Speakers & Mentors

• Patrick Smith
  Power Supply
  Patrick develops products for passionate communities. He's the founder of Power Supply (a service for Crossfit athletes) and a co-organizer of the DC Lean Startup Meetup. He co-founded Market Hardware, which was acquired by IAC in 2009.
• Stephanie Hay
  Fast Customer
  Steph is a co-founder of FastCustomer and a mentor at 500 Startups. She also co-organizes the DC Lean Startup Circle, co-hosts the Hacking Startups podcast, and occasionally consults on IA/UX and usability-focused copywriting.
• Ryan Healy
  Brazen Careerist
  Ryan Healy is the Co-Founder and COO of Brazen Careerist, a career management resource for young professionals. He has been named one of 20 Entrepreneurs to Watch by Worth Magazine, and is a recognized workplace expert for the young workforce, appearing as a spokesperson for Generation Y workers on 60 Minutes, 20/20, CNN, and NPR
• Victoria Schramm
  Kairos Society
  I run the Kairos Society, an international non-profit consisting of a network of student entrepreneurs. I love connecting people around the world to others to create change and solve problems.
• Chitra Sivanandam
  In-Q-Tel
  Chitra has a long history working in the Defense and Intelligence sector at various DoD contractor organizations and over the past 5 years has been working with In-Q-Tel to foster better private-public relationships through a strategic investment model, investing in tech start-ups on behalf of the Intelligence Community.
• Peter Corbett
  iStrategy Labs
  Peter Corbett (@corbett3000) is the CEO of iStrategy Labs and a DC Tech entrepreneurial staple, serving as Co-Creator of @GetGrandstand, @DCWeek and @DCTechMeetup.
• Jabe Bloom
  The Library Corporation
  Jabe Bloom is a Software/Security Architect who has provided thought leadership on emerging technologies internationally to multiple Fortune 100 companies. Jabe's expertise is in the architectural and security oversight of large-scale, highly secure, transactional software applications. He is an avid practitioner of agile development processes.
• Aunim Hossain
  Tista Games
  Aunim is the co-founder of Tista Games, a social gaming company for core gamers. He also advises startups and government organizations on the lean startup methodology. Aunim previously worked as a PM at Zynga and recently graduated from Harvard Business School.
• Teague Hopkins
  THG
  Teague is the founder and principal of Teague Hopkins Group, a virtual CIO services and lean coaching firm. Over the last decade, he has advised businesses, nonprofits, and governments on using technology to solve their most pressing problems, run an internationally-recognized fire performance troupe, and completely failed to learn how to read music.
• Maksim Tsvetovat
  DeepMile Networks
  Maksim is the CTO of DeepMile Networks, a boutique data science firm specializing big data, social media, large-scale sociographic and psychographic analysis. We apply our technology and patented algorithms in the marketing, public/issue advocacy space, and in the national security space. He is the author of Social Network Analysis for Startups and over 40 academic papers, and teaches courses on social media analytics at George Mason University
• Pat Sheridan
  Modus Create
  Over 14 years of entrepreneurial and consulting experience leading new product development engagements for early stage companies and technology enabled enterprises. Actively involved in the lean startup and open source software communities that are providing the business frameworks and technology platforms to enable mobile web applications. Co-founder and CEO of Modus Create, a digital consultancy that provides high end solutions design and training for mobile, tablet, rich web, and interactive television.
• Brian Sowards
  USEED
  Brian Sowards (@briansowards) is the Founder of USEED, a crowdfunding platform designed for College and University students to post student projects to their website, and invite their alumni to donate to a fund on their behalf.
• Ben Willman
  Rhythm Data LLC
  Ben has been involved with startups since the late 90's and is active in the DC lean startup community. He writes a blog at www.leanondc.com.
• Andrew Evans
  Genomic Arts
  Andrew is the CEO of Genomic Arts, and has more than two decades of experience and innovation in user interface engineering, information architecture and interaction design. He is an LSM alumnus, and the winner of our November 2011 LSM DC event.
• Danny Boice
  The College Board
  Danny is the Executive Director of Online & New Media for The College Board, which serves seven million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,800 colleges. Prior to The College Board, Danny was the Co-Founder and CTO of CommuniClique, and Arlington-based communications company.
• John Bracken
  Speek
  John is a DC business development guru with more than 12 years of experience with some of today's largest web products. He is a co-founder and former COO of Evite, and has worked at AOL on several large projects including AIM, Patch, and MapQuest.
• Scott Day
  SoundExchange
  Scott Day is Chief Technology Officer at SoundExchange, transforming its tech platform and organization during a period of rapid growth and change. Scott has also held tech exec roles at The Motley Fool, In-Q-Tel, ProFunds, and was a founding executive at FOLIOfn.
• Chris MacDonald
  A Huge Fan
  Chris is a serial entrepreneur, serving as co-founder of entertainment startups A Huge Fan and IndieFeed. He is also a founding member of DC coworking space GeekEasy.
• Michael Bradidich
  Logic Method IT
  Bradicich is a technology strategist and business leader. With two decades of IT management experience he has lead successful businesses in IT consulting, non-profit management, dot com startups, and enterprise systems.
• Mark McGovern
  Mobile System 7
  Engineer, investor, entrepreneur -- Mark brings 20+ years of experience making, breaking and investing in emerging technologies for the good guys (i.e., Fortune 500 and the US Intelligence Community). Freedom lies in being bold.