Ajay Ganti has hands-on leadership expertise in Solution Sales, Business Development, Strategic Alliance/ Channel Management and Account Management.

His career focus has always been in generating revenues from direct clients and indirect channel through Strategic Alliance/ Channel partners.

He is driven by an entrepreneurial mindset and has set-up US operations, led Go-To-Market activities at early stage start-up companies and also at larger firms. Read More...

Bonnie Wang is currently the Sr. Manager of Product Design on CapitalOne’s digital team. She has significant FinTech expertise, having led product design & development for many of the bank’s high-profile projects, including online account opening, mobile banking, small business loans & digital lending, and banking-as-a-platform. Bonnie’s also a passionate connector whose extensive network likely has just the person to help with your current challenge.

Before CapitalOne, Bonnie spent over 5 years in the startup world. She brings unique perspective on startup success, having been party to more than one exit by acquisition, most recently with a company acquired by Intuit. Having worn a number of different hats in her career, Bonnie has experience in product management, UX design, and business strategy. She enjoys giving back to the startup community by advising early stage startups.

Rod is a marketing professional and entrepreneur in the technology, food, and wine sectors. He has held senior marketing positions at Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk, and several startups. He also has consulted to numerous companies and organizations, including Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Stanford University, the University of California, and the White House.

Rod specializes in creating solid product and marketing strategies, and helping early stage companies hone their branding, messaging, and industry relations. He knows how to help startups gain market traction, and effectively pitch their companies to investors, customers, and influencers.

Rod grew up in the food and wine businesses. Subsequently, he has been a partner, investor, or advisor to restaurants, artisan food companies, organic farms, winemakers, and food+tech ventures. Rod is adjunct faculty at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in the Napa Valley. Read More...

David started out in engineering before realizing that his passion was connecting people to great products. Having worked on “both sides of the aisle”, his is well qualified to help founders market their technologies. David has many marketing achievements—during his tenure at Ditech Networks, for example, he helped increase revenues 16-fold and, at BigBand Networks, he assisted with an initial public offering.

His deep understanding of marketing best-practices is the result of having worked in every marketing discipline and his broad business experience has been gained from working in startups and multinational companies, during times of growth, IPOs, acquisitions and downturns—this allows him to identify the best marketing strategy to increase the probability of a company’s success.

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Fahad is a seasoned Entrepreneur and Investor. His first startup was a semantic search engine company, which was incubated while in Graduate school at Stanford. The startup exited within 18 months of incorporation.

To further his business skills, Fahad enrolled at The Wharton school of Business, while simultaneously running sales and business development for a Business Unit in a B2B corporation. In a few years Fahad grew this Business to over $170M in revenue – more than 10X growth.

In 2014 Fahad helped start a Hardware company, that recently came out of stealth mode and launched a smartphone, tablet and slew of IoT devices, valuing this ‘startup’ at over $250M. His latest investment is a startup that aims to make quality childcare and education easily accessible for all parents. Read More...

Frank Neumann joined Founders Space as a mentor. He is a German automotive engineer and former founder of MoviTrack in South America. With a passion for the human factor, pioneering technologies and futuristic ideas, he is focused on brilliant new projects and coaching intercultural fast growing companies and ambitious minds.

Born in 1962 in the American sector of divided Berlin, he studied and lived half of his life in Germany, when moving in 1990 to Brazil and finally Argentine, where he founded together with his wife in 1994 the MoviTrack company – a life dream became true!

Based on his experience working before in Mercedes Benz, he designed and let custom built the trucks for his own company, unique in their way and making the big difference. The same time he built up a great team of 50 people and dedicated service concept, leading his company to be influencer in local tourism industry and an outstanding international brand with high market value. Read More...

Satyajeet Salvi has published 5+ abstracts, 1 textbook chapter publication and 4 published manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals.

He’s conducted biomedical research at Harvard, MIT, Mass General Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of California-Irvine, Peking University, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Tsinghua University, University of California-San Francisco, and at Amherst College.

He is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Cancer Society, many other professional scientific societies and has won many research grants and scholarships, including the Benjamin Gilman International Scholarship.

Ryan Erving is Founding Principal at Ryan Erving Consulting, a strategic growth and implementation company. His expertise is in guiding startups through the process of building their teams, from pre-seed through funded series rounds.

Ryan founded Ryan Erving Consulting after over two decades of industry experience in sales, business development, staffing and recruiting. Over the years he has leveraged his MBA and B.S. in Organizational Development to guide dozens of startups and many Fortune 500 companies including Wells Fargo, Kaiser Permanente, Genentech, and Juniper Networks through the process of building high performing teams. While working with startups in the dotcom days Ryan realized that where he really excelled, and was the most excited, was working with smaller companies at the beginning of their journey.

Ryan’s goal in any client engagement is to help them create a realistic road map. This enables them to build the teams they need and achieve their business goals in the time frames they are working with.