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MentorIndustrySecondaryBioMeetings
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Abhijit KakhandikiEnterprise ITArtificial IntelligenceAbhijit Kakhandiki is SVP Products & Engineering at Automation Anywhere, a leader in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) space, where he leads product vision, strategy & design by combining enterprise grade software, cutting edge cloud architecture and artificial intelligence. RPA allows enterprises to gain quantum leaps in efficiency through the automation of business processes.


A seasoned executive with a proven track record in new product development, go-to-market, and improved product P&L performance, his rich array of experience includes leading Autodesk’s transformation to the cloud, directing the team for Oracle’s next generation Innovation Management Initiative, and steering product management and strategy for Product Lifecycle Management and Analytics applications at Agile Software, delivering rapid product and customer experience improvement. Abhijit’s entrepreneurial endeavors include a successful exit for his own startup, ATMA software, which is now part of Oracle. Abhijit holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University, and in his spare time, mentors startups at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.		In Person
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Aditya BansodEnterprise ITHealthcare ITVirtual
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Andrew CohenEnterprise ITArtificial IntelligenceEarly-stage enterprise technology executive with deep AI experience specializing in fast-growth early-stage companies. 20+ years’ experience in leadership roles as CEO, COO, VP of Strategy and BD. Expertise in early-stage start-up fundraising, team and product development, GTM, business development, and board relationships.
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Ben WangHardwareBiotechStanford / MIT / twin dad / fighting cancer @chimera_bio. Variety of roles at Svaya, Caliper, Bell, Prospect. StartX mentor/EIR.In Person
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Brendan MarshallConsumer ITFinanceBrendan Marshall is the Managing Director of the StartX venture fund and a Kauffman Fellow. He previously founded and led Flow, a private markets platform supporting over $17B in AUM, acquired by Apex.Virtual
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Bryan WargoEnterprise ITRetailIn Person
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Carl SjogreenConsumer ITEducationI’ve started (and successfully exited) 4 startups in domains as varied as developer tools, travel, and elementary education.


My most recent company, Seesaw, is used by over 25 million teachers, students, and families and grew to over $50M in ARR.


In between, I led the team that created Google Calendar and was a PM Director at Facebook responsible for the Facebook developer platform, mobile clients, and Facebook Payments.


I have a Computer Science degree from Harvard University.		Virtual
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Dave HodsonEnterprise ITIn Person
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Doug KeareMedHealthcare ITIn Person
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Elad FerberMedBiotechCo-founded Spry Health at 2013, exited 2021. Co-founded Synthpop with fellow neighborhood lead Jan Jannink at 2023.Virtual
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FilipEnterprise ITFinanceI was a founder\CEO @MetaMap which I ran for ~8yrs. I recently exited and now building my next company. I like advising startups and helping folks in general. Feel free to reach out.


linktr.ee/filipvictor		Virtual
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Jeff DepewHardwareCleantechJeff’s career has been focused on innovation, change, growth, learning and delivering results.


First and foundational as an intrapreneur in General Electric, where he was trained in product, marketing and general management and subsequently at General Motors where he redefined and launched OnStar.


Second as a serial entrepreneur & founder in Silicon Valley where he has founded and advised start-ups in divergent fields; inertial MEMS sensors for navigation and gestural control (Motion Sense), high power/high energy Li Ion batteries (Lion Cells/Imara Corp), knowledge management, collaboration and security software, LED lighting, energy chips/sensors, medical devices and sustainable food products are representative.


Third as a mentor/judge for new Stanford tied concepts/ businesses (StartX, MSE 273 Technology Venture Formation, CEE 246), angel investor (Sand Hill Angels Board member and president) and board member.


Jeff is an environmentalist (Vice Chair of Friends of the River) focused on enabling smarter and sustainable water solutions in the face of climate change as well as an adventure/adrenalin sports enthusiast and Finnish Lapphund admirer.
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Jim BentonEnterprise ITBig DataIn Person
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Jim MorrisEnterprise ITFintech, BiotechVirtual
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JJ SinghEnterprise ITHealthcare ITJagjot (J.J.) Singh is Co-President of Stanford Angels and a Board Member, Investor, and Advisor in several enterprise, consumer, and healthcare companies. His successful exits include CirroSecure (NYSE:PANW), Zero Degrees (NYSE:IACI), Dogster (Say Media), Chestnut Medical (NYSE:COV), Second Foundation (NYSE:FIS), Encentuate (NYSE:IBM). JJ is currently an investor, board member, or advisor in Workspan, Jetlore, Zum, Aerin, Medrio, Subtle, and Bright. JJ has been CEO and founder of four venture backed companies and is an active member of Stanford Angels and TIE Angels. He has served as a Lead Mentor and Advisor to over twenty companies at StartX and is on the Advisory Board of Cardinal Ventures. He advises companies in raising funding, building teams, closing sales and large deals, developing market strategies, and building world class products. JJ has a MBA and a MS in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University and a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Panjab University, India.In Person
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John GengarellaEnterprise ITArtificial Intelligence5x startup CEO, 20+ years of angel investing, startup mentoring/coaching.In Person
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John TompaneConsumer ITHardwarehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/johntompane/In Person
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Kaushik PendurthiEnterprise ITFintech, AIKaushik Pendurthi is the CTO of Talus, having joined the company in 2023 following the acquisition of Jobox.ai by Talus, an A&M portfolio company. As the founder of Jobox from 2016 to 2023, Kaushik led the company to secure over $60 million in funding from top venture capital firms, establishing Jobox as a major player in the home services marketplace. His leadership resulted in Jobox generating over ~$20 million in revenue and processing $350 million annually in gross sales volume (GSV).


Prior to Jobox, Kaushik founded Locket in 2012, a mobile ad company that swiftly attracted millions of daily active users. Locket's notable success culminated in its acquisition by Wish in 2015. At Locket Kaushik oversaw product development and engineering, streamlining processes for payment infrastructure and marketplace operations.


Beyond his entrepreneurial ventures, Kaushik actively invests in and advises companies across various sectors, including B2B SaaS, AI, and Fintech. His strategic vision and leadership have driven innovation and growth, significantly impacting numerous startups. Kaushik's ability to cultivate dynamic work environments and build high-performing teams has been pivotal to the success of his ventures.		In Person
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Kilian KoepsellMedDeviceI've been in your shoes — from zero to one, through the highs, lows, pivots, and near-burnouts. I’ve built and led technical teams, navigated regulatory paths, secured over $100M in funding (including $50 in non-dilutive funding), and ultimately helped bring a mission-driven healthcare AI company from idea to global distribution. Whether you’re wrestling with product-market fit, deep tech decisions, or team dynamics, I aim to be a sounding board who listens carefully, asks hard questions, and helps you clarify the path forward. If you’re working on something ambitious and want a mentor who’s both pragmatic and deeply invested in long-term impact, I’d love to support you.


I’m currently Chief Innovation Officer at GE HealthCare Advanced Visualization Solutions, and was previously co-founder and CTO of Caption Health, the first company to receive FDA clearance for AI-guided cardiac ultrasound acquisition by non-experts. Our technology is now integrated into GE devices and sold globally. I’ve also held research positions at UC Berkeley, the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, and the Max Planck Institute, and my academic background spans Mathematics, Physics, Neuroscience, and AI.
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Mark ChungEnterprise ITCleantech / ManufacturingCoFounder and CEO at Verdigris TechnologiesVirtual
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Marty HuConsumer ITMedia3x founder with 2 exits. Predictive Edge (acq by Dropbox), and Prodigy (acq by Upstart)In Person
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Michael WolfeEnterprise ITI've co-founded or been the first employees at five startups, mostly B2B selling to large enterprise. Have gone through two acquisitions, an IPO, plus have been an EIR at two venture capital firms. Venture Partner at Point Nine Capital. Enjoy advising and writing about startups.In Person
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Mike CassidyHardwareMike Cassidy is a Vice President at Google. He is currently the Project Leader on GoogleX Project Loon (balloon-powered Internet for everyone). Prior to joining Google, Mike was the Co-Founder and CEO of four start-ups: Ruba, Xfire, Direct Hit, and Stylus Innovation. Ruba helped travelers share their favorite places and was acquired by Google. Xfire helps gamers play online with their friends and was acquired by MTV for $110 million. Direct Hit was a revolutionary search engine whose customers included MSN, Lycos, AOL, etc. and was acquired by Ask Jeeves for $500 million. Stylus Innovation’s flagship product was computer telephony software Visual Voice. Artisoft acquired Stylus for $13M. Mike has a BS/MS in Aerospace Engineering from MIT. He graduated from Harvard Business School. He studied jazz piano at Berklee College of Music. He has been an advisor to Endeavor.org, StartX, Tim Berners-Lee’s WebFoundation, From the Top, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and over 200 startup companies. He was selected for the DEMO Lifetime Achievement Award, nominated for a Webby award, and named a Forbes E-gang Trendsetter. His startup products have won PC Magazine’s Top 100 Websites, Computer Telephony Product of the Year, CNET Editor’s Choice, PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice, and many other awards.Virtual
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Na'Ama MoranConsumer ITVirtual
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Nadav GurEnterprise ITAIFounder and CEO of companies in mobile, travel, AI, clean-tech. 2 exits. Coached > 10 CEOs in deep tech, automotive, AI, clean-tech, mapping. EiR at a VC and a startup studio, advisor to VCs, CVCs and many startups.In Person
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P.J. GunsagarConsumer ITEntertainment, EducationIn Person
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Ricardo OliveiraEnterprise ITSaaSRicardo was the CTO and co-founder of ThousandEyes, a company he started with Mohit Lad that became the leader in Digital Experience Monitoring Software employing more than 1,000 employees across 10 offices worldwide. The company was acquired by Cisco in 2020.


Prior to ThousandEyes, he did his PhD in computer science at UCLA, and his thesis was about understanding the Internet structure at a macro level. He published more than 20 papers in conferences such as SIGCOMM and IMC, and created one of the first Internet routing hijack systems called Cyclops. He also has a degree in Electrical Engineering from FEUP in Portugal.


Ricardo is currently spending his time helping other founders and doing angel investment in the enterprise space including infrastructure, systems, cloud, security and AI.


Besides work, most of his passions are related to exploration and nature, and include wildlife photography, flamenco guitar, kitesurfing, skiing, tennis and aviation.		Virtual
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Ronald RoConsumer / EnterpriseHW / SWVirtual
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Shalabh GuptaConsumer ITBiotechI have nearly a decade of experience as an entrepreneur. I built three biotechnology companies - Biocycive, Globavir, and Unicycive.


Biocycive, my first company, was based on technology licensed from USC, focused on oncology and was started in 2011. Sorrento Therapeutics acquired Biocycive for a total of $160MM, including upfront cash, milestones, and royalty payments in January 2015.


Globavir, my second company, was founded based on technologies from Stanford University - from labs of Dr. Vijay Pande and two other licenses for technologies from departments of Internal Medicine, and Clinical Virology to create a portfolio of drug and diagnostic tests for infectious diseases. In 2014, Globavir was selected as one of the companies to be part of Stanford Start-X Med program. Globavir has raised various equity financing, including from Stanford University through Stanford Start-X Fund. Globavir in 2017 partnered to out-license part of the diagnostic portfolio to Bio-Rad for global sales of diagnostic tests for infectious diseases.


My third company, Unicycive is focused on kidney diseases on various technologies licensed from several different biotech companies.


Prior to my entrepreneurial role, I worked for Genentech in the commercial strategy group.
At Genentech, I worked on several in-line drugs as well as pipeline drugs.


Earlier in my career, I was a practicing physician (NYU Medical Center) for a decade while also serving as medical director for biotech companies (Synageva - before Alexion acquired it), as an equity research analyst on Wall Street (Rodman & Renshaw, and UBS).


On Wall Street, I covered small to mid-cap biotech companies at Rodman & Renshaw (now HC Wainwright) and covered large-cap pharmaceutical companies at UBS including Pfizer, Merck, Wyeth, Schering Plough, and Bristol Myers Squibb. My work included financial modeling, potential M&A synergies and initiation and launch of companies IPOs and new companies coming to US public markets.		In Person
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Shani ShohamEnterprise ITDeveloper ToolShani is an entrepreneur, 2x exits, Creative CRO/COO with vast hands-on experience in building high-performance sales, marketing and operations teams. Successfully scaled a Lightspeed venture backed company from 5 customers and 6 employees to over 100 customers, 40 employees, 1600 leads/month while leading 2 rounds of funding and 4x YoY ARR growth.In Person
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Steve SchrammConsumer ITActivities8 startups, 2 IPOs, 2 acquisitions
Mostly VPE, also CEO, President, General Manager		In Person
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Supreet OberoiEnterprise ITSaaS / IoT / AIVirtual
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Teddy ShalonMedSalesMr. Shalon has over forty years of experience as an accomplished entrepreneur, focusing on multidisciplinary ventures. During this time, he has applied his broad technical background, spanning, material science, electronics, software, optics, pharmaceutical development, and clinical science, in the formation of multiple startups. Teddy is also experienced in management, marketing and finance. He’s applied these skills, assembling and leading several product teams into fully integrated companies.
Teddy started his first company when he was 22. It developed surgical devices. He then moved on to medical informatics and founded Ivy Technologies and served as its President and CTO from its inception until its acquisition by a biomedical subsidiary of Nestlé. He subsequently co-founded a life science incubator, Metaphase, where he oversaw all technical and clinical developments.
Teddy continued as an executive with two companies that emerged from Metaphase, taking each from its formation through its exit. BioPolymerix, a developer of inert antimicrobial coatings for medical applications, was acquired by Biocompatibles International. Synteni, a developer of microarrays for measuring gene expression acquired by Incyte Genomics.
As the managing director of Shalon Ventures Research dedicated to creating and investing in seed multidisciplinary projects, he founded and led the development of several companies including Neosil, a dermatology-focused specialty pharmaceutical company (sold to Peplin); AirXpanders a reconstructive surgery device company (IPO); Osteogenix an orthobiologic company (sold to Medtronic); ThinOptics, creating ultrathin glasses, Dreamade disrupting the sleep aid market, and WaterGuru, a recreational water treatment company. He also served as a general partner at Prolog Ventures, where he vetted the technology of its investments.
Teddy was born in Israel in 1957 and came to the U.S. in 1970. He received an M.S. in Computer Science, a B.A. in Physics, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University. He lives and works in Palo Alto with his wife Michal, and has a daughter Tesha and two sons Liam and Nitan.		Virtual
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Yon NutaEnterprise ITHealthcare ITVirtual
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