Speakers & Mentors

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  Cheryl Yeoh
  Reclipit
  Cheryl is the Co-founder and CEO of Reclip.It, the best way to discover coupons and deals that matter to you. Cheryl currently mentors at The Founder Institute in NYC and Singapore, and is on the Advisory Board of The Lean Startup Machine Weekend. Prior to Reclip.It, she founded CityPockets in 2010 and has raised almost $1M in seed funding.
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  Gagan Biyani
  Udemy
  Gagan co-founded Udemy.com, a marketplace for online education. While there, he raised the company's $4 million in funding and led the marketing team to $2 million of sales in the first 1.5 years.
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  Michael Harries
  Citrix Startup Accelerator
  Dr Michael Harries drives technology strategy for the Citrix Startup Accelerator. He selects, seed funds and coaches early stage startups creating the future of Mobile Workstyle and Cloud. He moved from Sydney just over a year ago and is in love with innovation across the board, ranging from serious IT through robotics, augmented reality, rocket cars and more.
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  Vanesa Kolodziej
  Nazca Ventures
  Entrepreneur & Early Stage Investor. Nazca Ventures Managing Partner (Latam VC fund). 500 Startups, Startup Chile, Founders Institute and The Lean Startup Up Machine Mentor. Product/ Market fit, Fundraising, International Development.
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  Chris McCann
  Startup Digest
  Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest. advisor for Singularity University, and mentor for the Peter Thiel 20 Under 20 Fellowship.
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  Laura Klein
  Users Know
  Principal at Users Know, Director of Product & UX at One Jackson. Laura helps startups get to know their users and build useful products
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  Erin Turner
  Crave
  Erin is a product person & feedback loop junkie. She's spent the past 12 years building products & growing companies in ecommerce, games, & social media. Erin most recently completed the acquisition of Crave and was previously Director of Global Commerce at EA.
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  Robert Fan
  Sharethrough
  Rob co-founded and currently leads product and technology strategy for Sharethrough. He is a practitioner, student and teacher of the “lean startup” methodology. In his spare time, Rob, hacks and plays with new technology and advises early-stage startups about the successes and pitfalls he has learned thus far.
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  Tim McCoy
  Lean UX
  Formerly Director of UX at UniversityNow and Product Strategist at Cooper, Tim advocates for integrated design, product management, and development teams using lean principles.
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  Daniel Brusilovsky
  Highland Capital Partners
  Summer Associate at Highland Capital Partners. Founder of Teens in Tech Labs. Associate Producer of Olive the Movie. Advisor at Everyme.
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  David Bland
  BigVisible
  David joined his first startup out of college and helped scale it to a $13mil acquisition in 2006. Now he mentors organizations on lean techniques to create space for disruptive innovation.
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  Julian Nachtigal
  Entrepreneur
  Advisor to GoKrt. Founder of TEDxSOMA. Formerly CEO of pariSoma Innovation Loft and COO of faberNovel, Inc.
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  Ryan Lelek
  Curly Cloud
  Ryan has been working on startups for over 4 years, including experience on the StartupBus and at LaunchRock. As a Thiel Fellow, Ryan now works on simplifying technology for small businesses and senior citizens.
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  Scott Allison
  Teamly
  Scott is the cofounder & CEO of Teamly, which was in the Summer accelerator batch at 500 Startups. He's a serial entrepreneur from the UK with background in telecoms and ecommerce.
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  Nick Frost
  Angel Hack
  Nick is the founder of StartupLi.st, partner in AngelHack, and works full-time at Startupperz. He's mentored 2 LSMs, and multiple Startup Weekend events.
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  Greg Biggers
  Genomera
  Protean Multipreneur, Startup Advisor, Troublemaker. CEO of Genomera. n=we. #leanstartup Fat Value. Sailing a Santana 22 on SF Bay. Experience in health, social networking, collaboration, CRM, VRM. 1/2 consumer Internet, 1/2 enterprise software. 100% lean.
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  Ajay Bam
  UC Berkeley
  Ajay brings 11+ years of entrepreneurial experience in his roles as co-founder/CTO/Product leadership at Modiv Media (acquired by Catalina Marketing) and in senior product management roles at Nokia. He is currently faculty of entrepreneurship at Haas business school at U.C. Berkeley and also pursuing his next venture in the bay area.
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  Ed Roman
  Angel investor, serial entrepreneur
  Ed Roman has built 2 businesses, sold one, advises dozens of startups across 3 incubators, built the world's largest Java developer community, and has written a book on programming.
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  Ismael Briasco
  Opicos.com
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  Jeremiah Lee Cohick
  Awe.sm
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  Kes Thygesen
  Role Point
  Kes has founded multiple recruitment tech startups and is currently Head of Product for RolePoint.com. He runs Startup Poker and curates the Startup Digest for London. Originally from England, he's over in SF for AngelPad and enjoys tea.
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  Eduardo Amadeo
  Nazca Ventures
  Partner at Nazca Ventures, 12 years in business development, finance and consultancy. Expert in the Latin American Market.
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  Robert Garcia
  UpMo
  Rob Garcia is a Silicon Valley product executive with 12+ years of experience defining, designing and executing digital product strategies for innovative products like Lending Club, UpMo and RoadRunnerSports.com.
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  Garrett Gee
  Scan
  Founder and Designer at Scan. More information online at http://garrettgee.me
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  Mark Chasse
  Desk.com
  Mark has been using 'Lean' methodologies as a Product Manager since before the term was in vogue and has had great results. Mark has worked at a number of startups, been employee #1 twice, and recently failed as a first time Founder.