People
Meet 1550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Chicago's tech scene.
Adam Hirsen
Adam has spent his career learning to build companies. Before co-founding SparkReel, Adam spent 5 years with a Chicago-based private equity firm.
Asif Khan
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.
Charlotte Tan
Agile Project/Product Manager. Worked at Thoughtworks, and Groupon.
Curtis Foster
6 years Business to Business sales and marketing. Great at managing projects and recruiting talent. C and Ruby Rails programming experience.
Guy Harding
Lead engineer at @moneydesktop (rapidly growing PFM provider), co-founded @qbillion (online financial analysis), lead engineer at @i-tv (#1 TV app in appstore)
Josh Billions
CTO and Founder of @bikespike 8+ years of development experience. Embedded Hardware / Software Engineer & iOS Software Developer. 3 years experience @apple
Kevin Yun
Founded @fitsby, Founded @designation
Nauzad Dustoor
Worked at @orango @Coinstar/Redbox @McKinsey & Company • Studied at @university of Michigan
Naveen Aggarwal
Technical co-founder of rfphunter with 13 years of coding and consulting experience.
Nick Kocinski
CFO - Finance, Marketing and Sales at @ycharts. Studied @chicago booth, worked @homefinder-com.
Omair Mirza
Founder and CEO @fitcline • College student • Tech and fitness enthusiast. • Self-taught; web developer and graphic designer.
Patrick Madden
Worked at @hft-quant-hedge-fund, @ibm. Studied Physics at UT: Dallas. 1st startup in high school. Solid technical background.
Sukhwant Khanuja
CEO Carematix/Blipcare, Worked at McKinsey and Case New Holland
Todd O'Hara
#innovator #entrepreneur #technologist #founder at Toodalu (acquired by Spring Marketplace)
Tom Trimmer
Founded Trimmer Capital Management, Aurapoint Asset Management, and True Adventures. Rock climber, sailor, mountain biker, skier, mountaineer, world traveler.
Will Springgate
Sales pro, top performer at WebMD, Wolters Kluwer and Merck.
Brian Dzingai
Founder @athletepreneur, @dash Stone Capital • Worked at @deloitte & Touche • Studied at @florida State MBA. Former pro athlete, 2 time Olympian, 4th place in 2008
Emily Motayed
Founder of Havenly; Worked at American Express, Huron Consulting Group.
Jason Block
Master's HCI student at Carnegie Mellon, with B.S. in Mechanical Engineering/Robotics. Worked as a generalist product designer/developer at Picplum.
Jim Spinello
CEO of Birdsong Ventures, a collective of Angels, Advisors & Marketers focused on introducing brands to disruptive tech and investing in seed stage companies.
John McLaughlin
COO of Critical Mass, creating extraordinary digital experiences that exceed clients business objectives
Milo Todorovich
CTO of Raise Marketplace Inc. Consultant to startups through Fortune100's. You conceive "it"; I build it, and the team around it.
Paul A. Tuminaro
Most recently finished up working as a manager on a .net CRM roll out for a $1B publicly traded company.
Ricardo Garcia
Founder and CTO at @base-10-labs. Specialist in Esoteric audio algorithms. Genetic Programming for Sound Synthesis. DSP and frequency domain magic.