Fort Lauderdale-Boca Raton Summer 2016

Fort Lauderdale Mentors

Program Mentors join weekly feedback sessions, host office hours, and in general provide you feedback every step of the way.

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

Kubs Lalchandani

Co-Founder & Partner @ Lalchandani Simon PL

Mario Cruz

Founder & CTO @ Choose Digital

Mark Volchek

Founder @ Las Olas Venture Capital

Matthew Lally

CEO @ Lex Lally Corp

Michael O'donnell

Principal @ StartupBiz.com LLC

Michel Triana

General Partner @ Mises Capital

Mike Dannheim

Founder & CEO at SENSIE @ Former VP at Groupon

Nina Nikolic

CEO @ Idea Capital

Paul Lawler

Associate @ Holland & Knight LLP

Peter Livingston

General Partner @ Unpopular Ventures

Randy Wood

Co-Founder @ Citrix

Rob Strandberg

Founder & CEO @ Datamax Inc

Rob Delman

Managing Director @ Golden Seeds

Rodolfo Novarini

Director @ Founder Institute South Florida

Sally Outlaw

Founder & CEO @ peerbackers.com

Sergey Petrossov

Founder, Chairman & CEO @ JetSmarter

Stash Jacobs

Shareholder @ Greenberg Traurig

Tim Hasse

Founder @ General Provision, T R I M

Timothy Cartwright

Chairman @ Tamiami Angel Funds

Will Perego

Will Weinraub

CEO & Co-Founder @ LiveNinja

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Fort Lauderdale Mentors

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Bianca Diosdado

Blas Moros

Brian Boroff

Carlos Blanco

Chris Stegner

Chuck Malkus

Dan Tiernan

David H. Salmon

Dean Hatton

Deborah Johnson

Don Lopes

Esteban Reyes

Eugenio Beaufrand

Felipe Sommer

Gregory Sukornyk

Hugo Perez

Juan Pablo Cappello

Kerstin Holm