Category: Mentors (Page 10 of 23)

Hulya Koc is a globally accredited investor, serial entrepreneur and mentor to American and international entrepreneurs with 40 years of experience.

She began her career as a banker and worked for international banks such as Wells Fargo Bank and continued on to become an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, California. In addition to founding and successfully exiting three companies, Hulya founded two nonprofit organizations. Her most recent exit, an employment agency catering to the childcare vertical, grew to become an industry leader with over 30 offices across the US and was sold to a consortium of US-based private equity firms.

Hulya co-founded the Istanbul Chapter of Keiretsu Forum and also formed its woman investors group, “KAYAK,” a first of its kind in Turkey, after joining Keiretsu Forum’s Bay Area chapter over 10 years ago. A seasoned angel investor, her portfolio consists of numerous global start-ups across a variety of industries. Read More...

Nathan Schor began his IT career as a database programmer, but evolved into sales where he accumulated over three decades of experience, including deploying CRM applications in hundreds of businesses across a wide range of sizes and sectors.

During that time he noticed an increasing number of discoveries in neural based sciences having a direct bearing on influencing people. With multiple disciplines pointing simultaneously toward the singular human brain, more has been discovered about the human brain in the last decade than in all previous history. The outcome is a radically new, intriguingly counter-intuitive model of how neural processes motivate our behavior, both as individuals and in groups. Read More...

Shirley Gee is a Mentor at Founders Space and the Managing Partner of Angel Plus LLC.

Shirley has extensive executive-level experience driving increased efficiency and performance across organizational tiers. She has a strong track record of achievements and in building relationships with academic community, executive peers, users, business partners, and external partners both within the United States and internationally.

As an Executive Senior Member and Department Head for Stanford University’s multi-purpose, international research laboratory, she reported to three Directors, in turn, including the Founder, Dr. Wolfgang Panofsky, and the Nobel Laureate Dr. Burton Richtor. She worked “at the pleasure of” the Stanford University President for much of her career and interacted at multiple levels within the $450M research laboratory. Read More...

Dru Babcock is a Mentor at Founders Space and a Peak-performance Coach/Author with Power Curve Coaching. He will assist you in designing and creating your company into fruition while thriving in an exponentially changing technology environment. He is a Certified Flight Instructor and former Airline Transport Pilot.

Dru has worked with over one thousand individuals, companies and groups in the past 20 years in successfully achieving their business, flight, athletic, relationship and life results. He is an active entrepreneur and specializes in assisting people who own and operate local and global companies.

He has earned his position as a member of the premier team of world-class coaches, who are known as the “Seal Team six” of the coaching industry, founded by an industry father. With his deep understanding of psychology and strategy he is able to coach you and your team to success with your business and life results. Read More...

Younghee is CEO of GoGlobal Consulting based in Palo Alto, CA, which provides insight and advice to global enterprises and startups. Her network and influence includes decision makers, corporate M&A team startup accelerators/influencers/investors/advisors.

She is an active investor in several Silicon Valley startups, and currently serves as advisor & mentor to her portfolio startups. As advisor/mentor, she helps develop core business plans and strategic relationships with investors, partners and influencers. She also serves as an advisor to KOTRA (Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency) Silicon Valley.

She is a highly rated speaker at startup seminars and workshops on globalization, global partnership, entry & marketing strategy and investment & exit strategy. Read More...

Joe Dunn is a leader, a mentor and coach with over twenty years of experience in successful software startups.

He was a key early member of three startups that became successful public companies, and a fourth that was sold for $250M+.

Joe Dunn was the VP and SVP Engineering and Products at Macromedia from scrappy startup to successful IPO and beyond. Read More...

Tytus Cytowski is the founder and managing partner at Cytowski & Partners, a boutique law firm focused on emerging tech companies and venture investors. He launched his firm in 2009 with one lawyer (himself) in New York City with one client and grew his venture to a team of 10 with offices in San Francisco, NYC and Warsaw working with top entrepreneurs from around the world.

Prior to founding his own law firm, Tytus worked at a micro VC fund and as a financial service lawyer in a leading international law firm in New York City.

Tytus represents startups, entrepreneurs, accelerators and investors in technology transactions in the USA and EU. He specializes in venture capital financing, “flip” transactions (moving companies to the USA ) and M&A (exits). His clients include companies from YC, 500 startups, Techstars and top tier EU VC. He holds his law degree from Harvard Law School (LLM 05) and Warsaw University (LLB 03). Tytus is a mentor at several incubators/accelerators across the globe.

Brian is the founder of Alpine Patents, a boutique Silicon Valley patent firm specializing in providing patent services to startups in fields including hardware, software, user interfaces, web platform, web security, consumer product, cleantech, IoT, manufacturing, medical devices, computer vision, ag-tech, ad-tech, mobile health and robotics.

Alpine Patents provides startup-centric patent services including IP strategy advisory, patent prosecution, fundraising preparation and long-term portfolio management.

Brian has over a decade of experience spanning patent law, intellectual property strategy, computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, business development, product development and entrepreneurship. Read More...

Anderssen Tu heads up the NCTU Angel Club. He is the cofounder of Rich IP Technology, and he’s the VP of Rich Media Technology Inc. Prior to that, Anderssen was the Assistant Vice President at TSC Ventures.

Michael Kuo is the cofounder and CEO of NCTU Angel Club, founder of Prosperity Group, and Managing Partner of Always Positive Capital Management.

In addition, Michael was with AsiaTech Ventures and UMC in Taiwan. He is also the CEO of Hukui Biotechnology Corporation.

Michael has extensive interdisciplinary and practical experiences, expertise in incubation, top management recruiting, deal sourcing, due diligences, financial analysis, cost accounting, company evaluating, syndicated funding, strategic alliance, M&A negotiation and IPO tactic planning. Read More...