Team

Eloisa Acha

Business Development

Eloisa Acha is a senior executive with 20 years of experience in marketing and sales, business development and strategic partnerships in the high-tech industry. She has a demonstrated ability to successfully set up and scale new teams and programs to drive sales and marketing results. Proven ability to design and implement plans to drive new […]

Wade Allen

Business Strategy

Wade Allen is the CEO of Cendea, and is a results-oriented, start-up, turn-around and high-growth executive with 25 years of experience of starting and driving companies to success.

Suzanne Corley

Business Management

Suzanne spent 5 years at the 3M Company, where she led a $150 million product portfolio as a Global Product Marketer, and served as a Strategy and Corporate Development Manager for the Health Care Business Group, contributing to both the acquisition of Acelity (largest in 3M history) and the divestiture of the Drug Delivery division. […]

Shanup Dalal, MD

Healthcare

Shanup Dalal is an Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Hospitalist in Dallas, Texas. He has strong interests in technological innovations that will help communities that do not have access to the same resources as those in wealthier areas.

Sarah Dar

Clean Tech

My professional and volunteering experiences have led me to care deeply about climate change and its impacts on the global population. I am a technology consultant with a secret clearance and 3 years of experience supporting federal clients including the Navy Resilient Energy Programs Office, Food & Drug Administration, and Defense Health Agency.

Darcy Dement Pedetti

Business Strategy

Darcy is an accomplished GM of technology-centric enterprises, with experience in starting up, scaling up, and turning around organizations. Her specialty is linking business strategy to execution: market analysis, identification of underserved customer needs, market segmentation and targeting, investment scenario planning, and operational planning. Her passion is helping to resolve our global challenges through science […]

Lindsay Fountain

Financial Analysis

Lindsay is an Independent Personal Trainer, Small Business Manager, and Track Coach residing in the Dallas area. Lindsay graduated from Rice University with her MBA in 2018 and has experience in general small business financial management. She is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and values helping people achieve their fitness goals, as well as […]

Don Fowler

Healthcare

Don Fowler is a CEO and Executive leader in the healthcare sector, recognized for his ability to lead companies both nationally and internationally through market growth and downturns, maintaining and gaining market share.

Jim Gerberman

Corporate Strategy

Jim is extensively networked and an impactful deal maker. Enthusiastic, empathic and creative advisor.

Chris Hamilton

Technology Commercialization

Chris has over 20 years of experience in commercializing technology and his industry experience spans executive sales, business development, product strategy, product marketing, and product management.

Sean Howell

IT

Sean is versatile Georgia Tech engineer with a history of turning ideas into successful projects and finished products. Over 11 years of problem solving in technical customer-facing roles; proven ability to lead in an international setting; a history of results with both internal services delivery resources and partners; and hands-on, detail-oriented roles in ISO 9000 […]

Rachelle Jacques

Customer Acquisition

Rachelle Jacques currently is a Small & Medium Business Account Manager at Facebook. Rachelle has a degree from Princeton that focused on Race and Public Policy in the African American Studies Department. She is originally from Stamford, Connecticut and the daughter of Haitian immigrants. She is very interested in how the construction of race through […]

Jennifer James

Product Technology

Jennifer is a Product Technology strategist located in Dallas. Creating a space for Product Owners and Innovators to connect and thrive in the market to exceed their sales goals. Helping clients create assets within their business outside of their actual products. Through much success with working with many consumer brands, Jennifer expanded her product development […]

Blake Jones

Finance

Blake Jones is an Associate at Blue Sage Capital, an Austin, Texas-based private equity firm specializing in growth, recapitalization and buyout financings of companies operating in the lower middle-market. Blue Sage favors opportunities to partner with founders and management teams as the first round of institutional capital. Previously, Blake served as a Leveraged Finance Analyst […]

Sam Kessel

Healthcare

Dr. Sam Kessel graduated with the dual degrees of Doctor of Medicine and an MBA from the University of Virginia. He is highly interested in healthcare start-ups. Sam has performed due diligence on biotechnology, healthcare services and medical device startups for both the Charlottesville Angel Network and the CAV Angels, the University of Virginia alumni […]

Brianna Losoya-Evora

Social Impact Metrics

Brianna (she/her) is an experienced analyst committed to “the power of business to drive positive social and environmental change”. Her primary expertise is with impact measurement and management and she specializes in “helping social enterprises measure, manage, and communicate their impact”. She has worked as an Impact and Learning Manager for the Small Enterprise Assistance […]

David Macauley

Strategic Management

Dr. David Macauley is the founder and principal of Wendworks, a management-strategy firm.

Charlie Mahoney

Finances & Healthcare

Charlie Mahoney is an Account Executive at Novata responsible for scaling revenue and setting strategy around Novata’s SaaS platform that provides solutions for measuring ESG metrics in the private markets. Prior to Novata, Charlie was a Senior Director of ESG Business Development at JUST Capital where he owned all revenue generation on the investor solutions team and […]

Ritesh Mantravadi

Supply Chain Consulting

Ritesh is a Consultant in Deloitte Consulting’s Supply Chain practice.

Maria Muskus

Business Development

Maria Muskus is a business developer in Austin, Texas with international experience in Columbia.

Vatsal Patel, MD

Healthcare

Hello, my name is Vatsal Patel, and I am a 3rd year pediatric resident. I have worked on multiple MedTech projects and served as a business consultant for medical device companies during my medical school and residency. While treating patients is at the core of what I do, I have always been interested in improving […]

Afif Rahman

Business and Policy Analytics

Afif Rahman is the Chief Operating Officer of NuWatt Energy, a leading solar energy and innovation company.

Patricia Reichard

Strategy & Team

Patricia brings to the table a unique balance of analytical, critical thinking, problem-solving and creative skills along with the characteristics and conviction necessary for building alignment across leadership teams and stakeholder groups to deliver results.

Vineet Sahni

Financial Analysis

Vineet is a FinTech engineer working at BlackRock. He has over a decade of professional experience in investing and financial technology and is an expert at evaluating private lending for various industries and markets. Vineet graduated from Penn State University and now resides in El Paso, Texas. To share a story of social impact, Vineet […]

Diane Stapley

Technology & Alliances

Diane Stapley is currently the Director of Customer Success and Technical Architecture at AMD.

Urie Suhr

Teams and Recruiting

Urie Suhr loves solving hiring puzzles and bridging the gap by finding unique talent for various technical roles. Data Science, Machine Learning & NLP, Big Data Engineering & Infrastructure along with Tech Ops is my core focus. She enjoys working on any challenging role that comes my way. She loves to learn something she doesn’t […]

Matt Thomas

Education, Bootstrapping

Matt is an Entrepreneur, EdTech Advocate and Bootstrap Evangelist. Co-founder of AcademicWorks, which enables colleges, universities, and foundations to efficiently manage their scholarship processes while engaging and recognizing donors. AcademicWorks has been recognized as one of Austin Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Companies, one of Fortune’s Best Places to Work for Women, Fortune’s Best Small Tech […]

Raven Veal, PhD

Product Strategy

Raven is a Strategic Design Lead at Citi Ventures Studio, supporting the development of inclusive product and service experiences as a key part of Citi’s Action for Racial Equity initiative. Prior to joining Citi, Raven was a Design Researcher at IBM, where she led and conducted research to produce evidence-based design insights for clinical development […]

N.R. Vijay

Financial Services & Healthcare

N.R. Vijay has been advising organizations for 18+ years on how to leverage technology to strengthen their core capabilities across value streams and automate/outsource non-core capabilities. Helping organizations gain operational efficiencies by aligning people, technology & processes with strategy. He has an M.B.A in Finance from NYU Stern School of Business and an undergrad degree […]

Helen Xun

Healthcare

Helen Xun is a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Integrated Resident at BIDMC/Harvard Medical School. She graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with the Johns Hopkins Young Investigator award. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Gonzaga University, where she was the class president, and graduated with Alpha Sigma Nu. Her research focuses […]