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Julie is the founder and CEO of How Women Lead, a platform for women to connect, learn, find purpose, and make an impact. As CEO, Julie has been an essential driver of the ecosystem for women on corporate boards in California. As Managing Partner for 2020 Women on Boards, Julie has been a national leader in the movement and drove the successful passage of the groundbreaking Senate Bill 826, requiring public companies to have women on their boards. Julie launched BoardLeaders.com, which specializes in corporate board placements to meet the demand for women leaders.

Julie is motivated by products that tangibly improve patients’ lives. Invests in early stage biopharma and leads new company formation efforts as an executive.

Early Stage Tech Investor and Advisor, Former Securitized Products Trader (New York), Columbia MBA, Portuguese, Spanish and English. Advanced NAUI Diver. World explorer 50 countries. Bon Vivant.

Julie Sandler joined PSL as a managing director in June 2017. In 2018, she co-founded and launched PSL’s venture capital firm, PSL Ventures, which she spends most of her time running. Prior to PSL, Julie was a partner at Madrona Venture Group, where she led several investments for the firm including Integris (acquired by OneTrust) and Julep (acquired by Glansaol/Warburg Pincus) and worked with her now-partner-at-PSL Greg Gottesman on his founding of Rover.com (NASDAQ: ROVR). She is an adjunct professor at the University of Washington Foster School of Business and teaches an MBA course on Entrepreneurship for which she has been named a UW “Star Teacher” several years running. She is a member and Board Director of the Washington Roundtable, and was appointed in 2016 by Washington State Governor Jay Inslee to the board of directors of the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship. In addition to serving on several not-for-profit boards, she has also served on the boards of many privately held companies and industry associations, along with several advisory boards. In 2013, Julie launched the Seattle Entrepreneurial Women’s Network, an informal forum for women entrepreneurs and startup executives to connect in the Greater Seattle area. Julie was also one of 60 Americans selected as a Presidential Leadership Scholar in 2016 by the Clinton Foundation, LBJ Foundation, and the two Bush Presidential Centers. She was voted Geekwire’s 2014 “Geek of the Year” for her work supporting women innovators, was selected to Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40 Under 40, and was named a Rising Star to Seattle Magazine’s Seattle Hall of Fame in 2016 and to AdWeek’s “Brand Stars" in 2018 for her work with local entrepreneurs. She was also voted Geekwire’s 2018 “Hire of the Year” when she joined PSL, and was named to the Puget Sound Business Journal’s “Power 100” in 2021. She is a regular speaker at technology conferences and has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg, and at WE Day.  Earlier in her career, Julie was a senior product manager at Amazon on the Kindle team, where she PM’d new Kindle shopping experiences and managed digital marketing for Kindle’s ebook business, both in the United States and internationally. She also previously worked in product management at Accenture and at TeachStreet.com (acquired by Amazon in 2012). Julie graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with both a Master’s degree and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. She also received an M.B.A. with honors from Harvard Business School.

has fifteen years of private and public sector experience in global media and advocacy, internal communications, project management, fund administration, and operations.  overseas the fund's day-to-day operations across all business lines and managed HR, accounting, legal, and all other operational activities. worked with Catapult spent her early career with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Founder & Managing Partner of Third Culture Capital.

Juliet de Baubigny is a General Partner at Bond and focuses on emerging technology companies in the U.S. and Europe. She is actively involved with investments in Spotify, Omio, Brex, FabFitFun, and Spotahome. Prior to joining Bond, Juliet was a Senior Partner at Kleiner Perkins. Over an 18-year career, she worked closely with a broad number of companies including Amazon, Google, Nest, Bloom Energy, Chegg, and Beyond Meat. She has advised founders and CEOs on company building, leadership development, and strategic partnerships.'

Formerly CEO and founder of Peixe Urbano and Prefer. First Facebook lead for Brazil (part of the Facebook Growth Team). Managing Partner at Atlantico (venture capital in Latin America). Former EIR at Benchmark.

Prior to joining Cathay in 2019, Jun was a Principal at Capital Today. He has focused on investment sectors such as consumer goods, retail and internet technology over the last 10 years.

Previously, Jun spent 4 years working at Shenyin & Wanguo Securities, one of the earliest joint-stock securities company in China.

Jupe is overall responsible for Plug and Play’s Asia Pacific operations with a focus on Southeast Asia. He joined Plug and Play in 2008 and was responsible for starting its first international accelerator program in Silicon Valley and also led its early expansion into Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Plug and Play APAC works with multinational corporations, conglomerates and government agencies in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. Prior to Plug and Play, Jupe worked for National University of Singapore (NUS) as Program Director of NUS College in Silicon Valley, where he was responsible for managing the Silicon Valley operations for NUS.

Juriaan is based in Tel Aviv, investing across all stages from seed to growth.

As co-founder and Managing Partner Asia for Antler, Jussi works with a global team dedicated to developing the next generation of world-changing companies and creating a global pipeline for top talents to pursue a career in entrepreneurship and innovation. Before joining the startup ecosystem, Jussi headed the Global Services Commercial Management sector of Nokia. He works closely with the founders to coach them and helps connect them with the right advisors to build their businesses.

Managing Partner of Collab Capital.

Justin Kang was most recently the Vice President of Economic Growth for the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce where he oversaw strategic initiatives focused on talent attraction and retention, industry growth and racial equity in the private sector. In addition, he was the Executive Director of City Awake a program of the Boston Chamber which serves as the regional platform to empower and mobilize the next generation of talent.  He has been named as a “Top 25 Emerging Leader of Color” and "Top 100 Most Influential Leader of Color" by Get Konnected!, and as one of “The Next Generation of Powerful People in Boston” by Boston Magazine.

Justin has more than 20 years of strategic operating experience in high-technology, including deep expertise in Saas, payments and network effect businesses. Justin was a Rally Technology Partner beginning in 2015 and joined Rally Ventures as General Partner in October 2019. Prior to joining Rally, Justin was CEO and cofounder of SportsEngine, one of Rally’s early portfolio companies. Justin currently serves on the boards of AnyRoad, JustiFi, Kaleidoscope, Kyros, Order, Total Expert, Yardstik and Zingtree.

Justin Mateen is a serial seed investor: He’s backed over 120 startups, including the fintech Brex, which announced in January that it reached decacorn status at a $12.3 billion valuation. He is, perhaps, best known as the cofounder of Tinder (although he stepped down as the chief marketing officer of Tinder in 2014). But before he helped build the world’s most popular online dating app, Mateen was already an angel investor, using his own money to back promising startups. In 2009, while Mateen was working on a social network for celebrities, he placed an early bet on the ride-hailing company Lyft. It went public at a valuation of $24 billion a decade later. Recently he backed Deel which landed a $5.5 billion valuation in 2021. And his investing firm, Jam Fund, raised about $300 million from investors for its second fund last year.

Justin started his tech career by growing a pan-African Internet-based software company from a garage in the suburbs of Cape Town, centered around the newly emerging theme of Internet security.

Founder of Goalbook. Previously Rocketship, Deloitte was a Fulbright Scholar.

GTM-focused investor working with Jeffrey Katzenberg to help enterprise software companies drive the digital transformation initiatives of the Fortune 500. Currently partnering with Webflow, Airtable, Netomi, Sparrow, 1Password, Deel, Aura, and Placer.ai.

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, she led GTM at Canal, a marketplace that enables e-commerce brands to acquire new customers and increase their average order value. Before that she worked at CRV, sourcing and leading a number of investments across consumer and SMB software. Alongside her twin sister Olivia Moore, Justine runs Accelerated, a weekly newsletter and online community for young people interested in startups and venture capital.

Multi-unicorn founder. founded AppDynamics in 2008 acquired by Cisco last 2017. CEO and Co-Founder of Harness Forbes’ “Best Cloud Computing CEO to Work For”, and “Best CEO” by San Francisco Business Times at the Annual Tech & Innovation Award. named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year™ for Northern California in 2016.

Managing Partner at Elevar Equity. Board Member at CreditMantri.

Co-founded Jaiku, a mobile social network acquired by Google; and Ditto, a recommendations app acquired by Groupon. Early investor in Unity (NYSE:U), Oura, Iceye and many other companies. Prior to co-founding Yes VC with Caterina he was on the investing team at True Ventures (early investors in Peloton, Ring, WordPress and others).

Ka-Hay sources, evaluates, and executes on investment opportunities that align with the Fund’s sustainability and sustainable agriculture sectors and leads the development of the Fund’s impact management practice.

Prior to joining TELUS, she was the vice-president of Impact and Investments at the Lundin Foundation. She was instrumental in transforming the Foundation into a respected impact investor and strategic sustainability resource for the Lundin Group of Companies. Ka-Hay brings 10 years of international impact investment experience investing in agriculture, financial inclusion and low-carbon solutions. Ka-Hay found her passion for impact when she worked for Engineers Without Borders and has called Ghana, Zambia and Kenya home.

a learning industry and edtech specialist with extensive experience in strategy, business development, VC and M&A.  Prior to Sparkmind, Kai led strategy, venture investments and M&A at Sanoma Learning, Europe’s leading learning company.

Investment interests span over a broad spectrum of disruptive technology-powered, early stage startup companies in USA and India. ex-CIO of several major corporations in their transformative phases. As a member of the corporate leadership teams, enabled multi-billion dollars return in portfolio companies of global Private Equity firms.

joined Kitchen Fund from Goldman Sachs PIA, where she was a private equity associate on the consumer / retail and tech teams. Prior to that, Kanak was a consumer / retail M&A analyst at Evercore

Kanav Kariya is the President of Jump Crypto. He attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2014.

Co-Founded Brilliant Bicycles. Harvard University alumnus

serial entrepreneur with experience managing over $200M. was a Principal at Dynafolio, a small-cap private equity firm that focuses primarily on turning around distressed companies. spearheaded risk management for Marwin Technologies in Thailand. was a Venture Partner at Oyster Ventures, a fintech-focused fund. 

Focuses on Bessemer’s early-stage initiatives, partnerships, and seed investment programs.

Kanyi is a Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures, where he’s focused on investments in fintech, health and wellness, e-commerce, supply-chain, and climate tech since joining the firm in 2018. He and firm founder Steve Jang have focused Kindred on both forming and investing in new startups, and have worked with companies such as Cloudtrucks, Hellosign, Just, Outschool, and Upstart. He gained investment experience at Collaborative Fund, where he served as a Partner and worked with companies including Buffer, Hopscotch, Spruce, and True Link. As an entrepreneur and operator, he ran growth at One Block Off the Grid (acquired by $NRG) and was an early employee at Doostang (acquired by Universum Global). He also co-founded and serves on the board of directors of Heartbeat Health, a leading end-to-end virtual care platform tailored to cardiology patients.

 brings years of angel investing, mentoring, and startup advisory experience, and is a subject matter expert in renewable energy, energy storage, electrical grids, microgrids, and electricity markets through a 15 year career. 

Kareem joined Thrive Capital in 2014 and spends his time both investing in and building companies. He has led investments in companies like Headway, Honor, Ramp, Rightway, Robinhood, and Trialspark, and was a part of the firm's investments in Affirm, Lemonade, and Oscar. Kareem is also a cofounder of Cedar, Nava , and Scope Security and sits on the boards of all three companies. Before Thrive, Kareem was an investor at Blackstone.

Karen joined CircleUp in 2018 and serves as Managing Director of CircleUp Equity. Before joining CircleUp, Mrs. Howland served as an independent consultant providing financial services to small-to-mid sized consumer-centric companies. Prior to that, she spent over 15 years at top-tier international investment firms, including Citadel, Barclays Capital, and UBS where she held positions in the Investment Banking and Equity Research divisions focusing on the consumer and retail sectors in New York, London and San Francisco.

Director of Sprint Crowdfunders’ Fund a unique fund investing in IoT projects that are entering the market through crowdfunding. Since mid 2018 the 64 projects from 16 countries backed by Sprint have raised more than $35M. Around 10 years of diverse experience in Finance and banking in HSBC. Financial modeler of various projects in diverse spheres.

Karim Anchassi is on the Corporate Development (M&A and Investments) at Dropbox.

Karim leads GV’s investments in enterprise software and analytics as the IT stack reorganizes and learning algorithms extend our ability to gain insight from large amounts of data. He also has a passion for security innovation at a time when those technology shifts are continuously expanding vulnerable surface areas. Before joining GV, Karim served on Google’s corporate development team and held business and product development positions at Level 3 Communications. Earlier in his career, Karim took on various product and marketing roles at Intel, initially on the i486 and later as product manager for the Pentium processor. He started his career at Siemens as a software engineer working on the first vehicle navigation system for BMW. Karim is drawn to mission-driven founders with a healthy disregard for the impossible.

Karim is a technology veteran with deep experience in product and innovation management and rapid business growth and scaling – particularly in the healthcare and financial services markets. Karim has been an active investor and mentor to a number of technology businesses in Egypt and the US. He is founder and Chairman of D-Kimia Diagnostic Solutions developing fast, affordable, and accurate medical diagnostics using nano-technology and focused on controlling the Hepatitis C epidemic in Egypt and globally. Karim has served on the board of D-Kimia, Integreight, Shezlong.com, Prognos.ai, and Simplex Arabia CNC Solutions. He is also Chairman of the entrepreneurship committee of the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council, a mentor to high impact entrepreneurs through the Endeavor network, and a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Previously, Karim was SVP, Products and Engineering at WebMD, Inc., directing product management, technology strategy and engineering. Prior to WebMD, Karim was co-founder and CTO of Riskclick, Inc., a software firm specializing in commercial insurance applications. He also was a senior associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton where he was a member of the Global e-Commerce team. Karim received his PhD in Information Systems from MIT and a dual BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He has over 40 publications and a patent for his work on distributed computing.

Prior to launching Bloomberg Beta, Karin led new initiatives for Bloomberg LP, where she and her team built new businesses, developed strategy and created partnerships. Before joining Bloomberg, Karin led Softbank's team that reviewed all new investments during the period when Softbank invested in Buzzfeed’s seed round and realized the most successful exits in NYC (including Buddy Media, The Huffington Post and Associated Content).

Karl Alomar is a serial entrepreneur turned investor with extensive experience in starting, developing and selling high growth businesses in various market segments. Karl co-founded two successful ventures of his own, followed by 6 years as COO at DigitalOcean helping build the company from ground up to $250MM ARR.

An experienced public company CEO and Board Member who has generated significant long-term shareholder value through technical leadership, strategic business development, and disciplined operations management. Founder and CEO of Elecsys Corporation (NASDAQ: ESYS), a pioneer of industrial wireless, IoT, and cloud data management solutions.  Elecsys was named 3 times to Fortune’s “Small Business 100” list of fastest growing public companies and to Forbes “America’s Best Small Companies.”   Previously President of DCI, Inc., Vice President of Operations at Airport Systems International, and Director of Manufacturing at Goodrich Aerospace.

Early stage technology investing experience in USA, India, Israel and South East Asia Led successful investments in Waze (acquired by Google) and Validity Sensors (acquired by Synaptics) Led investments in the areas of mobile video, mobile internet, e-Commerce, cloud, analytics, semiconductors, biometrics, multi mode user interfaces, consumer devices and mobile social media Entrepreneurial and professional networks across Silicon Valley, Southern California, India, Israel and South East Asia Operational experience including running engineering organizations and product marketing roles in multiple startups

"servant. social impact investor. data scientist. organizational psychologist. equity advocate. coach." 3x-exited Tech Entrepreneur Impact Angel Investor

Before joining Kickstart, Kat was President and CXO of Degreed, a company dedicated to changing how people develop skills, build expertise, and grow their careers. She was instrumental in driving Degreed’s growth, shaping its product and culture, and deepening its client relationships. She partnered closely with Degreed’s customers to accelerate innovation and ensure their ability to quickly reallocate talent to the most critical strategic priorities.

Kat’s 15 years of operating experience give her a unique perspective as an investor - one that allows her to not only spot talented entrepreneurs from all backgrounds but also to serve as a mentor, fostering innovation through every stage of the company’s growth.

Kat is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vareto, a strategic finance platform that streamlines company planning. Previously, she was Head of Product at Ironclad and led Product, Data Science, and Finance teams at Facebook.

2x Founder and currently the CEO of Sofie Tech.

Experienced Investor with a demonstrated history of working in Internet & Technology.

Passionate about developing disruptive solutions to address complex social issues.

Nine years as first round lead investor & board member with a focus on companies evolving the cultural conversation. Built Bolt’s venture capital practice and community presence over two successful funds. Founder of Women In Hardware.

As general partner, Katelin Roberts brings operations and investing experience and is responsible for sourcing and executing new investment opportunities and leading the firm’s day-to-day operations. She loves working with visionary founders early in their journey and supporting Salt Lake City’s healthcare innovation ecosystem and founders. Before joining MedMountain, Katelin had a variety of operating and entrepreneurial experiences across multiple industries including; managing a large manufacturing business unit of 130+ people and $400M+ in revenue annually, restructuring a small technology business, and building and launching a start-up. Katelin is also an active angel investor through Gaingels and Park City Angels.

Twenty Two Ventures, is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to investing in a new generation of companies tackling our present and future quality of life. 22 partners with pre-seed and seed stage founders to build great companies of the future built upon not simply providing products or connectedness, but on the fundamental wellbeing and quality of life of consumers. After spending nearly a decade working in marketing for multimillion dollar brands, startups and being a founder herself, Katey understands what truly drives brand and start-up longevity— People want to live longer, healthier, more meaningful lives at work and at home: and 22 will make this happen.

has been driving the team’s theses on WealthTech, Sustainable Finance, Climate & ESG.  began her career on Citigroup’s equity trading floor before gaining experience at a start-up B2B fintech company 

Katie serves on the boards of Coinbase and HackerOne and has invested in and advised tech companies from seed to Series E stage. Katie teaches a management course at Stanford Business School and previously taught cybercrime at Stanford Law School. Previously, she spent a decade as a federalprosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice focusing on fraud, cyber, and corporate crime alongside agencies including the SEC, FBI, and Treasury. She created the government’s first cryptocurrency task force and led investigations into the Mt. Gox hack and the corrupt agents on the Silk Road task force. She also prosecuted RICO murders, organized crime, public corruption, gangs, and money laundering, and held senior policy positions at headquarters in both the National Security Division and Attorney General’s office where her portfolio included antitrust, tax, and national security.

 focuses on seed, early, and late-stage venture investments in consumer Internet with a specific emphasis on fintech, marketplaces, commerce, and real estate. worked at NerdWallet on the business operations team focused on small business lending. Prior to NerdWallet, she was a strategy consultant at Deloitte, where she specialized in financial services and retail loyalty.

As Partner, Kathryne brings to Jumpstart Nova a history of operationalizing change and making astute early stage investments in the healthcare arena. Kathryne prioritizes healthcare efficacy and business outcomes and knows how to integrate them into the investment landscape. She founded HealthTechDEI to deliver more inclusive investment strategies and solutions that optimize financial performance and capitalize on the wealth in diversity, and authored the influential report Underinvested: Strategies for Supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Health Care Venture Investment for the California Health Care Foundation.

Prior to joining Insight, Katie spent 15 years as a software operating executive, leading the scale-up journey from $20M to $200M+ ARR multiple times over. She was most recently President of A Cloud Guru, which merged with Pluralsight in late 2021. Prior to that, she spent 4 years as the President of DiscoverOrg/ZoomInfo ahead of its successful IPO. Prior to ZoomInfo, she led the marketing, product, and corporate development functions at legal tech category leader Mitratech. Katie is passionate about partnering with brilliant founders and CEOs who find themselves at that pivotal scale-up moment, and helping them realize their vision. Katie has been named one of the 50 Most Powerful Women In Tech by the National Diversity Council and is a frequent speaker on the topic of transformational growth acceleration. 

Previously served in numerous executive operating roles at Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and Color. Previously served in the (Obama) White House and State Department and began her career as a banker at JP Morgan Chase. Has invested in 50 early-stage companies including Airtable, Cameo, Carta, Coinbase, Literati, Modern Fertility, Shape Security and Threads.

Katie currently leads the Female Innovators Lab in partnership with Barclays which invests in early-stage female-founded fintech businesses. Previously, she founded and led data SaaS company, Unbound Concepts from ideation to exit. The company’s data services were used by global distributors as well as privately owned and publicly traded publishers in addition to providing free software tools to over 40,000+ educators. A first-generation college graduate, she is committed to the mentorship of diverse talent in investment and technology; she continues to be driven by her former colleagues and mentees who continue their professional growth and hold leadership positions in a variety of technology companies.

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Divergent Capital and an Angel investor.

Her ambition is to create an environment that helps founders level up quickly by filling knowledge and experience gaps with pairings from Real’s rich mentor ecosystem. A natural connector of people and ideas in service of helping good people succeed.

Co-Founder of ConnectedFi, a fintech platform that automates $1B in commercial finance transactions per year. Previously invested in renewables and healthcare spin-outs from UK universities as part of PUK Ventures, a British Treasury-backed venture capital fund. Previously founded and existed 2 startups in the automobile and telecom sectors.

VC at Afore Capital, investing in pre-seed tech startups all over the world. Prior to Afore, Kayla was an associate at Grand Ventures.

Kee Lock Chua is CEO of Vertex Holdings (“VH”), a Singapore-headquartered venture capital investment holding company. Prior to this, he held senior positions in Biosensors International Group, Ltd., a developer / manufacturer of medical devices; Walden International, a US-headquartered venture capital firm; NatSteel Ltd., a Singapore industrial products company, and Intraco Ltd., a Singapore-listed trading/distribution company. Mr. Chua co-founded MediaRing, provider of voice-over-internet, which later listed on Singapore’s stock exchange. Mr. Chua was appointed by the Singapore Government as a Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Cuba and the Republic of Panama in 2020. He currently serves on the boards of several companies, including Shenzhen Chipscreen Biosciences, Yongmao and Credit Bureau Asia, which are publicly listed.

Keenan, while serving as a Co-Founder and Partner at Aera, also serves as the CEO of GetLinks, a curated tech hiring marketplace in SEA and as the Founder and Chairman of Asia Startups.

Japanese professional football player who recently played for FK Sūduva in the A Lyga, and he is also general manager and coach of the Cambodia national team Invests under the KSK Angel Fund and Dreamers VC. Was a UN Foundation Global Advocate for Youth (2016-2019)

Experienced operator that served as an adviser for various big tech startups like Slack, Coinbase, Grishin Robotics, etc.

Keith Crandell is a co-founder and a Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners. Mr. Crandell focuses on life science therapeutics, tools, devices and diagnostics, specialty materials, electronics, instrumentation, and photonics businesses. Mr. Crandell has played a key role in the formation and initial funding round of 908 Devices (MASS), Adesto Technologies (IOTS – acquired by Renesas Electronics Corp.), DA32 Life Science Tech Acquisition Corp. (DALS), Arbor Biotechnologies, ALIS Corp. (acquired by Carl Zeiss SMT), Cytrellis Biosystems, Eichrom Industries (acquired by Gary Comer, Inc.), Illinois Superconductor (ISCO), Nanophase Technologies (NANX), Quanterix (QTRX), Scale Biosciences, Twist Bioscience (TWST), Ultivue, and Vizgen. He was also responsible for ARCH’s investment in Ahura Scientific (acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific-TMO), Apropos Technology (APRS – acquired by Syntellect-ESL), Boreal Genomics, CelebrateExpress (BDAY – acquired by Liberty Media-LINTA), Crystal IS (acquired by Asahi Kasei-AHKSY), New Era of Networks (NEON – acquired by Sybase-SY), Teach.com (acquired by Intellinex), among others. Mr. Crandell is a director of MASS, QTRX, TWST, Arbor Biotechnologies, Cytrellis Biosystems, Lightcast Discovery, Quantum Circuits, Scale Biosciences, Ultivue, Vizgen, and is an observer of Slingshot Biosciences. He previously served as a director of MicroOptical Devices (acquired by EMCORE-EMKR), Nanosys, and was an early director of Engineering Animation (EAII – acquired by Unigraphics). Mr. Crandell has served on the Entrepreneurship Advisory Board at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship, ChicagoBooth since 2005 and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Advisory Council since 2017. Mr. Crandell also serves on the investment advisory board for the Mass General Brigham Innovation Fund, a venture capital fund affiliated with Harvard Medical School Hospitals. He has been active with the Illinois Venture Capital Association since its inception, previously serving as Chairman. He previously served as a Director of the National Venture Capital Association and the Governmental Affairs Committee. Prior to the founding of ARCH, Mr. Crandell was with the specialty chemical and polymer company, Hercules, Inc. Mr. Crandell holds an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago, an M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics from St. Lawrence University.

Prior to founding Third Prime, Keith worked as an SVP at Pan Am Equities, a real estate firm that owns and operates multifamily, hospitality, and commercial properties. Before joining Pan Am, he was a developer of a lakeside condominium project and multiple self-storage conversions. Earlier in his career, he was an M&A lawyer at Skadden.

Founder & CEO of Black Tech Nation. His goal is to grow the //BTN umbrella (and family) into an international platform that encourages Black innovation and wealth building through technology and great ideas.

Currently works as the co-founder and general partner for Sixty8 Capital. Previously worked at Allos Ventures as the program manager.

Kelly Dill is a partner at Imaginary Ventures.

Kelly Graziadei brings 20 years of leadership experience in tech and consumer internet with companies ranging from 3 people to 200,000. She spent 7 1/2 years at Facebook in leadership positions in sales, product marketing and media. Kelly joined Facebook in 2010 and built and led its Mid-Market Sales & Account Management team in North America. Later during her tenure at Facebook, she led Monetization Product Marketing for the Direct Response Ads & Commerce business globally, focused on inbound product strategy and global go-to market.

"I'm a geek, an athlete, and a coach with a deep love of learning and people. I'm money-motivated and purpose-driven. I've climbed the corporate ladder, helped several startups achieve unicorn status, and assisted many Fortune 500's in avoiding disruption and improving sustainability."

Experienced operator and investor. Served as a Founder, Board Member, CEO, COO, CFO, Business Development, and Sales co-Founder and Managing Partner at DuMont Project, a consultative agency that helps accelerate the growth of B2C brands.

Kendrick is now the global enterprise / software lead at Global Founders Capital. Focus areas also include fintech, real estate tech, and deeptech. Kendrick was a Senior Associate at Hone Capital, leading the development and use of Hone’s quantitative tools. Prior to joining Hone Capital, he worked in renewable energy, virtual reality,consumer electronics, and management consulting. Kendrick holds three degrees from Stanford University: an MS in Management Science and Engineering, a BS in Science, Technology, and Society, and a BS in Earth Systems.

Spent 37 years at American Express, most recently as Chairman and CEO.

Kenneth Lerer is a Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau. He cofounded The Huffington Post and was the longtime Chairman of BuzzFeed. Ken serves as the Chairman of Blade and sits on the Board of Directors of Group Nine Media. He is also on the Board of nonprofits Bank Street College of Education and the Association to Benefit Children. He is a fan of CBD, drinks Sweet Reason, and uses Prima daily.

Kennie Blanco is the Partner, Managing Member at L'ATTITUDE Ventures. Kennie Blanco attended The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Kent is a partner in Bessemer’s Cambridge office. Before his career in venture capital, Kent was a creative executive for an entertainment production company, where he developed and sold original material including a network television pilot and a feature film. He began his career with Bain & Co., where he worked on projects in industries spanning IT, retail, consumer products, healthcare, and biotech. Kent earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and graduated summa cum laude in systems engineering from the University of Virginia, where he was a Jefferson Scholar.

Host of the Silicon Valley podcast “Something Ventured”, which features behind the scenes interviews with Silicon Valley insiders and was named one of Fortune’s “Best Business Podcasts.” Prior to co-founding 8-Bit Capital, Kent was the COO of popular social news aggregator Nuzzel, backed by A16Z, CRV, Homebrew, Lowercase Capital, Uncork Capital, Marc Benioff, and Max Levchin. Previously, Kent was the COO of Neo, the global software division of Digital Garage, which merged with Pivotal. He also worked with James Currier and Stan Chudnovsky at Ooga Labs, and founded the mobile app startup PlacePop. Kent was an early advisor and investor at the pioneering social networking service Friendster. After helping to launch Friendster, Kent joined the company as the first member of the management team, and served as COO, CFO, and CEO of Friendster.

Kerry Miller, an active angel investor, has 18 years of experience in management consulting, finance and talent strategy. Kerry’s extensive career includes time at Willis Towers Watson where she focused on integration strategy and mergers and acquisitions.  Most recently Kerry was head of human capital management for the real estate division at Goldman Sachs where she led the 1000-person integration of Archon Group. During her eight years at Goldman Sachs, she was also responsible for global recruiting strategy and head of human resources and talent strategy for technology infrastructure supporting the CTO.

Kerry Rupp is General Partner at True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage VC fund investing in women-led businesses that improve human and/or environmental health. She also teaches for NSF I-Corps, helping university-based research teams identify commercialization opportunities. She serves on 5 company boards and is the Chair of the Texas 4000for Cancer non-profit board. Previously, Kerry was CEO at DreamIt, a Top Ten US startup accelerator and VC fund. She was founder/CEO of travel company Holiday Golightly and held VP positions at AllRecipes.com, Jobster, Classmates.com, and LexisNexis.

Kesha Cash co-launched Jalia Ventures in 2010 with the support of Josh Mailman and Serious Change, LP. Kesha is a Red Rabbit advisory board member and has been instrumental in helping thecompany grow from less than $1 million of revenue in 2010 with 13 employees to over $7 million of revenue in 2013 with 130 employees. Prior to Jalia Ventures, Kesha spent three years as a mergers and acquisitions analyst at Merrill Lynch and then six years as a consultant to inner-city businesses in Los Angeles and Puerto Rico.

Kevin is a vice president on the investment team, focused on Craft’s Growth fund and based in Toronto. Prior to joining Craft, Kevin spent eight years investing across venture, minority growth, and majority/buyout transactions. Most recently, Kevin was at Carrick Capital, a software growth equity firm based in San Francisco.