Founder Institute Mentors

Fort Lauderdale - Florida 2024

Founder Institute Mentors join weekly feedback sessions, host office hours, and in general provide you feedback every step of the way. In addition, through our Equity Collective, Mentors are invested in the success of your company both during and after the program.

See the list of current and past mentors for the Fort Lauderdale program below.

Mentors

Lorenzo Thione

Managing Director, Gaingels

Marcos Polanco

CTO, Bellwether Coffee

Jonathan Greechan

Co-Founder & CEO, Founder Institute

Neil Kleinberg

FI Mentor

Donna Abood

Principal, Managing Director - Miami, Avison Young

Miguel Molina Cosculluela

Managing Partner & Co-Founder , Analytikus

Douglas Scott

Co-Founder & CEO, The HighBoy

Gabriel Cabrera

Omni Channel Strategist, Avon

Kjell De Orr

Managin Director, Newlink Research

Leonel Azuela

CEO & Founder , Quaxar

Michel Legros

CEO & Founder, Normandy Print

Carolina Forero

Director Digital Solutions, Visa Inc.

Benjamin Vides

Director, Products, Watsco Ventures

John Price

Managing Director, Americas Market Intelligence

Michael O'donnell

Principal, StartupBiz.com LLC

Alessandro Annoscia

Founder & CEO, 1Apeiron

Mike Dannheim

Founder & CEO at SENSIE, Former VP at Groupon

Felipe Fernandez

Executive Partner, Altenergy & Ecosolutions

Dean Hatton

Founding Partner, Las Olas VC

Gustavo Fernandez

Founding Member, Royal Oak Kapital

Rodolfo Novarini

Director, Founder Institute South Florida

Michel Triana

CEO, Mean DAO

Mark Volchek

Founder, Las Olas Venture Capital

Antonio Garrido

President, and Co-Founder, Absolute Sales Development, Sandler Miami

Carlos Garrido

CEO, Absolute Sales Development

Tim Hasse

Founder, General Provision, T R I M

Nestor Villalobos

CEO, Tudor Ice Company

Juan Meza

Director, Visa

Matthew Lally

CEO, Lex Lally Corp

Rob Strandberg

Founder & CEO, Datamax Inc

Ken Roberts

President, WorldCity

Gregory Sukornyk

Founder & CEO, Good World Games

Carlos Icaza

CTO, RCTSports

Kevin Levy

Shareholder and Chair of Technology Business Law, GrayRobinson, P.A.

Roy Wolman

Finance Director , Diamonds International

David Collado

Investment Banker, 1st BridgeHouse

Oren Klein

Director of Strategy, Finaben llc

Rodo Novarini

Managing Partner, INCUBING

Jose Rocha

Assistant Professor of Management, Gus Machado School of Business, St. Thomas University

Randy Wood

Co-Founder, Citrix

Bianca Diosdado

VP, Octagon Technology

Jeff Brown

Founder | Accredited Angel | Mentor, Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation, FIU SJMC

Jeff Brown

Founder, Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation

Kerstin Holm

Founder & CEO, Summus Inc.

Esteban Reyes

Founding Partner, Las Olas Venture Capital

Carolina Mandil

CEO, DIGIREP

Hector Figallo

Managing Partner, TamboWorks

Mario Cruz

Founder & CTO, Choose Digital

Carlos Blanco

CEO, Pigs on the Roof

Marshall Swatt

Founder, SocialSplendor

Guillermo Sierra

Founder & CEO, Alentha Inc

Elisabetta Bell

Marketing Operations Manager, Caterpillar Inc.

Gabriel Cabrera

Advisor to the Board, Silverback Concepts, LLC

Brandon Evans

Purpose Driven Founder // Advisor // Investor Focused on High Growth + Social Impact Companies, 1heart

Timothy Cartwright

Chairman, Tamiami Angel Funds

Jason Blilie

Owner, Blilie Law

Peter Livingston

FI Mentor

Carlos Romero

CEO, LiVi - Live stream by request

Dr. Lascelle A. Sweetland

Managing Director, Laspainc Consulting

Matthew Capala

Founder, Alphametic

Goutam Jain

CEO, Sygnius, LLC

Brian Boroff

Founder & CEO, AdFone

Daniel Buelhoff

Founding Partner, Springtech Partners

Hugo Perez

Managing Partner, United Data Technologies (UDT)

Rodolfo Saccoman

CEO & Co-Founder, AdMobilize.com

Mike Lingle

Entrepreneur / Mentor, Rocket Pro Forma

David Koretz

Founder & CEO, Plum

Angelo Biasi

FoundeR & CEO, MassiveU

Janet Todorova

Head of Expansion, Founder Institute

Joe Daniels

Partner, Co-Chair - Emerging Companies, Partner & Co-Chair, Emerging Companies Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough

Kjell De Orr

Managing Partner, Newlink Group

Daniel Nelson

Recovering Accountant, Startup Economics

Spencer Lyon

Director of Industry Relations , Realdax

Tigre Wenrich

CEO, LAB Miami Ventures

German Hornstein

Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

Claudio Pairot

CEO, Puntilla Films

Satish Movva

Founder & CEO, CarePredict

Jonathan Cole

Managing Director, Rio Vista Advisors

Nathaniel Vasel

Associate, Las Olas Venture Capital

Scott Greenhouse

FI Mentor

Emiliano Abramzon

Co-founder & Head of Customer Success, Nearpod

Jim Ryan

Founder and CEO-Chairman, Talk2Rep, TechNearshore

Hubert Reinfeld

Creative Director, TOTUMA COMMUNICATIONS & DESIGN

Pablo Trench

Founder & CEO, THE LAB IDEAS

Federico Halperin

Founder & CEO, Kubikware

Terence Bentley

Cofounder, The Venture Mentor Team

Juan Colmenares

Growth Lead, Graphite Growth

Mike Teichberg

Founder, InventivHR

Terri Ann Brown

Mentor, Venture Team

Silvio Frank Pupo

CEO, Logos Capital Group

Laura Gonzalez Estefani

CEO, The Venture City

Alexander Rodriguez

Partner, International Blockchain Legal LLP

Juan Patron

CEO, The 2020 Agency

Robert Robert Himelfarb

Partner, Randall Investment Partners

Andres Hurtado Rangel

Founder, & President, BiZiON GROUP

Andres Hurtado

CEO, SynerTechCloud

Nico Berardi

Partner, Magnetico Ventures

Neil Steinhardt

Founder, ClassWallet

Jeffrey Harris

Founder, SpringBIG

Thomas "Tigre" Wenrich

CEO, LAB Miami Ventures

Greg Taffet

Managing Partner and CIO, Taffet Associates

James Irvine

Founder, 305 Works and Pitch Night NYC

Roxette Miranda

Director, Founder Institute Florida

Marty Schultz

Founder, Objective Ed

Gary Aksamit

Founder, Aksamit Resource Management

Walter O’Leary

Managing Partner, South Pointe Capital

Pandwe Gibson

Founder , ECOTECH VISION

Valerie Lopez

CEO, Shoot My Travel

Aaron Chavez

Managing Partner, (un)conventional ventures

Joe Tremols

CEO, StreamGuard

Sujee Jeganathan

Managing Director, Pursuit SCC Inc.

Mario Cruz

FI Mentor

Melissa Krinzman

Co-Founder, Krillion Ventures

Ron Tarro

VP, New World Angels

Howard Marks

Founder, StartEngine

Bo Megginson

Managing Partner, Gold Coast Angel Investors

David Zinn

Managing Director, Ocean Azul Partners

Ricardo Taveras

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Taveras Private Holdings

Kristen Corpion

Founder, CORPlaw

Ronaldo Bastos

Partner, Weston Capital Insights

Alexander Loveyko

Attorney, ChaseLawyers

Alfredo Ferrari

FI Mentor

Jessica Shraybman

CEO, Shraybman Law

Marcelo Ricigliano

CEO, 4Geeks Academy

Oscar Perez

COO, 8Base

Richard Munassi

FI Mentor

Luis Antonio Bergas Vilardell

Partner , AI8 Ventures

Jonathan Fichman

FI Mentor

Madeline Aufseeser

FI Mentor

LUIS Murguia

Managing Partner, Murguia Associates LLC

Roger Hoss

FI Mentor

Bob Dakin

FI Mentor

Kathy Chiu

Managing Partner, DeepWork Capital

Ryan Whittemore

Chief Investment Officer, Florida Funders

Sameer Sortur

Founding Partner, SquareCircle Ventures

Alexander McElfish

Partner, Argent Strategies

Ramit Singh

Director of Startup & Entrepreneurship Programs, Tampa Bay Wave

Tim Hawkes

FI Mentor

Molly Walsh

Director, Founder Institute Dallas

Deon Bradley

FI Mentor

Sandra Finn

Founding Partner, EdgeCraft Advisors

Mary Ann Knaus

FI Mentor

Amlan Nanda

FI Mentor

Oscar Perez

COO, Infosys Consulting

David Chitester

Founder, SeedFunders

John Wensveen

Chief Innovation Officer, Nova Southeastern University

Ashley Flucas

Angel Investor, Flucas Ventures

Pilar Fernandez Hermida

Founder i-Expand (We help Health Tech companies go global), i-expand

Noah Wallach

Founder, Hope OS

Rob Panepinto

President , Florentine Strategies

Mark Cuda

Founder, Ancient Strength

Aviv Shalgi

CEO, Solar Simplified

Edwin Rivera

FI Mentor

Scott Rivello

Partner, EY

Chris Anderson

General Partner, A2ZVenture.com

Imran Khan

Founder & CEO, TechNerds.com

Chris Adamo

Investor & Senior Advisor, Conscience VC

Rob Matzkin

Co-Founder , myQuest.co // RobMatzkin.com

Fernando Cariello

FI Mentor

Christian Busch

Venture Scout, GGV Capital

Derick David

Cofounder & CEO, Hikre School

Geoffrey Keith

Chair of Managers Committee, Seedfunders LLC

Richard Greco

Managing Member, Treasure Investments LLC

Ken Hall

Vice President, DeepWork Capital

Nelson Telemaco

CEO, Proximity Works, LLC

Diana Sanchez

FI Mentor

Bernardt Vogel

Sr.Associate, VU Venture Partners

Tahl Milburn

Investor, New World Angels

Nelly Yusupova

Founder, TechSpeak.co

Kristina Momchilova

Founder, The Better Kind

Vojkan Dimitrijevic

Principal, Blackloft Ventures

Andrea Chico

Business Development Manager, Ferguson Ventures

Logan Paull

Investment Banker, Growthink Capital

Christos Kritikos

Startup Consultant - Product and Growth | 100+ Startups, $15M+ Raised, Emerging Humanity

Daniel Di Maria

FI Mentor

Rob Lundstrom

FI Mentor

Jeff Alexander

FI Mentor

Kirsty Barany

CEO / Founder, RxGenesys Biotech / Clear Sparrow / Kompass Group

Robert Hacker

FI Mentor

Casey Pond

FI Mentor

Daniel Pardo

CEO , DPC Labs

Dan Holahan

Director of Member Experience, Embarc Collective

Andreas Calabrese

General Partner, Tampa Bay Ventures

Chelsea Oppenheim

FI Mentor

Mike Mumola

FI Mentor

Chris Houghtaling

FI Mentor

Matt Quinn

Ecosystem Growth Director, Nervos Foundation

Eryka Gemma

Director, Timelock Ventures

Etienne Gillard

Head of Ventures, Mana Tech

Melisa Pinto-Rivera, MS

Consultant/ Founding Partner , Stella Sophia Global

Esteban Elias

Expert Lawyer, PAG.law

Nev Terzieva

Co-Founder & President, Clinical Solutions Division, ChronWell, Inc

Jahn Karsybaev

Founding Partner, Big Sky Capital VC

Rajeev (Raj) Seshadr

CFO, Escalon

Jamaila Holder

CEO/Lead Advisor, Holder Advisory and Associates

Lorenzo De Leo

Managing Director, Rokk3r

Joan Zhang

Chapter Co-Director, Startup Grind Miami

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