Super Mentors
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Listed in alphabetical order by last name - check out all 20+ Super Mentors!
Beth (Curran) Angelos
Co-founder of Enrichment Express - helping parents bring fun & educational enrichment programming to their schools.
Tags: Startup Accelerator (SUA) 2017, education
Kym Arian
Co-founder & Chief People Officer at Prophit Insight (Startup Accelerator 2016) - a software company that helps healthcare providers to identify and acquire unique sources of physician referrals that will allow them to drive top-line growth.
Tags: Startup Accelerator (SUA) 2016 Finalist, healthcare, human resources (HR), artificial intelligence
Maria Rose Belding
Co-Founder/Executive Director at MEANS Database (Startup Accelerator 2017) - Waste less, feed more. Nonprofit tech devoted to business-friendly food recovery.
Tags: SUA 2017 finalist, leadership, nonprofit, leveraging tech
Logan Carlson
Cofounder and CEO at AnyCafé - A company striving to develop hot beverage solutions for the future.
Tags: SUA 2016 finalist, leadership, physical products
Evan Choquette
Co-Founder and CIO at at AnyCafé - A company striving to develop hot beverage solutions for the future.
Tags: SUA 2016 finalist, physical products, engineering
Steven Jay Cohen
Creative Director at Spoken Realms (formerly known as Listen2aBook) - Audiobook Production & Distribution
Tags: SUA 2017, creative professional, publishing, audio
Berit Elizabeth
Emotive Agility Expert Specializing in Body Language & Emotional Intelligence, founder of Emotive Agility Training
Tags: SUA 2017, public speaking, sales, fitness industry
Rachael Ellison
Executive Coach & Business Consultant | Expert Trainer | Transformational Speaker
There is a powerful NPR series on her VVM startup, check out "Taking the Lead" episodes here.
Tags: SUA 2016 (Need/Done Inc), marketplace-based businesses, B2C, professional development, work/family balance
Devon Grodkiewicz
CEO & CoFounder at Wizio
Tags: SUA 2016, commercial real estate, virtual reality, software development
Judi Grupp
CEO of New England Breath Technologies, serial entrepreneur
Tags: SUA 2016 finalist (tied for top $$ winner), healthcare, medical devices, leadership, raising angel/VC $$
Malcolm Howard
Founder, ProjectMQ
Tags: SUA 2017 finalist, video games, software development, community
Erin Keaney
COO and Co-Founder of Nonspec
Tags: SUA 2017 Finalist, healthcare, medical devices, physical products
Joe Khoury
Co-Founder/ Owner at iRollie
Tags: SUA 2016 finalist, physical products, community
Ajay Kumar
PhD Student at UMass Amherst and founder of GeneRisk. GeneRisk offers a saliva test to determine your someone's autism genetic profile.
Tags: SUA 2017, science-to-business, autism, customer discovery
Chris Landry
Helping World-Changing Organizations Tell Their Stories. Co-founder of HabitStacker.
Tags: SUA 2017, storytelling, pitching, nonprofit fundraising, habits & psychology
Alexandros Louizos
Artificial intelligence developer, Vascular Surgeon, Founder NanoTechGalaxy, AI to save lives.
Tags: SUA 2016, TechStars Alum, MassChallenge Alum, raising angel capital, science-to-business., artificial intelligence
Marcie Muehlke
Founder & CEO at Celia Grace
Tags: SUA 2016 Winner, fair trade, nonprofits, physical products, wedding industry
Ric Pratte
Chief Executive Officer & CoFounder at AlignMeeting, serial tech entrepreneur
Tags: SUA 2017, software development, Software As A Service (Saas), freemium business model, digital marketing.
Michael Rust (Available after July 11th)
Chief Technology Officer at New England Breath Technologies, professor at Western New England University.
Tags: SUA 2017 Finalist (tied for top $$ winner), science-to-business, engineering, medical devices, testing
Stephanie Sanders
Founder & Publisher at Community Horse Media
Tags: SUA 2017, publishing, bootstrapping (grew her business for 17 years without outside funding!), equestrian sector (AKA horses :))
Akshaya Shanmugam
Entrepreneur | Electrical Engineer | Co-founder of Lumme
Tags: SUA 2017 finalist, science-to-business, grants (especially SBIRs), selling into large companies, health insurance, trough of sorrow
Luke Shepter
Cofounder, iRollie | Senior concentrating in Finance and Business Analytics at Boston College
Tags: SUA 2016 finalist, physical products, community
Hannah Stern
Stakeholder Relations Manager at Nutrient Recovery and Upcycling
Tags: SUA 2017, science-to-business, municipal governments/agencies, chemical & biological engineering
Layla Tabatabaie (Available after July 10)
Attorney; Author; Founder @bartersugar; Co-founder @talemonster
Tags: SUA 2016, legal, marketplace-based businesses, recruiting developers
Wayne Thresher
Managing Partner at DaVinci Arms LLC
Tags: SUA 2016 finalist, engineering, physical products, firearms
Stephen Tongue
Co-founder of Streamliners, Streamliners sells aerodynamic devices to the trucking industry, saving $4,000/truck per year in fuel costs, paying for itself in 3 months.
Tags: 2017 finalist, engineering, physical products, computer simulation of physical products, building channel partners
Chris Urciuoli
Co-Founder and COO of AnyCafé Inc.
Tags: SUA 2016 finalist, financials, taxes
Michele Verley
Founder of Idea2Career - On a mission to help young people to discover what they're meant to do... and then helping them to make it happen.
Tags: SUA 2017, VVM Mentorship Program alum, education sector, EdTech, selling into school systems
Anthony Wilson
Founder of OfCouncils, aiming to become the E-Lance of the legal profession. City Clerk at City of Springfield, Massachusetts
Tags: SUA 2017, legal, marketplace-based-businesses