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

Jason Seats

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

Kenny Van Zant

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

David Cohen

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

Justin Siegel

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

Josh Williams

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

Cotter Cunningham

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

Jason Cohen

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

Michael Dell

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

Rony Kahan

Chairman, co-founder of @indeed.

Chris Plough

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

Aziz Gilani

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

Kip McClanahan

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

Bill Boebel

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

Nick Wyman

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

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/

Asad Zafar

Principal at Sentient Capital

Alan Michael Kane

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

Nitesh Banta

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

Rahul Prakash

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

David Hauser

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

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.

Alex Chang

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

Scot Chisholm

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

Lukas Bouvrie

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

John Fanguy

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

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 ////

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

Steve Welch

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

Arun Prakash

Outside of AngelList I am a Partner with Virgo Capital

David Wieland

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

Russell Hinds

Managing Director, RSH Ventures

Rick Timmins

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

Laurent Drion

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

Bril Flint

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

Brett Hurt

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

Bill Clark

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

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.

Central Texas Angel Network

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

Ian Clarke

Computer Scientist and Serial Entrepreneur

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.

Tucker Max

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

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/

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/

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)

Jared Slosberg

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

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/

Colin Corgan

B.A. Dartmouth, retired Partner from Goldman Sachs

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

Michael Trafton

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

Chuck Gordon

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

Alan Chesler

Founder, Investor, Advisor. MS Finance - Wisconsin

Shane Adams

Founded Sagacious Consultants

Gordon Daugherty

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

Johannes Larcher

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

Christopher Piedmonte

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

Higinio O. Maycotte

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

Rick Orr

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

Thomas Ball

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

Jeremy Bencken

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

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

Rosa L. McCormick

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

Wesley Barnett

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

Hans Erickson

Chief Operating Officer at @phunware, Inc.

Brian Grigsby

General Partner at @corsa-ventures

Jason Reneau

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

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

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/

Bryan Menell

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

Matthew Sechrest

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

Jason Traff

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

Andrew Allison

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

Andrew Eye

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

Nicholas White

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

Mitchell Harper

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

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

Louis Marascio

Entrepreneur; Market Hacker; Troublemaker

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

Yvonne Tocquigny

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

John Hime

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

Jonas Lamis

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

Jonathan Berkowitz

Chief Executive Officer at @thinktiv, Inc.

David Lemley

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

Denis O'Dwyer

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

Tom West

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

Arjun Banker

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

Jonathan Spillman

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

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

Joel Trammell

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

JR Garcia

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

Tim Sullivan

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

Robin Reyes

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

Lloyd Armbrust

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

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

Christopher Rhodes

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

Adam Michela

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

Richard Jalichandra

Jonathan Ellis

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

Bernard Brenner

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

Sean Lane

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

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

John Hamlin

Jason Novek

Founder at @ownlocal, Y-Combinator Winter 2010.

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

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

Eric Falcao

Founder and CTO at @mass-relevance

Mikael Solomon

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

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.

Adam Cianfichi

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

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

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.

Marc Smookler

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

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.

Allen Rohner

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

Travis Devitt

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

Matt Thomson

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

Josh Jones-Dilworth

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

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/

Meredith Maycotte

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

Howard Marks

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

Purav Patel

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

Mark Hicks

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

Eric Gould Bear

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

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/

David Bettner

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

James Ledoux

Entrepreneur, ERP Training Expert, Angel Investor

Chad Keck

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

Paul Ford

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

Jeff Pinksa

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

Scott Miller

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.

Larry Walker

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

A.T. Fouty

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

FOUNDER.org

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

Kevin Doner

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

Evan Baehr

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

Brad Fults

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

Cyril Moutran

Cofounder at feedly. Partner at Makers Camp.

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.

Matthew Kimball

Investor @doctorbase, @gablit

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

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/

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

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

Andy Ulery

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

Chris Weaver

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

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

Brad Wilson

Founder/CEO Creeris Ventures

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.

Andrew Hunter

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

Kathleen Blackwell

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

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

Matt Peterson

Mobile Content Product Development Executive. I launch product.

Rodney Gibbs

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

Erik McMillan

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

Matt Allison

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

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

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

Connor Hood

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

Rodrigo Tinajero

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

Dennis Kashkin

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

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.

Hans Yeakel

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

Raj Ramanan

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

Eric Sung

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

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

Dan Graham

Founder & CEO BuildASign.com

Adam Dell

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

Joshua Shipsey

Investor in @mixbook, @boomerangs.

Robert Einspruch

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

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

Glen Burchers

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

Zaz Floreani

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

Taylor Hou

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

Barrett Wood

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

Bradley Markham

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

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.

Ash Maurya

Founder Spark59 - Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.

Robert Eanes

Founder at Pingboard

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

Steven "Mick" Giles

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

Aaron Longnion

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

Kerry Rupp

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

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

Ryan Michael

Pursuing elegance, currently @return-path

Nathaniel Robinson

Aaron Longnion

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

Mark Allen

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

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

William Griggs

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

Kevin Kendall

Experienced guide, strategic thinker, designer.

Heather Gore

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

Justin Jensen

Technologist. Photographer. Entrepreneur.

Matt Langan

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

Hoon Park

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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

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

Matt Lyons

Partner at Andrews Kurth LLP

Vivek Karuturi

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

Ben Gaddis

Innovation lead at T3. TechStars mentor. Angel investor.

Dave Verratti

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

Jesse Weber

Commercial Real Estate Expert and Entrepreneur

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.

Peter Fossick

Sebastian Bruce

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

Will Davis

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

Omeed Kazemi

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

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

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...

Michael Yoch

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

Bart Bohn

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

Jason Boulette

Partner at Boulette & Golden L.L.P.

Lynn Yeldell

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

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

James Clardy

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

Dave DeMink

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

Charles Sustaita

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

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

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.

Joe Mocquant

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

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/

Jason Bornhorst

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

Lauren DeLuca

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

Ed Anderson

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

Marc Yagjian

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

Bart Robertson

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

Brandon Marker

Analyst @techstars. Previously @microventures-1.

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/

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

Austin Hallock

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

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.

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

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

Ryan Deiss

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

Carl Shepherd

Co founder, HomeAway, Inc.

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

David Lowe

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

Erik Josowitz

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

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.

Tim Gasper

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

Dusty Jones

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

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

Joshua Chodniewicz

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

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/

Forrest Dukes

Project Management Intern @ Phunware

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

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.

Alec Wilson

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

Seth Page

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

Adrian Tavares

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

Hass Johnson

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

Cynthia Balusek

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

Cullen Wilson

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

Keegan Jones

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

John Paulos

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

Chris McClelland

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

Austin Louden

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

Faraaz Ismail

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

Dr. MJG

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

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

John Sung Kim

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

Matthew Stephens

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

Lyle Pratt

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

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.

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

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.

Jon Loyens

Product Oriented Engineering Leader

Bret Cox

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

Kenneth Murphy

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

Sam Onat Yilmaz

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

Patrick Barrett

Founder & Head of UX, Greater Good Labs

Steven Corcoran

Virginia Tech Alum, Founder @lawnstarter

Jay Perkins

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

Rajiv Bala

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

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

Donald Park

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

Jon Allen

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

Alex Sexton

Todd Plunk

Marketing Manager

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

Faraaz Ismail

Derick Thompson

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alex Morse

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

William Yarbrough

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

Michael McDaniel

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

Conall Arora

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

Joel Fontenot

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

Mason Arnold

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

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.

Anthony Broad-Crawford

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

Sachin Wadhawan

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

Graeme Waitzkin

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

Tim Liner

Ruby developer

Aamer Husain

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

Marko Kruustuk

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

Ryan Farley

Hokie Alum, currently Co-founder @lawnstarter.

Alan Schoenbaum

Sr. Vice President & General Counsel at @rackspace Hosting

Josh Rickel

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

Mark Davidson

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

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

Matthew Wensing

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

Patrick Madden

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

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

John Curtis

CEO at @quotient-solutions-inc

Justin Kvasnicka

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

John Engler

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

Frankie Arvelo

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

Steve Sachs

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

Goke Pelemo

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

Evan Hammer

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

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

Noah Zandan

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

Ricardo Vargas-Lugo

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

Jordan Gadapee

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

Alex Kilpatrick

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

Laurence Patrick Noonan

Senior Associate at @austin-ventures

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

Meghan Holzhauer

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

Brian Coppola

Lawyer/ Trader

Nate McGuire

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

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

Aseem Ali

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

Christina Trapolino

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

Srini Kadamati

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

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

Jonas Weigert

VT:CS Grad, Founder at LawnStarter

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/

Shion Deysarkar

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

Mason Hale

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

Patrick Adiaheno

Head of Product @thread-1

Steve Guengerich

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

Marc Mapes

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

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

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.

Jose Dunia

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

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

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/

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.

Zixiao Wang

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

Zachary Dell

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

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

Michael Walsh

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

Kristel Viidik

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

Jose G. Gonzalez

Internet Entrepreneur at Matrix2012 Ventures, Inc.

Dustin Blanchard

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

Jonathan Grimes

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

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/

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, ...

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

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.

Patrick H Perrine

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

Tom Klein

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

Steve Berneman

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

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/

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

James Dixson

Eric Anderson

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

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

Alex Leeson-Brown

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

Joe Curry

Louisiana native now exploring Austin and building relationships @spredfast

Alex Smith

Founder & CEO, LanternCRM.

Zac Maurais

Cofounder of @favor.

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.

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

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/

Nikki Rostollan

Math Nerd, COO & Co-founder  @maillift

Jordan Thaeler

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

Jason Stoddard

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

Dan DeFelippi

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

Ted Fifelski

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

Stuart Rench

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

Phillip Mertz

Co-Founder & Partner at Damodaran & Mertz.

Choo Kim-Isgitt

Chris Errett

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

Allen Torng

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

Chad Pavliska

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

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.

Ben Doherty

CEO & Co-Founder of @favor

Andy Fletcher

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

Roj Niyogi

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

Evan Phelps

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

Tushar Jain

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

Rachel English

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

Pascal Nicolas

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

Sebastian Hassinger

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

Doug Yeager

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

Adrian Rego

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

David Weiser

Founder & COO @lanterncrm-1

Manuel Rosso

Founder/CEO at FoodontheTable.com

Albert Smith

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

Kirtus Dixon

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

Jonathan Placa

Co-founder ProtoExchange • Techstars Alum

Oliver Treadwell

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

Keith Ubben

Founder @group-builder • Investor @tapatalk-1

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

Michael Misikoff

Morgan Bickle

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

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

Martijn de Kuijper

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

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

Marcus Turner

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

Truong-An (Bi) Thai

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

Chris Porch

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

Brian Fryer

UI/UX designer/developer in Austin

Scott Owens

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

Evan Kastner

Partner at leading technology and emerging growth focused firm in Austin

Marc Mattox

Multiple failures. One great exit. Tech Advisor & Opportunist

Jenny Bebout

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

Todd Krumholz

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

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

Carlos Urreta

Jim Curtin

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

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/

Mike Pav

VP of Engineering at @spanning Cloud Apps

Chris Treadaway

Founder at @polygraph-media

Patrick Perlmutter

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

Elom Tsogbe

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

Ulises Ramirez-Roche

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

Naqi Syed

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

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

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/

Chris Gillan

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

Frank Livaudais

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

Francisco Prat

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

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

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

Leonid Kurza

Technology commercialization

David Isquick

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

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.

Lara Jeremko

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

Bryon Jacob

Principal Architect at HomeAway

Blake Garrett

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

Jeb Boyt

Investor in @watchparty.

Jason Baldridge

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

Gregory O. Welch

Partner, Ingk Labs

Aaron Brazell

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

Carson Krieg

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

Charlie Plauche

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

Taylor Wilson

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

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/

Jonathan Wasserstrum

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

Michael Breen

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

Ravi Rao

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

Jerry Damon Chang

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

Kyle Christian Steele

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

Laura Mayes

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

Dave Erb

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

Kirk Brown

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

Michael Dellanoce

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

Beau Atwell

SaaS Sales Professional

Ross Skinner

Startup Technical Recruiter

Matthew Hall

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

Kyle Samani

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

Taylor Brooks

Born in Atlanta; live in Austin. Auburn grad.

Jeremy Kandah

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

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.

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/

David Henderson

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

Taylor Benefield

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

Nikhil Daftary

Product Strategy | Product Marketing | Digital Strategy | Product Management

R.C.

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

Matt Swezey

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

Rick Lundbom

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

Shawn Bose

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

Patrick Duncan

Vice President , Business & Market Development at Cognite

Tim Hayden

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

Sam Goodner

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

Dorian Johnson

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

Abe Marciano

Product Development @ebay-enterprise; Investor @ecquire.

Satish Kodukula

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

Matt Jared

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

Christian Primozich

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

Brian Kurth

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

Evan Hamamcy

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

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

Jeremy Strauser

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

JD Weinstein

@capitalfactory , Previously @UTHorizonFund

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.

Noam Reininger

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

Kyle Robertson

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

Jonathan Dobbertin

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

Jered Kenna

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

Shaun Pendergast

Visual Designer / UI Superhero / Illustrator

Hamza A.

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

Rob Neville

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

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.

Chris Aniszczyk

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

Justin Pope

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

Shayan Mohanty

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

Shawn Ullman

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

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

John Mao

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

Hollis Tibbetts

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

Brian Goldberg

Angel investor in CPG, energy, tech

Patrick Kolencherry

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

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

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

Nicole Dimetman

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

Todd LeBaron

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

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

Walt Roloson

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

Jeffrey Mahler

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

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

Chris Slaughter

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

Praneeth Patlola

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

Ajit Verghese

Will Johnson

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

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

Brett Relander

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

Jay Hotaling

Founder @fastfig Inventor of @Touch-Not

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

Jeffrey Fry

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

Taleeb Noormohamed

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

Daniel Kim

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

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

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

Patrick McGuinness

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

Gabriel Shepherd

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

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

Marc Bhargava

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

Aasim Saeed

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

Toni Lane Casserly

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

Nicholas Long

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

Michael Olaya

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

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

Taylor Pechacek

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

Daniel Keelan

Investor in @zynga, @accuwater.

Daniel Heron

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

Sam Gaddis

Cofounded Mutual Mobile

Waytao Shing

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

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.

Jeffrey Fry

Marketing / Sales Guru, Multiple Start Ups to his credit

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.

Max Loukianov

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

Bob Bridge

CEO at InView Technology Corporation

Andy Ambrose

Carlos Rivera

Jeffery Garza

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

Anthony Morales

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

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

Sanjay Lall

Gary Glass

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

Kyle Bunch

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

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.

David Brubaker

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

Sonya Eick

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

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

William Morgan

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

Damian Thompson

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

Craig Lawrence

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

Bill Clark

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

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

Samir Patodia

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

Chad Huston

lawyer at Daffer McDaniel; multiple start-ups

Ix

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

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/

Dennis Tracey

Jake Koten

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

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

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

Son Hong

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

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)

Osvaldo Ayala

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

Steve Blackmon

Cofounder, Ravel

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.

Seth Black

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

Ben Munoz

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

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 Huang Van

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

Scott Leese

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

Blaine Nielsen

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

Tim McGee

Managing Director at Tolarus Partners

Jonathan Kanarek

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

Shaun Sims

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

Ryan T Garner

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

Eric Strait

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

Ryan Cush

VP of Business Development, Food on the Table

Jon Kolko

Design-Led Product Management & Innovation

Kim Love

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

Mario Facusse

Founder and CEO of Xyber Technologies

Harvey Ring

Investor Small Companies

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.

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.

Nea North

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

Alexandria Overton

ENTREPRENEUR, CRITICAL & CREATIVE THINKER, LIFE-ENTHUSIAST

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

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.

Candice Roma

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

Tim Kern

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

Chris Porch

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

Chris Gee

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

Steve Rafferty

Founder and CEO of ActiveProspect.

Brooks Morgan

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

Andy Keil

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

Kristian Russell

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

Private Leverage

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

Sandeep Parikh

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

Dave Jenkins

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

Moneet Singh

Founder, CEO at Siminars

Dan Loewenherz

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

John Michael Davis

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

Sungho Yoo

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

Ramon E. Gonzalez IV

B2B Sales Rep with 10 years experience.

S

Building web brands since last century.

Michael Meehan

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

Prabhakar Gopalan

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

Denise Court

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

Brand Winnie

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

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

Aidan Augustin

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

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.

Chris Murphy

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

Pranav Desai

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

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

Dave Perry

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

Morgan Warstler

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

Peter Fleckenstein

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

Jeffrey Fry

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

A. Pierre Yurow

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

Jason Ford

Founder @feedmagnet

Michael Braithwaite

[email protected] [email protected] acquired @GE 02 [email protected] acquired @Aurant 04 [email protected] acquired @clearone 09 [email protected] 11 [email protected] 12 [email protected] 14
http://dr-db.com

Hunter Monk

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

Perry Nelson

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

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.

Joel Garcia Galan

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

Gregory S Fitzgerald

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

Hector Ruiz-Cardenas

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

Alex Birkett

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

Jake Bailey

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

Felix Menard

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

Adrian Arnet

Worked at @nuhabitat

Andy Sernovitz

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

Tim Sams

Jae Lee

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

Aaron Sanchez

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

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.

Kevin Kenyon

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

Thomas Brady

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

Chris Lamprecht

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

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.

Austin Lyons

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

Jose Rubio

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

Christopher Harman

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

Sam Hyatt

Founder @locata-co. Previous founder @biicast.

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).

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

Gayathri Radhakrishnan

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

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.

Lamar Romero

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

Alvaro Jimenez

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

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.

Brian Simmons

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

Eris Stassi

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

Michael Scheschuk

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

Brandon Coleman III

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

Ricardo Soza

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

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.

Daniel Garcia

Founder at @callgrader.com

Eric Olszewski

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

Christian B.

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

Tyler Gray

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

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

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

Niraj Patel

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

Greg Porter

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

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/

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

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.

Nestor Hernandez

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

Sidhant Srikumar

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

Zach Kuzmic

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

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

Grishma Govani

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

Michael Lubker

Game Project Manager and Designer

Jef Sewell

Founder/CEO @Amplifier, Founder @despair-inc

Devin Naquin

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

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

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

James Moore

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

Mark Castleman

EIR @ Bell Labs

Wes Little

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

Raul Trevino

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

Avery Walker

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

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

Amanda Strickler

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

Devin Fee

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

Caleb Gandara

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

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.

Sree Nagarajan

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

Wes Kay

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

Brian McGowan

Founder @peracon, @capital-properties

Lance Vaughn

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

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

Jonathan Rosenberg

Developing meaningful solutions for mobile devices.

Cam Houser

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

Beto Juarez III

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

Ryan Crumley

Software Developer, Java, Python, Eclipse.

Preston Pham

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

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#

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

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

Gregory O. Odum

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

Court Rye

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

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

Amanda Jones

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

José Ancer

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

Fernando Avalos

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

Gladys S. Fry

Career Executive in the US Dept of State

Michael Wei

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

Ricardo D. Sanchez

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

Michael Lobel

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

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.

Gregory Jacobson MD

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

Dan Buzaid

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

Danny Tamez

Design Entrepreneur

Jason Schklar

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

Dillon Scott

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

Paul DeVay

Design Lead & Meticulous Refiner of Good Ideas

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/

Aaron Geiser

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

Kaleb Fulgham

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

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

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.

Rich Winley

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

Paul Rafalowski

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

Samuel Forman

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

Allen Weiner

It's a dry heat

Casey Marshall (Harold Marshall Jr.)

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

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

The Interactive Resource

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

Rich Fueller

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

Wade Floyd

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

Cary Prewitt

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

Hoyt Prisock

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

Gordon Walton

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

Parnell Springmeyer

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

Dai Truong

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

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

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

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

Mike Kuryak

The Leadership at K4 Group

Kathy Tran

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

Chris Carter

Mohit Taneja

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

Matt Schultz

i like code

Cree Crawford

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

Brandon Knicely

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

Erik Cardenas

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

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/

Anthony Blatner

Jeff Dyck

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

Michael Pfister

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

Dagan Martinez-Vargas

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

Venture Scholar

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

Mark Drosos

Founder Lodestone Social Media

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

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

Rushton McGarr

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