People
Meet 1550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Chicago's tech scene.
Tom Giles
@stagebloc founder. UX / UI and product obsessed. Past multiplatinum artist manager. Biomedical researcher. Science Teacher. Coach. Hip surgery guinea pig.
Jacqui Boland
CEO + Founder @red-tricycle. Strong consumer background ( @meredith and @reed-elsevier ) Start-up experience includes Breathe Media and SFLodgings.com.
Jay Hoffmann
Rewards and travel wonk. Built @groupon Rewards to 4k merchants, 2M consumers. Grew @united-airlines Mileage Plus to $1BN+ revenue. @stanford-university GSB.
Lyle Berkowitz, MD
Primary Care Physician, Entrepreneur, Head of Informatics and Innovation for Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group, "20 People who make Healthcare Better"
Julian Miller
Co-founder of @learnmetrics real-time analytics for education. Obsessed with the power of education to change lives.
Paul Hofmann
Founder Saffron Technology • Worked at @northwestern-university-1, @massachusetts-institute-of-technology-1
Terry Howerton
Founder of a tech association, partner at a venture collaborative/incubator, entrepreneur, education booster. Gifted boat rocker that connects people & ideas.
Nihal Advani
Founder & CEO of @georama. Ex-Program Manager at @microsoft. Also was at @google. Digital Marketing Guru - Search, Display, Social. Entrepreneur, Visionary, Techy.
Justin Jarvinen
Startup advisor. Biz dev guru. Strategist w/18 yrs brand, entnmnt & media relationships • Worked at @bear-stearns-co-inc • Studied at @northwestern-university
David Vinca
Founder of eSpark, which helps schools leverage iPads and the vast ecosystem of educational apps to personalize learning, engage students and raise achievement.
Adam Scott Riff
Senior executive and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience in marketing / comms, digital media, strategy, product management and operations.
Coleman Greene
ceo/co-founder of @sqord . worked five years in financial services in sales and management. caught startup bug founding Dore Duds. studied at @vanderbilt-university, @university-of-north-carolina-chapel-hill
Joseph Holleman
Founder and CEO of @magister-technologies and developer of its core technologies
Saurabh Sharma
VC: @lightbank; @lehman-brothers , @barclays-capital , @ICICI Venture ; Sweat: @benchprep ; High-Performance Computing @inria, Studied CS @cornell-university , Chicago Booth MBA
Art Roldan
ISD Corporation, Executive Chairman & CEO
Drew Gilliam
Founder-in-Residence at Wavetable. Previously Co-Founder of HaveMyShift.com and PwC's Emerging Technology Lab.
Jeff Strank
Founder @netparty. Building suite of social discovery/networking sites/apps under ChemistryLab.co banner including Youngp.ro / WeJustClick.com / Tribester.com.
John Roa
CEO at @akta. Investor at @socialcrunch. Active angel, speaker and traveler.
Judd Morgenstern
Business Designer. Previously UX Designer + Innovation Strategist. Former @adaptive-path + @nike consultant.
Satish Kodukula
Co-Founder of Groupcharger, @nabthedeal and TheLunchDeal.Strong product development, technical strategy,operations and business development.2 startups sold.
Jason Kunesh
Founded @public-good-software, Director of UX & Product @obama-for-america, founding team @the-point, early UXer @orbitz, founder @fuzzy-math.
Brian Greenberg
Systems Thinker, Hiker, Entrepreneur, Whole Systems Designer, Philosopher, Technologist http://about.me/brian.greenberg
AJ Archibald
Principal at Startup Culture. Been involved intimately with Social and Mobile Games for the last 5 years. Strong Biz Dev relationships built over the last 15yrs
Jonathan Sheinkop
Co-Founder, EVP New Business & Corporate Strategy / Exec. Director, focused on new strategic growth opps., biz/dev, marketing, fund-raising, operations