People
Meet 1550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Chicago's tech scene.
Kevin Hoffman
Co-Founder of Overgrad, Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
Matthew Cin
Law student at WashU in St. Louis; Worked at Facebook; Assist startups with entity formation and intellectual property protection; B.A. in Economics.
Meghan Hammond
Marketing Director @dabble
Michael Barnes
Mike Whitaker
Founder @idefi-axs
Monica Sanders
Harvard Undergrad; University of Michigan MBA; 20+ years of management experience in roles emphasizing strategic planning and business/product development
Najia Yarkhan
Engineering Student with one simple goal: To add value to people's lives and create a better world.
Neeraj Chandra
Graduating Student at @northwestern-university • Worked at @ooyala, @ford-motor-company
Nestor Lara
Founder @esentry-security (beta testing). Private Equity. Engineering Consulting. B.S. Aeronautical Engineering @massachusetts-institute-of-technology.
Nirav Amin
Business Development Professional, Launched 3 Startups, Looking for the next big thing
Patrick Gallagher
Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
Praveen Kannan
Rob Seaman
Advisor to @define-my-style.
Robert Heist
Founder @r-connor-associates-p-c • Studied at @harvard-business-school, @university-of-illinois-chicago
Sami Arayssi
Stanford MSEE (2007) and Chicago Booth MBA (2013); Worked in Software Engineering at Cisco Systems and Strategy Consulting at L.E.K. Consulting; Multi-lingual
Scott Henning
Founder @sharemarket
Shanavas Nyakhar
Stephanie Delaney
SDA Bocconi School of Management; UC Berkeley BA; background in global health; interned for CHAI; interested in working with startups
Stephen *(Steve) Hawksworth
General Management for high acceleration to value situations.
Tim Hart
Founder of Nimby Games with first title Confidence: The Game available on the App Store (beta).
Tobias Lei
Data mining researcher & Master student at UIUC CS. #hackathons, #startups. Co-founder of StylePuzzle.
Aakash Negandhi
MSU BS 2008, Finance; UMICH MS 2010, Human Computer Interaction. Strong business and technical background. Currently advisory consultant at EY.
Adam Birch
