Category: Mentors (Page 7 of 23)

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...

Robin is currrently filling key, hands-on roles with startup teams including fund raising, strategy, business development and product management.

Robin has founded and led revolutionary technology companies in roles of CEO, CTO, VP of Business Development and Solutions Consultant in the US and Asia Pacific. Particular expertise in leading international organizations, strategic partnerships, sales, professional services, product management, IT platform architecture and lean product management.

Most recently, working with companies with new technologies such as wearables, virtual reality, IoT, brainwave readers and magnetic field generators, to make a difference in Health and Education Markets.

An attorney, turned serial entrepreneur. Boris emigrated from Moscow, Russia at the tender age of 10 and moved with his family to Minneapolis, MN. Leveraging college as a means to escape the cold, he attended the Claremont McKenna College in California, majoring in psychology and literature. His interests then took a more practical turn, sending him across the country to the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he experienced one of the world’s most metropolitan cities.

Boris took advantage of several opportunities in the international legal arena: he worked for MBR Rechtsanwälte Attorneys in Zurich, Switzerland, where he focused on various wealth management strategies, primarily based on creation of offshore trusts; completed a seminar program at Oxford University in England on Corporate Governance; and spent time in Rome, Italy, where he particularly enjoyed familiarizing himself with International Arbitration.

Starting with what he knew best, Boris founded his law firm only a year after graduation and has since founded and invested in other ventures, ranging from tactical laser-tag, to more traditional tech startups like Seedstages – platform for connecting student entrepreneurs with one another and investors. Read More...

Adam’s curiosity about human behavior and passion for building on the web led him to a career in user experience research and design. Currently, a design lead and senior UX designer on the BrightRoll Ad Products team at Yahoo, Adam is also a public speaker and sought-after design mentor.

In working with startups in both full-time and consultative roles for the past eight years, Adam has a rich understanding of how human-centered research and design can help teams focus on delivering meaningful value to the people they serve.

Most importantly, Adam trains and mentors startups and next-generation designers. Through talks, workshops, and 1:1 mentoring, he helps individuals and teams develop critical design skills and design-focused cultures.

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...