People
Meet 1550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Chicago's tech scene.
Ben Rahnema
Northwestern University, PhD/MS in Electrical Engineering, specializing in solid state devices and optoelectronics.
Benjamin Washburn
Vanderbilt Undergrad and Wash U. Law. Jack of all trades and solid-as-a-rock team player.
Bert Curtis
LAMP stack, generalist, self-starter. Ready to tackle tough challenges.
Brian Foy
Founder/Owner of Left Field Management/Freeze Our Youth. 1/3 Attorney 1/3 Management 1/3 TBA
Brian Lastovich
Worked at @base-crm • Studied at @university-of-dayton
Charmi Shah
Environmentally motivated, eco-conscious, Food start-up Entrepreneur, Experienced sales and customer relations skills
David Fishman
Software Solutions Architect
David Hafferty
Harvard Gov and Stats, Fall Associate at 270 Strategies, founded civic startup in college, civic tech blogger.
Davin Mien
Edward (Ted) S Plax
Elisa All
Emily Hanan
Kellogg MBA, studying Marketing. Strong writing skills. Experience with multi-billion companies and CEOs. Leadership experience.
James Valadez
Operations, Warehouse and People Mgmt. McMaster-Carr Supply Mgmt. Alum. Dartmouth College & IMSA grad. Interested in tech startups and entrepreneurship.
Joseph Subida
BA Computer Science at UIUC; Co-Founded 2 startups; Intense iOS developer;
Josh Bronstein
Joshua Nickell
Threadless Optimization Manager and International Markets Manager; Strong business background; MA Johns Hopkins International Economics 2011
Juliet Sorensen
During her tenure as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Juliet Sorensen was responsible for convictions in several notable cases.
Kayoko Beth Shimmyo
Computational chemistry PhD student at UChicago, seeks to leverage existing software engineering skills towards a non-academic career.
Laura M Levy
Project manager and analyst with technical background looking to make the world better. Obsessive organizer. Ruthless minimalist. Highly opinionated about maps.
Luna Rajbhandari
Technologist
Max Rice
"If you're winning, don't say shit, if you're losing, say even less...."- JW
Mital Balar
Founder @bayescamp
Nishant Thukral
Berkeley EECS. Have Built Risk Systems & Conducted Quantitative Financial Analytics. UChicago MBA in Analytic Finance, Statistics, and Entrepreneurship