Aanand Krishnan currently works in the corporate development and strategic planning group at Symantec. Prior to this he worked at Dolby, where he focuses on evaluating and executing strategic acquisitions and investments, as well as corporate strategic initiatives. Prior to Dolby, Aanand worked as a technology investment banker at Morgan Stanley where he advised a wide variety of semiconductor, hardware and clean tech companies in financing and M&A transactions totaling over $4 billion. Aanand spent five years at Agilent Technologies' Fiber Optics division in various roles in research, product development, pre-sales and product management. Aanand has an MBA from U.C. Berkeley where he was the recipient of the C.J. White fellowship, a Masters in photonics from U.C. Santa Barbara and a bachelors in electrical engineering from BITS Pilani.

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Abhinav is the Cofounder of Petasense - the Fitbit for industrial machines. He used to drive strategy for Nokia Messaging, a key service that is driving Nokia’s transformation into a service company. As a business development manager,tunities in BRIC countries and driving operator and retail strategy. Prior to Nokia, Abhinav was an associ he was responsible for partnering with social networking & media companies, scouting for white space opporate at General Catalyst Partners assisting a portfolio company with growth strategy. He has consulting experience at Booz Allen Hamilton, a mobile startup in New Zealand and a European seafood company. He has spent 5 years at Citrix Systems as release program manager leading a team of over 60 for the Internet security business and was awarded the leadership and team achievement awards. Abhinav has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management where he worked on startup ideas in social media and mobile and was a semi-finalist in the MIT $100k competition. He also has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from University of Florida and bachelors from BITS, Pilani. Besides establishing the Startup Leadership Program in Silicon Valley, he has also founded the Sparks New Ventures program to mentor, teach & fund student startups.

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Abhishek Agarwal is the founder and CEO of Prediken. A company built on an idea that most of the current data analysis does not provide actionable results and is backward looking. Through its innovative decision console Prediken provides a cloud based cost efficient solution to change that and bring a revolution in the way companies make decisions. Abhishek is a veteran of finance industry and has more than 10 years of experience in using data to make strategic decisions. An entrepreneur at heart he has been involved in 3 early stage startups. His first startup was created when his team was placed in the round of finalists at a venture competition organized by McKinsey in India in 2000. Abhishek has an MBA from Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated with Honors. Abhishek also holds an Engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), in India. He is also an avid mountain climber and can be challenged to speed hiking any day of the year. He is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Silicon Valley.

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"Abizar Lakdawalla is the CEO of Proxeom. It is the development of ultra-sensitive non-invasive blood and body-fluids based nucleic acid assay technologies for detecting organ transplant rejection, presence and persistence of tumors and host response to disease. Prior to this he worked at INanoBio and ZB Angel Funds.. He has a degree in Microbiology, Medical Lab Technology, Biochemical Toxicology,Molecular Genetics and Molecular Biology.. He is an expert in Business Intelligence, Business Strategy, Cancer, and Classroom Instruction. He is a 2017 fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Silicon Valley.

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Adam Berlinsky-Schine is the Founder and CEO of Pheast LLC, a crowd-sourced recipe site designed to make it easy to share recipes with the community. Prior to Pheast, he worked as a software developer and leader at Yelp and Amazon.com. He is a software engineer by trade, and an expert in distributed systems and designing systems to scale. He has a B.S. and M.Eng degree from Cornell University. He is a 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Silicon Valley.

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Adam is a PhD candidate at the UC San Francisco/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, class of 2010. In his first summer pursuing his PhD in 2006, Adam was awarded an NSF fellowship to research in Japan with Kyoto University’s Department of Drug Delivery Research. Upon returning from Japan, Adam joined the Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology by Laboratory at UCSF headed by Professor Tejal A. Desai, where he is currently researching new treatment options for Type I diabetes through the immunoisolated transplantation of insulin-producing cells. Also during his second year in the PhD program, Adam joined Venture Innovation Program (VIP) in Life Sciences as a fellow. Adam is completing his Management of Technology certificate through the Haas school of business. Prior to graduate school, Adam spent two years with Advanced Bionics, a Boston Scientific Company, where he successfully developed a piezoresistive pressure sensor and an overfill safety valve that became part of an implantable drug delivery pump. Additionally, Adam obtained extensive project management experience and medical device development documentation experience including quality control considerations, FMEA, and IQ/PQ/OQ authoring. Adam holds a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in Music - Piano Performance from UCLA, where he also co-founded a co-ed professional business fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi.

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Aditya Vempaty, Sales and Marketing, Nutanix Aditya Vempaty currently works at an enterprise storage startup company, Nutanix (www.nutanix.com). Aditya directs the marketing strategy at Nutanix and is the Market Development Manager at Nutanix. Prior to Nutanix, he worked at Crossloop as a Product Marketing Manager. Aditya started his career at Dell where he got the startup itch and co-founded a startup named Medarwin. The product was a translucent LCD’s (40% transparent) that delivered dynamic ads. During this start up phase he realized the impact of meeting like-minded people. By conversing with other startup co-founders he gained broad perspective on a range of topics: how to disperse stock, how to gain early adopters and raise funding. Thus realized moving back to California would assist him in his start up journey by meeting and helping/getting help from other startup founders. Aditya has a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Finance and Nano Technology from Georgia Institue of Technology.

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Ajay Nilaver is Vice President, Product Mgmt at Fusion-io managing a product portfolio of $400M+ which represents most of Fusion-io revenue. Working part-time on a couple of startup ideas in the infrastructure software/systems space, one related to scale-out software storage systems and another focused on big data/virtualization. He holds BS from Vaishnav College and MBA from Santa Clara University. He is a 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Silicon Valley.

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Amar is the Vice President of Strategic Marketing at Arsenal Medical, a venture-backed medical technology start-up company. A member of the executive team, he leads the company's largest program in using biology, chemistry, materials science, and device engineering to develop multi-functional interventional therapies for the treatment of complex, multi-factorial diseases. Prior to joining Arsenal in 2007, Amar led the technical development of cardiovascular medical devices for the cardiac surgery marketplace at Boston Scientific (formerly Guidant) in Silicon Valley. His medical device experiences span early concept development through product development, market launch, and post-launch field support. For his innovations in opto-mechanical product design, Amar was honored as the BSC Cardiac Surgery 2006 Innovator of the Year. Amar's interests in convergence technologies began during his tenure at Surface Logix, another Boston-area venture-backed start-up in the life sciences space. As a member of a broad-based group of chemists, engineers, and biologists, he developed tools to increase the efficiency and performance of the drug discovery process. His work at Surface Logix resulted in four issued patents. Amar enjoys listening to recorded and live folk music from all over the world, with a particular love for bluegrass and bhangra. He holds a Bachelors and Masters from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering.

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Amit Jardosh, Founder, Ubersense Amit Jardosh is the co-founder of UberSense, a startup that is creating novel mobile solutions for athletes and coaches to video-analyze bio-mechanics and game tactics; these are wildly popular with over 400,000 installs by amateurs and professionals including USA Olympic teams. Before UberSense, Amit managed pricing and yield within Yahoo!'s display ad marketplaces organization; and conducted research at Intel Research, Nokia Reasearch, and Citrix Online. He got his PhD in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara, publishing 13 papers at top conferences and journals that have been heavily cited more than 1200 times. Amit went to college in Mumbai, and was elected chairperson of his college student council responsible for cultural and technical events that attracted over 10,000 attendees. He played competitive table-tennis, and is now trying hard to improve his golf skills. He is a 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Silicon Valley. He has also founded Alphonso & Co., a company that designs and manufactures bags and more using canvas, jute, and post-consumer-waste materials. All products are made-to-order in San Francisco.

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Amy Dolin founded BuyImpact.com , a site that empowers consumers to be retail philanthropists – to make a difference in the world through the things they buy every day. On BuyImpact.com consumers locate, and get discounts from, companies doing good in their communities. A fundraiser calendar also helps consumers make a fun impact. Amy has 10 years of marketing successes in health care and technology gained across consulting, agency, Fortune 200, nonprofit & startup settings. Recently, she has been providing marketing guidance to early-stage consumer web ventures. Before that, she was an award-winning global product manager for the industry-leading Fortune 200 medical device company, Medtronic. Prior to her MBA at the Univ. of Minnesota, Amy worked in nonprofits. She is originally from Minneapolis, and currently lives in San Francisco.

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Amy Hiddessen Ph.D. is currently co-founder, CTO and VP of Product Development at Purigen Biosystems, a new start-up venture focused on the developing and commercializing next-generation sample preparation technology. Previously, Amy served as Director of Product Development at Bio-Rad, following the 2011 acquisition of start-up biotech company, QuantaLife, Inc., which launched the third generation of PCR (droplet digital PCR (ddPCR)). Before joining Quantalife, Amy served as Principal Investigator of her own cell and molecular biology laboratory at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she raised multimillion dollar budgets and directed teams for pathogen-host cell invasion, stem cell, bioenergy and viral detection projects. She is co-author of 9 filed patents (6 as lead inventor) and numerous peer-reviewed publications. She received her B.S. in Chemical engineering from Stanford University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. She is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Silicon Valley.

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Andrew Chen is Associate Technology Manager at Google Inc.Prior to Google, he worked as Product Owner Intern at Hubspot. He has also worked as software engineering intern at Google and Weiss Asset Management. Andrew was research assistant at MIT Media Lab. He also worked ad business analyst intern at Microsoft. He was Runner up in 2011 Apps for Communities Challenge for PlacesKidsGo web app.Andrew holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering and a B.Sc. in Management Science with a minor in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Silicon Valley.

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Andy Pandharikar is the co-founder of Zmorph. Before founding Zmorph, he was software development manager at Cisco, where he led engineering teams working on emerging technologies for small/medium businesses and consumer markets. He was also the engineering council chair for Cisco-Stanford relations reporting to Cisco SVP Brett Galloway. Before joining Cisco, he was co-founder of Poseidon Technologies, for which he helped raise $2 million from prominent angel investors. Poseidon was named #3 in top 25 startups in India by SiliconIndia magazine in year 2001. He also co-chaired various entrepreneurship programs for TiE including Entrepreneur Bazaar and TiE50 Top-Startups. Andy was featured in the book “India in Diaspora”, along with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and Dr. Sanjay Gupta. He holds a Masters in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. and a Bachelors in Electronics and telecommunication from Amravati University. He blogs at http://anandpa.blogspot.com. Andy spends his spare time painting and training for marathons and is also a certified lead rock-climber. He was the co-founder of Fitiquette, which was an online fashion boutique powered by a virtual fitting room. The company was acquired by Indian e-commerce giant Myntra in April 2013. In 2015, he founded yet another startup, which is called Tall Idea Labs.

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