Founder Institute Mentors

East Bay 2018

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 Oakland program below.

Mentors

Alex Tramiel

Founder, Palo Alto Innovation

Alexandra Marshall

Director of Platform, Backstage Capital

Andrew Crawford

Director of Finance & HR, Founder Institute

Andrew Hill

CEO & Co-Founder, Lifted

Ankur Srivastava

CEO, SwarmSales

Artem Gassan

Partner, Upshift Partners

Ashish Desai

Chief Product Officer, 99designs

Bo Ghirardelli

Co-founder and CEO, skysthelimit.org

Carlton Willey

Attorney, Harris Bricken LLP

Chia Lin Simmons

CEO / Co-Founder, LookyLoo

Chris Hodge

Business Development Manager, The Sourcery

Christina Trampota

Managing Director, Innovate :: Grow :: Scale

Clarissa Redwine

Design & Technology Outreach Lead, Kickstarter

Claudio Miranda

Co-Founder & Executive Director, Guild

Damon Lawrence

Co-Founder, Homage Hospitality Group

David Onek

Impact & Angel Investor, FI Mentor

Delores Brown

Co-Founder and Creative Director, Agbara Life

Diego Roman

Founder & CEO, Pelotea Inc

Dr. Arundhati Banerjee

Commercialization Specialist, NASA

Eli Salomon

Founder & CEO, Voga Coffee

Ellie Tumbuan

CSO, The Justice Collective

Emily Paxhia

Managing Director, Poseidon Asset Management

Eric Bahn

Co-Founder, General Partner, Hustle Fund

Frank Mastronuzzi

Founding Partner, Punch Financial

Galen Lanier

CMO, Indus Holding Company

Garrett Dodge

Co-Founder & CEO, RockBot

Genau L. Jr.

Founder & CEO, Yoobe.me

Gregarious Narain

Partner, Before Alpha

Himakara Pieris

CEO, Hydra.ai

James Lee

Partner, Jackson Hole Group

Jerry Chang

FI Mentor

Jon Zifcak

Managing Partner, CoronaWhy.org

Jonathan Greechan

Co-Founder & CEO, Founder Institute

Jonathan Storper

Partner, Hanson Bridgett

Joshua Rozario

Principal Consultant, The Joshua Rozario Company

Lesa Hammond

CEO, ProfHire

Louis Cirillo

Founder, Arc

Lucas Rocha

Investor, Unshackled Ventures

Manas Mudbari

Founder & CEO, SignalMaven

Marcos Polanco

CTO, Bellwether Coffee

Maria Salamanca

Investor, Unshackled Ventures

Mariah Lichtenstern

Founder-CEO, DiverseCity Ventures

Matthew Holden

Founder & CEO, Black Opal Inc

Mialisa Bonta

Founder & CEO, LitLab

Michael Gorback

Partner, Corporate Group Chair, Hanson Bridgett LLP

Michael Finkbeiner

Director of Operations, Gateway Accelerator & Venture Fund

Mike Nemke

Co-Founder & CEO, MKTR.AI

Misha Chellam

Cofounder & COO, Scanadu

Na Gi Salloum

CEO, Loomni.com

Niño Lorenzo

Business Operations Consultant, Results Consulting

Oliver Wang

Founder & CEO, RunBuk

Paul D'souza

President and CEO, The D'Souza Group

Pranav Sood

Founder, Trellis

Rachel Sheppard

Digital Strategist & Startup Mentor - Helping Female Founders Launch & Grow Their Businesses Around the Globe, Founder Institute HQ

Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty - Serial Entrepreneur and Author, WittyParrot

Ricardo Lemos

Founder & CEO, Seadog.ai

Ron Flavin

President, Ron Flavin, Inc.

Russell Klusas

Founder, Tradecraft

Shana Stein

Director of Critical Networks - Global Data Center BD, Hilti North America

Sophi Martin

Director, Blum Center at Berkeley

Trevar Mazza

COO & Founder, Chemistry

Viken Douzdjian

Director of Operations, Trellis

Vince Kohli

FI Mentor

Vishnu Datla

CEO, AutoRABIT

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