Adi Kwatra, Founder, Colorz of Life & Strategy Developer, High Frequency Algorithmic Trading Hedge Fund Adi Kwatra, an engineering graduate from IIT Roorkee and University of Southern California and a candidate of the CFA Institute, uses his expertise in Investments, Computer Sciences and hardware based acceleration of computationally intensive algorithms while working as a Senior Strategy Developer at a Start-up High Frequency Algorithmic Trading Hedge Fund in Chicago. In his spare time, he co-founded the non-profit called Colorz Of Life, which believed in spreading cultural awareness by celebrating festivals from different cultures and spending quality time with the elderly at assisted living homes. He also actively volunteered as an Entrepreneurial Mentor for 3 years at BUILD which promotes entrepreneurship among youth. He is a 2012 SLP Fellow and Co-Program Leader for the founding class of SLP Chicago.

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Adrienne (Abby) Rothwell, M.B.A. is a financial analyst for Life Technologies and has worked in a variety of industries including medical devices, property development, and biotechnology. She worked with Vet-Stem Inc., a rapidly growing biotechnology company in San Diego, which focused on regenerative veterinary medicine. While with Vet-Stem, she conducted, observed, and supported the research, process development and validation, and intense scientific analysis that went into developing and maintaining products, services, and procedures. Ms. Rothwell also worked with Amgen, Inc’s R&D finance team. In this position, she gained a comprehensive understanding of R&D budgeting and decision making in an extremely successful organization. Ms. Rothwell earned a B.S. in Biology from UC Santa Barbara and M.B.A. from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.

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Bindiya is Founder and President of Resilinc, a startup in Supply Chain Risk Management. She is a seasoned supply chain professional with deep knowledge and a consistent record of success in delivering results at Cisco and Flextronics. Bindiya holds a Masters in Supply Chain from MIT, an MBA in Finance and a Bachelors of Business Administration from Gujarat University in India.

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Brian Busche, Founder, BankBadger Brian Busche is the Founder of BankBadger, an online banking application intended to help parents teach their kids about managing money in the digital age. Brian currently works at Leo Burnett, where he is a Senior Creative Technologist, leading the development of Web-based marketing projects for Fortune 500 Brands. Brian has also worked at Rendition Multimedia, a company he started in 1999 which lead to the creation of RPMworld in 2001. RPMworld Virtual Drag Racing became a profitable online game, and is one of the early examples of a virtual economy, real-time multiplayer interaction, and affiliate syndication of a Flash game. He is an expert in Adobe Flash development, and Actionscript programming. Brian was lead developer on a team which received a Webby Award in 2010, for Raytheon’s “Sum of All Thrills” interactive learning xperience. He holds a degree in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa, and became a Macromedia Certified Flash Developer in 2004. He is a fan of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games. Brian is passionate about bringing children and parents together through mutual online game play and educational software. His current venture aims to leverage the Internet to educate children about managing their money with the direct involvement of their parents. He is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Chicago.

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Colin Slade, Founder and CEO, VirtualPortfolioOnline.com Colin Slade is the Co-Founder of Virtual Portfolio Online (VPO), a new online marketing training and branding platform for the Beauty and Wellness industry. VPO aims to forever change the online interaction of beauty schools, their students and their clients with innovative tools and training. Colin, a serial entrepreneur, has started multiple training and web companies including How2Trainer, How2LocalMarketing, Virtual Resume Online and has a unique ability to interface technology and people while negotiating win/win partnerships and long term deals. Prior to Virtual Portfolio Online he was the lead business development executive for Axero Solutions a social networking and business collaboration software used by some of the top fortune2000 companies. He was integral in creating an innovative sales program that tripled sales over a one year period and was instrumental in closing over 10 six figure licensing and partnership deals internationally which helped bring the company global recognition. He has a passion for online business, learning and human computer interaction and is working to create training platforms and programs that actually engage the user. He has also been speaking at events around the country and created or given trainings for companies such as Wells Fargo, Reebok, Borders Book, L'Oreal and thousands of small business owners. Colin received his Bachelors degree in Cognitive Science from University of California, San Diego and during his free time loves to play any type of sport, enjoys learning about new cultures by traveling the world, will never turn down a good plate of food and always enjoys spending time with his family and friends. He is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego.

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James Adams, Founder & CEO, ZapMe James Adams is startup junkie who co-founded med-tech company Awarepoint in 2002 and now serves as CEO and co-founder of ZapMe, a mobile payments company targeting brick and mortar merchants. Awarepoint is a med-tech company that has grown to 60+ employees, products installed in 90 hospital chains, received $40 million in venture funding. In 2011, he founded and is CEO of ZapMe, a social mobile wallet app and payment network. James is interested in learning from others, seeing people smile, and swinging for the fences. He holds a BA in Political Science from the Point Loma Nazarene University. He is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego.

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Sid Shetye, CEO, RoboCFO Corporation As a business minded engineer with a specialization in finance, Sid believes it's time to democratize powerful developments in finance that have traditionally been reserved for Wall St, large corporations and ultra wealthy families. Through RoboCFO's online software-as-a-service offering, Sid wants to change the way people make investment decisions by focussing on transparency, simplicity and education. RoboCFO is an offshoot of an MBA research project Sid did under the guidance of Nobel prize winning economist Harry Markowitz. Prior to business school, Sid was a software engineer at Broadcom's Bluetooth and WiFi business unit where he led numerous product launches on accounts like Apple, Google and HTC. Before Broadcom, Sid was a software engineer at Qualcomm working on their security and multimedia systems. Sid has a BE from Mumbai University, an MS from USC and an MBA from UCSD’s Rady School of Management. He lives in San Diego with his lovely wife. He is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego.

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