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Ana BermudezCEO & FounderTAGit
TAGit™ is a social-registry for discovering, favoriting, buying or gifting products from your favorite TV Shows. When you see a product you like in the app's product streams simply TAGit™ to show you like it, or BUYit™ for yourself or one of your friends.
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Angelina PopovaGarden Answers
Angelina Popova works at Garden Answers. Prior to this she worked at All Baby Matters and Strony Brook University. She is an expert in problem solving, business development and critical thinking. She is a 2017 fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego.
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Anna LenhartFounder, PresidentThe Next Generation of Service
Anna Lenhart is a Sr.Analyst at Oberon Fuels, a startup that makes a clean substitute to diesel fuel. She is also the founder of the Next Generation of Service, a social enterprise that offers service oriented vocational mentorship to young people. Before joining Oberon, Anna worked as a Salesforce Developer and information technology consultant in the non-profit community. She is on the executive committee of Run Women Run and San Diego Americorps Alumni Association. Anna graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BA in Civil Engineering and Engineering Public Policy. Following graduation, she studied sustainable waste management practices in Namibian townships on a Fulbright Grant. She loves surfing, rock climbing and camping, and has visited 23 out of 53 of the United States National Parks. She is a 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego.
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Anna ZunigaCOORestaurantes FM
Anna Zuniga is the COO of Restaurantes FM. Prior to this he worked at HUBS STN and Mind Hub. She has a degree in marketing and a Master's in Business Administration. She is an expert in marketing strategy, business strategy and marketing management. She is a 2017 fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego.
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Brian JessupCo-FounderGiftovus
Brian Jessup is the Co-founder & CEO of Giftovus, Inc., a startup providing you a way to be a part of your friends’ lives. Prior to Giftovus, he worked at CONNECT as a Springboard Coordinator and at Therability as CTO. Brian has also worked at Mekey, Wind River Services and Dandelife. He is an expert in Project Management, Software Development and Product Development. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering. He is a 2015 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego.
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Christopher KeownBusiness OwnerEscape Game SD
Christopher Keown is the Business Owner of Escape Game SD, a type of team building game in which people are trapped in a room and have to investigate a series of clues to escape. He is also the business owner of AxeVentures, the best tomahawk axe throwing spot around. Christopher has also worked at Ozone Online and University of California. He is an expert in business creation, background and connection in data science and bioinformatics. He holds a degree in Cognitive and Computational Science. He is a fan of Brene Brown, Research professor. He is 2019 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego.
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Fabrice GouldFounder & CEODiggen
Fabrice is the founder and CEO of Diggen, whichreases ecommerce conversions by supplying authorized consumer data profiles. His vision for Diggen, the digital genome platform, is to simplify the management of personal information in a centralized cloud service. Your digital world becomes a magically personalized experience.
Fabrice began his career at General Electric as a cross functional program manager, but moved to California to learn entrepreneurship and startup ventures. He joined 800ideas.com to grow 1-800-SAN-DIEGO nationally, Jingle Networks to establish business development for 1-800-FREE-411, and Localeze to create product development and the technology organization. He became an expert in local search and coined the industry term NAP for data cleansing. He thrives in building agile organizations to quickly iterate through customer and product development.
Fabrice has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, a Master of Business Administration from the California International Business University, and starting his Doctorate of Business Administration. He is French American and originally from New York City. He is a 2014 fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego.
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Fatima Gasset RosaResearcherTotoy
Fatima Gasset Rosa is the Postdoctoral researcher of University of California. She is an expert in scientific method that serves to design, develop and analyze any project of any field. Fatima was awarded Carrier Development Grant from Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), Springboard Fellowship from Target ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) Foundation and Insight of the year Gasset-Rosa et al, Neuron 2017 paper, granted by Huntington Study Group Foundation (HSG). She holds a degree in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. She is 2019 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego.
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Forest FlodinManaging DirectorNeoVinci Health
Forest Flodin, CovX
Forest Flodin is passionate about improving the human condition through science and technology. Currently, he works at CovX (acquired by Pfizer), where he contributes to the development of cutting edge bioconjugates for the treatment of cancer and metabolic disease. Forest has also worked at Arena Pharmaceuticals and Discovery Partners. He is an expert in new product development. Forest was awarded an inaugural Rady Innovation Fellowship. He holds an MBA for Rady School of Management, UC San Diego and a B.S. in Chemistry from University of Illinois-Urbana. He is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego. He currently works at NeoVinci Health as Managing Director.
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Henry LinerCEO/FounderBar World
Henry Liner is the CEO/Founder of Bar World, a startup which he calls 'the Netflix for nightlife'. Prior to Bar World, he worked at Blue Raven Group as CEO. He is an expert in Sales, Recruiting & Marketing. He holds a degree in Marketing. He is a 2015 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego.
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Joslyn OGradyExecutive RecruiterAccordance Search Group
In college, Joslyn O’Grady was selected as one of two freshmen into The Sales Centre at Ohio University where she helped to build the undergraduate, highly selective sales program from 20 students to 250 students by her senior year. The Sales Centre allowed Joslyn to build a network of C-suite and senior-level mentors throughout many different industries. Since college, Joslyn has worked with medical device company, CareFusion in sales and marketing roles. She has had swift advancement from sales representative to director of marketing for CareFusion’s minimally invasive surgical instrument division. In this role, she is responsible for innovation, product launches, sales training, and driving clinical adoption. Currently, she is also working researching and validating a medical device and information technology company that focuses on improving patient experiences in medical facilities while providing the hospitals with increased efficiencies. She is a graduate of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio with a degree in marketing and recipient of The Sales Certificate. She is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego. She currently works as executive recruiter at Accordance Search Group in San Diego.
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Kathy PyleAssociate Director, Integration LeaderThermo Fisher Scientific
Kathy Pyle is established as a business development and accounting professional and has over seven years of progressive domestic international financial analysis and internal audit experience. She provides auditing and financial strategies for multi-million dollar, globally recognized organizations. Her aggressive pursuit of capital has helped launch entrepreneurial ventures in business sectors including health care, manufacturing, telecommunications and waste management. She is presently an internal auditor with Life Technologies. Prior to joining Life Technologies, Ms. Pyle was a venture member at InLab, an early stage Angel and Venture Capital Fund using a scientific based process and methodology to pick and build winning companies. The Lab process evaluates potential investments and portfolio companies through a proven discipline approach, based on systematic, objective, new venture framework. She has also worked as a consultant at The Siegfried Group and in Audit and Assurance Services for Deloitte and Touche. Ms. Pyle earned a B.S. in Business Economics with an emphasis in Accounting from the University of California Santa Barbara.
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Ketal GandhiSr. Product ManagerQualcomm
Ketal Gandhi, Business Development Manager, Qualcomm
Ketal Gandhi is a Business Development Manager at Qualcomm’s Global Market Development group responsible for new business plans creation. Ketal works with the technical team to analyze new market opportunities and develop new business models for innovative technology products for Qualcomm. Ketal is the manager of the QIN Venture Fest - an innovative 'Collective Entrepreneurship' program that combines crowdsourcing with proven entrepreneurial methods for open innovation, new business creation, employee engagement and leadership development. In 5 years, Venture Fest has produced dozen of investment opportunities for Qualcomm and graduated hundreds of participants and advisors. This fuzzy front end of innovation process management has resulted in over $110 million in funding from the company in various early stage incubation projects. Ketal has over eight years of national and international work experience in telecommunications, internal ventures, research and analysis, software engineering, and quality assurance. Ketal holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from Mumbai University, as well as an MBA from the Paul Merage School of Business at University of California, Irvine. He is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego.
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Naz Athina KallelFounderEuHerd.com
Naz Athina Kallel is the bootstrapping Founder of EuHerd.com, a start up currently in the pre- launch stage. EuHerd’s goal is to provide a well categorized Event searching and listing service, to give our communities’ businesses, small and large, the opportunity to showcase their events, create a buzz and drive attendance. She is a fan of using technology to fuel the growth of local businesses byreasing their visibility in their local markets and provide innovative ways to reach out to customers directly, strongly believing that customer retention has a major impact on profitability. She caught the entrepreneurial bug early. At 19 she founded a photo safari company in her native Kenya. She sold the company after 5 years to finance her move to the United States. Naz has also worked in Corporate Travel and ran an art jewelry company where her pieces were shown in galleries in Santorini, Greece, Mombasa, Kenya and has been privileged to show her work at the Mingei Museum in San Diego. She proudly wears the badge of a cancer warrior and travels the globe to hear and tell stories. She is a 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego.
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Omid SabetFounder & CEOeDrinkit.com
Omid Sabet, Founder & CEO, SFinX Productions
Omit Sabet is the co-owner and CEO of SFiNX Productions and co-owner of eDrinkit, Omid graduated from UCSD with a bachelor in electrical engineering, where he and his colleagues also founded SFiNX productions. He went on to work for Northrop Grumman as an engineer for 5 years followed by 3 years of technical sales at Tektronix and a year of engineering consulting . Omid has always had the thought frame of an entrepreneur and was so excited about the potential of eDrinkit that he quit his six figure salary and other perks to pursue it full-time in Nov. 2010. Omid’s nine years of experience in the nightlife industry and his experience & interaction with management of the top nightclubs and bars ( from their grand openings to their current status) provided valuable insight that impacts all eDrinkit decisions. Today, Omid oversees all elements of eDrinkit and SFiNX productions and understands the importance of brand integrity and image. He is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego.
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