Founder Institute Mentors

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 Florida program below.

Mentors

Aaron Chavez

Managing Partner, (un)conventional ventures

Alessandro Annoscia

Founder & CEO, 1Apeiron

Alexander Rodriguez

Partner, International Blockchain Legal LLP

Alexander Loveyko

Attorney, ChaseLawyers

Alexander McElfish

Partner, Argent Strategies

Alfredo Ferrari

FI Mentor

Amlan Nanda

FI Mentor

Andrea Chico

Business Development Manager, Ferguson Ventures

Andreas Calabrese

General Partner, Tampa Bay Ventures

Andres Hurtado Rangel

Founder, & President, BiZiON GROUP

Andres Hurtado

CEO, SynerTechCloud

Angelo Biasi

FoundeR & CEO, MassiveU

Antonio Garrido

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

Ashley Flucas

Angel Investor, Flucas Ventures

Aviv Shalgi

CEO, Solar Simplified

Benjamin Vides

Director, Products, Watsco Ventures

Bernardt Vogel

Sr.Associate, VU Venture Partners

Bianca Diosdado

VP, Octagon Technology

Bo Megginson

Managing Partner, Gold Coast Angel Investors

Bob Dakin

FI Mentor

Brandon Evans

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

Brian Boroff

Founder & CEO, AdFone

Carlos Garrido

CEO, Absolute Sales Development

Carlos Icaza

CTO, RCTSports

Carlos Blanco

CEO, Pigs on the Roof

Carlos Romero

CEO, LiVi - Live stream by request

Carolina Forero

Director Digital Solutions, Visa Inc.

Carolina Mandil

CEO, DIGIREP

Casey Pond

FI Mentor

Chelsea Oppenheim

FI Mentor

Chris Anderson

General Partner, A2ZVenture.com

Chris Adamo

Investor & Senior Advisor, Conscience VC

Chris Houghtaling

FI Mentor

Christian Busch

Venture Scout, GGV Capital

Christos Kritikos

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

Claudio Pairot

CEO, Puntilla Films

Dan Holahan

Director of Member Experience, Embarc Collective

Daniel Buelhoff

Founding Partner, Springtech Partners

Daniel Nelson

Recovering Accountant, Startup Economics

Daniel Di Maria

FI Mentor

Daniel Pardo

CEO , DPC Labs

David Collado

Investment Banker, 1st BridgeHouse

David Koretz

Founder & CEO, Plum

David Zinn

Managing Director, Ocean Azul Partners

David Chitester

Founder, SeedFunders

Dean Hatton

Founding Partner, Las Olas VC

Deon Bradley

FI Mentor

Derick David

Cofounder & CEO, Hikre School

Diana Sanchez

FI Mentor

Donna Abood

Principal, Managing Director - Miami, Avison Young

Douglas Scott

Co-Founder & CEO, The HighBoy

Dr. Lascelle A. Sweetland

Managing Director, Laspainc Consulting

Edwin Rivera

FI Mentor

Elisabetta Bell

Marketing Operations Manager, Caterpillar Inc.

Emiliano Abramzon

Co-founder & Head of Customer Success, Nearpod

Eryka Gemma

Director, Timelock Ventures

Esteban Reyes

Founding Partner, Las Olas Venture Capital

Esteban Elias

Expert Lawyer, PAG.law

Etienne Gillard

Head of Ventures, Mana Tech

Federico Halperin

Founder & CEO, Kubikware

Felipe Fernandez

Executive Partner, Altenergy & Ecosolutions

Fernando Cariello

FI Mentor

Gabriel Cabrera

Omni Channel Strategist, Avon

Gabriel Cabrera

Advisor to the Board, Silverback Concepts, LLC

Gary Aksamit

Founder, Aksamit Resource Management

Geoffrey Keith

Chair of Managers Committee, Seedfunders LLC

German Hornstein

Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

Goutam Jain

CEO, Sygnius, LLC

Greg Taffet

Managing Partner and CIO, Taffet Associates

Gregory Sukornyk

Founder & CEO, Good World Games

Guillermo Sierra

Founder & CEO, Alentha Inc

Gustavo Fernandez

Founding Member, Royal Oak Kapital

Hector Figallo

Managing Partner, TamboWorks

Howard Marks

Founder, StartEngine

Hubert Reinfeld

Creative Director, TOTUMA COMMUNICATIONS & DESIGN

Hugo Perez

Managing Partner, United Data Technologies (UDT)

Imran Khan

Founder & CEO, TechNerds.com

Jahn Karsybaev

Founding Partner, Big Sky Capital VC

Jamaila Holder

CEO/Lead Advisor, Holder Advisory and Associates

James Irvine

Founder, 305 Works and Pitch Night NYC

Janet Todorova

Head of Expansion, Founder Institute

Jason Blilie

Owner, Blilie Law

Jeff Brown

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

Jeff Brown

Founder, Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation

Jeff Alexander

FI Mentor

Jeffrey Harris

Founder, SpringBIG

Jessica Shraybman

CEO, Shraybman Law

Jim Ryan

Founder and CEO-Chairman, Talk2Rep, TechNearshore

Joan Zhang

Chapter Co-Director, Startup Grind Miami

Joe Daniels

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

Joe Tremols

CEO, StreamGuard

John Price

Managing Director, Americas Market Intelligence

John Wensveen

Chief Innovation Officer, Nova Southeastern University

Jonathan Greechan

Co-Founder & CEO, Founder Institute

Jonathan Cole

Managing Director, Rio Vista Advisors

Jonathan Fichman

FI Mentor

Jose Rocha

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

Juan Meza

Director, Visa

Juan Colmenares

Growth Lead, Graphite Growth

Juan Patron

CEO, The 2020 Agency

Kathy Chiu

Managing Partner, DeepWork Capital

Ken Roberts

President, WorldCity

Ken Hall

Vice President, DeepWork Capital

Kerstin Holm

Founder & CEO, Summus Inc.

Kevin Levy

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

Kirsty Barany

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

Kjell De Orr

Managin Director, Newlink Research

Kjell De Orr

Managing Partner, Newlink Group

Kristen Corpion

Founder, CORPlaw

Kristina Momchilova

Founder, The Better Kind

Kwamara Thompson

Founder, TEC, LLC

Laura Gonzalez Estefani

CEO, The Venture City

Leonel Azuela

CEO & Founder , Quaxar

Logan Paull

Investment Banker, Growthink Capital

Lorenzo Thione

Managing Director, Gaingels

Lorenzo De Leo

Managing Director, Rokk3r

LUIS Murguia

Managing Partner, Murguia Associates LLC

Luis Antonio Bergas Vilardell

Partner , AI8 Ventures

Madeline Aufseeser

FI Mentor

Marcelo Ricigliano

CEO, 4Geeks Academy

Marcos Polanco

CTO, Bellwether Coffee

Mario Cruz

Founder & CTO, Choose Digital

Mario Cruz

FI Mentor

Mark Volchek

Founder, Las Olas Venture Capital

Mark Cuda

Founder, Ancient Strength

Marshall Swatt

Founder, SocialSplendor

Marty Schultz

Founder, Objective Ed

Mary Ann Knaus

FI Mentor

Matt Quinn

Ecosystem Growth Director, Nervos Foundation

Matthew Lally

CEO, Lex Lally Corp

Matthew Capala

Founder, Alphametic

Melisa Pinto-Rivera, MS

Consultant/ Founding Partner , Stella Sophia Global

Melissa Krinzman

Co-Founder, Krillion Ventures

Michael O'donnell

Principal, StartupBiz.com LLC

Michel Legros

CEO & Founder, Normandy Print

Michel Triana

CEO, Mean DAO

Miguel Molina Cosculluela

Managing Partner & Co-Founder , Analytikus

Mike Dannheim

Founder & CEO at SENSIE, Former VP at Groupon

Mike Lingle

Entrepreneur / Mentor, Rocket Pro Forma

Mike Teichberg

Founder, InventivHR

Mike Mumola

FI Mentor

Molly Walsh

Director, Founder Institute Dallas

Nathaniel Vasel

Associate, Las Olas Venture Capital

Neil Kleinberg

FI Mentor

Neil Steinhardt

Founder, ClassWallet

Nelly Yusupova

Founder, TechSpeak.co

Nelson Telemaco

CEO, Proximity Works, LLC

Nestor Villalobos

CEO, Tudor Ice Company

Nev Terzieva

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

Nico Berardi

Partner, Magnetico Ventures

Noah Wallach

Founder, Hope OS

Oren Klein

Director of Strategy, Finaben llc

Oscar Perez

COO, 8Base

Oscar Perez

COO, Infosys Consulting

Pablo Trench

Founder & CEO, THE LAB IDEAS

Pandwe Gibson

Founder , ECOTECH VISION

Peter Livingston

FI Mentor

Pilar Fernandez Hermida

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

Rajeev (Raj) Seshadr

CFO, Escalon

Ramit Singh

Director of Startup & Entrepreneurship Programs, Tampa Bay Wave

Randy Wood

Co-Founder, Citrix

Ricardo Taveras

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Taveras Private Holdings

Richard Munassi

FI Mentor

Richard Greco

Managing Member, Treasure Investments LLC

Rob Strandberg

Founder & CEO, Datamax Inc

Rob Panepinto

President , Florentine Strategies

Rob Matzkin

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

Rob Lundstrom

FI Mentor

Robert Robert Himelfarb

Partner, Randall Investment Partners

Robert Hacker

FI Mentor

Rodo Novarini

Managing Partner, INCUBING

Rodolfo Novarini

Director, Founder Institute South Florida

Rodolfo Saccoman

CEO & Co-Founder, AdMobilize.com

Roger Hoss

FI Mentor

Ron Tarro

VP, New World Angels

Ronaldo Bastos

Partner, Weston Capital Insights

Roxette Miranda

Director, Founder Institute Florida

Roy Wolman

Finance Director , Diamonds International

Ryan Whittemore

Chief Investment Officer, Florida Funders

Sameer Sortur

Founding Partner, SquareCircle Ventures

Sandra Finn

Founding Partner, EdgeCraft Advisors

Satish Movva

Founder & CEO, CarePredict

Scott Greenhouse

FI Mentor

Scott Rivello

Partner, EY

Silvio Frank Pupo

CEO, Logos Capital Group

Spencer Lyon

Director of Industry Relations , Realdax

Sujee Jeganathan

Managing Director, Pursuit SCC Inc.

Tahl Milburn

Investor, New World Angels

Terence Bentley

Cofounder, The Venture Mentor Team

Terri Ann Brown

Mentor, Venture Team

Thomas "Tigre" Wenrich

CEO, LAB Miami Ventures

Tigre Wenrich

CEO, LAB Miami Ventures

Tim Hasse

Founder, General Provision, T R I M

Tim Hawkes

FI Mentor

Timothy Cartwright

Chairman, Tamiami Angel Funds

Valerie Lopez

CEO, Shoot My Travel

Vojkan Dimitrijevic

Principal, Blackloft Ventures

Walter O’Leary

Managing Partner, South Pointe Capital

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