazon) Mentor at 500 Startups. Changing the way you see design.
Jonathan Pasky
Principal & CEO, Pasky IP Law LLC. Patent Attorney. Founder, @data-2-0 (DeveloperWeek, DataWeek, API World) & @techweek. Mentor, @techstars, @healthbox
Woody Levin
Founder/CEO-BringIt (Cross Platform Engagement as a Service Through Games), Founder-InStadium, Founder-Riverbank Capital. JD-Chicago Kent, BA-Wisconsin
Shahed Khan
Product Designer @weebly. Formerly at @backplane and @viatask.
Kenneth Wyche
Founder of @glittergates-corp, The go to business guy. Over 20 yrs investing in start-up companies. Advisor, Investor, Deep Thinker from beginning to the end.
Alen Malkoc
@northwestern-university. Co-Founder @optyn; Co-Founder @dealster-3 (Sold); Co-Founder @chitown-deals (Sold); @half-off-depot; National Champion & All-American (Soccer). Avid Chess Player. Love creating new products.
Alexander Goldstein
Angel Investor; Entrepreneur; Was Principal at Pangea Properties REIT; Ex-CIO, Co-Founder at @cashnetusa-com
Joseph Dwyer
Venture Partner at OCA Ventures
Patrick Algrim
Currently: Co-founder at digit.co. Previously: MyZeus acquired by Groupon, 2011.
Bill Pescatello
Principal, @lightbank Ventures; Founding member @peacock-equity-fund (NBCUniversal); @comcast-ventures
Jeffrey Maters
Vice President at @new-world-ventures
Daniel Zarick
Formerly product at Twilio. Currently working on my own projects.
Jason Goodrich
Founder @shortlist, @leasabl • Excelerate Labs 2011 • Pulitzer Prize 2008
Jason Heltzer
General Partner at @oca-ventures. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at @booth-school-of-business.
chuck templeton
Founder of @opentable (NASDAQ:OPEN); Chairman at @grubhub
Luke Shepard
CTO at eSpark Learning, where I manage the engineering team building the next generation of personalized learning using iPads.
Michael Gruber
Founder & Managing Partner @cornerstone-angels
Brian Hand
Co-Founder and Chairman, Timelines, Inc
Adam Robinson
Co-Founder/CEO of Hireology. Serial entrepreneur with 14 years of technology and HR-related start-up experience. MBA from @depaul-university University.
David Israel-Rosen
CEO at @china-social-commerce-group (CSCG)
Brett Relander
Co-Founder at Tactical Marketing Labs - Passionate Entrepreneur - Digital Marketing Strategist - Lean Startup Advocate - Startup Advisor - Only Results Matter