Fall 2019

Kris Beck

Kris is the Chief Executive Officer at Proformex, an inforce policy management platform for life insurance. Kris has a proven track record in scaling enterprise SaaS companies from venture to private equity growth cycles. Prior to Proformex she held executive leadership positions at MacroPoint, a third-party visibility platform for logistics, and Elemica, supply chain operating […]

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Jason Field

Jason Field is the Founder and CEO of BrainStation, the global leader in workforce transformation and digital skills training. Over the years, BrainStation has empowered more than 70,000 professionals around the world through premium corporate training, diploma programs, and certification courses, both online and at state-of-the-art campuses in New York, Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, and Boston.

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Paul Asel

Paul Asel is Managing Partner of NGP Capital and a global technology investor across the U.S., Europe and Asia for over 25 years. Paul has realized 20 successful investments, including 5 IPOs and four $1B+ exits of which UCWeb and Ganji were two of the largest technology acquisitions in China. Other successful exits include KongZhong

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SJ Sacchetti

As Chief Marketing Officer, Sarahjane drives results through focused brand, growth, and communications campaigns to build awareness and adoption of Collective Health and its mission. She has been with Collective Health for over four years, during which time she’s grown the marketing function to ~30 people and worked strategically with the commercial organization to scale

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Jeremy Kagan

Jeremy is the Managing Director of the Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School, where he oversees the entrepreneurial curriculum, student programs, the Lang venture capital fund, and the Columbia Startup Lab. He is also a Professor and Faculty Director of the Digital Marketing Strategy executive education program, and teaches graduate and executive

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John L. Sotomayor

SotoIP is a strategic intellectual property advisory and patent prosecution firm based in Research Triangle Park (RTP), NC, specializing in serving startup and emerging growth companies through developing their IP strategy, patent prosecution, and patent portfolio growth and management. In addition, we partner with VCs and M&A firms in support of their portfolio companies to

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Daniel Sztutwojner

Daniel Sztutwojner is the Chief Customer Officer and Co-founder of Beekeeper, the leading platform for operational communication with focus on frontline workers. He has been responsible for the organic growth of the business with a customer-centric approach. Today he oversees the entire customer journey, spanning marketing, sales and customer success, and is dedicated to helping

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Sutian Dong

Sutian Dong is a leader in early-stage venture capital and a vocal proponent of diversity across startups, funds, and the limited partner ecosystem. She is currently working on a new project that will redefine access to capital across the entire funding stack and, at scale, has the potential to solve the diversity imbalance that currently

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Falon Fatemi

Falon Fatemi is the Founder and CEO of Node.io, the first turnkey AI-as-a-service platform that enables organizations to put the power of prediction into their applications without spending years and millions on risky AI experiments. She has coined the concept of ‘Artificial Intuition’ and is leading a team of top technologists including the Godfather of

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Caitlin Strandberg

Caitlin Strandberg is a Principal on Lerer Hippeau’s investment team. She joined from FirstMark, an early-stage venture firm based in New York, where she was a Vice President. She previously worked on the investment team at Flybridge Capital Partners and at two startups, LearnVest (acquired by Northwestern Mutual) and Behance (acquired by Adobe). Caitlin is

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