People
Meet 1550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Chicago's tech scene.
Daniel Lindmark
Worked at @scout, Teradyne/Eagle, Woodward/MPC, Argonne National Labs. Strong Systems and Interdepartmental Coordination
David Voiss
Worked at @heyzap
David Webster A.T. Kearney
Studied at @williams-college
Donald Applewhite
Founder D2D Associates • Studied at @ohio-state-university
Emily Hantoot
Associate at The Boston Consulting Group; Stanford BA Psychology/Neuroscience 2012, Phi Beta Kappa. Impassioned by the study of human brain and behavior.
ianreither@gmail.com
Exploration & Innovation
Jacob Rynar
MBA at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, Former Marketer and Investment Banker
Jamal Afridi
Chief Product Officer at @hippoteq • Studied at @university-of-notre-dame & @university-of-chicago
James Blacher
Versatile front-end designer/developer with experience across multiple fields of design.
Jason Sizer
Founder @m-a-e-k-entertainment-1, @m-a-e-k-entertainment-1 • Worked at , @farnsworth-consulting • Studied at University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign (BA, MS)
Jerome Johnson
Data analyst turned web developer; Strong Ruby skills, production experience using Ruby on on Rails and TDD; Student @ Startup Institute Chicago
John Hancock
Founder Visual Information Technologies, inc. • Worked at @boeing • Studied at @thunderbird-school-of-global-management, @letourneau-university
Justin Alden
Kellie Felsten
Kelsey Wojtasiak
Business Development @dabble.
Ken Putman
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Economics, Project Manager for Illinois Business Consulting, Led consulting project for small chemical software startup
Kevin Lee
strategy, project management, aviation
Konrad Rodak
Founder @contractor-hero • Worked at @redfin, @aq-construction • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
Leslie Pratch
A licensed clinical psychologist, Leslie Pratch has led Pratch & Company as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since 1998.
Marc Atlas
Director of Finance @ Invenergy. Focused on transactions and financial analysis in the clean energy space. Negotiates financing for $500M+/yr in assets.
Mark Challenger
Founder FasterTable. Founder/CEO of MindBuilder Group, Inc. (software consultant) and Salsalito, Inc. (restaurants). Former founder and CEO US Office Equipment.
Mark Stratman
Worked at @parkwhiz • Studied at @university-of-illinois-chicago
Marty Trzpit
Worked at @belly, @fango-software-systems • Studied at @depaul-university
Meghan Cassin
Exploring the power of factual storytelling for content marketers. Worked at Nat Geo, Sirius XM, and Siskel/Jacobs.