Oct 23, 2024

Stephanie Grein, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer Stephanie Grein spent over 15 years in healthcare technology based in San Francisco. She was a founding member of Sycio (healthcare SaaS) and led the acquisition of the company ot Cochlear for $78mm. After serving on Cochlear’s global leadership team, Stephanie went back to the startup worked serving as COO of develop the sales and operational strategies of grow and scale companies. Stephanie is also an active angel investor in startups. In her free time, Stephanie enjoys hiking with her Australian shepherd, running and mountain biking. Kristi Olsen, Founder &Chief Strategy Officer Kristi Olsen received her masters in healthcare from OHSU and joined Providence (PS&D) recruiting physicians and building out resident programs. She was the leader of the organization and managed 60+ recruiters and hired thousands of physicians while developing resident outreach programs. She now serves on the advisory council for Pacific University and remains very active in the PNW healthcare community. Kristi is an avid skier and loves being a boy mom of her two boys Calum (3) &McCoy (6). Sean Shoffstall, Partner, Chief Product & Technology Officer Sean Shoffstall is a seasoned executive with a robust background in technology, digital marketing. product and leadership, currently based in the Bay Area. He has built two companies with successful exits to Fortune 500 companies valued at over $85mm. With over two decades of experience in agency and software leadership, Sean has developed a comprehensive skillset that spans across several key areas of business and technology. He has led teams from start up to hundreds globally. With experience as CTO, CPO and CMO, Sean brings a unique insight into every project he takes on. In addition, he has been highlighted in numerous speaking roles at AdTech, MarTech and other marketing events. He enjoys the outdoors and spending time with his wife and daughter when he’s not developing new code. Avee Health Nicole Cook is a health tech innovator and entrepreneur. She is currently the Founder & CEO of Alvee, a company that provides ai-driven solutions to address SDOH and promote health equity. She spent 7 years at Epic where she worked with dozens of health systems across the country helping them to implement their EHR system. Prior to starting Alvee, Nicole worked at digital health startup, SameSky Health, where she helped to scale both the team and revenue by over 10x. Her combined EHR, clinical, and startup experience give her unique insights into interoperability, as well as using data and technology to drive impact. Community Energy Labs Tanya has 20 years of experience as an innovator, entrepreneur, technologist, and utility nerd building enduring practices and products, including a successful business exit. From 2016-2019 Tanya helped reformulate and re-start PECI, securing millions in non-dilutive funding for execution of all aspects of technical service, product development, operations and commercialization of PECI’s grid edge products. In 2019 PECI spun off its technical and grid-edge products as Community Energy Labs with Tanya at the helm. Tanya’s speciality is in leading systems and people to set the stage for the high achievement culture necessary to iterate and scale. Tanya is fluent in Swedish and functionally proficient in Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic. Magpie Technologies Prior to her entrepreneurial endeavors, Kathryn spent nearly a decade at IBM. She most recently served as Director of Global Product Management for IBM Blockchain Platform, where she was the executive responsible for developing and delivering IBM’s open source contributions to Hyperledger as well as its blockchain software products. Kathryn began her career in financial services at Gerson Lehrman Group in New York and Hong Kong. As a founding member of GLG Asia, she first led legal, political and regulatory research and then business development for the firm’s clients in Asia. She is a term member on the Council of Foreign Relations, an American Council on Germany Young Leader, a French American Foundation Transatlantic Forum member, and a frequent conference speaker on topics related to collectibles, alternative assets, identity, cybersecurity, deepfakes and blockchain. Kathryn has a Bachelor of Science from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, an MBA from the Wharton School and an MA from the Lauder Institute both at the University of Pennsylvania. Based in Bozeman, MT, Kathryn enjoys trail running, skiing, raising chickens, and mentoring women in technology. NLM Photonics Gerard Zytnicki’s technology experience spans 30 years and many disciplines, from definition and implementation, software engineering, innovation and design, and strategy and execution. He worked at Microsoft for 27 years in products and engineering roles. Most notably, Gerard served as General Manager in the Windows Organization and Senior Director of Engineering in the Microsoft Startup Business Group, where he felt the incredible impact of Windows 95 on the world while at Microsoft and dived into the startup ecosphere. He served as an advisor on a biotech project for the UW CoMotion incubator program, which is where he met Lewis and Delwin. Gerard is an original member of the Seattle Angel Fund and is a senior strategic advisor to numerous Seattle area startups. He has a master’s degree in International Business from the SKEMA Business School in Sophia Antipolis, France. Grin Lord is a licensed clinical psychologist and founder & CEO of mpathic. She previously worked as Chief Clinical Officer at Lyssn.io, Clinical Product Psychologist at Youper.ai, and Research Scientist at the University of Washington in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Areas of expertise include conversational design, using AI and machine learning to augment human connection, evidence-based therapies, empathy, and health coaching. Grin founded and serves on the board of Therapists in Tech, a collaborative that offers support to over 3,000 clinicians working together to define the digital mental health revolution. Grin enjoys reading and writing about the history of psychology and textual interpretation as a member of Division 24 in the American Psychological Association. In her off time you can find Grin singing karaoke, drinking boba tea, and traveling away from Seattle to sunny destinations. She has two incredible sons and two annoying hairless cats that keep her busy. Transformative Optics Geoff is CEO and co-founder of Transformative Optics, a company founded to bring the vivid colors enabled by CMOS sensors to life for everyone with a smart phone. A proven entrepreneur, Geoff was founder of Digimarc (NASDAQ: DMRC) and pivotal to the turn-around of what became Immersive Media (TSX:IMC), the original developer of what the world now knows as Google Streetview. Within Digimarc Geoff led a 25 year+, billion dollar global counterfeit deterrence program. His eventful history includes 12 years of highest-level classified activities for US space-borne reconnaissance efforts, a DARPA investigation, experience as Principal Investigator on an Air Force advanced navigation program, prototyping of Wi-Fi-based indoor navigation, and development of in-shoe motion sensing at Nike. Geoff holds more than 500 patents, cherishes time with family, still plays ice hockey, and is obsessed with launching Transformative Optics into trans-lunar orbit where it truly belongs. Tandem David Paolella is co-founder and CEO of Tandem Biotherapeutics inc. Mr. Paolella founded Cambrooke Therapeutics, now part of the Ajinomoto group, to provide world-class clinical nutrition products for his two children Cameron and Brooke. Mr. Paolella has built two clinical nutrition manufacturing facilities near Boston to provide medical foods for IEMs, Severe Protein Allergies, and Intractable Epilepsy. In 2010 Cambrooke brought the first intact protein dietary treatment to market using glycomacropeptide a novel whey fraction as a first-in-class treatment for these patients. Over the past dozen years, it has become the leading medical food for patients with Phenylketonuria and Tyrosinemia in more than 20 countries around the world. Determined to find better therapies for his family and this global community of rare diseases, Mr. Paolella co-founded Tandem Biotherapeutics with Dr. Sarkissian and Dr. Gramignoli in 2020 to develop safe and effective treatments for patients with congenital liver enzyme defects such as PKU. Initial indications suggest that Tandem’s cell therapy product can ameliorate disease in many conditions beyond the initial proof of concept. Ubiai Walid Amamou is the CEO and Founder of UBIAI, an AI platform that aims to transform unstructured data into intelligence. 1With a PhD in Material Science and Engineering and a research scientist stint at Intel for 3.5 years, Walid is a seasoned professional in the tech industry. In 2020, Walid founded UBIAI with a vision to provide an industry-specific, no-code AI platform to help companies process, analyze and organize their unstructured data efficiently. Through UBIAI, Walid is committed to providing businesses with the tools they need to succeed in the digital age. In his free time, Walid is an avid soccer player and loves traveling around the world to explore different cultures. He also enjoys reading and expanding his knowledge in various areas. InVivo Matt Beaudet is the CEO of InVivo Biosystems, a company that uses CRISPR technology to create precise genetic models of disease. Matt has dedicated the past 20 years of his career to exploring the potential of molecular biology in healthcare. He brings a wealth of experience in founding, managing, and leading biotech companies to the table. As CEO of InVivo Biosystems, Matt’s vision is to accelerate the search for therapies by closing the gap between cells and mice through the use of genetically-modified in vivo models. He believes that the future is bright for the company and the industry, and is committed to solving big problems and creating a culture of innovation and possibility at InVivo Biosystems. InVivo Biosystems has received numerous awards and recognition for its work, including the 2019 Eugene Oregon Innovation & Talent Job Creation Award, the 2018 Science Coalition American-Made Innovation Award, and the 2014 White House Most Innovative Platform Technology Award. Sensory Robotics Chris Edwards is CEO of Sensory Robotics. With nearly 10 years of experience in business and manufacturing automation, he has a Bachelor’s degree in finance and a master’s in computer science. Together with his co-founder Tristan Fogt, who has a master’s in robotics, they are forging a new path for industrial robotics. Before founding Sensory Robotics, Chris conducted research in cloud computing, and he automated the arbitrage of cryptocurrencies. Chris’s long-term goal is to help make our modern society sustainable, efficient, and supportive of human achievement. He is accordingly a lifelong member of the Planetary Society along with several other public science organizations, and has supported the next generation of robotics experts through FIRST. For leisure he enjoys skiing, automotive racing, and travel; and occasionally he steps away from technology to delve into his library of history books or to craft things by hand. Sensory Robotics makes a paradigm-changing safety product for industrial automation. Their product removes the barrier between workers and heavy machines, so they can safely interact and work side-by-side. This allows factories to quickly and cheaply automate manufacturing, and allows existing automation to run faster. Their clients include major automakers and major robot makers, which see the benefit that this has for manufacturing and the possibilities it opens for robotics. Sangrove Tatiana Alexa is Co-Founder and CEO of Sangrove. Tatiana is a seasoned cross-domain entrepreneur with deep industry knowledge in on-trend consumer products and vertical SaaS markets. Sangrove is a digital marketplace platform that allows brands to efficiently bring new consumer goods products to market. Prior to co-founding Sangrove, Tatiana founded Urbanika, a leading international distribution enterprise of worldwide sourcing of design-driven products built from the ground up. Tatiana was one of the first pioneers of offshore custom software development for internet-based solutions in various domains. Tatiana co-founded Octet Group, a company that developed several highly successful Forex and Options real-time trading platforms for various clients, one of which was later sold to Ameritrade. Tatiana is an MD with a Doctor of Medicine degree from First Moscow State Medical University and holds a Master’s Degree from Moscow Financial University. Tatiana is passionate about environmental sustainability, using a practical and realistic approach to finding the way to make sustainability a profit center, not a cost. Insight Optics, Inc. Aaron Enten, Ph.D., MBA is the President, Chief Executive Officer, and a technical Co-founder of Insight Optics. As head of the management team, Aaron leads the creation of the company’s culture, corporate strategy, investor relationships, and drives strategic partnerships. Aaron is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design program, a degree focused on medical technology innovation, needs identification, and customer discovery, and received his Ph.D. and MBA at the Georgia Institute of Technology in BioEngineering Innovation Management and Technology Commercialization. He has worked as a project manager, CxO for Hire, and has started multiple companies. Aaron is passionate about creating sustainable impacts in medical care. He volunteers and teaches a myriad of topics for organizations promoting STEAM and Entrepreneurial education. You can frequently find him rock climbing, barbecuing over his homemade pit, or entertaining on panels or the stage. Native Voice Inc. John Goscha is an American inventor, entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of Native Voice Inc. Native Voice is building infrastructure to connect brand’s voice services (e.q., ‘Hey Uber’, ‘Hey Alexa’, etc.) directly with consumers via an SDK and multi-wake word support that has never been done before. Prior to Native Voice, John founded Lucidity Lights, creating the widest spectrum of well-being benefits without sacrificing light quality or energy efficiency; where he is currently the Chairman of the Board. John is a serial entrepreneur whom enjoys bringing award winning companies from concept, to execution, to expansion. John is passionate about his work and spends the majority of his time traveling and engaging with stakeholders. When he is not meeting with Board Members, investors, customers and end users, John enjoys hiking and Skiing back home in Colorado. John has been a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient multiple times and is a Babson Alumni. Biocanic Jeremy Malecha is the CEO and Co-Founder of Biocanic with over 20 years of medical and software related experience. Prior to Biocanic, he was the Vice President of M&A Strategy in ResMedʼs SaaS Business. Jeremy holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University. Jeremy has always been passionate about health and wellness – originally starting out in exercise science, then exploring pre-med, and ultimately landing in biomedical technologies. He continues that passion in his personal life and is always tinkering with various health and exercise approaches. In addition to his work, Jeremy is a surfer, furniture builder, and even a home coffee roaster. Despite living in San Diego for over 20 years, youʼll always find him in front of the TV for University of Oregon sporting activities. Go Ducks! Biocanic is the first of its kind health program intelligence system specifically designed to streamline personalized health programs for functional and integrative health practitioners. 8chili Aravind Upadhyaya is founder and CEO of 8chili. Aravind is a technologist with more than a decade of experience bringing concepts to market in the mixed reality and computer vision space. He holds an engineering degree in electronics and an MBA from Purdue and Leibniz University. Outside of work, Aravind is a yoga master. He also enjoys helping fellow entrepreneurs, playing with his golden retriever, Lucky, and going on long drives. 8chili is a deeptech startup based in San Francisco, California that is transforming training and collaboration space with their proprietary non-invasive device AIR. The company’s initial focus is in healthcare with a mission to increase patient satisfaction and workplace efficiency by enabling access to cutting-edge mixed reality applications like patient engagement, pre-op planning, training, and remote collaboration. 8chili’s unique 3D data lake creates a hyper-personalized learning experience that will help train medical robots to perform safe surgeries in the future. DeepSurface Security DeepSurface Security was founded by Tim Morgan and James Dirksen in 2017. James is the cofounder and CEO of DeepSurface Security. He has 26 years of experience, and started his career as a security and networking engineer in the Pentagon working for Northrupp Grumman. He and his family moved to Portland in 1997 and he has since worked for PWC reengineering security solutions for Fortune 1000 companies, as a VP of Business Development for Procera (now Sandvine), VP of Product and Sales for RuleSpace (now Symantec), and as VP of Product at Galois in Portland leading effort to commercialize DARPA funded cybersecurity prototypes. Created by a veteran cybersecurity team, DeepSurface Security is the first automated Predictive Vulnerability Management suite of tools that helps cybersecurity teams automate the process of analyzing and prioritizing vulnerabilities on enterprise networks. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, DeepSurface is a privately held company funded by Cascade Seed Fund, SeaChange Fund, and Voyager Capital. Agtools, Inc. Martha Montoya is the CEO and founder of Agtools Inc. Martha has over 25 years of worldwide agricultural and supply chain experience and was appointed by the Governor of California to serve on the board of the California Department of Agriculture and Food. Martha is passionate about putting technology to work to help farmers on a practical basis and was the genesis of Agtools Inc. She is a natural-born leader and has volunteered on a national level serving on the boards of the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the CA Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and many more. Outside of her entrepreneurial pursuits, Martha enjoys playing tennis in her spare time. Agtools is a B2B based in Irvine, California. Agtools SaaS platform provides farmers, shippers, freight companies, and retailers the data they need to increase profitability and reduce food waste. Agtools proprietary technology streamlines complex agriculture and market data into an all-in-one dashboard. Imaginostics, Inc. Dr. Codi Gharagouzloo, PhD, MSc is technical founder and CEO of Imaginostics. Dr. Gharagouzloo is an expert MRI Physicist and inventor of the QUTE-CE MRI technology. He completed a two-year T-32 postdoctoral fellowship at the Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. He completed his Ph.D. in Bioengineering at Northeastern University. He obtained a Master of Science in Biophotonics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay in France, where he specialized in nonlinear optical microscopy. Prior to that, he graduated with two Bachelors of Science degrees in Physics and Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering from Kansas State University and was a National Science Foundation research fellow at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, Switzerland. Codi is married to his wonderful wife Julie, a passionate immigration attorney, dedicated spouse, and amazing mother, and has two children– a 9-year-old boy named Noah and a 1-year-old cuddly baby named Esther. Codi enjoys riding mountain bikes through the forest, exploring nature, reading books, and playing board games with friends and family. Imaginostics is revolutionizing the future of precision medicine by offering preventative diagnostic solutions. The company has developed a proprietary software suite for renal safe vascular imaging (gadolinium-free) and a novel panel of quantitative imaging biomarkers that are compatible with existing MRI scanners and hardware. SmartBeat Nate graduated from Utah State University with his M.S. in Electrical Engineering. His thesis “Using Consumer-grade Cameras to Estimate Heart Rate” was the basis for what now has become the Smart Beat patent portfolio. Since founding the company, Nate’s team has been the recipient of multiple awards including the CES 2020 Innovation Award. Before undergoing his graduate studies, Nate was heavily involved in music, art, and religious service. Before serving a voluntary two-year church mission, he was the lead singer in a local ska band and did production work at the city amphitheater. For the last 10 years, Nate’s biggest hobby has been his family. He regards his wife and five kids as his greatest adventure. In fact, it was the premature birth of his first child that first gave inspiration to his research in SIDS-prevention technology. SmartBeat is a B2C infant monitoring system solutions company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. SmartBeat engineers and manufactures state of the art, computer vision powered infant monitoring systems. Steamchain Corp Dan Biggs is Founder and CEO of Steamchain Corp. Dan spent 40 years as founder of DBP, Inc. which specialized in business development, project management, strategic planning, marketing and consulting on International media and trade issues. He was interim CEO of NTV-7 in Malaysia, where he helped with the roll out to the local and international business community. Dan also co-founded the Iris Financial Group, Roger Hong Foods and has served on the Board of several companies and non-profit organizations. He has a B.S. from the University of Oregon. Dan is a great supporter of the arts and was previously Chairman of The Board of Directors for Portland Art Museum. He was also a trustee for the Portland Opera, co-founder of the Portland Creative Conference and is currently Chairman of the Board of the George D. Green Art Institute. Steamchain Corp is a B2B startup based in Portland, Oregon. Steamchain Corp simplifies global B2B payments by reducing currency conversion costs, currency fluctuation risk, and reducing antiquated document processes with their software platform. By eliminating financial institutions from the international business equation, Steamchain Corp only charges a 1.5% fee and is able to save their clients 4.5-9% on conversion costs. They utilize Smart Contracts (WTL) which replace cash conversion throughout the supply chain and are able to reduce contract settlement time by days. Gadusol Katie Pettinger has a decade of experience with technology commercialization, working with researchers to bring their innovations to market. Her experience has included helping university researchers launch tech spinoffs, technology scouting for an investment organization, several years of experience working in technology transfer and business development at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, and VP of Operations for a faith-based entrepreneurship training nonprofit. She holds an MBA from Oregon State University. A problem-solver by nature with a passion for changing lives through entrepreneurship and economic development, Katie’s life-long goal is to gain skills and resources to assist underprivileged women build economically sustainable businesses. In her free time, Katie enjoys spending time with her husband, one year old daughter, and two cuddly Dobermans. She loves Oregon summers and especially likes any kind of outdoor adventure, like hiking, biking and camping. Gadusol Laboratories is a UV protectant engineering and manufacturing company based in Corvallis, Oregon. Their gadusol-based sunscreen additive is entirely natural, safe for humans, and has no negative impact on oceanic ecosystems. AuraLab Robert Alexander holds a Ph.D. in Design Science from the University of Michigan. As a NASA Fellow he pioneered research in the field of data sonification. Before launching AuraLab he was a Chief Innovation Officer at the University of Michigan and he lectured on Sound Design and Psychology at the renowned HK Polytechnic University School of Design. For his work he was featured in Origin Magazine’s list of the top 100 creative leaders. Robert has traveled the world learning various forms of meditation and breathwork, his creative passion is fueled by his daily practice. He fell in love with music composition at an early age and began using technology to enhance musical expression. He has now constructed software interfaces to collaboratively explore data across a wide range of fields including space-physics, genetics, neuroscience, meteorology, and geopolitics. Breathscape is at the intersection of his passion for science, technology, creativity, and self-discovery. AuraLab is a B2C and B2B HealthTech startup based in Ypsilanti, Michigan. AuraLab’s Breathscape application is one of the first mobile apps that is capable of accurately measuring and analyzing the breath. Their patent-pending biofeedback algorithms generate music in real-time based on the breath of the user. The application teaches deep slow breathing which has been clinically proven to promote better health and wellbeing. Soon Aaron has 12 years of experience in marketing, strategy, and software development. He has led teams in global organizations including SMBs, large enterprises, nonprofits, and open source communities. Aaron is experienced in graphic design, front-end design, branding & messaging, SEO, corporate social media, online reputation, and drove corporate strategy for a publicly-traded company. Aaron has a passion for social good and any technology that advances personal liberty and self-reliance. Soon is a B2C startup based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Soon application utilizes an automated investing algorithm which makes it simple for users to grow their financial wealth and save towards their goals. Hygge Power Max is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Hygge Power Inc. Max is an experienced product designer and Mechanical Engineer with 9 years of manufacturing and product design experience. Max graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a B.S in Mechanical Engineering. He started his career as a Product Design Engineer with Smith & Wesson, forming a strong knowledge base around metal and plastic part design and fabrication. Later, he expanded his manufacturing skill set to include metal injection molding while working for ARC Colorado, a plastics and metal injection molding company in Longmont, CO. Max later made the transition to connected hardware where he co-founded Hygge Power and led the product development team to deliver products to pilot customers. He is currently the Chief Product Officer, of Hygge Power Inc. bringing new software and hardware products to market in 2020. Fueled by a childhood spent outdoors, Max has always had a great appreciation for the natural world. When the opportunity arose to change career paths towards clean energy initiatives, Max didn’t hesitate. As the “first” Hygge employee (now co-founder), Max brought the vision of the Orchestrated Power Outlet (“OPO”) to life through imaginative CAD models, renders, and 3D printed prototypes. As his learning about the energy sector has increased, it’s become clearer than ever that innovation and invention are sorely needed in a world of aging electrical infrastructure and a warming planet. Hygge Power is a Boulder, Colorado-based startup founded in 2017. Hygge Power aims to optimize energy efficiency with their OPO (Orchestrated Power Outlet) to transform how people use, save, and manage their electricity. Hygge Power’s OPO is simple to integrate, stores energy from renewable sources and keeps users’ electricity protected even during power outages. e1ectr0n Robert Toppel co-founded Breeze Test Instruments in 1983 as VP Operations. He then moved with the company when it was acquired by Tektronix in 1986 as Division Engineering Manager, Logic Analyzer Division. Robert joined Axiom Electronics in 1981 as President, an EMS company specializing in defense and aerospace, which he guided through an acquisition, and later led through a management buyout with private equity. Axiom products orbit Mars, fly into space, and operate in the air, underwater, and on the ground worldwide. Robert’s programming and hardware interests birthed e1ectr0n, a robotics company debuting the pr0t0n robot arm for industrial workbench use. He holds a B.A. in Physics from the University of Colorado in Denver. WRENCH.AI Dan Baird, the founder of Wrench.AI, has co-founded numerous startups, advised over 50 crowdfunding platforms, and led innovation for both startups and some of the U.S.’s most well-known household brands. Dan received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Utah, and an MBA from Thunderbird in Global Branding and Global Entrepreneurship. Dan lives in Salt Lake City, with his wife, Alissa, his son, Sully, and their two dogs, Panda and Fosse. Dan is an advisor for the Child Rescue Association and High Hopes for Pets. In addition to his advisory roles, Dan is a foster care father and a volunteer ESL kindergarten teacher. Dan is passionate about product design, personalization, and product management. Dan has visited 40+ countries and wrestled an anaconda. Wrench.AI is B2B SaaS company that uses AI Gen 2.0 artificial intelligence tools to personalize marketing campaigns. INERGY Sean Luangrath, the CEO of Inergy, is a seasoned international executive of Fortune 100 companies including HP, Oracle and Apple. Sean has also held management positions at startups like Aerohive Networks and Mellmo. Sean joined Inergy to fulfill the company’s mission of providing the world with affordable, renewable power. Sean received a Bachelor of Science degree in International Finance from Brigham Young University, and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. Married with three sons and a dog, Sean spends most of his free time with his family, enjoying the outdoors or exploring the world. Sean is passionate about cleantech, social business, entrepreneurship, Boy Scouts, Southeast Asian business, and the Warriors. Inergy is an energy integration and storage company that engineers solar powered generators, portable solar panels, and solar accessories for off-grid living. WAVE Drowning Detection Systems Dave Cutler is an award-winning Connecticut-based serial inventor, entrepreneur, designer, and illustrator. His invention, iSwimband®, won best new product at the 2014 Int’l Pool Spa Patio Expo, the year it was first launched. Dave has overseen all areas of company building including product design & development, manufacturing, marketing, design and branding. He has been interviewed on ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS’ This Morning Show, NPR, Philadelphia’s TODAY Show, and others regarding his products. Dave has been involved in the use of technology to improve aquatic safety. In 2014 Dave received a Community Lifesaver Award from the National Drowning Prevention Alliance. Dave’s life passions include his family, good friends, product design and inventing, movies, sailing, and the beach. WAVE is an aquatic safety startup founded in 2016, and is based in Westport, Connecticut. The WAVE system can be deployed at all indoor and outdoor aquatic facilities including pools, lakes, rivers and beaches, and represents the most advanced solution in aquatic recreational safety. ProMedix David Sheridan MD MCR is co-founder and CEO of ProMedix Inc. Dr. Sheridan is on faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at Oregon Health & Science University where he cares from patients ranging from common medical conditions such as viral illness and infections to critical care of pediatric trauma and cardiac arrest. His direct patient care in the pediatric emergency department has resulted in identification of the need for technology to rapidly assist in sepsis (overwhelming infection) and dehydration assessment in both the ER and home environment. Dr. Sheridan graduated from medical school, completed his residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine in addition to obtaining his master’s degree in Clinical Research. This background and expertise has allowed ProMedix to rapidly iterate through prototype design and clinical testing to develop medical technology with measurable impact on patient care and outcomes. Dr. Sheridan was born and raised in the Pacific NW. His first priority is his family including wife Stacey and 3 daughters (Brooke, Katelyn and Kendall). He dedicates time outside of work to many of their sports teams coaching soccer and basketball each year. Personally he enjoys fly fishing, running and home/landscaping projects. He is an avid Seattle Seahawks fans and hoping for a 2020 Superbowl run! AeroShield From renewable energy to building efficiency, Elise has always been motivated by the economic and environmental impact of removing the real-world adoption barriers of pivotal technologies. This passion led her to found AeroShield Materials Inc. based on her doctoral work in Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Her mission as CEO of AeroShield is to provide the next generation of energy-efficient and cost-effective materials for building windows, bringing us one step closer to a low-carbon future. Outside of AeroShield, Elise enjoys many creative and rewarding outlets. One of her biggest passions is writing and performing music with the band, Veisty. A maker at heart, Elise loves to create artwork and jewelry in wire-working and pyrography. She also enjoys sharing the skills she’s learned throughout her life by mentoring others, with a special focus in technical communication and graphic design. AeroShield is a glass insulation, advanced materials, B2B startup based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. AeroShield is creating high-clarity silica aerogel with state-of-the-art materials developed at MIT. The material is twice as insulating as air and lighter than a marshmallow. CrowdComfort As CEO of CrowdComfort, Eric is revolutionizing employee and customer happiness by leveraging the human sensor network. His platform offers building owners and managers access to aggregated data to improve employee productivity, safety & comfort while optimizing building performance and efficiency. Eric is a creative spirit having founded a seafood import export company and developed enabling food transport technology. He holds three patents covering ultra-low temperature refrigeration and transportation methods, using recycled CO2 gas as a refrigerant. Eric was the Principal Investigator for the Department of Energy’s Innovation Ecosystem award program which served as the catalyst for CrowdComfort. He is a named inventor on 12 patents related to building, energy, crowd-sourced mobile operations, and geo-location related technologies.. Eric’s primary passion is his family. Together with his wife, Jenny, they have two children, Ella and Luke. Rugby has been a 35-year passion as a player, walk-on professional, and member of Northeastern University’s Maddog Rugby Hall of Fame. Eric is driven towards ocean excursions and the preservation of all of our planet’s animals, not just the human variety. Eric serves as board chair at the Safina Center (http://safinacenter.org/about/board/). Spren Jason Moore, founder, and CEO of Spren, is an expert in applying health and fitness data to the real world. Jason and his team have managed $100M+ engineering projects from start-up to IPO. Jason received his Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Operations Management from Texas A&M University. Jason believes in work-life balance and enjoys spending time with his family as well as a good read. Passionate about food, sports, decision theory, psychology, and the interactions between humans and technology, Jason brings an intensity to everything he does as he seeks to embrace the present moment. Spren is a B2C tech startup based in Asheville, North Carolina. Spren specializes in helping individuals monitor health by utilizing their comprehensive heart rate variability application. AccuBreath Spencer Madsen is the co-founder and CEO of AccuBreath. Spencer earned his Masters in Biomedical Engineering with an emphasis in commercialization, and his Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering. Spencer has over 11 years experience in engineering and product development and is the primary inventor on one US Utility patent with multiple patent applications pending. Spencer puts a special priority on his favorite pastime, spending time with his wife and three young boys. He enjoys being active with them, whether it be hiking, exercising, or teaching his boys a new sport. AccuBreath provides unprecedented airway support and ICU grade monitoring to eliminate delays and complications caused by apnea due to sedation in surgical procedures. DeepCharge Yousof Naderi is the CEO and Co-founder of DeepCharge.ai. Yousof considers himself an entrepreneur of technology and an innovation leader who is tirelessly driven towards his passions. He applies his experience and expertise to next-generation wireless charging solutions, embedded systems, machine learning, and software-defined networks. On a daily basis, Yousof loves to explore and test new hardware/software innovations and is a technology geek. He also finds great joy in experiencing nature and the discovery of new insights. DeepCharge.ai is a wireless charging company based in Boston, Massachusetts. They have devised technology powered by artificial intelligence that consumes little energy and can sense a large variety of different kinds of electronic devices and intelligently drive enough power to charge them no matter where they are placed on the surface, or contactless in the air. Mark Lehmkuhle is the CEO/CTO of Epitel. He originally joined Epitel to develop the Epoch system – a much needed EEG solution for pre-clinical epilepsy research. It was then he realized there was a huge need for people living with epilepsy as well and brought Epilog to life as Epitel CEO. Mark has 23+ years of experience in biomedical engineering with a focus on the nervous system. During his free time, Mark is a part-time ultramarathoner and defender of the west against the west. He built his own whitewater dory, the Wasatch, and rowed it down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon. The dory sits next to Epilog, atop his list of finding or building a solution to pretty much every problem he stumbles across. Epitel is a digital health startup based in Salt Lake City, Utah. They specialize in medical-grade seizure monitoring with their non-invasive wearable EEG technology.