People
Meet 1550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Chicago's tech scene.
Jason Ngan
Led product. Developed high-freq trading platform, risk mgmt platform. BSMS Physics, EE
Brian Curliss
Entrepreneur. Cofounder of @maillift #500Strong (Batch 007) Once Solo-Bootstrapped to $20k/mo in 6mo Specializes in SEO, pricing, analytics, users, and growth.
Mitch Posada
Advisor of Fast Air Buy LLC, co-chair Heartland Mobile Council's Summit 2012, former digital strategy consultant at Chicago Fire Soccer Club. UC @university-of-california-berkeley MBA.
Andrew Razeghi
Founder, StrategyLab, Inc.; Lecturer, Kellogg School of Management; Limited Partner, TechStars Chicago
Clayton Cohn
Self-taught securities trader turned angel investor, incubator and entrepreneur.
Derek Shanahan
Director of Marketing @playerize. Co-Founder, Advisor at @foodtree & @donde . Advisor at 20 Something Bloggers. @stanford-university Soccer Captain.
George Monical
Investor CEO of MiGym: Experience in successful startups including Betfair and The Coupons App & corporate experience at US Cellular and Allstate; Kellogg MBA
James Dickerson
Marketer & entrepreneur. Previously co-founded Wellthy & @leap. Former associate at @lightbank,
Sandbox Industries
Creating, developing, and investing in new businesses
Bryan Shepard
CEO/Co-founder of @sweepio-1. Start-up Guy, three startups, two successful exits, one IPO. Dad of 2, husband of 1.
Steven Walker
Designer, developer, builder, entrepreneur, mentor. First designer at @groupon. Currently Head of Platform Experience @quirky
Eric Kerr
Founder TicketFire • Worked at @cloudera, @belly • Studied at @ohio-state-university
Brett Keintz
Director of Product Management at @groupon
Nick Rosa
Managing Director of @sandbox-industries, led a buyout of The NutraSweet Company and served as CEO
Chris Phenner
First BD role was on behalf of the Mosaic browser from Spyglass, and roles at RollingStone.com, Napster (v1), CNET, Audible & Thumbplay (now Clear Channel)
Emerson Spartz
CEO @spartz (OMG Facts, GivesMeHope, Smartphowned) Founded MuggleNet.com, the #1 Harry Potter site, at age 12.
Fred Monroe
313 Ventures LLC @getco Trading Technologies, Inc fredlabs, inc @apple
Mark Hatch
CEO and Co-Founder of TechShop. Launched 3 Fortune 500 websites: Avery, Kinkos (ecommerce), & HealthNet's benefits ASP. Author, Speaker, MBA, Green Beret.
Adrian Holovaty
Web developer. Cocreated Django Web framework. Founded EveryBlock (sold to msnbc.com). Trained in journalism. I can both talk strategy and ship good code.
Kris Petersen
Co-founder & CEO @morsel, Co-founder & CTO @betterfly-1 (acq. @takelessons) , Founder & CEO @dealsgoround-1 (acq. @betterfly-1). Past IBM & PwC Tech Consultant. 26.2.
Matthew McCall
Partner, @new-world-ventures & @dfj-portage
Eddie Lou
Co-Founder & CEO of @shiftgig;General Partner OCA Ventures; Co-founder of Us Empowered & Chicago SVP; 2010 Crain 40U40; 2011 Chicago United BLC
Tom Denison
My passion is mentoring, advising, funding and founding tech startups. Seriously seasoned and savvy strategy, marketing and business development veteran.
Jeff Cantalupo
Founder @listen board member @raise, branding expert, creative storyteller investing time and money to turn ideas into brands.