Founder Institute Mentors

San Francisco Virtual Fall 2022

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 San Francisco program below.

Mentors

Abbey Weintraub Sklar

FI Mentor

Abby Sugar

CEO, Play Out Apparel

Adeo Ressi

FI Mentor

Alex Brough

Partner, Keneh

Alexa Meyer

Co-Founder and CEO, Beam

Alexander Sumin

co-founder, Chief Marketing Officer, ClaimCompass

Allen Saakyan

Interviewing the Greatest Minds, Simulation

Altif Brown

User Strategist, Constellation Network

Angela Rastegar

Director, West Coast and Asia Pacific, Circle Surrogacy and Egg Donation

Anu Shultes

CEO, LendUp

Anuradha Gali

Engineering Leader, @OXIO

Arun Nithyanandam

Co-founder and CEO, Cappius Technologies

Ashli Weiss

Attorney, Weiss Law LLP

Asya Bradley

VP | Channel Partnerships, Socure - Real Identity Verification

Austin Stevenson

CIO, Vertosa

Avery Lyford

Chief Customer Officer, Infostretch

Aviv Shalgi

CEO, Solar Simplified

Ayush Bharti

CoFounder/CTO, Our Health Mate

Barbara Timm Brock

CEO, eTrack Tech

Bastien Berthon

Sr. Director of Product, Head of Data, GM of Prism fund, Yieldstreet

Ben Larson

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Vertosa

Ben York

Director of Corporate Strategy, RampRate

Bow Rodgers

FI Mentor

Bradley Mora

CEO, Spacestation

Brandon Steelman

Founder, Clear Gene, Inc.

Brett Fink

Managing Partner, Greater Holdings

Brittany Canty

Director of New Product Development, Braven

Bryan Fields

Cofounder & CEO, Eighth Revolution

Carlos Ochoa

Founder & CEO, Chilango Ventures

Caroline Yeh

Director of Procurement, Kiva Confections

Charles Warner

Editor in Chief, Cannabis and Tech Today

Chintan Oza

Advisor, Lloyds Ventures

Chris Foltz

Entrepreneur In Residence, Founder Institute Silicon Valley + Responsible Solutions Ltd + IRG 100 CMO's & Change Agents

Ciaran Byrne

Senior Brand/Product Manager - Global Marketing, Abbott Vascular

Connor Hutcherson

Principle Investigator, Pall

Cory Wang

CoDirector, Founder Institute SF

Dan Arkind

Founder & CEO, JobScore

Dan Rubins

Founder & CEO, Legal Robot

Daniel Idzkowski

Co-Founder & CEO, SkunkLock, Inc.

Daniel Takabayashi

CTO, Laguro.com

Dave Poku

FI Mentor

Dave Tran

Co-Founder, Farechild

David Gimpelevich

Venture Scout, Kilby Silicon Valley Labs at Texas Instruments

David Gibbons

Managing Director, ESA/ESTEC

David Kuchar

CEO, Coral

David Carvajal

Founder & CEO, Cannavest

Diego Roman

Founder & CEO, Pelotea Inc

Diogo Ruiz

CEO and Founder, Bluezup

Dj Saul

CEO, Khalifa Kush

Dj Gregory

Project Manager, Skybridge Construction

Elizabeth Di Gaetano Andrew

Senior Sales, HelloSign

Emna Ghariani

Chapter Lead Director, The Founder Institute

Eren Bali

Chairman & Co-founder, Udemy

Eric Anderson

President , And One Technologies

Erwin Hosono

Partner, Kilby Silicon Valley Labs at Texas Instruments

Fabian Geyrhalter

Founder and Principal, Finien

Faye Sahai

Managing Director, Telosity Fund & Partner Mirai Global, Vinaj Ventures- Telosity.io

Frank Mastronuzzi

Founding Partner, Punch Financial

Frederic Voyer

Senior Product Innovation Lead, Multiple (Hair Republic, BVI & SWAAAP)

Genau L. Jr.

Founder & CEO, Yoobe.me

Giselle Bisson

Managing Director, Chain Reaction PR

Grace Robinson

Director of Business Development, Ello Capital

Haden Kirkpatrick

Head of Marketing Strategy and Innovation, Esurance

Harmony Oswald

Founder & CEO, Legalucy, Inc.

Helene Servillon

Founding Partner, JourneyOne Ventures

Henry Lin

Managing Director, Point B Capital

Ian Richards

CEO, Fitchburg Management

Isaac Bock

Managing Director, AlphaRoot

Ivan Goldensohn

CEO, Valis Bioscience

J. Allie Morse

Head of Expansion, Postmates

Jake Kuczeruk

Business Development, The Arcview Group

Jake Wall

Chief Innovation Officer, avec bloom

Javid Jamae

Growth & Experimentation, Freedom Financial Network

Jeanne Sullivan

Investor, RampRate

Jed Katz

Managing Partner, Javelin Venture Partners

Jeffrey Mazer

Chief Financial Officer, WYLD

Jeffrey Finkle

CEO, Arcview Ventures

Jeni Chang

SVP Commercial Ops, VSP

Jenna Cheng

Director of Marketing, PullString

Jeremy Glassenberg

Product Management, APIs, Developer Experiences, Marketplaces, API Strategist

Jessica Chin Foo

Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, KiwiTech

Jimmy Ku

Head of Growth, Flutterwave

Johannon Olson

Partner, Kilby Silicon Valley Labs at Texas Instruments

John Avilla

Founder & CEO, Sound Union

John B Graham

CEO/Co-Founder, iObjx

Jon O'connell

Partner, Crowell & Moring

Jonathan Greechan

Co-Founder & CEO, Founder Institute

Jordan Crawford

Founder & CEO, Scout

Juan Polanco

Founder & CEO, Optimo Capital

Julia Selander

Vice President S.F, Essen International

Justine Reichman

Founder, NextGenChef

Karl Shaikh

Founder , Interpreters-On-Call

Kate Bunina

Managing Director of Bay Area, U+

Kelli Peterson

Principal, Managing Director, The Change Project

Ken Kruszka

CEO, SnapCheck

Kerry Jones

Former Co-Founder / CTO, HubHaus

Lesa Hammond

CEO, ProfHire

Liz Wald

Executive, Board Director, Good Earth Organics

Lizette De Arkos

Chief Strategy Officer, Phenotopia

Luba Lesiva

Founder & CEO, L4C

Madeline Duva

Board Member, Fluxx.io

Maia Bittner

Hustler, Serial Entrepreneur

Mara Rada

CEO & Chief of Strategy, Citronade Naming and Branding

Marc Gelfo

Founder & CEO, Modacity

Marcos Polanco

CTO, Bellwether Coffee

Margeaux Bruner

Founder, HOLI Smokables

Mark Montalban

Founder & CEO, MindfulText

Mark Busch

Director of Corporate Development, Unity Rd.

Maryam Salehijam

Business Expert, MS Consulting

Matt Mc Ginn

CEO, Fly Beverage

[email protected] Hill

Founder & CEO, Elegen

Matthew Pelnar

VC & Startup Attourney, Crowell & Moring

Matthew Bradley

VP Machine Learning, SynapseFI

Mercedes Bankston

Founder, Funderstar LTD

Michael Zaytsev

Founder, High NY

Michael Gorback

Partner, Corporate Group Chair, Hanson Bridgett LLP

Michael Sidgmore

Partner, Broadhaven Ventures

Mike Siebold

Advisor, FlowerHire

Mike Suprovici

Head of Acceleration, VC Lab

Mike Simpson

CEO, Omura

Monica Phillips

President, Spark Plug Labs

Nancy Birnbaum

Founding Publisher, Market Director, Sensi Media Group

Nancy Wang

CEO, Advancing Women in Product

Natalie Wilson

Senior Counsel, Hanson Bridgett

Nathan Yagoda

VP of Marketing, PLUS Products

Neil Gehani

Principal Founder, Katen.AI

Nicole De Meo

Founder, Outfront Solutions

Nitin Pachisia

Founding Partner, Unshackled

Olga Mack

CEO | Startup Advisor | Author | Speaker | Women's Advocate, Parley Pro

Omar Valle

Startup Business Development, Innovation Bay

Pascale Diaine

Principal, Storm Ventures

Paul D'souza

President and CEO, The D'Souza Group

Paul Rosen

Executive Chairman, Global Go

Pete Biggam

Co-Lead FI Space / Santa Cruz,CA, Blacksite Solutions

Phil Libin

Founder & CEO, All Turtles

Phnam Bagley

Partner and Creative Director, Nonfiction Design

Pilar Fernandez Hermida

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

Qasim Salam

CEO, CreativeMorph

Rebecca Goldberg

FI Mentor

Renata George

Managing Director, Zenmen VC

Rex Salisbury

Partner, a16z

Richard Cristina

Founder (Bloom), Director (Founder Institute), Bloom Consulting & Founder Institute

Rishi Mallik

FI Mentor

Rohan Sampath

Cofounder & CEO, Copilot

Roman Martynenko

Co-Founder, Astound Commerce Corporation

Ron Gentile

Founder, Moodfit

Ryan Mendoza

Partner, Scrum Ventures

Ryan Vinyard

Hardware Startup Consultant, Vinyard Product Development

Ryan Micheletti

Head of Global Operations, Founder Institute

Samantha Ford

SVP Business Development, Protis Global

Sameer Sortur

Founder & CEO , SquareCircle Global

Sarah Falvo

Director of Community, Arcview

Sascha Karstädt

FI Mentor

Sc Moatti

Managing Partner, Kilby Silicon Valley Labs at Texas Instruments

Sean Casey

Managing Director, Silicon Valley Space Center

Shannon Hattan

Cofounder & CEO, High Tide Distribution / Fiddler's Greens

Sidd Gavirneni

CEO and Co-Founder, Zeguro

Stephen Meade

Founder & CEO, MonetaPro

Sumit Mehta

CEO, MAZAKALI

Taylor Sims

Co-Founder, #HowSheWorks

Theodore Moskovitz

Founder, AMMA

Tiago Gavassi

Founder, PANIC LOBSTER

Tiarne Hawkins

Vice President, Playable

Tijan Watt

Managing Director, African Tech Leaders

Torrey Smith

Co-Founder & CEO, Endiatx

Travis Scadron

VP Business Development, Surfside

Usama Abid

Founder & CEO, Inventhub

Veronica Guzman

Founder | Innovation Catalyst, WAMVentures

Vic Kapur

Founder & Managing Member, VisionPassage

Vincent Diallo

Partner, Interlace Ventures

Walter Roth

CEO, inward.me

Wayne Willis

Managing Partner, Nodal Partners

William Zitser

FI Mentor

Wilson Jian

Co-Founder, SumoDash

Yasmeen Turayhi

Global Product Marketing Lead, AdRoll

Zaina Orbai

Chief People Officer, The RealReal

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