People
Meet 2550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building San Jose's tech scene.
David Friedlander
Startup marketer in enterprise tech with strong background in virtualization, business continuity, storage, IT management. Currently VP Marketing @ Neverfail.
David J. Bettencourt
Works at @apple • Studied at @san-francisco-state-university
Dmitry Fink
CTO of Dishero. In previous life hacked and managed teams at Amazon/Lab126, TI, Palm/HP, Zoran, Intel.
Erik Brown
8 year Apple veteran with software engineering, project, and product management experience. Interested in Product Manager roles at small & mid-sized companies.
George Pai
Worked at @20th-century-fox, @onetraction • Studied at @university-of-california-los-angeles
George Thorn
Digital Media Partnerships Professional
Paul Proctor
Cofounder and CEO of @unwind-app-1. Cofounder of @imogul. Published author. Worked at Citi, JP Morgan Chase • MBA @babson-college. BA @brigham-young-university.
Sejin Hahn
Urbanist, Educator & (Sales/BD/Marketing) Technologist + Dilettante: Dancer, Fighter, Linguist & Diplomat
Brad Buss
Investor @tesla-motors, @bloom-energy
Brian Baumgartner
UCSD Physics, US Department of Defense, Accel Biotech Inc, Product Development Engineer, Instrumentation Specialist, Lead Systems Engineer, Project Manager
Bruce Chou
Founder, @disruptive-design-and-technology
Hugo Troche
CEO and Co Founder @appsperse . 3rd startup. Master in Software Engineering.
Jerry Lee
Harvard BA and Haas MBA; focused on education (CMOs, edtech, school finance) domestically and in developing markets.
Matthew Gartner
Graduate of @syracuse-university-2
Richard Sparrow
Founder Percero, Inc. • Worked at @deutsche-bank, @clixtr
Umair Hoodbhoy
Chicago Booth MBA and CCIE since 2003. Have been in the position of the customer as well as the vendor. Equally comfortable as a Product Manager and a Technical Marketing Manager
Chandeep Khamba
Software engineer with 1+ year of industry experience seeking internships for Fall 2014
Helen Lee
Harvard MBA 2015. Former: Product & Engagement manager at BloomReach (B2B e-commerce startup), Consultant at Bain, BioEngineer researcher @ Caltech & Medtronic
Marjan Soleimanieh
Worked at Siemens. Promoted within 8 months, gave investing scenarios and suggestions to CEO/CFO. Known for going above and beyond and doing it all.
Ra Kz
Disruption for the shake of disruption is not good. It should be for the better for all.

Al-Amin Vira
Worked at @ernst-young, @nortel-networks • Studied at Univ. of Waterloo, Univ. of Calgary. Studied Entrepreneurship in detail; need the chance to apply.
Arpan Jain
Quick learner,ready to work in fast paced setups,ability to handle multiple roles- worked as PreSales, Prod Mgr and Acc Mgr at the same time and was successful.
Arvind Jain
Worked at Cisco & Oracle, Deep experience in IT Product Mgmt / Marketing, Broad experience in Finance, Strategy, Operations. MBA - Carnegie Mellon, B.Tech - IIT
Combiz Saleh
Aspiring Engineer, Inspiring Peer. CEO Study Savior. Web-app enthusiast.