Antonio Faillace is CEO/Founder at Golazzo$ and is an accomplished venture start-up executive with 15+ years of domestic and international strategic marketing, business development & operational expertise in high growth technology entrepreneurial companies & two Fortune 500 multinationals, Hewlett Packard Company (HP) & Exxon-Mobil Corporation, including a MBA in Georgetown University & further entrepreneurial studies at MIT Sloan. He was Founder & CEO of YouKnow a powerful web platform that enables Authors/Experts/Speaker to transmit and leverage their knowledge using web video, live webcast and advanced management tools generating substantial additional income for the author by opening a virtual global market and additionally providing an effective way for audience to access experts knowledge 24/7. Mike has significant technical experience and a passion for clean tech and innovation. Mike holds a BS in Physics from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.. After completing his bachelors, he attended the University of California at San Diego to perform research at the Jacobs School of Engineering on the extraction of methane hydrates. A short time later he was accepted to the MS program in Materials Science and Engineering at Boston University. While there, he worked in the High Temperature Materials Processing Lab and Boston University and helped develop a novel coating for solid oxide fuel cell interconnects. Mike also helped lead the Boston University Energy Club break ground within the Boston community. Mike’s passion for entrepreneurship and innovation has driven his desire to start hydroGEN Technologies and commercialize a waste to hydrogen technology. This innovative process has the potential to revolutionize the high purity hydrogen market by at low cost and without price volatile fuels.

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Mr. Anand is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR), Research Scholar & Instructor at Fung Institute , College of Engineering, UC Berkeley. He is an entrepreneur and experienced executive with engineering background. His experience in the industry has spanned across product development, manufacturing, consulting and business development in Medtech and Technology Industry. Prior to UC Berkeley, Mr. Anand served as the Director of Business Development at Orbees Medical, where he focused on the growth and alliances of consulting as well as technology practice for the North American region. Mr. Anand received his MS in Engineering from University of Wisconsin, Madison and BS in Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi. Later, Boston Scientific sponsored Mr. Anand to attend the Biodesign Program at Stanford University. Mr. Anand was awarded the prestigious “Entrepreneur Excellence Alumni Award” by his undergrad alma mater – Delhi College of Engineering, one of India’s top engineering institutes. He has also served on the board of various national/international organizations and received various academic, engineering and leadership excellence awards. Mr. Anand enjoys decorating his office with his numerous long distance running medals and Bibs. He also the unique feat of learning to swim and finishing a triathlon all within 2 months! He is a 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Silicon Valley. He is also the founder of Jova, a mobile-first platform that gives non-desk workers data-driven insights about their customers with intelligent recommendations to revolutionize field sales and service.

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Chandra Kalle is the founder of orangecaffeine, a startup that helps companies figure out a mobile strategy and execute it with top 1% talent around the world. Prior to orangecaffeine, he worked at Collegefeed (which was acquired by AfterCollege). Chandra has also worked at Symantec and Taos. He is an expert in Network Security, Agile Methodologies and Product Management. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering. He is a 2015 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Silicon Valley.

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Dhinakar Radhakrishnan is the CoFounder and CEO of Latent Labs. Theft of users personal information is the new malware in the post-PC age and their new product {app360scan} helps users safeguard their personal data. Prior to founding Latent Labs, Dhinakar worked at Qualcomm, where he last served as Director of Engineering in Qualcomm's R&D group. He is a very talented engineer having assembled and lead engineering teams on numerous occasions. While at Qualcomm he was able to move beyond his Engineering background andubated a new product which was named as one of Qualcomm's most innovative product in 2008. Dhinakar has more than 10 patents issued or pending. He is a 2014 fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego.

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Joseph Young, MBA. is the Director of Marketing at PixelActive and is a software product manager with 5 years of product management and development experience focusing on the Video Game industry for the mobile and console platforms. Experience with multiple start ups, working in the trenches, discussing long-term strategies, and everything in between. Mr. Young’s specialties include product management, branding, entrepreneurship, video games, emerging technology and business models, groundswell/social marketing, and public speaking. He earned his M.B.A. from the Rady School of Business at University of California, San Diego. He also works as Sr. Product Manager at SGN (Social Gaming Network).

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Kevin Chang, Founder, Racemob Kevin Y.Chang is co-founder of RaceMob, a startup dedicated to connecting endurance athletes with race events. Kevin also works as a product manager at Tiny Prints (acquired by Shutterfly in April 2011). Kevin is an expert in integrating social networks within ecommerce platforms and has co-authored 7 pending patents. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Kevin is a Boettcher Scholar, National Merritt Scholar, President’s Leadership Class Scholar, and Semester at Sea Scholar. Kevin is a passionate marathon runner, and you will usually see him and his dog Kiah running along the side of the road. He desperately wants to help bring web technology to the over 22,000 races and 13 million U.S. race participants who compete annually. Kevin is a 2012 Fellow of the Startup Leadership Program in Silicon Valley. Besides RaceMob, he also works as Sr. Product Manager at Kiwi Crate.

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Ko is a co founder of Shabelab inc which is a company behind a decentralized speech AI project called Sotuu. Previously Ko founded a tech startup called Phalanx inc in Japan. Phalanx has thrived even after Ko's exit. Ko likes emerging technologies like AI and blockchain, history, and reading.

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Nehal Madhani is the founder and CEO of AltLegal, a cloud-based software that makes it easy for IP professionals to prepare and manage copyrights, trademarks, and patents. The software automatically updates case statuses and deadlines, seamlessly collects key details, and instantly generates IP filings. Previously, he was an attorney at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, where he represented companies, investors, and creditors in multibillion-dollar corporate restructurings, including acquisitions, out-of-court restructurings, and chapter 11 cases. Before that, Nehal founded an online classifieds startup for college students. He also served as the director of development for Dining for Change, a nonprofit organization that raised funds for charities through student networking events, and advised small businesses on strategic legal and business considerations. Nehal has also co-authored several publications about the challenges of applying current antitrust law to online business models, which have appeared in the Huffington Post and in the Journal of Management and Information Systems. Nehal has a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a Certificate in Business and Public Policy from the Wharton School of Business, and a B.A. from Northwestern University. Nehal is passionate about making legal services more accessible. Nehal is a 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in New York.

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Nitin Tyagi, Founder & CEO, AppBrew Nitin is the founder/CEO of App Brew, an android app development startup. App Brew is currently working on its first product MyNews India- a news sourcing application aimed at the nascent Indian markets. Nitin's technical experience has been as a clean tech expert and he has a deep interest in technology entrepreneurship. Currently he works as a research engineer for a MIT spin off- Sun Catalytix Corporation, which aims to commercialize low cost personalized solar energy storage. Prior to joining Sun Catalytix he worked on two other startups. He acted as the CEO of Precision NanoCatalyst which was based on a novel fuel cell catalyst technology developed at the Univeristy of Rochester. He successfully led the team to raise a seed funding of $60k for technology validation. Prior to Precision NanoCatalyst he acted as the CTO of I-Squared Materials, a Li-ion battery technology developed at Cornell University and the team went on to win a prize in the Mark Ain Business Plan Competition. He holds a MS from the University of Rochester and a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.

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Noah Spitzer-Williams is the CEO of Highlight Hunter, a tech startup whose software helps camera owners find and share the highlights in their videos. Prior to Highlight Hunter, he worked 5 years as a Program Manager at Microsoft on various engineering, design, and product planning teams, earning the highest review score each year. He is an expert in entrepreneurship, software development, and interaction design. He earned degrees in computer science and entrepreneurial leadership from Tufts University, while winning the university’s business plan competition and Innovator of the Year award. He is passionate about traveling, kitesurfing, and helping people spend more time doing what they love. He is a 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Seattle. He currently works as Senior Product Manager Lead, Getaways Consumer Experiences at Groupon.

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Tim Hines is a serial entrepreneur, consultant and keynote speaker specializing in social media, mobile technology and entrepreneurship. Based in Chicago, Tim has been working in marketing, social media and the corporate travel industries for over ten years with companies such as the Tribune Company, TicketMaster and the CIA. Tim Hines is Founder and President of Business Traveler Social, where he is responsible for overall direction, strategy and marketing. Se its launch in 2010, Tim and his team have rapidly built BTSocial, creating a new social travel technology aiming to help business travelersrease productivity during downtime. In addition to BTSocial, Tim has founded other mobile startupsluding CurbNinja and Dibs. Tim has become a prominent connector in the Chicago entrepreneurship and technology community, where he coordinates the monthly Inspire Startups event and is a current Fellow of the Startup Leadership Program. He also serves on the Community Advisory Board for the Future Founders Foundation helping underserved youth explore entrepreneurship. Tim obtained his degree in marketing from the University of Illinois at Chicago where he was active in the Entrepreneurship club and began development of his first start-up, ConsumerVine. He is a 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Chicago.

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Victor is Founder & CEO of Scrible that provides a system for online content management. Victor started his career at Trilogy, a maker of ecommerce software for FORTUNE 500 firms, where he worked with the CFO on internal consulting projects. Via an “”externship”" from Trilogy, he then served as an Analyst at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), one of Trilogy’s venture investors. Upon his return to Trilogy, Victor played a key role in building and spinning off the subsidiary insuranceOrder.com, a pioneering online insurance agency built on an innovative technology platform. Victor also worked in business development at Roche Diagnostics, where he created the business plan and initial market research plan for a new genetic test for drug response to a prevalent cardiovascular condition. He later worked in business development at Maxygen, a maker of next-generation protein therapeutics, where he conducted due diligence supporting licensing deals and reviewed and executed various types of agreements. Victor has an MS in Chemical Engineering (emphasis in Biotechnology/Bioengineering) from Stanford University and a BA in Biology from Brown University. He is a 2010 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Silicon Valley.

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I am a technology minded, entrepreneurial self starter and believe that success is earned through hard work, innovation and strategic partnerships. I am excited to be involved in the San Diego Startup community and want to utilize SLP to create relationships with like-minded professionals, learn from experienced mentors, grow my network, access funding and continue to gain knowledge about entrepreneurialism and the startup community in San Diego and around the world.

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Vineet Thanedar is the Lead Engineer at CrunchBase involved in every aspect of re-building CrunchBaseluding architecture, scaling, coding, and hiring. Prior to this, he was the Development Lead at TechCrunch for two years, where he also split his time on CrunchBase development. Previously, Vineet spent six years at Qualcomm where he worked on large network software to drive mobile telematics solutions for the transportation industry. At Qualcomm he also worked on a complex mechanism for replicating databases across remote clusters. In his spare time, he enjoys reading non-fiction, listening to vinyl records, and bettering his ping-pong skills whenever the opportunity arises. He is 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Francisco.

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