Speakers & Mentors

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  Grace Ng
  Lean Startup Machine
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  Brett G. Durrett
  IMVU
  Brett is the CEO of IMVU. He joined the company in 2005 as Vice President of Operations. In 2008 he became responsible for all technical functions in the company and served as Senior Vice President Engineering & Operations.
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  Laura Klein
  Users Know
  Laura is a UX Designer and blogger at Users Know. She's currently the cofounder of The Lean Startup Group, a company devoted to providing coaching and training to companies that want to get Lean fast.
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  Mark Chasse
  Desk.com
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  Arthur Bart-Williams
  Canogle
  Arthur is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience that is passionate about startups, mentorship and making a difference. He excels at building high performance teams, and has a proven track record of growing companies through exceptional customer relationships along with quality products and services.
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  Marianne Berkovich
  Google
  Marianne is a Staff User Experience Researcher and is passionate about helping others understand people's behavior.
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  Bill Scott
  PayPal
  Sr. Director, UI Engineering, PayPal. LeanUX'er. Former Netflixer. UX Leader, Designer, Engineer, Author, Speaker. Y! Pattern Curator. Early Mac game developer.
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  Aaron Schwartz
  Modify Watches
  Aaron has spent nearly 3 years building Modify, from a scrappy lean startup to a company with widespread press, national retail presence and most importantly, a killer team. He really likes basketball, walking and reading.
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  Mark Abramson
  Forward Thought
  Mark is the founder of Forward Thought, which provides Food Traceability for high-growth food manufacturers and importers. He is also the co-founder of Medicine of Cycling, Vice Chairman of USA Cycling and winner of LSM San Francisco
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  Joel Gascoigne
  Buffer
  Founder of Buffer, a smarter way to share. AngelPad alum. With lean, took idea to revenue in 7 weeks. 500K users, 200K shares/day. Blogger, speaker, advisor.
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  Fabiana Azevedo
  Hotwire
  Fabiana has been creating web products for over 15 years, working for startups in South America, Europe and the US. She is currently the Marketing Product Manager at Hotwire where she uses lean techniques to create growth and outbound products.
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  Michele Battelli
  Google
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  Ken Power
  Cisco Systems
  Ken is co-founder of Cisco's Agile Office, where he works with the organization’s leadership and teams around the world on their continuing agile and lean journey. He has worked in a variety of settings over the years, from start up to large multinational corporations. Ken is a Fellow of the Lean Systems Society.
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  Karl Shaikh
  Entrepreneur
  Karl Shaikh is a seasoned executive and self confessed
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  Tutti Taygerly
  Substiantial
  Tutti runs design for an interdisciplinary design + development agency called Substantial. She has over 15 years of design experience for large companies, boutique studios, and startups.
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  Kristoph Matthews
  Boxbee
  Kristoph founded Boxbee, a service that makes storage effortless for urban residents. He loves logistics and lean startup thinking.
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  Ryan Lelek
  clippPR
  Ryan has been working on startups for over 4 years, including experience on the StartupBus, at LaunchRock, and now as a part of the Thiel Fellowship.
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  Rohan Deshpande
  Substantial
  Rohan is currently a Lead Strategist at Substantial, Inc., and was previously part of the early team at Gilt Groupe. He has also consulted to a number of successful startups in NYC including GroupMe, Fashism, Wantworthy, and others, helping on equal parts product and technology strategy.