Founder Institute Mentors

Orange County - Southern California Fall 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 Orange County program below.

Mentors

Adeo Ressi

CEO, Decile Group / VC Lab

Anderee Berengian

Chairman & CEO, Cie Digital Labs

Andrew Immerman

CTO, TrustCommerce

Andrew Bermudez

CEO & Co-Founder, Digsy, Inc.

Andrew Medal

Founder , Agent Beta

Anurag Bist

Founder, Ashmar

Arie Shen

FI Mentor

Atul Patel

CEO and Founder, Orbee

Azad Virk

Corporate Attorney, Stradling

Big Data Joe Rossi

FI Mentor

Bob Drobish

FI Mentor

Brendon Kensel

Founder & President, PrimaHealth Credit

Carey Ransom

Chief Product Officer, Experian Consumer Services

Chris Dover

CEO/Founder, Geniusly

Chris Hawkins

Founder, SignNow

Cori Linder

VP of Marketing, Retail Realm

Costin Tuculescu

VP Collaboration, Product & Engineering, Intermedia

David Gerken

Associate Partner, Digital Business Strategy, IBM

David Stevens

Founder & CEO, Hydroponic Creations

Don Vivrette

Founder & Chief Ideation Officer, Mackenzie Corporation

Drew Cather

FI Mentor

Fabian Geyrhalter

Founder and Principal, FINIEN

Fred Thiel

Former CEO & Chairman, Local Corporation

Henri Duong

Founder, Principal, Enclave Web Group (EWG)

Jason James

President, Regents & Park

Jason Taylor

FI Mentor

Jeff Jackel

CEO, Chatter

Jeff Curie

CEO, Bitvore

Josh Stomel

CEO, Neohire

Kimberly Kovacs

Founder & CEO , MyJane, Inc

Lisa Taylor

Founder & CEO, CrashLabs

Malcolm Lewis

Founder & CEO, RefGo

Mark Surfas

CEO, Rockets and Robots

Mark Edwards

Co-Founder, Virtu Partners

Matthew Hannus

VP Strategy and Corporate Development , Kochava

Nessim Medjoub

CEO, Clickbye

paul spiller

President & COO, Acorns

Pete Deutschman

CEO, The Buddy Group

Rizwan Kassim

FI Mentor

Ross Meador

Partner, TechLaw LLP

Russell Stern

CEO, Solarflare Communications, Inc

Sergey Sundukovskiy

Co-Founder, CTO and Chief Product Officer, Certemy

Sergio Munoz

Senior VP Investment Division, HOTB Software

Shawn Ahmed

President & CEO, Pivotus

Steven Haines

Founder and President, Sequent Learning Networks

Thomas Poletti

Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Tim Chan

Founder | CEO, Level3 Apps, Inc.

Vince Bianco

CEO, Advanced Medical Reviews

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