Category: Mentors (Page 6 of 23)

Jacquelynne Suguitan just joined Founders Space as a mentor and advisor.

Jacquelynne is a consultant for TriNet where her primary focus is advising technology clients on controlling their burn rate, decreasing operating expenses, and on hiring and retaining top talent.

Previous to TriNet, she worked closely with CPAs and accountants helping bootstrap startups to Series A companies ranging from international subsidiaries, manufacturing, VA/VR, biotech, SaaS, to dating apps. She’s a SF native and spends her free time volunteering by teaching Zumba at senior community centers.

Don Daglow is a pioneering game designer, executive and 2008 Technical Emmy® Award recipient whose career spans the history of the video games industry.

A three-time Inc. 500™ CEO, Don’s teams have shipped over $1 billion in software products. He advises a diverse mix of global clients, from small mobile game and app startups to large international publishers.

He also serves as an Advisor at the Founders Space Accelerator in San Francisco, and as the founding President of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Foundation, the charitable wing of the Academy. Read More...

Dan Hussain has joined Founders Space as one of our mentors. He is an inventor, entrepreneur and patent agent who comes from a diverse, multicultural background which has inspired his creativity to attack world-wide problems like climate change and global healthcare. Dan’s educational background spans multiple institutions, including studies at MIT (electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, and computer science), Harvard (law and philosophy), and the University of Cambridge U.K. (theoretical geophysics).

Dan received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical & Biomedical Engineering from MIT in 2004. He earned his M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, and has continued towards his Ph.D. there.

Dan patented his own intellectual property related to energy and the Industrial Internet of Things. His IoT patents are licensed by major international companies. More recently, he’s been working on a book on patents for startups. Read More...

Joe Boyle has joined Founders Space as a Mentor. He has been designing and building production infrastructure and product solutions in startups since 1997. After cutting his teeth with real-time process control systems, in 2001 Joe began to specialize in computer security.

With nCircle Network Security, Joe built and deployed several network security solutions including intrusion detection systems, upgrade management systems, and a risk assessment system. In 2009 Joe moved into the hardware security space where he designed and deployed a software management system for Cryptography Research’s anti-counterfeiting solutions, providing a secure key delivery mechanism to manufacturing sites around the world.

Since 2014 Joe has been focusing on Virtual Reality, including creating and deploying the content management system for River Studios. Read More...

Sylvester Kaczmarek is an award-winning entrepreneur and product manager with over 16 years of international, quality-driven IT industry experience.

His expertise in business strategy, operations, and product strategy has brought leadership and financial growth to companies such as Viacom, GREE, Disney, Nickelodeon, BBC, and many more. He has worked with brands such as Marvel, The Godfather, Pacific Rim, Rolling Stone Mag, Prada, and celebrities.

Kaczmarek bootstrapped two successful software companies. Sold one, and took the other one (ComAngle Entertainment) from startup to globally operating award-winning (MOBBYS 2014 and IAMAI Awards 2015) game studio. Improving the world through the use of modern technology has become his primary focus, and he is interested in using artificial intelligence (AI) to solve the world’s biggest problems through a combination of humans and machines working together in integrated intelligence. Read More...

Andrew Romans is the co-founder and General Partner of Rubicon Venture Capital, an early stage VC fund with offices in San Francisco and New York City. He is the author of Masters of Corporate Venture Capital and The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital: Inside Secrets from the Leaders in the Startup Game.

Romans also advises corporates on CVC programs. Founder and President of The Global TeleExchange (The GTX), where he raised $50m from VCs and corporates, built and managed a team of 90. Andrew was also a Managing Partner at Georgetown Venture Partners (GVP), a venture capital focused boutique investment bank in London active in Europe, the US and Israel and Georgetown Angels, a global angel group. General Partner of The Founders Club, focused on secondaries & equity exchange VC funds where Romans recruited 42 VCs from the US, Europe and Israel to the advisory board.

Managing Director of EMEA at VC-backed Sentito Networks (acquired by Verso Technologies). Managed enterprise software sales at VC-backed Motive Communications (NASDAQ IPO) opening new markets in France, Benelux, Scandinavia and Ireland. Opened new markets and acted as country manager for fiber optic cable manufacturing and turn-key project construction company Dura-Line in the UK, Austria, Czech & Slovak Republics, Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Andrew is a frequent venture capital guest speaker on TV shows including MSNBC, CNBC and ABC as well as various TV in China and Russia. Read More...

Leisl Schrader is a creative entrepreneur with a passion for Agile, branding, design, and the Web. She is a constant innovator, an enthusiastic public speaker, and a respected leader. As the CEO of Remix Design, Leisl and her team help entrepreneurs launch their brands quickly and cost-effectively. Before going into business, she worked as a Senior UI Engineer and has extensive experience as a graphic designer, front-end UI Web developer, and art director. Leisl earned her bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from the School of Visual Arts in 2007.

Remix Design is an Agile Design agency specializing in branding for startups. Our unique process gets new companies off the ground and into the market faster, more efficiently, and more cost-effectively than any other agency. We can launch your brand in as little as two weeks. With Remix Design, you can be sure your startup makes a great first impression in the market.

Debbie Levitt is a Principal at Ptype, a full-service SF-based UX agency. She’s also one of the few people on the planet recommended by Axure for Axure training. Debbie had her own seed-funded Bay Area startup for 5 years.

Debbie has worked for a variety of agencies and Fortune 100 companies including Wells Fargo and Oracle. She also works with a handful of local startups. She is an O’Reilly author and public speaker. Her 20+ years of experience include desktop web, mobile web, and native mobile apps.

She’s happy to talk to startups about product features, prototyping, and any area of UX strategy, research, design, and testing.

Gemma Boguslawski is an Experience Research Director at Sutherland Labs. Gemma leads a customer experience research team in San Francisco.

With a background in psychology, she’s an expert at turning customer insights into real-life experiences, utilising techniques such as journey mapping, persona development and ethnography.

She is passionate about collaborating with startups, offering advice on utilising user experience techniques to impact strategy and design. She has experience working with health and finance incubators in the UK. Read More...

Wenli Yu, currently serves as CEO of Archimedes Controls Corp., a Silicon Valley based high technology company focused in global data center market. Prior to co-founding Archimedes, Wenli served as General Manager and Legal Representative of JDSU, a global optical communications market leader responsible for its WOFE operations in China and business expansion in Asia.

He also built the company’s Broadband Network R&D Center in Shenzhen. Wenli has over 25 years of experiences in business development, building customer bases and distribution channels, R&D and manufacturing partnerships in North America, Asia and Europe for carrier and enterprise marketplaces. Before joining JDSU, Wenli founded and co-founded multiple technology companies backed by Silicon Valley and Mid-Atlantic based venture capitals and acquired by publicly traded companies (Lucent, Vina, PMC).

Over the decades of his business career, he worked as Product Line Manager, Hardware Manager and was instrumental in developing, managing and winning market leadership positions for several brand-name communications products in the global communications market. Read More...