People
Meet 1550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Chicago's tech scene.
Andrew Saunders
Integrated Marketing & Content Solutions Executive at CAA (@creative-artists-agency). Featured in Wired, Fast Company and Banff Media Festival.
Syed Karim
Director at @digital-news-ventures
David Albrecht
Crittercism, previous @wishery CTO/Co-Founder (AngelPad S11). @microsoft, founder @prefiat-llc: security, arch, cloud computing consultancy. MS ECE UIllinois.
Ryan Spraetz
Problem Solver. I like bouldering, building, coding, and winning. Co-Founder @keen-io-1 . 4+ years technical product experience at @salesforce. UIUC Engineering.
Steven Collens
Senior Vice President at Pritzker Group
Leore Avidar
Co-founder @lob. Worked at @aws, @citigroup, @google , @motorola • Studied at @university-of-michigan
B.J. Mendelson
B.J. Mendelson is the author of the controversial and top-selling book, Social Media Is Bullshit, now in stores everywhere from St. Martin's Press
Ilya Beyrak
Founder Resultly • Studied at @depaul-university
Greg Caplan
Investor in @groupon, @sprout-social, @watermelon-express, @mediabank.
Sam Guren
Owner, Guren Capital Management, LLC
Juan Cartagena
Founder CEO @traity-1. MBA (HHons) @booth-school-of-business. MEng in EE. Previous experience in strategy, product management, sales
Brad Purdy
COO @contextmedia, Partner @jumpstart-ventures
Laurence Hayward
Investor in @tagnetics, @10x-technology, @advanced-diamond-technologies, @jiminy and @autonomic-materials Inc.
Christopher Nakutis
Founder @stork-stack • Worked at @h-i-g-capital • Studied at @wharton-school, @northwestern-university
Robbie Abed
Founder @rawdesignr. Coder, Blogger, Connector.
Ian McCreadie
Former Lower Middle Market Banker, Current Screening and Diligence Team Member @private-capital-alliance
Colin Young
I build products that run on browsers, iPhones, & Macs @polymathic. @angelpad W'10 founder alum @cloudbot. DePaul CS. My dog Rue and are Chicago-based.
Mike Hostetler
Former jQuery Core Team Member, CEO of appendTo.
Gavenraj Sodhi
CEO and Co-Founder of iMedia.fm's A7 solution, providing an Immersive Experience Learning for Kids, reach of over 160 Million.
Kunal Kalro
Founder @outtrippin. Speaks 4 languages. Lived on 4 continents. 2 time travel-tech entrepreneur. Former mgmt consultant. Travel nerd with a business background.
Andy Swan
Founder of Voomly: Founded DaytradeTeam (Sold in 2007), founded mytrade (Sold to TD Ameritrade).
Aziz Ali
Serial Entrepreneur
Christopher Chan
Founder @blue-flower-llc • Worked at @bank-of-america-merrill-lynch • Studied at @new-york-university
Justin DeLay
Co-Founder, @tempodb. UX Design at @grubhub, Marketing at @kraft-foods. Design & Business at U of Michigan.