Category: Mentors (Page 8 of 23)

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.

Chuck is a due diligence expert with extensive experience in seed funding hedge fund startups, investing, launching and managing his own successful companies, as well as personally reviewing thousands of prospects for residential and commercial loans.

Chuck graduated from the University of Nebraska and holds a MBA from Fordham University. He’s been there before and understands what you are going through and will be there every step of the way when you apply at RainmakeMe.com. Follow Chuck on Twitter @chucksterolove

Vlad Starov, Ph.D., is the Managing Partner of Out of D Box. He’s also an expert on MVPs and funding strategies, as well as a veteran serial entrepreneur and startup enthusiast.

Vladimir helps emerging technology ventures to get off the ground using creative, non-conventional strategies. He has co-founded 3 successful technology startups and raised over $10 M in funding. Vladimir is now sharing his experience of over 20 years in funding and launching new products and new ventures. After receiving his Ph.D. in chemical physics from Brandeis University, he began his career at AT&T Bell Labs in semiconductor technology area. He has co-authored eight patents and over 30 publications on semiconductor processing, laser chemistry and, more recently, healthcare.

Out of D Box provides help and advice on Business and Marketing Strategy & Execution, Product & Technology Development/Management, Target Market Tuning & Analyses. We have expertise in both software and hardware based products, web based solutions and mobile apps. Read More...

Marek Adamo is a business lawyer at Paradigm Counsel, representing emerging companies, investors and public and private corporations.

Marek’s areas of expertise include entity formation, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial transactions. He regularly represents clients in the enterprise software, internet commerce, wearable technology, professional services and cleantech spaces.

Prior to joining Paradigm Counsel, Marek practiced corporate and securities law at Jones Day and Squire Patton Boggs (formerly Squire Sanders) in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Marek earned his B.A. in Economics from UC Berkeley and a JD/MBA from the University of San Diego.

Andreas has written 12 books about SEO and digital marketing. His books have been published in USA by McGraw-Hill and in China by Tsinghua University.

He has been an SEO consultant for Stanford MBA school, manages Google Adwords for MIT and Harvard, and worked at organisations like Cisco, SUN, SGI, and Acxiom in Silicon Valley.

Andreas has co-founded two digital marketing agencies. The first was acquired and the second got investor funding and grew to 175 employees. Besides all this, Andreas is on the advisory board of nine Silicon Valley startups.

Jean Lombard joined Founders Space as a mentor. Jean is an award-winning technology PR professional with more than 25 years of high tech PR experience earned in global PR agencies operating in New York, London and San Francisco.

After working within global PR agencies for 10 years, Jean established The Jean Effect, a PR, social media and marketing communications consultancy which she has operated for more than 10 years.

Through The Jean Effect Jean works as a nimble independent PR practitioner, and often partners with larger PR and digital marketing firms to move clients’ business objectives forward in the critical areas of brand perception, brand awareness and competitor displacement, by creating and delivering targeted, timely, and impactful media messages, media coverage and influencer mindshare. Read More...

Scott A. Wilkinson is an attorney with sixteen years of experience in U.S. immigration law on behalf of clients in the employment-based sector – from small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.

Scott’s areas of U.S. immigration specialization include employment-based immigrant and nonimmigrant benefits, DOL certification program technicalities, DOS requirements, Form I-9 compliance, deferred inspection issues and naturalization. He is licensed in Massachusetts and practices exclusively in the area of U.S. immigration and nationality law.

Ms. Wilson graduated from UC Davis School of Law, and is a member of the California State Bar. She also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Development and a minor in Spanish Language & Literature from the University of California, Berkeley.

Ms. Wilson has experience with both employment-based and family-based immigration petitions. Her employment-based immigration practice includes EB-1 immigrant visa petitions, EB-2 National Interest Wavier cases, PERM labor certifications, and non-immigrant visa petitions.

Tom Dayton is Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer (CXO) of Presto Innovation, LLC, a consulting services company based in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley area.

Before deciding to found Presto Innovation, Tom worked at NASA Ames Research Center for 11 years, where he collaborated with, trained, and guided teams not only for the research center but also at Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

Tom helped project teams in all phases of their production lifecycles – customer engagement, cost estimation, concept development, requirements definition and analysis, interaction design, interface design, usability engineering, systems engineering, project management, verification and validation, and quality assurance – while customizing and applying User Experience and Agile methods suited for those teams. Read More...