People
Meet 1550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Chicago's tech scene.
Sean Willett
Co-Founder and Partner at NextRound Consulting. Business development and strategic partnership experience at Fortune 100 company
Teddy Zmrhal
Entrepreneur, Designer, Teacher and Director at IDEO
Tiago Moura
Digital Project Manager for a start-up magazine/alternate-reality game and web developer for a trade publication in Chicago
Tim Carroll
Founder of Resolution Media
Travis Lee
IDEO Design Lead for Digital + Physical products and services. Mentor at Excelerate.
Vanessa Youshaei
Student at Goizueta Business school at Emory University. Majoring in finance and marketing and has taken classes in the areas of investments, private equity and venture capital, corporate valuation, international finance, non-profit management, and market
Victor Greco
Public speaker and entrepreneur. Hedge fund manager and chief option specialist.
Charlie Tribbett
Co-Founder @bolstr
Claire Farrell
Worked at @networked-insights, @nm-incite-a-nielsen-mckinsey-company • Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1, @pennsylvania-state-university
JD Hartley
Lead front-end developer at @stagebloc, founder @mirrorgram. Hopelessly addicted to Doctor Who, awful puns, and Oxford commas.
Jeremy Cai
Founder @sprout-products Worked @adobe @greenvolved @global-village-fruits-inc // Technology, Entrepreneurship, Design
Jeremy Klein
CEO/Co-Founder @tablesavvy
Jordan Dalton
Angel Investor
Kevin Melgaard
Founder of @introfly, former attorney, Inventor & Founder of Gentleman's Vice Golf & Cigar Accessories.
Mike Cerny
Founder @donotrent-1.com
Pat Kelly
Strategy/Investment/Financial Services professional, Mechanical Eng. @Yale, MBA @UofC
Rick Munster
Co-founder of 1st Zoe Group LLC holdings, exceptional technology sales and marketing acumen, makes impossible happen
Rob Green
Worked at @blackrock-private-equity-partners • Investor @baird-venture-partners
Simit Patel
Digital marketer, Product manager, Entrepreneur, Active Trader. Skills: HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Drupal, CRM, SEO, SEM, Social Media, Investing/Trading
Allison Barr
IT Strategy & Ops Consultant. Northwestern BS 2010.
Bob Higgins
Tech-savvy Sales & Marketing Consultant. B2B Sales Expert. Media Sales. Social Selling.
Claire BeDell
Worked at @tech-li, @clearstream • Studied at @university-of-michigan
Conrad Styczen
Founder at BeachFire Ventures
Hans Pusch
DRW Trading, University of Chicago - Booth, Boston College