Category: Mentors (Page 14 of 23)

Entrepreneur

Johnson Hor is the co-founder of VLppl.com along with his co-hort Charles Jo. He’s worked in a myriad of industries – automobile, dotcom, gov’t, ibanking, legal, mobile, nonprofit, petroleum, textiles, etc. He’s an American Bar Foundation Life Fellow, a Coro Community Leader/Fellow, a Gemological Institute of America Alumni Association member, and a San Francisco Deputy Marriage Commissioner.  Read More...

Lyne Noella is CEO of WavePlay, a San Francisco Bay/Silicon Valley promotional agency.  She helps clients gain a competitive brand advantage via professional relationships, strategic initiatives, and creative promotions.  

Lyne is a producer of knowledge-sharing videos and events, connecting founders with venture capitalists, angels, and the investment community.  She has 20 years of marketing management experience in multiple industries and a rich professional network.  Prior to founding WavePlay, Lyne served as a chief marketing officer in professional services and finance; before that, she founded a marketing agency in Minneapolis.   Read More...

Finance & Business Advisor

Nathan Beckord is Principal of VentureArchetypes LLC, a startup consulting firm. Nathan has provided strategy, finance, and business development consulting to more than 100 companies across a broad range of industries—from software, SaaS, and social media, to mobile/wireless, entertainment, and consumer products. His startup clients have collectively raised more than $88 million in seed, Series A, and Series B financing. Read More...

Advisor

Bernard Moon is Managing Director of the Lunsford Group, which is a private holding company consisting of entities in technology, media, research & consulting, health care, and real estate. Read More...

Entrepreneur

Cesar Plata founded www.muybueno.net in September 1998 in Silicon Valley. Renamed as infoBayArea.com and then everyCircle.com, this website aims to inform and unite the Bay Area Community by promoting Business, Community, Culture, and Education. Read More...

Chief Financial Officer (Advisor) Luis Buhler is the Principle/CFO of Rockledge Associates.  He has served as Chief Financial Officer for three Silicon Valley high tech companies.  At Simplex Solutions, he helped grow the company from $6 million to $50 million of annual revenue.  He helped complete a successful IPO, 3 corporate acquisitions, a major industry partnership and ultimately, the acquisition of the company by Cadence Design Systems for $300 million.  As CFO at Latitude Communications, he helped engineer a turnaround strategy that resulted in the company’s acquisition by Cisco Systems for $80 million.  At FirstRain, Inc. he reorganized US and overseas financial operations and helped execute three successful venture financing rounds totaling more than $40 million. Luis also worked as VP and Treasurer for Trans Ocean Ltd, where he completed a $75 million IPO of subordinated debt as well as hundreds of millions of dollars of debt, lease, and investor financing for the acquisition of capital equipment.  Luis’ background includes substantial international experience in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Luis also served as Deputy Secretary of the California Trade and Commerce Agency and acting executive director of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank where he helped issue $6 billion of AAA rated bonds financed by cash flows from public utility ratepayers. Luis earned an MBA and BA from Stanford University and an MA from Occidental College.  He was a recipient of a Coro Foundation Fellowship and currently serves as Board Chair of the Coro Center for Civic Leadership in San Francisco. Read More...

Emerging Business & Nonprofits (Advisor)

Darian Rodriguez Heyman has a history of building businesses and creating community.  After five years of service, Darian recently stepped down as Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation, an organization dedicated to educating, empowering, and connecting emerging nonprofit leaders.  Read More...

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Advisor & Founders Space Chapter Leader

Tan Yinglan is the Head (Projects), National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office (Singapore). In his role, he oversees the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise and is serving / has served on boards of high-tech growth ventures and venture capital funds in Asia (Details of portfolio investments here.) Read More...

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