Justin Siegel

founder & ceo @mocospace / advisor @boston-seed-capital / mentor @techstars & @capitalfactory

Joshua Baer

Founded 3 email companies and @capitalfactory. Teaching @longhornstartup at @university-of-texas-austin. @trilogy Alumni 1999. CS @carnegie-mellon-university .
http://austinpreneur.com/

Cotter Cunningham

RetailMeNot CEO/Founder [SALE]. Former COO Bankrate [RATE].

Sam Decker

Founder/CEO @mass-relevance, Founding CMO @bazaarvoice, Co-founder @capital-factory, 7-year Dell Exec, 5 startups B2B & B2C (product, marketing, biz dev), author.
http://www.deckermarketing.com

Michael Dell

Family man, Chairman and CEO @dell.com msdf.org msdcapital.com

Nick Wyman

Director @galvanize-ventures-1 and Angel Investor. Ex - @foundry-group Special Projects, @techstars Associate & @BoulderBeta Producer.

Aziz Gilani

Director at @mercury-fund
http://texvc.com

Chris Plough

Advisor, entrepreneur, storyteller.
http://oznog.com

Jason Seats

Managing Director @techstars • Co-founder @slicehost (acq by @rackspace)

Kip McClanahan

Founder @broadjump (IPO), over six startups returned $800m in shareholder equity
http://www.reoverthinking.com

Rick Wittenbraker

CMO at @howler-brothers-2, Partner/Co-founder of @stage-one-capital. Multiple start-ups, former private equity. Marketer and fisherman at heart.

Josh Williams

Co-founder + CEO @last Formerly at @gowalla and @facebook Maker of the finest margarita in Noe Valley.

Jason Cohen

4x founder, 2x exit, bootstrapped & funded; Angel
http://blog.asmartbear.com

Rony Kahan

Chairman, co-founder of @indeed.

Bill Boebel

Founder & CEO of @pingboard; previously founded @capitalfactory & @webmail-us-acq-rax; Virginia Tech software engineer.
http://bb.co

David Cohen

Founder/CEO of @techstars. Investor in Amazing Startups. Geeky to the bone. http://www.davidgcohen.com
http://www.davidgcohen.com/

Kenny Van Zant

Business lead for @asana, entrepreneur, angel investor. Former Chief Product officer at @solarwinds (SWI).

Asad Zafar

Principal at Sentient Capital

David Hauser

Founder of @grasshopper. Founder of @chargify. Founder of @popsurvey. Angel Investor.

Lukas Bouvrie

Founder @blacklocus-1 (Acquired by The Home Depot)

Arun Prakash

Outside of AngelList I am a Partner with Virgo Capital

Andrew Busey

Entrepreneur / Angel Investor. Partner, Chaotic Moon. CEO, Team Chaos. Founder, Challenge Games (Acq by @zynga), Co-Founder, Pluck (Acq by @demand-media)
http://www.andrewbusey.com

Morgan Flager

I've been a partner with Silverton since 2006. Prior to Silverton, I worked with FTV Capital in San Francisco. I was a entrepreneur with Kintana and Ingrian.

Laurent Drion

Founder & Partner at @e-merge a Brussels based investment company with 30+ early-stage investments up to date, mainly as lead investor

Rick Timmins

Rick brings with him 35 years of experience in financial management and strategic guidance from two Fortune 100 technology leaders.

Cameron Drummond

Founded Mastodon Capital Management, and run a hedge fund. BS & ME in engineering from Cornell; MBA from UCLA. Live in Austin, TX.

Mellie Price

//// startup investor & advisor //// founder @frontgatetix @sourcespring //// managing director @capitalfactory //// hands on active investor ////

Scot Chisholm

CEO & Co-Founder at @classy. Board of @team-rubicon. Partner at @mixture-ventures

David Wieland

50+ investments: @ginkgotree @noredink @good.co @change.org @schoola @datanyze Founder: @rivs, @innflux , @iestates , @irishangels edu: @NotreDame @Kellogg

Steve Welch

Co-Founder at DreamIt Ventures. Past Fellow Eisenhower Fellowships. Founder & CEO Mitos Technologies
http://stevewelch.tumblr.com

Russell Hinds

Managing Director, RSH Ventures

Rob Taylor

President @blacklocus-1 (Acquired by The Home Depot), Partner @CapitalFactory, COO/GM @truecar (GRP, Anthem). COO @pricelock (GS). COO @quepasa-corporation (IPO).
http://www.robtaylor.ws

Alex Chang

Co-founded $250MM company. World traveler, marathoner, and cyclist. Angel investor.

Nitesh Banta

Investor at General Catalyst. Co-founder at @RoughDraft.vc. Founding team of @getaround and @summer-workation. Invested in @kayak, @hubspot, @bigcommerce, @locu

Alan Michael Kane

Founder @phunware, @simpler-1 • Worked at @booz-allen-hamilton, @procter-gamble-2 • Studied at @babson-college, @university-of-san-diego

John Fanguy

Founder Engagiant • Worked at @bizspeed, @airside-mobile • Investor @airside-mobile, @bizspeed • Studied at @georgia-institute-of-technology

Rahul Prakash

Founder & Partner, @coyote-ridge-ventures & @the-hatchery-1. Former 3x Entrepreneur with 3 successful exits.

Arthur Edstrom

Founder XYZ2Y Ventures, Chairman Edstrom, Inc., Founder Artic Software (sold to Adlib). Rally racer Budapest-Bamako. Harvard Business School, OPM.
http://aedstrom.tumblr.com/

Michael Trafton

On my 3rd successful bootstrapped tech company. Investor/Mentor at @Capital Factory. Advisor to several Austin startups. CS Rice University.

John Smart

Cofounder of @prescreen and @zoosk.com, Chief Software Architect

David Crow

EiR at @OMERSVentures. Focused on custdev & productdev. Cofounder of @influitive. Worked at @microsoft, @reactivity, @trilogy. @carnegie-mellon-university MS in HCI + UWaterloo BSc.
http://davidcrow.ca/

Brett Hurt

Hurt Family Investments (portfolio - http://lucky7.io/portfolio); Chairman, Edgecase (formerly Compare Metrics); Founder of Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics
http://Lucky7.io

Jared Slosberg

Founder @profitfuel • Board @homecity • Advisor @hot-or-not • Investor @yodle, @kld-energy-technologies, @distil-networks, @ekso-bionics • Worked @findlaw

Jonathan Coon

Founder/CEO 1-800 CONTACTS, sold for $900 million, inventor, investor, made Napoleon Dynamite with my brother (he produced and edited in Final Cut on his Mac)

Scott Kosch

Investor @on-ramp-wireless-1 @xyber-technologies @routehappy @safehostel @lemnoslabs @yourmechanic @hangify • Studied @wharton-school @claremont-mckenna-college
http://www.scottkosch.blogspot.com/

Bill Clark

I invest in startups through MicroVentures.com. We have helped 15 startups raise about 3 million in the last year.

Bril Flint

Strategy and Planning, Angel Investor; Technology, Media and Entertainment Executive, Computer Hardware

Bradley C. Harrison

Founder/Managing Partner @scout-ventures; early-stage VC focused on media, tech, and entertainment. Focused on great people; @massachusetts-institute-of-technology, @mit-sloan-school-of-management '01; USMA '94; Airborne Ranger

Central Texas Angel Network

One of the most active angel networks in the US; investing in Texas entrepreneurs

Bob Metcalfe

UTexas Austin Professor of Innovation, Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise; Polaris Partner; @massachusetts-institute-of-technology Trustee. Past: Harvard, PARC, @stanford-university, @3com, InfoWorld.

Ross Buhrdorf

CTO at HomeAway. Board of Trustees for the Santa Fe Institute, VP at Excite.com, Hal Computers (acquired by Fujitsu). Passionate about startups and Innovation.

Ian Clarke

Computer Scientist and Serial Entrepreneur

Tucker Max

CEO of @book-in-a-box , #1 Best Selling Author, angel investor, @university-of-chicago and @duke-university University

Darwin Ling

Founder @thump-games •Chief Architect at @jaxtr, Sr Director @skyfire ( Acquired by Opera ), Hacker/Data Nerd, BS/MS @purdue-university , MBA @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business

Colin Corgan

B.A. Dartmouth, retired Partner from Goldman Sachs

Hans Erickson

Chief Operating Officer at @phunware, Inc.

Rosa L. McCormick

Investor in @volunteerspot, @phunware, @volunteerspot, @savara-pharmaceuticals, @alchemy-systems.

Brian Grigsby

General Partner at @corsa-ventures

Thomas Ball

Investor in @bazaarvoice, @convio, @mindjolt, @jigsaw, @whaleshark-media, @nileguide, @workstreamer, @boundless-network, @gazzang, @foodonthetable-com, @newcomlink...

Higinio O. Maycotte

CEO at @umbel. Founder at @flightlock (acquired by Control Risks), Finetooth (now Mumboe), & most recently founding CTO of @the-texas-tribune.

Gordon Daugherty

Founder & Principal - Shockwave Innovations Director - Capital Factory Incubator
http://www.shockwaveinnovations.com/blog

Christopher Piedmonte

Extensive experience forming and nurturing technology startups. Entrepreneur-inventor with 8 granted patents in data management and internet technologies.

Johannes Larcher

Founder @pikum • Worked at @hulu, @yahoo-search-marketing-overture , @academy123, @discovery-communications , @capitalfactory • Studied at @wharton-school

Wesley Barnett

Founder Maximize Social Media • Worked at @treetop-software • Investor @treetop-software • Studied at @university-of-california-los-angeles
https://medium.com/@WesleyBarnett/

Josh Kerr

Co-founder and CEO at Written. Co-founder of @zosh, sold to @hightail-2. Partner at @capital-factory and mentor at @techstars
http://joshkerr.com

Alan Chesler

Founder, Investor, Advisor. MS Finance - Wisconsin

Jason Reneau

Early stage tech entrepreneur -- @freemarkets (IPO), @kiva-systems (Bain Capital), @mindbites (True Ventures)

Michael Agustin

i build expressive products. co-founder & ceo of @weaver-labs. co-founder of @gamesalad, responsible for 21% of app store monthly game uploads. masters from @carnegie-mellon-university

Shane Adams

Founded Sagacious Consultants

Andrew Romans

General Partner Rubicon Venture Capital / Author The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital (McGraw Hill) Twitter: @RomansVentures www.linkedin.com/in/romans/
http://rubicon.vc/blog/

Rick Orr

Founder @tabbedout, Dallas and UT sports nut, Austinite in 78704, owner tree climbing dog & beer lover.

Jeremy Bencken

Founder @apartmentratings-com (UGC apartment site; sold to @internet-brands), Founder, BuzzStream. @capital-factory Mentor.

Chuck Gordon

Founder of SpareFoot, world's largest marketplace for self storage.

John Hime

Investor in @infochimps, @perception-software, @tabbedout, @mpower-mobile, @affinegy, @tango-health, @wisegate.

Brian Magierski

Co-founder of iMark.com (sold to FreeMarkets), Moxie Software, and Appconomy. Split time between Austin TX and China.
http://brian.magierski.com

Andrew Eye

CEO/Founder - Boxer, COO/Founder @ciphent (Acq @accuvant), 2010 Inc. 500 16th Fastest Growing Company In America

Andrew Allison

Co-founder & Co-CEO of Main Street Hub, @stanford-graduate-school-of-business, Stanford Law, Yale BA.

Yvonne Tocquigny

CEO and founder of @tocquigny, an internationally recognized digital marketing firm. 3 year mentor for Capital Factory
http://www.17stories.com

Mitchell Harper

Co-founder of @bigcommerce. I like to build companies that democratize large industries and help small to medium-sized businesses thrive.

David Lemley

Founder&CTO @tabbedout; Strong in architecture, implementation; also involved in biz dev and fund raising activities.

Matthew Sechrest

CEO @waterfall-3, angel/advisor @ startups, ex-VC, conservationist/advisor @global_wildlife

Tom West

Digital CEO with expereince running multiple top 100 internet retailer sites. Advisor/Investor in @brighttag, Martini Media, Future Simple, Kele & MedSpeed

Denis O'Dwyer

CEO & Founder of Wide Open Spaces, previously Yelp, Clover, Yahoo, HotJobs. Investor in TechStars Austin & QuickGifts... a Sales guy... Oregon

Bryan Menell

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. I've founded three companies including Perficient (NASDAQ: PRFT, 1996).
http://www.austinstartup.com

BJ Heinley

Founder / Inventor - Dipity.com Investor at STAG - Provisions for Men Founder - @base-fine-art-gallery Founder - @verde-camp Board Member - Texas Sculpture Group

Arjun Banker

Former @facebook platform and tools engineer. Previously @zillow, @microsoft.

Jonas Lamis

CEO & Co-founder of @sensai-corporation. Co-founded @rally and @Techranch. MBA + Engineer.
http://jonaslamis.com

Louis Marascio

Entrepreneur; Market Hacker; Troublemaker

Jonathan Berkowitz

Chief Executive Officer at @thinktiv, Inc.

Jason Traff

Investor @bisonwood . Founded @leaky (Acq 2013). @y-combinator alum, @massachusetts-institute-of-technology dropout . Former pro gamer, ultramarathon runner.
http://459pm.com

Nicholas White

CEO and EIC of @the-daily-dot; Board at Sandusky Newspapers; Angel investor and philanthropist

Adam Michela

Designer & Developer · Made things at @dropbox, @facebook, @gowalla, @new-york-times, etc.

Lloyd Armbrust

Founder of @ownlocal; Y Combinator W10; 10+ years in the newspaper industry.
http://itscalledwebdesign.com/author/lloyd-armbrust/

Jonathan Ellis

Co-Founder @datastax, Cassandra project chair @apache Software Foundation.

Richard Jalichandra

David Wesson

Founder @geodynamics-inc, @peak-pressure-control-llc • Worked at @ds-wesson-investments • Investor @indinero, @sendhub • Studied at @southern-methodist-university, @texas-a-m-university

Christopher Rhodes

VP Design & Special Projects @waterfall-3
http://www.waterfall.com/blog/

Robin Reyes

Founder @mita Ventures, • Worked @Silvergate Bank, @ministry of Finance and Public Credit (Mexico) • Studied @harvard, Advisor @manattjones

Tim Sullivan

Founded MarketZero(ZNGA). VP Product @boxer your next generation inbox

JR Garcia

Principal at Green Park & Golf Ventures (GPG). undergrad at Notre Dame, MBA at SMU. Time at FedEX, Bold Ventures, Lone Star.

Bill Moore

CEO of @zello, a new voice chat app. Founder of @tunein and 20 years creating winning software teams and products.
http://zello.com/blog

Steve Waters

Chief Ventures Officer @thinktiv; 15-year CMO/advisor to 50+ cos: RNOW (IPO); @firepond CMO (IPO); @trilogy 93-97; Bear Stearns 90-92; @stanford-university 90.

Matt Cohen

CEO/Founder OneSpot • Former early stage VC @G51.com • 24 years Media & Internet tech: registered the 1st news domain in 1988 (chron.com) • @rice-university CompSci

Jonathan Spillman

VP of Operations at @umbel. Co-Founder at @tripgather. Former Director at @elavon. SXSW Panelist. University of Texas (McCombs) MBA.

Joel Trammell

Founding CEO of NetQoS, sold for $200M to CA . Founding CEO of CacheIQ, sold to NetApp.
http://www.theamericanceo.com

Neelan Choksi

Current Prez-Tasktop, Prez-SolarMetric (acq. by BEAS), COO-SpringSource (acq. by VMW), CEO-Lexcycle (acq. by AMZN). @massachusetts-institute-of-technology ChemE & @university-of-chicago MBA.

Mikael Solomon

Co-Founder @edgecase-formerly-compare-metrics, Entrepreneur, Stanford alum

Sean Lane

Chairman of the Board of @bts Corporation, @betamore, Digital Harbor Foundation, Lane Capital, @crosschx, and @ostp-ventures.

Paul O'Brien

CMO of @microventures-1. Formerly of  @zvents, @outright, @dachis-group, @loop-and-tie, @fliptop, HP & @yahoo. Co-founder of Cospace & Fovnders / entre.
http://seobrien.com

Adam Cianfichi

CTO/Founder - @boxer, Director Interactive Media @ciphent (Acq @accuvant), 2010 Inc. 500 16th Fastest Growing Company In America, CTO / Founder Music Mgmt

Eric Falcao

Founder and CTO at @mass-relevance

Allen Rohner

Founder, CTO, @circle-4. Machine Learning background. Clojure contributor. 2nd time entrepreneur. Tech Lead of 4 products and 30 engineers @crossroads-systems .

Neal Rapoport

Investor in over 20 tech companies. Founder of @dealtaker-com (sold to Media General 2008, bought back 2012), Dude.
http://www.bikeneal.com

Jason Novek

Founder at @ownlocal, Y-Combinator Winter 2010.

Robert Afshar

Founded 3 internet companies. All successful. Last company @leadclick-media took no investment and sold for $200mm. Currently, running a Hedge Fund & Angel Fund.

Bernard Brenner

Cofounder of Truecar, Inc., Author of The Sumo Advantage (#1 Amazon Bestseller), Host of Extreme Biz Dev podcast, Partner at Capital Factory

John Hamlin

Nick Goggans

Co-Founder/Biz Dev @umbel, the new neilsen for digital media. Ex: co-founder @Lytiks, Conversion Assoc, @CharlieRose. Skills: Web Analytics, AdWords, Media

Adam Zeplain

Started off in VC, then jumped into portfolio company, Early stage investor, Advisor, Philanthropist, animal lover, husband.

Gary Chou

Worked at @union-square-ventures, @cisco • Investor @union-square-ventures • Studied at @princeton-university
http://blog.garychou.com

Ryan Holiday

Dir of Marketing: American Apparel, Advisor: Tim Ferriss, Robert Greene, Tucker Max, creativeLIVE My books: Trust Me I'm Lying. Growth Hacker Marketing
http://brasscheck.net

Christopher Sherman

I been involved in startups spanning media, events, web services, online music and electronic commerce. I currently run conference company.

Marc Smookler

Founder @fonality, @sake-social, @written , partner @capitalfactory, investor/advisor @equipboard, board member @storymix-media

Travis Devitt

Angel Investor and Growth Hacker helping early stage companies solve their toughest problems around user acquisition & retention, fundraising, and biz dev.

Jeff Pinksa

MD Private Securities Group @sharespost; worked @wells-fargo, @stifel-nicolaus-weisel, @canaccord-adams; attended @university-of-colorado-boulder

Paul Ford

VP Product & Marketing @sendgrid Entrepreneur, Technologist, Strategist, Startup Advisor, VC Whisperer, Connector of Dots, Marketer & Creator of Cool Stuff

Howard Marks

co-founder Activision ATVI $14B cap, founder @acclaim-games (sold to @playdom). Founder and managing partner @startenginela LA's largest accelerator.

Josh Jones-Dilworth

Founder and CEO of Jones-Dilworth, Inc. Co-founder at Totem, The Daily Dot.
http://www.josh.jones-dilworth.com

James Ledoux

Entrepreneur, ERP Training Expert, Angel Investor

Meredith Maycotte

Co-Founder @umbel. Co-Founder @dishola. Marketing & Advertising Creative Director, past clients include CHANEL, Coca-Cola, Marriott. BS, University of Texas.

Purav Patel

Owner of Village Liquors (Retail chain of Fine Wine and Spirits), active Angel and Advisor

David Bettner

Co-founded Newtoy, Words with Friends and the With Friends franchise. Sold to Zynga in 2010. Co-founded Curious in 2013.

Matt Thomson

Founder and CEO @wavecation • Studied at @pepperdine-university University. Formerly started successful SUP business

Larry Walker

Investor in @finsix-1, @calxeda, @pirus-networks, @current-analysis, @jam-technologies, @ciclon-semiconductor-device-corporation, @surgient-networks, @sirocco...

Chad Keck

Founder & CEO @promoter-io, Advisor @remote-garage, Leader @appfog, launched @hp-cloud, helped build & launch cloud platforms @rackspace.
http://www.chadkeck.com

Robert Fabbio

Founded WhiteGlove Health (on-going concern), founded Agere (sold to Lucent), founded DAZEL (sold to HP), founded Tivoli (sold to IBM). Exper. operator and VC.

A.T. Fouty

Director of Engineering / RunTitle 12 years building scalable software systems M.S. Computer Science

Erica Douglass

CEO, @marketvibe. As seen in Inc. & Forbes. Marketing expert. Running tech companies for 12+ years; run hugely popular entrepreneurship blog at erica.biz.
http://erica.biz/

Ashish Aggarwal

Startup Advisor / investor; Analytics @dell; Editor @yourstory-in; Worked @yahoo (5 years), OCA Ventures (Investor), Strong business & Tech skills, Kellogg MBA
http://yourstory.com/author/ashish-aggarwal/

Mark Hicks

MSTC graduate, Public Speaker, Drupal developer, strategic thinker, investor since 2009. Looking for an active investment/participation in web-based B2B.

Scott Miller

FOUNDER.org

FOUNDER.org is an investor and company building program for student entrepreneurs who are solving big problems.

Eric Gould Bear

Founded MONKEYmedia, 100+ patents & app's, former professor & executive, advises in user experience strategy & intellectual property, Partner @capitalfactory.

Andy Ulery

CEO/Founder theDrop • Worked in BD, Sales, Product and Ops for ad networks, publishers and a social analytics platform.

Jason Aramburu

Founder @edyn. Founder re:char. Forbes 30 under 30. Ashoka Fellow. Echoing Green Fellow. Gates Foundation Grantee. Studied Ecology @princeton-university
http://decarbonize.tumblr.com

Dana Severson

VP Sales @loot Founder @startups-anonymous. Former founder/CEO of @chasm-io. Writing at @pandomedia and @inc Marketing & growth guy. @angelpad Alum.
http://www.startupsanonymous.com

D. Keith Casey Jr.

User-focused technologist and developer, Professional agitator, Former @twilio Evangelist, BSEE from #1 Engineering School: @rose-hulman-institute-of-technology
http://CaseySoftware.com/blog/

Evan Baehr

Cofounder, @able. Product, Marketing, Design. Worked at @facebook @clarium. Grad of @harvard-business-school, @yale-university MA, @princeton-university

Matthew Kimball

Investor @doctorbase, @gablit

Chris Weaver

Experienced hands-on startup guy. Technical chops. Business mind. I solve customer pains with tech that works.

Naveed Lalani

Founder & CEO @portable-boutique-inc, Advisor @thiel-fellowship. Formerly - CSO @donornation , Co-Founder @rally, Investor @Oha.na (Acquired by Facebook).
http://naveedl.tumblr.com

Andrew Hunter

Founder/CEO Volume11 Media, Founder/CEO Gambit Labs, Co-founder Kickflip, angel investor, startup mentor

Matt Buck

I teach people to make Internets at @makersquare, formerly at @massrelevance, @rapid7, and several others • Full-stack (Rails) developer • Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1

Kevin Doner

Courtney Powell

Founder/CEO @publikdemand, @leedseed-2 Founder, @boundless-network Founding Team ($50M/yr Rev), Enterprise Lead Gen Expert (@rackspace, Polycom, Verizon, Cisco)
http://blog.publikdemand.com

Brad Wilson

Founder/CEO Creeris Ventures

Sean Spector

Founded Dropoff in late 2013 backed by a strong list of VCs and Angels. Prior to that co-founded GameFly in 2002 backed by Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital.

Craig Harris

Craig is the CFO for Wild Basin Investments, LLC (“WBI”). He has held this position at WBI and its predecessor entities since 2001. WBI is a closely held venture investment company with a focus on direct early stage and “angel” investing. He has 20+ yea

Cyril Moutran

Cofounder at feedly. Partner at Makers Camp.

Kathleen Blackwell

Kathleen Blackwell is a classically trained pianist. SONY CLASSICAL. Founded Saucy-Wear sold to Williams-Sonoma. Partner XYZ2Y Ventures.

Brad Fults

I build excellent things for the web.
http://bradfults.com/

Steve Semelsberger

Founder Alder Growth Partners. Operator at four startups with exits (two IPOs, two acquisitions). Duke MBA. Lived in Austin, New York, London, San Francisco.

Jeff Harbach

Entrepreneur. Investor. Mentor. Former Executive Director of the Central Texas Angel Network; Kauffman Fellow; Owner of two 7-Eleven stores in Las Vegas, NV.
http://www.jeffharbach.com

Rodrigo Tinajero

Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor. Founder, @gusanito • @intro marketing • Advisor at @grupo-manhattan • Investor @ohana

Matt Allison

Founder @trendkite. Worked @meltwater-group @Penn State fanatic.
http://www.trendkite.com/blog

Erik McMillan

CEO, Shelfbucks. Founder, BestFit Mobile. Founded/sold ProAce. University of Texas MIS Board. 15 Years Internet Development & Data.

Shashi Vaswani

Ceo and President of About Time Inc , a distribution company which we grew to over 100 million in revenues WITHOUT giving up equity.

Dennis Kashkin

[email protected] - private exit Sr. [email protected] - IPO Angel investor @ctanangels

Raj Ramanan

Co-Founder & President/CFO @loku • Strong strategy/ops background (@kkr, @the-walt-disney-company Strat Planning, @mckinsey-company) • BBA @university-of-michigan

Connor Hood

Co-founder at Written. Co-founded Wahooly (now Chasm.io). Founded @the-site-slinger, sold to Capital Thought.

Eric Sung

Co-founded @loku (@500startups company, acquired by @groupon). @harvard-business-school @university-of-texas-at-austin-1

Jagath Narayan

CEO/data-monkey/growth-hacker @ordoro. Bringing usability and good design to the boring space of supply-chain-management. And customers love it so far.
http://www.ordoro.com/blog

Rodney Gibbs

Founder of @ricochet-labs • Founded @fizz-factor & sold it to Amaze Entertainment • Passion for mobile platforms and building stellar teams

Hans Yeakel

Mentor @500startups. Lead sales & operations @appsumo. Previously founder and COO of ToneRite.

Dan Graham

Founder & CEO BuildASign.com

Sangram Kadam

Sales/Financials @ordoro. Engineering, supply-chain management and partner marketing @dell. CS @NCState. MBA @university-of-texas-at-austin-1

Nick Macey

Chief Product Officer @rosetta-stone

Matt Peterson

Mobile Content Product Development Executive. I launch product.

Robert Einspruch

Social/Mobile Game Product Manager. I work with great artists and great developers to make mobile and @facebook games fun.

Robert Eanes

Founder at Pingboard

Adam Dell

Partner at @austin-ventures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Dell

Rudy Garza

Founded G51 Capital 25+ Investments, Acq by SAP, ADP, Cisco, Prudential & others, National network of G51 Venture Scholars w/10+ leading MBA prgms & 150+ Alumni

Michael Baird

Co-founder of @ricochet-labs. Tech Director of Fizz Factor, where I co-authored DS engine that's shipped 130+ SKUs and millions of units.

Aaron Longnion

Founder @refynr • Worked at @homeaway, @adobe-systems • Studied at University of North Texas
http://refynr.tumblr.com

Ryan Spraetz

Problem Solver. I like bouldering, building, coding, and winning. Co-Founder @keen-io-1 . 4+ years technical product experience at @salesforce. UIUC Engineering.
http://blog.keen.io

Taylor Hou

Founder & Head of Product @remark • Learned SaaS @appfolio • Studied Supply Chain @university-of-texas-at-austin-1

Zaz Floreani

Diggin' big ideas, start-ups, and entrepreneurs. Dir of Corp Dev at a Texas startup. Wife of a Texas entrepreneur.

Glen Burchers

Successful entrepreneur at 5 startups. Global executive of successful marketing and sales teams. Excellent public speaker. Inspirational techno change agent.

Kerry Rupp

CEO of @dreamit-ventures. Founded Holiday Golightly. Worked @allrecipes.com @jobster @classmates.com @lexisnexis. Studied at @harvard-business-school, @duke-university

Bradley Markham

Founder @tweettv. Former Googler. @stanford-university Alum. Based in Austin, TX.

Steven "Mick" Giles

Former Exec: UTV, EA, @turbine, SOE, @jellyvision Former Advisor: @ncsoft, ZeroG, DreamWorks, @globant Current Advisor: @claritics, @scent-sciences, @smilu-2, Gazillion

Jerry Bowerman

CEO of sonarDesign COO of Electronic Arts Canada CEO of Sentire VP/Founder WorldStream EVP Development/Marketing Sierra Online past board member at Lucasfilm

Joshua Shipsey

Investor in @mixbook, @boomerangs.

Barrett Wood

Founder @woodgen-1 • Investor @dreamit-ventures, @brideside

Ash Maurya

Founder Spark59 - Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.

Brandon DuRette

Co-founder JustGolf • Lead developer / architect at @appconomy and @smart-bear • Division General Manager @smart-bear • SB CS from @massachusetts-institute-of-technology
http://blog.noopinaloop.com

William Griggs

Founder @startup-slingshot • Head of Growth @cbanc-network • Customer Acquisiton @massrelevance (Acq) & @spredfast • Writer @mashable @venturebeat @ReadWrite
http://www.thestartupslingshot.com

Hoon Park

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Mark Allen

Product Management for @myfitnesspal, formerly at @yelp and @ancestry.com. I create great user experiences.

Matt Langan

Product guy with a history of design, development, and marketing. Equal parts tactician and strategist.
http://www.MattLangan.com

Ryan Michael

Pursuing elegance, currently @return-path

John Mauro

Product Manager and Designer. Worked in product at mobile payments startup and Y Combinator SaaS startup. Notre Dame engineering grad, Rice MBA 2012

Ben Gaddis

Innovation lead at T3. TechStars mentor. Angel investor.

Vivek Karuturi

Student @university-of-texas-austin . Most recently @facebook. Hacker Lounge + HackTX creator.

Justin Jensen

Technologist. Photographer. Entrepreneur.

Dave Verratti

Founder of Mercer Road Corp and @lookout-social . VP Business development at @vivox.

Heather Gore

Managing Partner, The Faction Agency. 18+ years of breakthrough marketing & PR campaigns. Yahoo!, Excite, Sun/Java, Sony, MobiTV, Simplee, Shockwave, Beatnik.

Kevin Kendall

Experienced guide, strategic thinker, designer.

Jesse Weber

Commercial Real Estate Expert and Entrepreneur

Nathaniel Robinson

Matt Lyons

Partner at Andrews Kurth LLP

John Erik Metcalf

Founder @demand-analytics, @conjunctured • Work at @radius-4, @tiny-pictures • Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1
http://blog.think27.com

Aaron Longnion

Founder @refynr-1 • Worked at @homeaway, @adobe-systems • Studied at University of North Texas

Lynn Yeldell

Founder of L Style G Style. Investor in Rockify and Ticketbud.

Katy Hirschfeld

Owner of Collage-garage.com, National Collegiate Scholar, Free-lance artist, looking for a full-time job in an inspiring, creative, and passionate environment.

Jason Boulette

Partner at Boulette & Golden L.L.P.

Sebastian Bruce

Founder @networklift • Worked at @thread-1, @balderdash • Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1

Gregory Green

Futurist, engineer, marketer, entrepreneur and executive "fixer". If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him...

Peter Fossick

James Clardy

20+ yrs Biz Dev, Tech Strategy & Alliances. Mentor @ TechStars, Startupbootcamp, Highway1. Leader at at Dell, Austin Ventures, Motorola, Crystal Semi, AMD.

Dean Kakridas

MD @international-accelerator Founder @entreapp Worked at @frogdesign @opera-software @macromedia Strong background in Tech, UX Design, Business Development

Dustin Haver

Pixel Craftsman. UI/UX Designer @thirstie, Worked at @bigcommerce, @loku and Founder of Saturday Morning Design

Will Davis

Founder @able. Graduate of @harvard-business-school. Policy advisor @CapitolHill. I know just enough about enough to know I'm not enough.

Bart Bohn

Founder - Embrace, Ravel. Dir ATI's IT & Wireless Incubators. Founder - 3 Day Startup. Board-Moodfish. MoMoAustin. Entrepreneur Lounge. Andersen, BearingPoint.

Omeed Kazemi

Strategy & Analytics pro with experience in sales, marketing, lead generation, finance & operations. Worked at Facebook, LivingSocial, and Deloitte Consulting.

David Johnston

Managing Director @dapps Fund I, Board Member @mastercoin-foundation, Co-Founder @api-network 10 X Entreprenur.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/111647962061124799955/about

Charles Sustaita

Extreme dedication to work, problem attacker, solution-driven, customer support guru, Corgi wrangler

Chris Boudreaux

Global Lead, Social Media at Accenture. Creator, SocialMediaGovernance.com. Author, The Most Powerful Brand on Earth. MSCS and MBA, Univ. of Chicago.
http://socialmediagovernance.com/blog

Dave DeMink

Current: RVP, Sales - North America at @ringcentral. 12 years SMB Sales/Marketing experience - Loudcloud, WebEx, SuccessFactors, @ringcentral

Michael Yoch

SVP Product at HelloWallet, formerly at NPR. Product, strategy, and ops background. JD UT Austin.

Jacob Shea

Entrepreneur in Residence & Senior Associate at @monthly-ventures-1 , Software Architect turned Agency GM / CIO / CDO, Founder of Digital Boss.
http://www.startupmonthly.com/

Justin Schmidt

worked at Sidecar, Google Offers, Groupon, HomeAway, Dell

Ravi Kotichintala

Founder BOXC • Cofounded SocialMD, Syntric • Scalability Junkie • Lifted heavy Java in B2B at @alterpoint, @commerce-one, @exterprise-acquired-by-commerce-one • Background in Physics, CS & Art

Adam Hilss

Founder at @apollo-vibes @soundtap. Machine learning and infrastructure at @google. BSE in CS at Michigan, MS in CS at Texas. NSF Graduate Research Fellow.

Joe Mocquant

Entrepreneur & Designer. Co-Founder and CEO @ultime-combattant • Worked at @cloudflare • Studied at @epita Paris

Lauren DeLuca

Director @rivs, Advisor @chime-4, @archively @ginkgotree, Row One. MBA @kellogg-school-of-management, graduated Cum Laude @university-of-notre-dame 2001

Amir Elaguizy

Y Combinator Alum - Founder @cratejoy • Founded MarketZero, Inc - Sold to Zynga • Worked at @zynga • Studied at @university-of-iowa
http://www.aelag.com/

Bart Robertson

Experienced angel, CTO, cloud and big data - consultant, coach, and mentor - 20 years @msft

Carl Shepherd

Co founder, HomeAway, Inc.

Brandon Marker

Analyst @techstars. Previously @microventures-1.

Ed Anderson

Worked at CompuCom, ComputerLand, Computer Factory, American Express and various start-ups

Ryan Deiss

Founder, @digitalmarketer-com
http://www.digitalmarketer.com/blog

Benjamin Trotter

CEO Founder of @storefront-social. Creator of SushiGuru, @storefront-social, @spekkle and many more. Global Marketing, International experience, fluent Japanese.
http://globetrotter.us

Jason Bornhorst

CEO of @filament-labs. We help health professionals manage patients outside the clinic. Formerly @mobiata (acquired @expedia), @techarb, @mobil33t #umichfounder

Marc Yagjian

Founder of @tivoli-systems. Investor in @waveset, @sailpoint, @venafi, @intact-medical. Advisor to @swimtopia.

Austin Hallock

Co-founder of @clay-io. Entrepreneur. Developer. Previously at @intensedebate and @vigil-games.

Brooke B Farrell

CEO, Founder @recyclematch; 10 yrs waste industry; '08 Mashable Best Environmental Site ThinkGreen.com, Dumpster.com for Waste Management Inc.
http://zerowasteblog.recyclematch.com/

Richard M. Bagdonas

Co-founder and CTO at @mahana, founder and CTO at @subtledata. co-founder and COO at Remote Operations, and founder and Executive Director at Operation Turkey.

David Lowe

CEO/Founder of Uberpong. Strong international business background and well traveled. Dale Carnegie graduate.
http://uberpong.com/category/blog-posts/

Mike Smith

Full stack marketer. Lover of B2B SaaS. Intimately involved in hyper growth companies for 10+ years. Grew GetResponse, @bigcommerce , @firehost , @call-em-all.
http://marketingmuze.com/about/

Alec Wilson

Director of Growth at Swiftype, Program Manager at 3 Day Startup. Previously Growth at Buildasign.com; CampusExplorer, UCLA.
http://blog.swiftype.com

Forrest Dukes

Project Management Intern @ Phunware

Joshua Chodniewicz

Co-founded and served as CEO of @art-com, Inc., and currently serves on its Board of Directors.

Benjamin Papillon

Worked at @umbel, @capitalfactory • Studied at @university-of-georgia

Sol Garger

Web developer and product manager. Currently working as a software engineer in Austin and also on a project of my own.

Mark Warms

A co-founder of FX Alliance, taking the company from start-up to $620M IPO. Looking to help fledgling and medium size companies accelerate growth. Selectively investing where my experience will add value.

Josh Liss

Head of Product at Raise.com. Former Strategy consultant for fortune 50 then built a company of my own. Web and mobile background. University of Chicago grad.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/weclickd-social-network-things-wedding-110000224.html

Alex Turkovic

L&D pro, formerly at Dell. Now at Bigcommerce. I build learning programs that stick and regularly speak about learning innovation.
http://bigcommerce.com/learning

Tim Gasper

Product Manager at @infochimps, Founder at @keepstream. Customer Development, Product Management, Product Marketing, Biz Dev, Lean Startup.
http://timgasper.com

Brian Curliss

Entrepreneur. Cofounder of @maillift #500Strong (Batch 007) Once Solo-Bootstrapped to $20k/mo in 6mo Specializes in SEO, pricing, analytics, users, and growth.
http://www.BrianCurliss.com

Dusty Jones

Co-Founder TrueAbility. MS Technology Commercialization, BS Mechanical Engineering. Ruby programmer. Worked at Freescale, @rackspace, and @teamsnap

Seth Page

Experienced tech entrepreneur, operator, investment banker & financier. Last 2 firms co-founded were both acquired Nov 2011. Just acquired mSpot for Samsung.

Erik Josowitz

Vignette, SoloMio, Rocksteady, SocialText, Surgient, All Web Leads

Dr. MJG

Co-Founder @runcode @RCIT @Kyuda Ops and Finance @amazon @ge, @photobucket, @RebateNetworks. Angel Investor. Self-taught Engineer PhD in Finance, Uni. Mannheim

Austin Louden

Software Engineering Intern @pinterest. Formerly @stagebloc, @otherinbox.
http://blog.austinlouden.com

Peter M. Elias

Founded successful web company in college. Founded Chasm.io. Full stack engineer and polyglot with 12 years exp. Babson E-Tower Alumn ('08-'12)

Faraaz Ismail

Ruby and Rails developer, UT Austin Computer Science student, previous OtherInbox/Return Path intern,

Lyle Pratt

Software Developer, Entrepreneur, Founder of Better Voicemail. BS Economics, MBA, MS.

John Charles Rodriguez (J-Ro)

Marketing, public and community relations strategy and execution, specializing in start up tech and entertainment.
http://www.stagetwo.com/blog

Matthew Stephens

UX Designer & Founder of @mashboard, @deviantart-com • Worked at @onespot, @ateamo, @b-side-entertainment
http://blog.matthewstephens.com

Adrian Tavares

Designer, developer. Founder Murch.co, developer at One Solstice. Worked at @zappos, @ness-computing Studied at @university-of-texas-austin

Cullen Wilson

Co-Founder & CTO at Lomaki. Previously co-founded Partnered & WPEngine. yCombinator S12.

John Paulos

Investor in @callspace, @open-labs, @quickfilter-technologies, @rfmicron.

John Sung Kim

Founder @five9 (NASDAQ: FIVN). Founder @doctorbase
http://johnsungkim.com

Chris McClelland

CEO at @brewbot. Technical director at @performa-sports. Almost finished a PhD in Computer Music at the Sonic Arts Research Centre.

Keegan Jones

Product Designer. Previously Facebook & Gowalla.
http://keeg.co

Cynthia Balusek

Director, Client Experience at @bigcommerce Baylor EMBA Student. Worked at @outboundengine-1 , @convio, @motive, PeopleAdmin.

Hass Johnson

Acquisition Sales Executive @bigcommerce , McCombs MBA, Ex-Ford guy
http://blog.thatrunk.com

Kieran Graham

Architect and co-founder of @brewbot. Previously, CTO and co-founder of @airpos. Visual mind with immense desire for understanding. Techstars ATX initiate.

Sam Onat Yilmaz

Managing Partner @dapps-fund-i Board Member @mastercoin-foundation ED @bitangels Triple Major('10) & MS Engineering ('12) @johns-hopkins-university

Kenneth Murphy

Carnegie Mellon CS/HCI, Graduating 2014, Worked at Pinterest, Adobe. Front-end Engineer and Designer.

Alex Sexton

Steven Corcoran

Virginia Tech Alum, Founder @lawnstarter

Stacey Kohutek

Experienced professional in career transition looking for an opportunity to shine with a great company in a position that fits my drive and ambition.

Bret Cox

Founder & CEO @hello, @evostor, @Radiant, @Micom • Product, Strategy, Culture, Design • 5x Founding CEO.

Todd Plunk

Marketing Manager

Rajiv Bala

Investor in @phurnace-software, @digby, @sipera-systems, @libredigital, @invodo, @callvine. Team member of @s3-ventures.

James Dickerson

Founder @ Crush Campaigns. Helping innovative co's acquire more customers. Previously founded Wellthy & @leap. Former associate at @lightbank.
http://www.crushcampaigns.com/blog

Patrick Barrett

Founder & Head of UX, Greater Good Labs

Cameron Hotchkies

Early employee at @tabbedout. Founding member of the TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative team. Pioneer in automated blind SQL exploitation.
http://www.semisafe.com

Jon Allen

Physicist specializing in distributed computation, scalability, graph processing, machine learning and PDE stability problems. Senior Data Scientist at @grockit.

Jay Perkins

Top sales professional with 7 years of experience in client communication and the implementation and execution of solutions to individuals and businesses.

Jon Loyens

Product Oriented Engineering Leader

Faraaz Ismail

Donald Park

Investor in @mindjolt, @crimereports, @whaleshark-media, @dachis-group, @bbs-technologies, @powered, @famecast.

Kyle Mills Hall

Designer | Photographer | Entrepreneur | Music Lover | Human @phunware @sirtified-design
https://medium.com/@llllmills

Paul Janowitz

Founder @icanmakeitbetter, @sentient-services • Investor @greenling, @csidentity • Angel investing - tech, CPG, restaurants. Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1

William Yarbrough

UX Designer; Worked at @dell, @demand-media • Passionate about user-centered design.

Allison Netzer

Creative. Calm. Confident. Worked @phunware @dell. Strong sales and marketing background. 15 years experience but every day is a school day.
http://blog.phunware.com

Anthony Broad-Crawford

CPO @giveforward , Formerly CTO @within3 , Executive Director @startupbus , Entreprise Product Architect @progressive-insurance
http://blog.anthonybroadcrawford.com

Conall Arora

@seer, @soros-hedge-fund @matlinpatterson @goldman-sachs, @columbia-university University

Karen Bantuveris

Founder & CEO of @volunteerspot - the leading USEFUL real-world coordiantion tool on the web. > 4 Million users and growing! Former CEO, Radiance Learning.

Mason Arnold

Serial Entrepreneur, Sustainability & Organic nut, trying to change the world

Bryan Shepard

CEO/Co-founder of @sweepio . Start-up Guy, three startups, two successful exits, one IPO. Dad of 2, husband of 1.
http://fatboylabs.com

Michael McDaniel

Founder & CEO @reaction. Former Principal Designer @frog-design for clients like HP, Comcast, Honeywell, & Disney. Business strategist & frequent TED speaker.

JC Butler

Co-Founder @ dubizzle.com. Over 8 years grew from 2 to 200 in 11 markets before moving to board + partial exit. Believer in culture, talent, fun, and purpose.
http://jcbutler.me

Joel Fontenot

Trailblazer Capital Managing Partner. Micro VC focused in Texas. Startup founder of Metreos, sold to Cisco. Early stage entrepreneur and investor.

Blake Borgeson

Co-founder @RecursionPharma: turning drug discovery into an information science. Co-bootstrapped @BuildASign.com to $50M+ 2013 revenue. Computational biologist.
http://www.blakeborgeson.com

Tim Liner

Ruby developer

Alex Morse

Chief Technical Omnivore. Photographer, designer, philosopher-king. Fascinated by learning how things work, and making them work better... including people.

Graeme Waitzkin

Founder @rock12-security-architecture • Worked at @frog-design, @monitor-group, @ideo
http://gwaitzkin.tumblr.com/

Sachin Wadhawan

Startup, acquisition, IPO experience, MBA, Technical and business skills, customer services excellence

Derick Thompson

Founder of DailyDigital Agency, bizHive.com, ContentStore.me, StartupRunner.

Colin Anawaty

Cofounder of @FilamentLabs. Founded Plerts (acq'd 2010). EIR & Product Director at Rev Worldwide. Prototyped game platform used by Riot Games & id Software.
http://blog.colinanawaty.com

Steve Sachs

CEO OneSpot, Founder/President Real Simple, Founder Maghound, TechStars NY mentor, Boards of NextIssue, Texas Tribune. Stanford GSB and Penn alum.

Aamer Husain

•BS in Computer Science The University of Texas at Austin: Spring 2013 • Self-motivated software developer • Developer of several successful iPhone apps

Vik Vad

Founder @om-capital-management, @catalyst-communications

John Cox

CEO and Founder Visible Health, @escalation-point • Worked at @trilogy, @coremetrics • Studied at @university-of-california-los-angeles, @university-of-southern-california, @university-of-texas-at-austin

John Engler

VP Sales at LiveIntent. Father, husband, entrepreneur, business consultant, catalyst, marketer, salesguy...
http://inluminent.com/

Mark Davidson

CMO @octane-lending • High performance marketer & conversation optimizer • Co-founder @cheggin, @odigger and @captureseo • @boston-university Alum

Ryan Farley

Hokie Alum, currently Co-founder @lawnstarter.

Evan Hammer

CEO at @smart-host • Sales Engineer at @autonomy • Computer Science at @brown-university

Marko Kruustuk

Founder @testlio. Hacker since 12. Founded 1st software startup out of high school.
http://testlio.com/blog

Kurt Wilkin

Founded The Controller Group (sold to Tatum), founded HireBetter to help high growth companies scale, angel investor, advisor, YPO officer and board member

Frankie Arvelo

Texas MBA, Product Management, Penn Law Attorney, Goldman Sachs, Value Adder looking for a Game Changing Company to Join

Patrick Madden

Worked at @hft-quant-hedge-fund, @ibm. Studied Physics at UT: Dallas. 1st startup in high school. Solid technical background.

Alan Schoenbaum

Sr. Vice President & General Counsel at @rackspace Hosting

Justin Kvasnicka

Sr. Strategy Advisor, Dell, Inc. Formerly Fund Manager, BR Venture Fund; Senior Analyst, Capital Southwest Corporation; Analyst, JP Morgan Investment Bank.

Matthew Wensing

Co-founder & CEO of @riskpulse. Previously Software Engineer @mcmaster-carr-supply-co. Studied at @university-of-chicago.
http://www.riskpulse.com/blog

John Curtis

CEO at @quotient-solutions-inc

Xin Chung

Founder & CEO of TrustCloud. Social media, games, 3D film, & China biz background. Worked at @microsoft & @sony. @santa-clara-university University
http://www.trustcloud.com/blog

Goke Pelemo

Software support and operations expert; passionate about crafting unique customer experiences, leading teams and working with purpose driven startups.
https://goke.me

Josh Rickel

VP, Media & Entertainment, Spredfast (formerly Mass Relevance), adventurer, technophile, gear junkie, mass media glutton, photographer, and foodie

Noah Zandan

Founder @quantified-communications, @rockway-foundation • Worked at @brentwood Associates • Studied at @dartmouth-college, @kellogg-school-of-management
http://noahzandan.com

Alex Kilpatrick

Co-Founder & CTO at BeehiveID. PhD Computer Scientist, working in biometrics & machine learning

Jonas Weigert

VT:CS Grad, Founder at LawnStarter

Laurence Patrick Noonan

Senior Associate at @austin-ventures

Brian Krpec

CEO & Founder of Big Data Elephants and Group Sergeant LLC, 15+ yrs in Start-ups to enterprise software space. Know a thing or two about Big Data. Austin, TX
http://bigdataelephants.wordpress.com

Srini Kadamati

UT Austin Math/CS, Developer & Product person, Love for AI & NLP, interested in Education, Energy, & Healthcare, huge Data nerd

Ricardo Vargas-Lugo

Founder @netero-inc . • International work experience at @microsoft, @apple , and @siemens • MBA @stanford-graduate-school-of-business

Christina Trapolino

Director of Marketing at TravelShark. Advisor/consultant to various start-ups in Austin.
http://gplus.to/trapolino

Meghan Holzhauer

McCombs MBA Candidate, exploring the world of venture capital, entrepreneurship and tech startups

Brian Coppola

Lawyer/ Trader

Emil Hajric

Founder of @helpjuice
http://www.emilhajric.com

Russ Krengel

Former CEO of Home Health Partners. VP of Lehman Brothers. MBA Finance. Swiss Army Knife of skills including Sales, Business Development, Finance & Leadership

Jordan Gadapee

Creative Director, @radius http://t.co/Bab5rj4oDz. HQ'd in SF working in ATX.

Mary Haskett

CEO BeehiveID. Started two companies, built teams and grew them to profitability, sold one to a defense contractor. BS Applied Math U Texas Dallas, MS Texas A&M

Nate McGuire

Founder @spokefly, @recipeas • Worked at @apple, @ernst-and-young , @the Site Slinger • Studied at @university-of-texas-austin

Aseem Ali

CEO/Co-Founder of Burpy.com, Student at The University of Texas at Austin (Mechanical Engineering)

Dave Raring

Founder Visible Health, @escalation-point • Worked at @trilogy, @3m • Studied at @university-of-california-davis

Kevin Koym

Founder of the @techranch. Serial entrepreneur that supports early stage tech entrepreneurs get their businesses launched.
http://kevinkoym.com/

Kristel Viidik

CEO of Testlio; software tester; creates and breaks software.
http://testlio.com/blog

Alexandra Anderson

Community Manager and Marketer at Making Friends App, Customer Support at Pocket (Formerly Read it Later), Social Media Creator at Fashatude
http://backcountrybuzz.wordpress.com/

David Berger

VP Corporate Development for Loop & Tie. Product marketing and partnership development background. Worked at Google and Appconomy.
http://www.davidjosephberger.com/Blank.html

Steve Guengerich

Co-founder & VP, Marketing, Appconomy. Managing Director, BroadBrush Ventures. Deeply experienced, start-up player-coach.

Patrick Adiaheno

Head of Product @thread-1

Michael Walsh

Founder @cariloop and Health 2.0 Dallas, Personal Trainer, @purdue-university University alum, living in Dallas, TX.
http://healthsparx.com

Marc Mapes

Director of Product Management of Electronic Insight & Product Owner at http://eitalent.com. Founder of HireMatch.me and @fotacts.
http://marcmapes.com/

Mason Hale

Hands-on CTO, designer & builder of things. Previously CTO at @onespot, Chief Technologist at @frog-design. MS Engineering/Management UT Austin 2004.

Joshua Bauder

Email Marketing Manager at Boundless Network. Serial Entrepreneur, Former Silicon Valley Executive, Appeared in Entrepreneur Magazine
http://www.joshbauder.com/

Isaac Silverman

Head of Product @ BloomNation. Founder @ Playtivity. Former PM @ Zynga (Launched 22MM MAU Game + Zynga.com). Honors CS + Class President @ Columbia

Zachary Dell

Founder @thread-1, @camp-spark-1

Jose Dunia

MS in Digital Arts & Sciences at UF, Bachelor Computer Engineering at USB, Worked at Grooveshark and co-founder at Powerdot

Zixiao Wang

iOS Developer with UX background, UT Austin master degree, love startup and iOS development

Shion Deysarkar

CEO & Founder, Datafiniti. Board Member, PFP Technology.

Peter Li

CEO of @atlas-wearables. Fellow @techstars. BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering and Tissue Engineering at @johns-hopkins-university. Does things, gets smarter.

Matthew Wolf

Product Manager,@sharethrough @wikia; Associate PM at @bump-technologies, Consultant, CGI Federal; IT Advisory Intern, @kpmg; B.B.A. Computer Information Systems, @james-madison-university.

Jeff Burke

Founder Block Trading. Inc Magazine feature story Jan 1997. Founder PAK Interests. BA Economics, UT Austin. Innovative disruptor and believer in transparency.
http://www.nuhabitat.com/blog/

Branndon Stewart

CEO and Founder of @outboundengine-1, VP Marketing @boundless-network ($60M Rev), Product Mktg @troux-technologies, Tech Mktg @motive
http://www.outboundengine.com/blog

Becky Jewell

Support and Marketing champion with a Master's in English: Digital Studies. Impossibly cheery, yet technical. Visual artist. Opportunity is everywhere.
http://beckyjewell.com/blog

Tom Klein

Entrepreneur • Executive co-founder iM5 • President PhoneDog Media, Monthly metrics: 10mil pageviews, 2.5mil uniques, 4 million video views

Dustin Blanchard

Marketing and communications strategist; Front-end developer; Brisket lover.

Eric Anderson

Founder of StackEngine, former CTO and founder of CopperEgg (acquired by Idera 2013). Technology focused with a sense of business and execution.

James Dixson

Jeff Gemperle

20 years in technology sales. Helped start enterprise sales team for Winternals (purchased by Microsoft); Alliance sales manager for Sonicwall/Dell leading to Dell's purchase of Sonicwall; investor in SubtleData

Daniel Jurek

Released patches to billions and consulted for the big guys. Living and breathing web apps. Cofounder and CTO at @maillift. Worked at @microsoft, @browsium.

Taylor McCaslin

User Experience Designer & Front End Developer with a passion for creating digital solutions that captivate and delight.
http://www.taylormccaslin.com/?utm_source=online&utm_medium=profile&utm_campaign=angellist

Patrick H Perrine

Founded myPartner.com (acquired 2011), Founded R. Cooper, Founded Think Tank Enterprises, Invested in Misterbnb, Published Author x2

Sri Sonti

Freelance Front-end dev + Wizard. Taking a break from studying MIS @the-university-of-texas-at-austin-1. Co-founded @remark @500startups
http://fresh.io

Chris Belew

Co-founder and CEO @apptive. Co-founder and VP Product & Strategy at Fusion Mobile. Worked at Motive and Accenture. UT Austin MBA, Venture Fellow 2004.
http://blog.apptive.com/

Jonathan Grimes

Worked at @ownlocal, @thesquarefoot • Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1

Suaad Sait

InConcert acq by Tibco; Dazel acq by HP; Founder/VP Ventix acq by Motive went public (MOTV); ; Founder/CEO/now Chairman ReachForce - VC frm Austin Ventures, Dell, ...

Graham McFarland

A practicing entrepreneur, knee deep in his fifth start-up. Successfully built, funded and exited multiple companies ranging from $10K to over $10M in sales.
http://cinegif.wordpress.com/

Steve Berneman

Founder and CEO @overdog. Strong legal, tech, and sports background. Princeton BA, Vanderbilt JD/MBA.

Jose G. Gonzalez

Internet Entrepreneur at Matrix2012 Ventures, Inc.

Ted Fifelski

Building a better world through open, friendly and secure mobile payments.

Matt Sartor

Genuine leader with proven ability to build, grow, and refine highly driven, client facing teams known for driving success throughout every level of business.

Alex Smith

Founder & CEO, LanternCRM.

Allen Torng

Co-founder @Cryoocyte | Patent Attorney @Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner

Jason Stoddard

Entrepreneur, agent in uncertainty. Husband. Conscious about: Life, Philosophy, Austin, SMB, Marketing, Startup, Exchange Systems, Golf, Politics.

Zac Maurais

Cofounder of @favor.

Alex Leeson-Brown

Lead Web Designer for @radius-4 hailing from Nottingham, UK.

Stuart Rench

Serial entrepreneur, currently CEO at @ihiji. @georgia-institute-of-technology graduate. Bootstrapped and sold first company.

Joe Curry

Louisiana native now exploring Austin and building relationships @spredfast

Nathan K Smith

http://austintenantadvisors.com| Austin Office & Retail Space Guru excited about Startups, New Businesses, Workspace & Employee Productivity | Avid Triathlete
http://www.austintenantadvisors.com/austin-office-commercial-blog/

Jordan Thaeler

Founded @whatsbusy. I execute like the Spanish Inquisition. Passionate about value. Conservative business models.

Phillip Mertz

Co-Founder & Partner at Damodaran & Mertz.

Daniel Senyard

CEO and Founder of @vivogig. Director of Product at @tripchamp. South African born Austin dwelling music and travel nut. Media, writing & marketing background.
http://blog.vivogig.com

Chris Errett

IT Leader and Mentor, Senior Technical Project Manager, Process Improvement Specialist. The Guy Who Can Get Things Done.

Choo Kim-Isgitt

Dan DeFelippi

@spokefly cofounder, former freelance web developer, consultant, hacker. Entrepreneur since kindergarden.
http://razorfast.com

Nikki Rostollan

Math Nerd, COO & Co-founder  @maillift

Rachel English

Co-Founder at Frontleaf. Previously customer success leader at Convio, nonprofit director of development, start-up operations & biz dev, Vassar College.

Manuel Rosso

Founder/CEO at FoodontheTable.com

Doug Yeager

Co-founder of @simplytapp Founded @tradewind-technologies in 2005 (NFC company) which was acquired by SIRIT (SI on TSX) in 2006

Chad Pavliska

CTO @thread-1
http://www.chadpavliska.com

Evan Phelps

Founder/CEO itzat. Colby College. Background in Development Economics. Passion, Vision and Energy.

Albert Smith

Detailed-oriented marketing and business development professional of ten years driving sales and corporate market presence with superior results.

Ben Doherty

CEO & Co-Founder of @favor

Sebastian Hassinger

COO @brewbot, shipping the robots that make the beer. MBA @columbia-university & @london-business-school School, Startup advisor, product strategist

Laura Roeder

in love with small businesses using the web to take matters into their own hands. founder of Edgar

Neeraj Bansal

Co Founder and President - Siminars. Founded and Operated several ventures.

David Weiser

Founder & COO @lanterncrm-1

Adrian Rego

CTO at @riskpulse, Previously Developer & Analyst at @florida-power-light • Studied at @florida-international-university

Roj Niyogi

Founder/CEO at Perk.com. Founder/President at Jutera Labs. Co-founder, MdotM/Matrigistics. Early employee @socialmedia-com
http://niyogi.tumblr.com

Pascal Nicolas

@salesvu CEO. Previously managed $80M enterprise software division at Dell.

Tushar Jain

Founder @epatientfinder. Background in healthcare IT, corporate operations and sales. Degree from NYU Stern.

Andy Fletcher

Founder @local-plant-source • Worked at @intel, @amd • Studied at @university-of-michigan

Chris Porch

President/COO at @truecar.com, CEO BetweenMarkets, Founder & VP at @trilogy Software. @stanford-university alum, investor.

Evan Kastner

Partner at leading technology and emerging growth focused firm in Austin

Scott Owens

Co-Founder/CEO Do512 & @dostuff-media. Other Stuff.

Kirtus Dixon

Co-founder @cospace and @groupcharger. 4th startup: 1 sold. Engineering and Business Development background.

Brian Fryer

UI/UX designer/developer in Austin

Keith Ubben

Founder @group-builder • Investor @tapatalk-1

Ariane Fisher

Chief Operating Officer @storymix-media. Mech. Engineering w/ Honors, Stevens Tech. @apple Certified FCP & Motion Graphics. Engine Design and Field Service Engineer @ford-motor
http://storymixmedia.com/weddings/blog

Oliver Treadwell

Web Developer with Startup/Venture Capital Background Open to Junior Dev Opportunities & Apprenticeships

Martijn de Kuijper

Co-founder Fosbury and Yunoo (acquired by AFAS). Internet entrepreneur. Member of elite groups called marathon runners and triathletes.

Morgan Bickle

VP of Client Services and former CTO @kinvey. @techstars alumni.

Jonathan Placa

Co-founder ProtoExchange • Techstars Alum

Marcus Turner

Founder @atomic-axis, @duality-principle-consulting • Worked at @hp • Investor @meetmetix, @red-carpet-tickets
http://atomicaxis.com/blogs

Andy Wolfe

CEO @roikoi; Sr. Product @Square-Root; Genius Grant @bazaarvoice; Extreme Blue @ibm; Speak 4 Languages; 1 Patent & 2 Pending; & BA in CS from Columbia

Sara Rodell

Founder @loop-and-tie, former institutional stock broker at @ubs. UVA grad w/ a B.A. in Economics & Anthropology minor. Austin native, outdoors enthusiast

Truong-An (Bi) Thai

Founder FitChimp. Developer, Fitness Hacker. Worked at @crossfader, @flocasts. CS @university-of-texas-austin

Michael Misikoff

Naqi Syed

Platform Agnostic Mobile Engineer. Co-Founder / CTO of BaseJump, LLC A boutique app development company.

Chris Treadaway

Founder at @polygraph-media

Dirk Buikema

Co-founder @Hyperwear LLC and President and GC of Hyperwear INC. Strong strategy, business development, law and entrepreneurial skills from 19 years @motorola
http://www.hyperwear.com/blog/

Jake Moilanen

Founded and sold @crowd-ignite. Business and technical background (MBA McCombs, CS Michigan). Focused on product development with practical innovation.
http://jakem.net

Marc Mattox

Multiple failures. One great exit. Tech Advisor & Opportunist

Todd Krumholz

Sports Attorney with an emphasis on Athlete Endorsements,Founder @jtk-talent-llc • Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1, @marquette-university

Michael Maniscalco

Passionate Entrepreneur. Co-founded and actively growing @ihiji. Previously co-founded & sold a high end home automation firm. @georgia-institute-of-technology Computer Science.
http://www.ihiji.com/category/blog/

Jim Curtin

Serial Entrepreneur specializing in disruptive technologies in enterprise infrastructure but increasingly interested in cloud, mobile and social opportunities.

Erine Gray

Founder at Aunt Bertha Software. 12 years consulting experience. Saved the State of Texas $5 million per year in operating expenses. (MPAff, PMP, Programmer)

Annie Hsieh

Senior developer at Written, previously developer at Vivogig, BSEE from UT Austin

Elom Tsogbe

CTO of NUVE 1st software and hardware startup out of college. BS. EE 2010, UT Austin. Worked at Cisco

Patrick Perlmutter

Head up product & marketing @infinit. Former EIR @lecamping. BA @college-of-william-and-mary. MBA @hec-paris. Experience working @apple.

Ulises Ramirez-Roche

Web Developer & Indie Entrepreneur. JS Enthusiast. Working on @estereobit. To quickly learn more about me I'm at http://ulisesrmzroche.info.

Mike Pav

VP of Engineering at @spanning Cloud Apps

Carlos Urreta

Jenny Bebout

Founder and CXO at @pivot-freight • Studied at @kansas-state-university
http://pivotfreight.com/blog/

Lara Jeremko

Co-Founder re:3D Venture Capital Fund Investor Angel Investor & Startup Advisor

Gregory O. Welch

Partner, Ingk Labs

Mike Fisher

CEO @storymix-media. Aerospace Eng Deg U of Mich; System Eng at @ford-motor: worldwide sales presentations, Options Trader in Chicago: 5+M trading profits

Khayyam Wakil

Created Transformational Gaming platform for Coke & Olympics. Winning team of game gets to carry the torch at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

John Banczak

Executive Chairman - TurnKey Vacation Rentals. Principal - The Rockcliff Group. President - BedandBreakfast.com (Sold to AWAY).

John Phan

Co-founder @qwiqq • Previously @fortuno-lending • @tech Wildcatters '12 • Worked at @rbc-capital-markets • Education: BS, MBA

Leonid Kurza

Technology commercialization

Bryon Jacob

Principal Architect at HomeAway

Chris Gillan

Serial entrepreneur, investor, consultant. Co-Founder & VP Business Development of Gazzang.

Aaron Brazell

Former Co-Founder WPEngine, Former Director of Technology @b5media, Persistent Entrepreneur
http://technosailor.com

Jeb Boyt

Investor in @watchparty.

Francisco Prat

Co-Founder at @secondmic. 3rd Startup. Developer. Formerly @McKinsey &Company, @ubs, @general-electric @columbia-business-school School MBA. Engineer.

David Isquick

Media Solutions @ Facebook. MBA from University of Texas-Austin. BSE Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan-AnnArbor
http://davidisquick.com

Jason Baldridge

Assoc. Prof., Computational Linguistics, UT Austin. Senior Data Scientist, Converseon. OpenNLP developer. Scala, Java, R, and Python programmer.

Ebetuel (Beto) Pallares

Worked at @at-kearney • Investor @lead Investor in Edioma Inc., @lead Investor in Fiberio Technology Corp. • Studied at @brandeis-university (Econ), UTEP PhD Intl Business

Charlie Plauche

Sr. Associate S3 Ventures. McCombs MBA. Frmly Harbert PE. Cancer survivor advocate.

Carson Krieg

Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Pivot Freight | Techstars Austin 2014

Blake Garrett

Founder Aceable • Worked at @ernst-young • Studied at @boston-college

Frank Livaudais

Marathon Addict (153+ and counting), VP Engineering @outboundengine / @promo_labs, Wine and Food Lover, Husband of @stuperb and Father

James Truty

SW Engineer at @trendkite, Worked at @amd; Problem Solver Extraordinaire; Strong Software Background; Homebrewer by night
http://jtruty.github.io

Mike Langford

CEO of finservMarketing. Created Tweetworks to bring conversations to Twitter. 20yrs in financial services. Passion for tech, social media and video.
http://mikelangford.me/

Michael Dellanoce

Software Developer at @able. @rackspace Hosting alumnus. Virginia Tech Computer Science 2005.

Beau Atwell

SaaS Sales Professional

Ross Skinner

Startup Technical Recruiter

Michael Breen

Founder @Xtreme Power, CEO Growing Energy Labs, Inc. GELI • Investor @k Power • Studied at @Notre Dame, MBA @UT Austin

Matthew Hall

Product Manager at @granicus. Previously at @aunt-bertha-software, @neighborland, @CodeforAmerica, and @openplans.
http://collaborativestudy.tumblr.com/

Jonathan Wasserstrum

Co-Founder at @thesquarefoot, Columbia MBA. Formerly Jones Lang LaSalle International Capital Group
http://www.thesquarefoot.com/blog/

Jerry Damon Chang

Also founder at @fanitics. Background as Line Producer (film) and PgM (tech). Worked at Rovi. Two previous start-ups.

Dave Erb

Built and sold auto repair business. Currently own one. Consult for the automotive industry.

Laura Mayes

Studied at @baylor-university
http://thequeso.com

Kyle Christian Steele

SourceCodeB46 Co-founder | Constant Insight Co-founder | Dreamit Alum | Former Educator | BCU Biology BS
http://www.kylecsteele.blogspot.com

Taylor Wilson

Artist Relations/Marketing at venture-backed music tech startup. Studied at Wake Forest University BA 2012.

Ravi Rao

Founder @axelo-1, @humanitv-media-tech-film , @slm • Worked at @TwistedSports @axelo-1, @Humani @Akros• Studied at @concordia-university

Kirk Brown

Co-Founder @dostuff-media. Developer @mysql / SUN. Developer @god-games / Take 2.

Kyle Samani

Entrepreneur. Intellectual. Capitalist. Writer. Healthcare technology pundit. CoFounder, CEO @pristine-1
http://www.kylesamani.com

R.C.

Attorney & Entrepreneur. Founder @capitalready, @RamLawFirm and @fundgreenhouse • Studied at @stanford-university & @StMarysU

Patrick Duncan

Vice President , Business & Market Development at Cognite

Matt Swezey

Technologist that enjoys creating innovative solutions with substantial experience in product, web, mobile and some hardware. Full Stack Rails, EmberJS, iOS.

Tim Hayden

Founder @44doors, @gameplan • Worked at @edelman • Studied at @texas-state-university-san-marcos
http://timhayden.tumblr.com

Taylor Brooks

Born in Atlanta; live in Austin. Auburn grad.

Rick Lundbom

Founder/CEO IR top 300 ecommerce network LivingDirect.com, CompactAppliance.com, Kegerator.com, WineCoolerDirect.com, EdgeStar.com... @livingdirect

David Henderson

Social, Mobile, Media, Entrepreneur - co-founder of socialeyes and socialmedia, early executive at @doubleclick and @matchlogic.

Jack Holt, Co-Founder of Mattr

On 2d startup. Bootstrapped first for 8 yrs, accts like NYSE, BoA, P&G, HP. Sold interest in 1/11 to fund @mattr-1. Product dev & marketing.
http://jackswhitli.posterous.com/

Nikhil Daftary

Product Strategy | Product Marketing | Digital Strategy | Product Management

Jeremy Kandah

Founder BitAngels DApps Fund • Founded Appcasher, LLC • Worked at @flurry • Studied at @purdue-university, @the-college-of-william-and-mary

Shawn Bose

Poppabear, Interweb Genius, Closet Academic, Rumpshaker Extraordinaire, Dimpled & Dangerous. Founding team uShip, Founder of Deily, Investor in ATX Seed Fund.

Taylor Benefield

Work at @trinet • Studied at @texas-tech-university VP @bsfund Investor @aceable

Dan Driscoll

Founder, @reqwip. Board Chair, @prepify. Worked at: @expedia; @universal-sports, @city-fc. Studied at: @the-university-of-texas-at-austin-1, @pomona-college.

Abe Marciano

Product Development @ebay-enterprise; Investor @ecquire.

John Sheets

CTO & technical co-founder at vivogig. Indie developer of SkronkBar music statusbar for OS X and (retired) PhotoFlick iPad app. Strong history with OOP and TDD.

Satish Kodukula

Co-Founder of Groupcharger, @nabthedeal and TheLunchDeal.Strong product development, technical strategy,operations and business development.2 startups sold.

Dorian Johnson

Worked at @heap, @eduvant • Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1

Jered Kenna

Former Marine, Tradehill Founder, Owner of 20mission and investor.

Rayyan Islam

Entreprenuer | President @airocorp | VC Fellow @406-ventures | Former VC @wasabi-ventures | Business/Finance @deloitte @lazard @ubs | Sales. Marketing. PR.
http://www.rayyanislam.com/blog

Jonathan Dobbertin

Founder @callgrader, @cityvoice, and @bluematch. @dreamit-ventures alum. Beer lover, beard grower, bean counter.

Evan Hamamcy

Work @google (Motorola Mobility), Worked @motorola, @nasa, @Center for Space Research (CSR), @dell, @zimmer, @Applied Materials

Jeremy Strauser

Advisor @toochill-games • Founder @bee-cave-games • Worked at @zynga, @electronic-arts • Studied at @george-washington-university

Matt Jared

Web Designer. Learn to code and taco enthusiast.
http://mattjared.co/blog

Brian Kurth

Founder of Pivot Planet, Inc.; Founder of VocationVacations; and former director at Telenisus & Ameritech.

Christian Primozich

Founder and CTO at Togga, Inc. (www.playtogga.com)

Kyle Robertson

Engineer / IP Attorney / Entrepreneur. Founder @narrativedx & @icare. Advisor @nastraq. Attorney for @apple & @amazon. C++ @national-instruments.

Noam Reininger

Director - Dell Solution Centers Responsible for technical engagement centers across the US. Solutions include cloud, storage, VDI and unified fabrics.

JD Weinstein

@capitalfactory , Previously @UTHorizonFund

Sam Goodner

Founded Catapult Systems, Inquisite, Mobile Alchemy, and Slingrock.

James Weddle

@cospace. 8th startup, 3 sold. @arizona-state-university. Work: @digital-equipment-corporation @lockheed-martin @sandia-national-laboratory @jpmorgan-chase @sierra-health-services
http://jamesweddle.com

Johan Borge

Founder @the-techmap, @texas-capital-real-estate-llc • Worked at @dell Computer, @dell • Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1, @austin-college

John Mao

Worked at @calxeda, @netqos • Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1

Rob Neville

Founder @evity (sold to BMC software) $100M funded with one angel round

Shaun Pendergast

Visual Designer / UI Superhero / Illustrator

Todd LeBaron

Founder OpenSymmetry, initial investor H.Bloom, initial investor Word Iz Bond, BOD Imotiva

Shawn Ullman

Founder Feel Rich
http://www.youtube.com/feelrichtv

Adam Alexander Salamon

Founder & COO at Perk.com. Founder & CRO of Jutera Labs, an idea to product incubator and holding company of @gush-2 and Mommy.com. Sales guy #2 at @bazaarvoice.

Nicole Dimetman

Founder @embarkly; JD @university-of-texas-austin; Worked @akin-gump

Dean Cruse

Startup CMO in Austin, leading sales & marketing for Union Metrics. 4th-generation Texan, aspiring woodworker, lover of perfect tacos. Also, string.
http://www.deancruse.com

Brian Goldberg

Angel investor in CPG, energy, tech

Hollis Tibbetts

High profile and well-known software executive - marketing, strategy, social media and technology expert.
http://hollistibbetts.sys-con.com

Shayan Mohanty

Founder & CEO of FounderSchool, Lead Engineer @talksession. Former Lead Engineer @swrmit-inc

Hamza A.

International marketing and communications professional. Worked at @microsoft @four-seasons-hotels-resorts @motionpoint

Chris Aniszczyk

Head of Open Source at Twitter. Pragmatist. Avid Runner. Bourbon.
http://aniszczyk.org/

Patrick Kolencherry

Founder and CTO @pristine-1; Background in data visualisation, programming, and statistics.

Justin Pope

Senior Engineer @boxc, Founder @phlybuy, Co-Founder @socialmd, Attended @university-of-texas-austin
http://bitmash.co

Annie Chang

Developer @chasm-io. Hacker @doglog. Fellow @Hackbright Academy. Founder/CEO @Best_Chuck. Project manager @wikia, @Smalltown. Studied @UCI B.A. Psychology & Social Behavior
http://anniechang.wordpress.com

Matt Silk

Entrepreneur, investor and advisor to technology startups. CMO and Founder, Waterfall Mobile • Worked @xircom, @e-trade-financial • Studied @university-of-pennsylvania
http://blog.waterfallmobile.com

Jay Hotaling

Founder @fastfig Inventor of @Touch-Not

Walt Roloson

Active Investor and Advisor. Currently leading Operations for Impossible Ventures. Previously at LinkedIn and Tiger Global.

Ajit Verghese

Jaakko Piipponen

CEO & Founder at @remote-garage , previously founded Kiitos. • Worked at @credit-suisse • Studied at @university-of-southern-california, @helsinki-school-of-economics-and-business-administration

joahspearman

CEO/cofounder of Localeur, Emerging Business Leader of the Year by CapCity Chamber, co-author of Real Role Models, three-time finalist for Austin Under 40 Award
http://blog.localeur.com

Chris Slaughter

Founder @lynx-laboratories • Worked at @university-of-texas-at-austin • Studied at @university-of-texas-austin

Brett Relander

Digital Marketing professional with specialties in social media, mobile, SEO, gamification, and lead generation. It's about results, nothing else.

Praneeth Patlola

Founder @jobhuk @airwala-com @tata-consulting-services-tcs @accenture @at&t

Jeffrey Mahler

Founder @lynx-laboratories • Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1

Colin Osburn

Enterprise IT, Mobile - • Founder of Etuvian • Worked at @trilogy, @Time Warner Cable • CIO for national automotive ecommerce brand Parts.com •Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university

Jeffrey Fry

Investor in @videodisgo, @myturf, @cards-over-the-world, @hudesk, @vivian-s-muse, @trailer-food-diaries, @coax-corp.

Will Johnson

Paul Walhus

Founder Spring.net, built the Spring, one of the first online communities along with the WELL. Manager of Computer Support at Sematech.
http://spring.net

Michael Olaya

Founder @pictrition • Studied Physics @university-of-north-texas
http://michaelarthursmind.tumblr.com/

Taylor Pechacek

Product Manager @maxwell-health • Studied at @university-of-north-texas • Behavior Design • User Experience • Strategic Thinker • Game Theory Enthusiast

Daniel Kim

Looking for a full-time developer position starting on January of 2015!
http://gnis.pythonanywhere.com/

Patrick McGuinness

CEO / founder at EduTech startup VeritasU. Entrepreneur and SW professional. Prior: CTO @ Engine, EDA mgr @ Freescale, Moto, CS PhD @ UIUC.

Taleeb Noormohamed

Seasoned, strategic tech entrepreneur and investor; strong experience working with startups to multibillion $ market cap companies. @princeton, @oxford.

Daniel Keelan

Investor in @zynga, @accuwater.

Sam Gaddis

Cofounded Mutual Mobile

Melissa Wingard-Phillips

Growth hacker. Builder of products, markets, and communities in startups, NGOs, and corporations (Trilogy, BroadJump/Motive, Dell)

James Vinson

Founder @vchain-solutions, @institute-for-supply-chain-innovation • Worked at @sony-music-entertainment, @motorola-solutions • Studied at @university-of-west-georgia
http://www.vchainsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/The-Hidden-Leak-in-Your-Supply-Chain-Miscommunications-Caused-by-Scattered-Information.pdf

Andrew Saunders

Integrated Marketing & Content Solutions Executive at CAA (@creative-artists-agency). Featured in Wired, Fast Company and Banff Media Festival.
http://www.andrewsaunders.com

Aasim Saeed

Founder @TeleCog, Inc. • Worked at @McKinsey & Company • Medical Doctor • Studied at @duke (MD), @harvard (MPA) @rice (BA)

Nicholas Long

Technical Lead at Dreamworks Animation Co-Founder and CTO of glmps Co-Founder and CEO of Mixtape

John Wolpert

At IBM, looking for interesting companies in API / Mobile. Founded Flywheel, spun it out of Best Buy, raised two rounds of funding, hired growth team.
http://innosanity.com

Gabriel Shepherd

Tech Startup Entrepreneur- Biz Dev @wedgies, Community Liaison @sxsw @sxswv2v, Host of @dontsweattech podcast -Drinks @chopinvodka
http://dontsweatthetech.com

Daniel Heron

Worked at @greenling • Studied at @the-university-of-texas-at-austin-mccombs-graduate-school-of-business
http://asiago.me

Marc Bhargava

Founder @petparent • Worked at @mckinsey-company, @Castanea Partners • Studied at @harvard-university

Toni Lane Casserly

CEO / Editor in Chief: CoinTelegraph. Advisor, ChangeTip. ENTJ. Strong background in creative business. UT/SCAD.
http://instagram.com/tonilanec

Jesse Dyer

Founder&CEO MeetMePay, Inc, operator of MeetMeTix.com We are the only social network for tickets , featuring patent pending P2P fraud proof sales technology.

Jeffery Garza

Sales Director at @local-plant-source • Worked at @yodle & @im5 • Studied at @united-states-naval-academy

Bob Bridge

CEO at InView Technology Corporation

Carlos Rivera

Andy Ambrose

Jeffrey Fry

Marketing / Sales Guru, Multiple Start Ups to his credit

Josh Alexander, CFA

Co-Founder & CEO of @toopher. Delivering Disruptive Innovation Entrepreneur. Professor. Executive. Advisor. Investor. <@wharton-school, @stanford-university, UT Austin>
http://thatfinanceguy.wordpress.com

Kyle Bunch

Group Director, Mobile & Social Platforms at @r-ga. Co-Founder of @blogs-with-balls, @seointelligence and @blogebrity.
http://thedailybunch.com

Sanjay Lall

Anthony Morales

Rails-friendly UI Designer, map fiend, @thankthanknotes writer. Has never seen America's Next Top Model. And doesn't want to.

Gary Glass

Technophile. Founder @CapitalCityVentures. Mentor @longhornstartup @capitalfactory . Worked @xensource @citrix @objectrocket @rackspace
http://garyglass.co

David Brubaker

Founder at @dabl Intern Undergrad Sr. Analyst at Dell Intern Undergrad at @hewlett-packard

John Ellis

Industry veteran with a 20 year background in embedded device development and enterprise data center management. Member of the Linux Foundation's JTAC.

Waytao Shing

COO at @remark • Studied Neurobiology @university-of-texas-at-austin-1

Max Loukianov

CTO at @gimme-3; worked at @ichat, Cisco, @openwave, @broadvision. @carnegie-mellon-university / Pittsburg Supercomputer Center. Rocket scientist turned software engineer.

Heather S Miller

Marketing Director @able Strong B2C background. Past clients: @car2go, @AT&T. Worked @gsd-m-advertising, @enviromedia Masters in Mktg @texas-a-m-university.

Bill Clark

Jake Koten

Front-End Developer; with Full Stack Exp.
https://jakekoten.com

Samir Patodia

Investor Relations @equinix, Sales @bazaarvoice, Product Management @tangoe, Comp Sci Undergrad/MBA at UPenn/Wharton

AJ Archibald

Principal at Startup Culture. Been involved intimately with Social and Mobile Games for the last 5 years. Strong Biz Dev relationships built over the last 15yrs

Ray Ho

Making magic at Twitter. Made magic at Cover (acquired by Twitter) and Path. Once a cubicle at Cisco. Hook'em.

Brooke McKinsey Henckel

Remington Robertson

Product guru; design enthusiast; gentleman scoundrel. Founded two former startups with just under 1M in private angel investment.

Chad Sakonchick

Founder @restlessnapkin, @posima • Worked at @dell, @pervasive-software • Studied at @university-of-texas-austin

Craig Lawrence

VP Marketing @solarbridge-technologies. Cleantech entreprenuer, exec. Ph.D. Engineering, product design, investing, marketing @ideo @accel-partners

Dennis Tracey

Julie Rachui

Founder/Investor @sp3-group • Worked at @wayport, @quickarrow, @deja-com • Startup/Growth Expert in areas of Ops, HR, Finance, Facilities, IT • Studied at TAMU

Chad Huston

lawyer at Daffer McDaniel; multiple start-ups

Damian Thompson

Sales Freak. Marketing Nerd. Biz Dev Dork. Leadership Geek. Founder of @demand-genesis VP North America @ground-labs
http://demandgenesis.com/blog

William Morgan

Baylor MBA 2011, Helps run a Family Office with diverse investments, Involved with Baylor Angel Network since 2012

Barry Thornton

Serial entrepreneur-Founder of @clearcube, is about critical thinking and innovation in the post-industrial age where applied anthropology is your 6-gun
http://www.barrywthornton.com/BTblog/

Jason Seiden

Co-founder & CEO of @brand-amper, a social media training company with a scalable, 1:1 training model. Background in both training & web technologies.
http://jasonseiden.com

Sonya Eick

Currently Python Developer @cisco; Hardware Hacker & Maker; Studied Architecture at NMU.

Ix

Founder @pragma, Secret Laboratory • Worked at @microsoft, @adaptive-path
http://krop.com/ixisnine

Justin Yarmark

Founder|COO @fair-document; Investor|CSO @TheCottages; Founder @coach-explore @eziba-inc Worked @numesh-inc @annuity-systems-inc Studied @williams-college; US Ski Team
http://coachexplore.com

Jonathan Kanarek

Currently at @cloudamize • Worked at @vast , @tenduit-software , @hewlett-packard, @compaq @b2e-solutions-llc

Scott Leese

SVP Sales - OutboundEngine, VP Sales Main Street Hub, Reply! Inc., DotNext, Democrasoft, @arizona-state-university, Dominican Univ.

Damon Clinkscales

Cultivator.
http://blog.damonc.com

Armando Vera III

UT-Austin BA/BS Grad; Strong international background (US, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, France); 'People Person'; Worked at Equipboard, Tocquigny, ACLU and UT.

Tim McGee

Managing Director at Tolarus Partners

Jonathan Huang Van

Marketing at UTMcCombs - Frontier Ventures - Interact ATX - Rose Vacation Rentals - Fitness Adventures
http://www.vansventures.com

Steve Blackmon

Cofounder, Ravel

Shawn Freeman

CMO of @subtledata. Senior Marketing Executive. Previously Dell (NASDAQ:DELL), Sony (NYSE:SNE), Critical Mass- Omnicom (NYSE:OMC), EuroRSCG-Havas (NYSE:HVA.PA)

Son Hong

Chief of Staff @ HVF, LLC Strategy and Operations Associate and Program Manager at @liveops, Inc.

Ryan Cush

VP of Business Development, Food on the Table

Eric Strait

Founder of @crowdflair @tech-hustlers-2 & Startupdelight(acquired in 2011). Lover of #comedy #socialmedia #entrepreneurship #tech #internetstartups #mobile #SXSW
http://techhustlers.com

Jonathan Simmons

Sr. UX designer, with years of experience building apps for enterprise customers. Process: idea, sketch, validate with customers, repeat. Use a bootstrap.
http://www.jonathanpsimmons.com/

Blaine Nielsen

Co-Founder & President at @dropship-1. Experience: CEO of @doba, @dell, @ernst-young. 12+ years experience in the drop ship vertical.

Osvaldo Ayala

Passionate about startup communities, supporting Startup Weekend and H/F, Growth strategist at Icalia Labs.
http://osvaldoayala.tumblr.com

Ben Munoz

Founder @ben-s-friends, @nadine-west • Worked at eToys • Studied at Stanford & Kellogg

Seth Black

Lead Developer @atlas-wearables Formerly CTO of @moniker-guitars, DBA at @rackspace and @at-t.
http://www.taleas.com/

Ryan T Garner

Co-Founder at Clearhead; Former digital executive at Warner Music; Former product manager at JetBlue.

Shaun Sims

2X Entrepreneur (1 Exit); Mobile Product Manager @ XO Group (The Knot)
http://www.lifesapi.com

Michael D. Moffitt

PhD, 2007; MSE, 2006; MSE, 2005; BSE, 2003 (all University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Winner of IBM Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship. Really nice guy.
http://gplus.to/mmoffitt

Candice Roma

CEO, Co-founder, & Copywriter at EMuse Creative. BA @dartmouth-college College. MFA University of Notre Dame.
http://www.emusecreative.com/blog

Brooks Morgan

• CEO @ GetAccepted • Venture Partner @ Learn Capital • COO @ Uversity - VCs: Founders Fund, Gates Fdn • VP Sales @ Infegy - Bootstrapped. First employee. 

Chris Gee

Harvey Ring

Investor Small Companies

Kim Love

Founder/CEO LoveLife. Food science/wellness thought leader. B of Sci in Nutrition @texas-christian-university.

Andy Keil

Product Strategy at @visage. Founder of @fu-weekend and Pop 'stache.

Nea North

Marketing - Operations; Diverse business career; Previous start up experience; B.S. in Marketing & Finance; M.A. in Advertising

Erin Mulligan Nelson

Global operating executive with focus on brandbuilding and innovation. CMO of Dell ($60B) & Bazaarvoice (led through IPO). Led global $16B dell.com business.

Chris Porch

Advisor @recyclematch, Founder and VP @trilogy Software, CEO BetweenMarkets, President & COO Zag/TrueCar, @stanford-university undergrad

Tim Kern

CEO of @getpromotd, Over a decade of experience in online marketing and sales.

Mario Facusse

Founder and CEO of Xyber Technologies

Ernie Aguilar

An Embedded Systems Generalist with an extensive background in firmware, I enjoy building stuff, playing with sensors, and chewing on all sorts of puzzles.

Jon Kolko

Design-Led Product Management & Innovation

Alexandria Overton

ENTREPRENEUR, CRITICAL & CREATIVE THINKER, LIFE-ENTHUSIAST

Jason Gill

Consultant/Angel/Advisor. Marketing/sales/bizdev/strategy for early stage start-up's. @polycom, @sonicwall, @sun, @Vocera. 2X Entrepreneur, MBA from IU/BA U.Va.

Steve Rafferty

Founder and CEO of ActiveProspect.

Kylie Jack

Founder @front-gate-tickets, @source-spring • Worked at @sapient, @human-code • Studied at @alfred-university @saint-edward-s-university
http://www.kyliejack.com/blog

S

Building web brands since last century.

Sandeep Parikh

Worked at @apple, @10gen-2 • Studied at @university-of-michigan, @university-of-texas-austin

John Michael Davis

Founder @kambit • CPA • Worked at @ernst-young • Studied at @university-of-arkansas • Masters of Accountancy • BSBA Accounting and Finance

Ramon E. Gonzalez IV

B2B Sales Rep with 10 years experience.

Sungho Yoo

Sales and Marketing Consultant. Always on the lookout for fun, life changing products, that want to grow big and tall :)

Brand Winnie

Re-inventing Magazines @ Seshn.com
http://brand.seshn.com

Kristian Russell

User Experience maven. Founder @candyshop. Awards: Clio, Webby and TED Grant nom.
http://thoughtroulette.com

Moneet Singh

Founder, CEO at Siminars

Dan Loewenherz

Founder @lionheart-software. Previously at @elm-city-labs. Applied Math @yale-university.
http://dlo.me/

Michael Meehan

Serial entrepreneur and advisor to investors and startups. Founder/CEO Carbonetworks, iVeridis, TCR Innovations.

Denise Court

VP of Marketing - Actively involved in bringing 6 early-stage companies to market, 2 IPO's and 2 acquisition exits.

Dave Jenkins

VP Marketing @endpoint.com, Fluent Japanese, founder @mediabang-com • Worked @backcountry-com, @red-hat @shoes.com
http://www.davejenkins.com

Private Leverage

Malcolm Sykes is investing in the Peer 2 Peer lending space.

Tony Frey

CEO of @skyence. Product ownership for $50MM product lines. Broad background in SysMan, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Information Governance and eDiscovery.
http://blog.skyence.com

Joe Ross

Joe Ross is President and Co-Founder of CSID, with more than 15 years of experience in managing and directing corporate operations on an international level. Ross is responsible for all aspects of global operations, sales, marketing and client services fo

Prabhakar Gopalan

VP Products, Khorus.com. Founder kanban2go.com. Whole Product Manager building behavior changing SaaS & Mobile Apps. Product Design, UX, Customer Development.

Perry Nelson

Founder @nicely-noted . Passionate about stationery, design & the interwebs. Formerly @dell, @Wmag and @dwell online land. UT MBA 2010.

Jason Ford

Founder @feedmagnet

Joe Stephens

Head of Business Development @remark (500 Startups, Batch 8), Lawyer, Published Writer, 11-time Ironman triathlete, dual citizen of Australia and the US.
http://www.joesquestions.com

Michael Braithwaite

CSO@ClearOne Exe@Smart acquired @GE 02 Founder@ADG acquired @Aurant 04 Founder@NetStreams acquired @clearone 09 Acquired@Magicbox 11 Acquired@VCON 12 Acquired@Spontainia 14
http://dr-db.com

Dave Perry

Worked at @avocent, @TI, @tenduit-software • Investor @tenduit-software • Studied at @harvard-business-school, @hardin-simmons-university Teacher @ActonMBA

Pranav Desai

Engineer @solspot-systems, Inc. BSEE UT Austin 2012. Dell Intern 2011. Raytheon Intern 2010.

Morgan Warstler

Co-Founder / CEO, GOVWHIZ. Storied start-up guy since mid 1990's, now doing Mobile Local Government.
https://medium.com/@morganwarstler

Jeffrey Fry

I am considered an expert in marketing, sales, total quality management and continuous quality improvement.

Hunter Monk

Bootstrapped MSPACES. Started outsource consulting and freelance SEM in high school.

Eric Fernandez

Eric Fernandez is a developer at AppSumo and SumoMe. Previously: Software engineer at General Dynamics. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from MIT.

Chris Cowden

Passionate entrepeneur. Motivated, hard-working generalist.

Aidan Augustin

Co-Founder and CEO of @feathr. Kaizen practitioner with a passion for human interaction and an irrepressible drive to change the world.

A. Pierre Yurow

Founder Blogcash | Founder Fitstarter Founder Ridehop | Founder Tesla Digital Founder, Spectrum Mobile Omnichannel, Multiscreen Innovation Serial Entrepreneur

Chris Murphy

Co-founder @Lawful.ly. Founder - @Locogno. Business and tech background with @accenture and @motive. Exits with @motive (IPO) & @reliant-data-systems (sale).

Peter Fleckenstein

Founder Lifestr • Worked at @achieveglobal, @gartner-meta-group

Manoj Saxena

MD, The Entrepreneur's Fund. Former GM, @ibm Watson ; Founder & CEO @webify (Acquired by IBM) @Exterprise (Acquired by Commerce One). Board Member @ Various

Tim Steckler

Specializing in taking ideas to manufacturable hardware designs.

Gregory S Fitzgerald

Founder @displaypoints, Incentto • Worked at @3com, @fortinet • Studied at @university-of-colorado-boulder, @emory-university

Joel Garcia Galan

CEO of Wirewatt, Inc. Previously App Engineer @schneider-electric . Electrical Engineer @university-of-texas-at-austin-1

Thomas Brady

Hardware and software prototyper, interaction designer, systems thinker and humane design champion

Adrian Arnet

Worked at @nuhabitat

Jae Lee

Founder and CEO @movable-ads-llc
http://blog.jael.ee

Austin Lyons

engineer @riskpulse. previous: engineer at @intel, co-founder of @oso-technologies, MSEE @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign BSEE @iowa-state-university

Marc Philobos

Head of Strategic Partnerships at Parking Panda and opened MetLife Stadium as an employee of the New York Jets. Former StubHub employee. Passion for Startups.

Andy Sernovitz

Author: NYT Bestseller "Word of Mouth Marketing", Founder/CEO: SocialMedia.org & WordofMouth.org

Felix Menard

Product guy. Founded @weroll @exitlist. Well-travelled, designed-focussed, art-lover, dedicated coder, bicycle rider.

Kevin Kenyon

Computer Science/Pure Mathematics - University of Texas at Austin Team member of @uthinktank

Hector Ruiz-Cardenas

Fmr Chmn/CEO AMD, Trustee Rand Corp and Rice U, Presidents Council of Advisors in Sci/Tech

Chris Lamprecht

Founder of @searchify, employee #1 at @indeed.com

Alex Birkett

Marketing @lawnstarter & Arctica Race, Writer @ iamalexbirkett.com & rsvlts.com, Educated @ University of Wisconsin
http://IAmAlexBirkett.com

Aaron Sanchez

Electrical Engineering/Public Relations Senior @UTAustin , President of Technology Entrepreneurship Society: @TESatUT

Adam Green

20+ years of experience in investment banking, venture capital, corporate strategy and global business development. Specialty areas include mobility, semiconductors, consumer products, consumer electronics and communications infrastructure.

Tim Sams

Jake Bailey

Co-Founder of @recommenu, and @emerson-accelerator, Formerly at @ditto and @wefunder

Gayathri Radhakrishnan

Corporate Development & Strategy for Dell Commercial business unit. Former VC & current Kauffman Fellow [email protected]/in/gradhakrishnan

Christopher Harman

CEO & Founder, Rail Yard, Inc. Founder of HCP Advisors, telecommunication and commercial real estate domain expertise.

Ricardo Soza

Software Architect and developer for products in a multitude of disciplines, everything from microcontroller firmware to enterprise level web applications..

Scott J. Beaudreau

Founder, CTO of @circleci Media. Previously Principal Dev/PM at Microsoft in Bing Semantic Index, Search Incubation, and Search UX. Deep technology+data science.

Jose Rubio

Co-founder & CTO of Mineful a data driven email marketing software for e-commerce.

Alvaro Jimenez

Cofounder of Bandplify (Madrid) & more recently Notorious (NYC). Academic background: bachelors in Law & BA, masters in Int' Business Mgmnt, 5 languages.

Eris Stassi

Founder Ingredient 1. Previously UX @apple, VP of UX at @morgan-stanley and consultant to startups making positive change.

Felix Orwa

Biz Dev Man @mind The Bridge. Valedictorian grad BSC Aviation Technology & Management CFII, MEI. Professional Pilot 1340 Hrs. Pilot of yr 2011 (1st yr on job).

Jeffrey Biles

Founder of Math Monsters. Versatile developer with deep knowledge of Ruby on Rails and Ember.js. Rapidly learning student of business and marketing. Educator.

Zal Bhathena

Worked at @escalation-point, @visible-health

Niraj Patel

University of Texas at Austin Computer Science, Graduating Spring 2015, Interned at HomeAway

Tony Aguilar

Co-Founder and Head of Product & Sales at Student Loan Benefits

Michael Scheschuk

Worked at Bricktrends, Dell, Amazon.com, Lucent Technologies, Merrill Lynch. MBA from Stanford in 2000.

Drew Giovannoli

Worked at @fosbury • Studied at @kelley-school-of-business-indiana-university
http://www.drewgiovannoli.com

Sam Gosling

Co-founder of @spotsi; Professor at UT Austin; Author of "Snoop: What your stuff says about you"; Expert in the psychology of social media.

Lamar Romero

Worked at @ownlocal @dell, @fleet-physics - Sales systems driven marketer and promoter of products I believe in. Currently CEO Dragon Spirits Marketing

Sam Hyatt

Founder @locata-co. Previous founder @biicast.

Brian Simmons

Founder of @eventslice. Taking the pain out of event planning! Worked @spiceworks @eds @realtytrac

Daniel Garcia

Founder at @callgrader.com

Brandon Coleman III

Dynamic and forward-thinking leader with experience driving brand value and strategically positioning companies for profitable growth.

Joe Edgar

Joe is an experienced entrepreneur and investor. He is actively involved with start-ups in Oregon, New York and Texas and has been an angel investor since 2004

Kuba Kostecki

Enterprise Tech. Founder @globeshifts @compassionatefare others. Studied at @fordham-university & @warsaw-school-of-economics @built-in-colorado-2 @denver
https://medium.com/@kubakostecki

Natasia Malaihollo

2-time startup founder; Chief Innovator @wyzerr. Former trademark and copyright agent to corporations, patent specialist to tech giants (Samsung, IBM).
http://blogs.Sooligan.com

Eric Olszewski

UT Software Engineer, very versatile skillset, started an HR company and looking for something new.

Niraj Patel

University of Texas at Austin, Programmer, Graphic Designer, Internship Experience

Joss Scholten

Founder at @yonomi, @sentient-labs. Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1. I focus on the Internet of Things, Quantified Self, and Home Automation.

Andrew Szatan

Full stack marketer raised on direct response, hooked on marketing tech. Helped edu startup grow to $100M+. NYU grad. The answer is usually "test it."
http://www.AndrewSzatan.com/blog/

Sidhant Srikumar

Co-founder of @noki, CS student at UT, Interned at Amazon Web Services

Scott Francis

Co-founder and CTO of BP3, a business process company Interested in Tech, Apple, Startups, Austin, good food.

Albert Swantner

Founder @bohemian-innovation, CTO @reqwip, CTO @charity-miles. BS & MS Mechanical Engineering from @university-of-texas-at-austin-1

Christian B.

Founder @briefcase • Worked at @tubemogul, @adknowledge, @lightbridge-inc-2 @electronic-arts  @pandora Avid poker player & loving Dad

Jef Sewell

Founder/CEO @Amplifier, Founder @despair-inc

Devin Naquin

Grishma Govani

Full stack marketer: Content, social media marketing, email marketing, copywriting and SEO

Greg Porter

Angel Investor, Commercial RE Investor/Developer, Business Development for Hedge Fund, previously two start-ups including Wheelgroup acquired by Cisco Systems

Tyler Gray

CCO @microventures-1, @charles-schwab-and-company • Studied at @michigan-state-university, @saint-edward-s-university

Nestor Hernandez

Broad range of software development experience and deep expertise of embedded systems.

Michael Lubker

Game Project Manager and Designer

Zach Kuzmic

Experienced UX/UI Designer with a passion for designing products that make a difference. Skilled in delivering highly-detailed annotated wireframes/mockups.

James Moore

Bachelor's in CS; Full stack experience; rapid development in products

Wes Kay

UT-Austin, B.S, CSM/CSPO Agile Professional Currently: Agile Coach at Dell.com

Avery Walker

Marketing Consultant at Imagine If Inc.; Advertising and PR Background
http://thecollectivecactus.com

Brian McGowan

Founder @peracon, @capital-properties

Devin Fee

Founder of TeamWell. Built / sold / delivered in Healthcare Tech. Computer Engineering from Notre Dame. President of non-profit. Proven, experienced leader.

Raul Trevino

Founder @participame-1. Former investment banker. Columbia and UT Austin.

Christian Hunter

Founded a dozen co's, created 50,000+ jobs, & garnered 20 years as a tech-centric CEO developing & selling startups.
http://www.christianhunter.blogspot.com

Sree Nagarajan

Founder/CEO @colligent, Product Marketing at Talisma (Enterprise CRM)

Jonathan Rosenberg

Developing meaningful solutions for mobile devices.

James Norris

Entrepreneur since 6. Focused on social and behavioral change. Co-built 6 startups. 4 secured/earned $100K+. Co-built 15 organizations. 3 majors/4 minors.
http://www.jamesnorris.org/insights

Cam Houser

Founder/CEO of 3 Day Startup • Worked at @amplifier • Studied at @university-of-texas-austin, @davidson-college

Mark Castleman

EIR @ Bell Labs

Amanda Strickler

Data analysis, machine learning, software engineering, python enthusiast, University of Maryland CS.

Taylor West

CEO @cheffedup. Built several startups, including a leader in physical media sales & buyback. Worked at WP Engine. Studied @san-diego-state-university
http://taylormetric.com

David Loia

A 'growth guy'. Sales, marketing, business dev. Founder @wicked-cool-apps • Worked at @oracle-corporation, @siebel-systems • Engineer @stanford-university, MBA @harvard-business-school
http://bit.ly/davidloia

Caleb Gandara

Founder @degreecast. In the past, I worked on consumer-facing travel, dining, and job search products that many of us use today.

Wes Little

MBA student skilled in marketing and business development, with a passion for assisting technology companies target and develop promising market opportunities.

Tim Juravich

Technology and Product Focused Entrepreneur. 9 years experience as a product, program, and technology leader. I lead projects that scale, in every way.
http://www.juravich.com

Lance Vaughn

Ruby on Rails evangelist and entrepreneur in Austin, TX. Owner of @cabforward and Co-founder of @lean-tail-labs.

Trey Philips

Software engineer focused on web UI. Worked at @stubhub. Created Extended Info, first Facebook app to be acquired. Co-creator of Tweeting Too Hard.

Ryan Crumley

Software Developer, Java, Python, Eclipse.

Ricardo D. Sanchez

Worked at @homeaway, @bedandbreakfast-com
http://ricardodsanchez.com

Brandon Thomas

Product, business operations specialist. I like digging ditches a mile wide and a mile deep with a spoon, and/or navigating new terrain without a map...
http://gbrandonthomas.com

Michael Lobel

Product Development at @mytennislessons • Studied American Culture and Digital Games at @northwestern-university

Charlie Kolb

Founder @chiron-health • Worked at @maxymiser, @indeed-com • Studied at @middlebury-college, @the-university-of-texas-at-austin-mccombs-graduate-school-of-business

Mike Svatek

Chief Strategy Officer at @bazaarvoice

Michael Wei

Technical co-founder of halfpastnow. Passion for consumer web. Strong tech background and business interest. UT Austin Engineering/Business 2008

Zachery Jiwa

EiR at HHS, 2 Startups, Passionate about improving healthcare through technology. Curiosity and problem solving drive me. CS at OKState, Marketing at Kellogg
http://www.hitmanzac.com/blog#

Gregory O. Odum

Founder Odum Capital LLC, Sinfra Resources • Worked at @wells-fargo, @t-mobile • Studied at @babson-college
http://fundless-sponsor.blogspot.com/

Fernando Avalos

Works at @local-plant-source • Studied at @universidad-autonoma-de-queretaro

Amanda Jones

MBA at UT McCombs 2014. Strong strategy consulting and analytics background (Deloitte) Focus on entrepreneurship with start-up experience and MBA roles

Preston Pham

Developer at Goodybag. Previously ConocoPhillips, The Home Depot. University of Texas at Austin C.S.
http://preston.io

Gladys S. Fry

Career Executive in the US Dept of State

Kristin Floyd

Looking for career opportunity at an energetic Austin startup. Studied at WSU and a world traveler who loves engaging with people!
http://thefloyds.tumblr.com

Beto Juarez III

Experienced Product Builder • Co-Founder @spokeswap • @stanford-university '07, @MITSloan '13
http://betojuareziii.com

Court Rye

Worked at @google, @accenture • Studied at @university-of-colorado-boulder, @stanford-university
http://tutorialsave.com

José Ancer

Tech & VC Lawyer, CTO @ MEMN - JD @harvard-law-school
http://siliconhillslawyer.com/

Vamsi Mohun

Director of Strategic Alliances - Transcend Computing, Momentum Software; Founder - @entreave; MBA - Texas McCombs; Author - Wiley's Mastering Enterprise SOA
http://www.entreave.com/

Jex Musa

Writer, connector, science nerd

Steve Green

CEO of @3-frogs-studios, Inc. Founded 4 Austin Startups, plus @trilogy and Austin Ventures backed @smart-technologies.

Kaleb Fulgham

Engineering Lead at @favor. Focus on Front-end JavaScript. Love God. Love People. Love Coffee.
http://life.kalebdf.com

Patrick Hitchins

Co-Founder of FitChimp. Sales Hustler...and distiller of value. Previously VP of Sales at Flocasts....and owner of "Coffee is for Closers" Trademark.

Danny Tamez

Design Entrepreneur

Samuel Forman

university of Arizona CS/IS im all about the data and making it work for you.

Dillon Scott

Growth Hacker @fanswell Founder of @swappel, problem solver, entrepreneur, I love building things that are addicting.

Jason Schklar

Game & Digital Media UX Consultant, UX Director @disney @zynga

Rich Winley

Founder @no-chains as my 4th company. With over 15 years experience in sales and marketing.

Paul DeVay

Design Lead & Meticulous Refiner of Good Ideas

Paul Rafalowski

~20 year software veteran with strong executive, sales, marketing and technical background

Brad Becker

UX Strategy and Leadership. Chief Design Officer for @ibm Watson. Formerly: Chief Experience Officer at @buuteeq. Director of Product at @microsoft; Product Designer at @adobe; Dev lead. BS CompSci.
http://scarynoises.com/blog

Dan Buzaid

Founding Member at @mytennislessons. Front End Developer and Instructor Onboarding.

Aaron Geiser

Works at @local-plant-source • Founded Pulsar Web Works • Studied at @columbus-college-of-art-design

Gregory Jacobson MD

CEO and co-founder of @kainexus. Emergency Medicine physician.

Shahzil Shaz Amin

Founder @blue-track-media, @plugged-inc • Managing Partner at @karlani-capital
http://shahzil.com

Jonny Kot

Start-up guru with four exits under my belt, looking for my next opportunity to work with a remarkable team on a remarkable problem that needs to be solved

Kathy Tran

Community Director of Switch • Worked on award winning games and now dedicated to empowering others though accessible education.

Rich Fueller

Founder @cheffedup • Worked as a chef at fine dining restaurants Olivia, and Lambert's in Austin, TX.

Jennifer Mansfield

Currently on my 3rd startup while running a Design & Media Agency. Seeking funding, Co-founder, COO and Intern help for a bootstrapped start-up, Happybelly Box.
http://www.inspiredeats.net

Mike Kuryak

The Leadership at K4 Group

The Interactive Resource

PR & Communications for startups. Business development. Event planning. Marketing.

Wade Floyd

Founder at @needto-1.com, People Builder, Problem Solver

Parnell Springmeyer

Serial entrepreneur, polyglot engineer and journeyman, Techstars alum.
http://blog.parnell.io

Casey Marshall (Harold Marshall Jr.)

Experienced investor, operator and strategy consultant with 20 years of experience in energy and cleantech.

Rob Hanna

I guide social entrepreneurs and investors in blended value start-ups, meaning investing in businesses with ROI and net positive externalities for society.
http://socialwealth.blogspot.com

Allen Weiner

It's a dry heat

Dai Truong

Associate in the Venture Capital practice at Austin Ventures ("AV") focused on Enterprise IT and Internet / Digital Media.

Gordon Walton

Worked at @Electronic Arts, @sony, @Bioware Corp • I build and manage teams that build great interactive entertainment

Joe McCann

Serial entrepreneur, designer, technologist, investor, musician and DJ. Obsessed with data, mobile and design. Technical background with biz dev brain.
http://subprint.com/blog

Hoyt Prisock

Serial technology entrepreneur. Master of blending product skills, business model development and market vision.
http://www.attentionsciences.com/blog/

Cary Prewitt

Founder Guns & Oil Brewing & Black Star Hospitality. Eo Member and board member.

Jeff Dyck

Working on projects for community, world, and kingdom impact.

Dagan Martinez-Vargas

Founder Peepsqueeze Inc. • Launched new programs for global clients • Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1

Krish Sailam

Senior Digital Media Startup Leader - strong ethics, focus on analytics and a long term relationship builder - Babson and Stockholm School of Economics graduate
http://absolutevariety.com

Kate Dailey

Founder @reqwip • Worked at @traiana, @codestreet • Studied at @bucknell-university

Anthony Blatner

Rushton McGarr

President & COO of concept3D.com and Founder @market-force-information • Worked at @dell • Studied at @university-of-north-carolina-chapel-hill

Michael Pfister

Co-Founder @noki; iOS Development @retailmenot-inc Student at University of Texas Computer Science; Mobile Application Development; Web Development

Cree Crawford

Business & Product Development Artist . Monetization Specialist • Studied at @georgetown-university. Entertainment, Travel Tourism, Sports Marketing - Extensive Network

Chris Carter

Erik Cardenas

Founder & CEO at NavAssist • 12 years of experience in the health care and information systems field.

Mohit Taneja

Computer Engineering @ut-austin, Passions: Energy Efficiency, Embedded Systems, Computer Architecture, Networking, Robotics and Food

Mark Drosos

Founder Lodestone Social Media

Venture Scholar

Mentoring leaders from top graduate schools across the country via access and review of Start-ups.

Matt Schultz

i like code

Jeff SKI Kinsey

Entrepreneur. Rainmaker. Author. Journalist. Publisher. Speaker. Educator. Marketing Mad Man. Mobile App and Biz Dev for iOS/Droid/Kindle/Nook.
http://blog.consultski.com/

Brandon Knicely

Entrepreneur, principal @wigwag, Co-founded @cor Advisors, CTO @onsite-access, VP @Harris/Caprock, Think big, use leverage, add value, listen well.

Ari Franklin

CMO at Uberpong • Founder of OurPangea • Founder of FundFit Collective • Years of experience in brand account management and interactive production experience
http://ourpangea.wordpress.com