CherylAnn Falconer is a Founders Space Mentor, BSc in Computer Science and Grad. Dip Organizational HR.

CherylAnn is a master at helping you achieve your goals, especially the stretch goals. She’s succeeded in the military, the male dominated corporate world, corporate sales, technology consulting and 3 start-ups. Most importantly, she’s retained her sense of humor, her ethics and her passion for helping others.

In just the last few years she has mentored 851 engineers in the art and science of getting things done, being decisive, managing risk and creating high performing teams. She also taught them how to have fun too. Read More...

Ali Wasti is a Mentor at Founders Space and a venture capitalist at Azure Capital Partners.

He specializes in cloud infrastructure, SaaS/b2b, commerce and IoT technologies. He serves as a Board Observer for Convercent, SwitchFly, Unitas Global, Le Tote and Chairish.

Ali is a successful technology executive and investor. He has over 10 years of operating experience in various leadership positions in the technology sector. Prior to joining Azure, Ali led global business development for IBM’s Information Management and Analytics software businesses. Read More...

Adam Boyden is a Mentor at Founders Space and Managing Director at RPM Ventures.

Adam Boyden is a five-time entrepreneur who has provided leadership for venture capital backed companies that have disrupted multi-billion dollar industries and generated more than $2 billion in exit value. He was the co-founder and CEO of RPM portfolio company Openlane, an online wholesale automotive marketplace, which was acquired by KAR Auction Services (NYSE: KAR).

He went on to serve as VP of Business Development and Marketing at Xfire, an early social networking company focused on gamers, which was acquired by MTV Networks (NASDAQ: VIA). Boyden was President of Conduit, a cloud-based user engagement platform, early in its lifecycle and built it into the most successful Internet company in Israeli history. During this period Boyden was a Venture Advisor for RPM, led RPM’s investment in Social Finance (SoFi), and ultimately joined SoFi’s team as Chief Operating Officer as the company began to scale. Read More...

Greg Viloria is a Founders Space Mentor and the cofounder of Nerd Stalker.

He is currently Adolfo’s sidekick and podcast co-host at Nerd Stalker Media where he has written and produced over 200 articles, podcasts and interviews. He is also active as the so-called Media Ninja for SF New Tech – the longest running SF meetup where he manages presenter and media partnerships.

Greg is a former Product Marketing Manager and Regional Business Manager for Japan at Applied Materials. He also holds a position at the Japantown Task Force(JTF) where he consults with Japantown clients on behalf of the JTF in Marketing and Promotion. Read More...

Ken Thom is the Managing Director at SOMAcentral and the Co-working Partner of Founders Space.

Ken was the VP of Operations at SocialMedia.com from August 2007 – March 2010. Before that he was the Chief Products Guy at Unboggle.

Prior to this Ken was the Sr. Director of Products at oDesk, where he managed multiple point releases, including writing PRDs, driving cross-functional teams, determining key tradeoffs, and running beta programs. Read More...

Sabrine Zou is the Cofounder and Managing Partner of Valley Interlink and a Venture Advisor at Founders Space.

Valley Interlink works closely with Founders Space in China and Silicon Valley. Valley Interlink is a San Francisco-based consulting firm that bridges domestic and international investors by allowing them access to high quality investment opportunities in California. This includes venture capital funds, mergers & acquisitions, real estate development opportunities and REITS investment.

In addition, Valley Interlink specializes in providing American startups and companies with consulting services focused on strategic business relationships, market penetration and B2B client relationships in overseas, Asian markets.