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Co-founder and product manager at Sandbox Inc. a company that develops geospatial networks for users based on location.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanlhartman
'''Jenny Gustafson'''
Public Relations and Social Media Account Executive at Integrate Agency a Houston based marketing and public relations firm.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennyselbergustafson
http://integrateagency.com/about-us/meet-the-team/jenny-gustafson/
'''Jon Nordby'''
Director of talent attraction and marketing at Greater Houston Partnership. The Greater Houston Partnership is a business organization in Houston devoted to aiding in the growth of business, entrepreneurial or otherwise in Houston.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonordby
https://www.houston.org/
'''Joseph Marhee'''
Customer Success Engineer at Digital Ocean, a company that provides internet services including cloud computing and storage and leasing data centers.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephmarhee
https://www.digitalocean.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=brand_sem&utm_campaign=Brand_Protection&utm_term=digital%20ocean&adgroup=9971414725&matchtype=e&network=g&device=c&position=1t1
'''Josephine Tran'''
Community Development Manager at Houston Technology Center. Josephine fosters an entrepreneurial community and collaboration in the Houston entrepreneurial scene.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephinetran
http://www.houstontech.org/
'''John Rodney'''
Developer at Poetic Systems, a company devoted to developing websites, apps, and marketing.
https://poeticsystems.com/about
'''Justin Cordero'''
Developer at Poetic Systems, a company devoted to developing websites, apps, and marketing. Also a freelance developer.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-cordero-6112b817
'''Kaitlin O’Brien'''
Marketing Director of Houston Technology Center and Co-Founder at Xela Coffee Roasters, a start-up producing specialty coffee roasters in Houston, Texas.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/obrienkaitlin
http://www.houstontech.org/
http://xelaroasters.com/
'''Kenton Gray'''
CTO at iOffice, leads a team of developers to create whatever software is needed by iOffice. iOffice is a company that develops software to unlock the full potential of another corporations workforce.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenton-gray-16572b31
http://www.iofficecorp.com/about-us/leadership-team/kenton-gray
http://www.iofficecorp.com/
'''Kerri Smith'''
Managing Director at OwlSpark Accelerator and Associate Managing Director at Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship. OwlSpark is a three day start-up accelerator. Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship is a university initiative to drive the commercialization of technology.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrismith1
http://alliance.rice.edu/
http://www.owlspark.com/
'''Kevin Nguyen'''
Employee at Applied Matter a company devoted to helping businesses drive traffic to their sites and engage customers.
http://appliedmatter.com/
https://plus.google.com/103328061818318521835/about
'''Khalid Adil'''
Web developer at Poetic Systems, a company devoted to developing websites, apps, and marketing.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/khalidadil
https://poeticsystems.com
'''Kim Evans'''
Co-founder and CEO at Seremedi. Seremedi is a start-up in Houston that works with hospitals and physicians to improve outpatient care.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimbevans
http://www.seremedi.com/#home
'''Kirk Coburn'''
Founder and Managing Director of SURGE Ventures. Previously founded three successful start-ups, supports the Rice Alliance, and is a HALO investor in his spare time. SURGE ventures is an investment company for technology in the field of energy. His previous three companies included Chief Outsiders, a marketing firm, and the PGA TOUR network on Sirius XM.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkcoburn
http://www.surgeventures.com/
'''Kenny Loveall'''
Student at University of Houston and co-creator of Towbee a start-up founded in Red-Labs which will allow users to request assistance when their car breaks down.
http://www.kennyloveall.com/pages/web_design.php
https://www.linkedin.com/in/klloveall
http://redlabs.uh.edu/meet/towbee/
http://towbee.com/
'''Kyle Dixon'''
Student at University of Houston and co-creator of Towbee a start-up founded in Red-Labs which will allow users to request assistance when their car breaks down.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-dixon-38b06448
http://redlabs.uh.edu/meet/towbee/
http://towbee.com/
'''Ladd Hoffman'''
Senior Engineer at Door Space, a company that develops education for adult education. Also director at ideate foundation, a non-profit research and development start-up.
http://ideatefoundation.org/
https://www.doorspaceinc.com/
'''Lindsay Deneault'''
Strategist at Texas Medical Center, an accelerator for health care start-ups. Lindsay previously worked at Rice OwlSpark and the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaydeneault
'''Luis Reyes'''
Product Manager at McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm that finds better business solutions for clients.
http://www.mckinsey.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisreyes
'''Matt Keas'''
Mentor and instructor at Iron Yard, a modern boot camp style code school.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-keas-46141421
'''Matthew Hager'''
CEO at Poetic Systems, a company devoted to developing websites, apps, and marketing.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewhager
'''Michael Brumlow'''
Lead Software Engineer at R1Soft, a server backup manager.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-brumlow-5abaa88
http://www.r1soft.com/
'''Melanie Jones'''
Marketing Technologist at Marketing Interface. Previously director of marketing at SURGE accelerator.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanieajones
http://marketing-interface.com/
'''Adrian Cantu'''
Senior software engineer at Avanade, an IT company with many different services.
http://www.avanade.com/en/home
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-cantu-1112388a
'''Micah Thomas'''
Lead developer at RaptorBird Robotics, a new droid company that develops drones and drone platforms.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/micahthomas4
http://raptorbird.com/
'''Michael Brown'''
Recently founded Incipire a technology company with unclear ambitions. Michael is currently president and CTO of Incipire and has a background in technology.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbrown77
'''Michael Sklar'''
CEO at Graylog, a machine data management systems company.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/msklar
https://www.graylog.com/
'''Michele Price'''
Business Guru and host of radio show, broadcaster, and producer.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/micheleprice
http://whoismicheleprice.com/
'''Yvonne Doung'''
Front End designer at the advisory board company creating websites for clients. The Advisory Board Company is a consulting company with a wide variety of services.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonneduong
https://www.advisory.com/
'''Mitchell Barron'''
Developer at Poetic Systems, a company devoted to developing websites, apps, and marketing.
https://poeticsystems.com/about
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtchllbrrn
'''Edward Dodington'''
Received Masters in architecture from Rice University. Edward (or Ned) is now a full time architect and part time creative entrepreneur working to develop new practices for biologically inclusive design.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/neddodington
http://archinect.com/people/cover/18908110/ned-dodington
'''Nicholas Romero'''
Business Owner at J-tronics, a webdesign and IT consulting firm, Nicholas is also the technical co-founder of Kaasol, a company designed to make buying a home effortless.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ncrmro
https://www.linkedin.com/company/kaasol
https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?company=J-Tronics&trk=prof-exp-company-name
'''Nir Leibovich'''
Currently the CEO and founder of GoCo.io Inc (recently received 1.8m in funding) a business solutions company and an angel investor. Formerly a serial entrepreneur Nir was co-founder at Trendfund, owner of a Checkers Burgers in Dallas, Co-founder and CEO at QuadEnergy, founder and director of MarketZero (later acquired by Zynga), Co-founder and CEO at Arpeggi (later acquired by Gene by Gene).
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirleibovich
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirleibovich
https://www.goco.io/
'''Nash Kabbara'''
CTO at Manna Systems a software consulting shop for businesses. Formerly founded and Exited ZipZoomAuto, a market platform for car dealerships, and ran marketing and management at Motors on Wheels.
http://nashkabbara.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nkabbara
http://www.zipzoomauto.com/
http://mannapc.com/
'''Norris Kwan'''
Developer at Poetic Systems, a company devoted to developing websites, apps, and marketing.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/norriskwan
'''Rakesh Agrawal'''
Start-up investor and founder of snapstream, a way of watching and recording television then extracting the useful clips from it. Essentially snapstream strives to make TV searchable. He has invested in over 60 start-ups and is a limited partner at two venture capital firms. Most of his investments occurred through angel.co.
http://rake.sh/
http://www.snapstream.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/raaaaakesh
https://angel.co/rakeshagrawal
https://angel.co/
'''Rakshak Talwar'''
Founder and CEO at RaptorBird Robotics, a new droid company that develops drones and drone platforms. RaptorBird was a product of RedLabs.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rakshak-talwar-71759053
http://raptorbird.com/
'''Rich Winley'''
An entrepreneur that has a background in sales, Rich is a VP at GUI Global and a founder at Gnomad, an advertising network. He previously completed an IronYard course in South Carolina and founded No-Chains an app featured in Forbes but that ultimately appears to have failed.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/richwinley
http://gnomadnetwork.com/
http://www.blackenterprise.com/technology/rich-winley-no-chains-food-app/
'''Rishi Sohoni'''
Construction Manager and organizer at 3DS, a startup accelerator from the University of Houston’s Bauer college of business.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rsohoni
http://www.bauer.uh.edu/3ds/about.php
'''Robert De Los Santos'''
CEO of Sky High Party Rentals, a company that sells inflatable bounce houses for parties. Co-founder of FireStartup Web Technology, a company that helps small businesses in Houston gain a web presence. Co-founder at Indie Houston a website devoted to promoting art in Houston.
http://www.skyhighpartyrentals.com/
http://www.firestartup.com/
http://indiehouston.org/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertdelossantos
'''Roslynn Velasquez'''
Community Outreach Officer at The black sheep agency, a marketing firm.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roslynnfitch
http://theblacksheepagency.com/the-flock/
'''Sameer Soleja'''
Founder and CEO at Molecule Software as well as an Adjunct Professor at UH. Molecule software is a website that assists in commodity trading.
http://www.molecule.io/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ssoleja
'''Sarah Rigdon'''
Marketing director at Braincheck a website that allows you to check if you have a concussion based on initial baseline testing.
http://braincheck.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahrigdon
'''Sebastian Good'''
Owner of Palladium Consulting Inc. and Computer Software Consultant who specializes in high end custom scientific and economic software.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastiang
http://www.palladiumconsulting.com/
'''Stephen White'''
Founder of Qukku, a platform for video viewers and watchers to come together. Co-Founder and Director of Fair Haven Trading Company, a social enterprise devoted to reselling and marketing organic and fair trade products.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenrwhite
https://www.linkedin.com/company/fair-haven-trading-company
http://www.qukku.com/
'''Aziz Gilani'''
Mercury Fund investor and expert in Start-Up accelerators, also an adjunct Professor at Rice’s Jones School of Business, where he teaches a course on venture capital.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/azizgilani
http://mercuryfund.com/
http://mercuryfund.com/team/aziz-gilani/
'''Tim DeSilva'''
Founder of Culture Pilot in 2003 it is now a successful marketing consulting firm.
http://timdesilva.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timdesilva
http://culturepilot.is/
'''Travis Potter'''
Customer Service Technician at SoftLayer Technologies, an IBM Company specializing in cloud infrastructure. Travis is also the owner and founder of awkward situations web design.
www.softlayer.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/travis-potter-4b822416
'''Tri Nguyen'''
Co-Founder at Zodist, a subscription box service for vaping enthusiasts. CEO at Sensibly a medical innovation company. Director of Marketing at PixelRocket a creative solutions firm specializing in technology and design.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/trisongz
https://www.linkedin.com/company/3628804?trk=prof-exp-company-name
http://www.zodist.com/
http://www.pixelrocketapps.com/
'''Daniel Buentillo'''
Chief Engineer at Mioty a brand new start up with no published goals.
https://angel.co/mioty-startup
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielbuentello
'''Wes Gamble'''
Senior software engineer at The Advisory Board Company. The Advisory Board Company is a consulting company with a wide variety of services.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesgamble
'''Wesley Okeke'''
CEO Business Strategist at Fruition Technology Labs a marketing consultant company. Former volunteer at OwlSpark.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fruitiontech
'''James Phelan'''
Founder and CEO at White Space a platform for connecting work space with small businesses. Managing Director at Houston Professionals a networking organization in Houston. Partnership Director at Startup Grind Houston, an event series to educate and inspire local Houston entrepreneurs.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesphelan2
http://whitespacehou.com/
'''Yael Hochberg'''
Ex-entrepreneur and current professor of entrepreneurship at Rice University currently studying the effects of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurs. Academic director of Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship. Created seedranker a website that ranks start-up accelerators around the nation.
http://www.seedrankings.com/
http://yael-hochberg.com/
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