Ryan Matzner

Ryan Matzner is a Director at Fueled, a top mobile strategy, design and development agency. His background is in online marketing and strategy, working with clients large and small to help increase their presence on the web. Ryan's work has been featured in publications such as Mashable, TechCrunch, and various newspapers.

Jason Baptiste

Technology and software is meant to change the world, and the way people work. It started with personal computing, then onto the web. I love the following:

-Entrepreneurship
-Venture Capital (The side of "what makes an investment tick", rather than the financials)
-Improving and advancing industries through technology
-LAMP Technology
-Blogging and Social Media

Stefanos Missailidis

Virginia Tech Grad. Ex-Accenture Consultant. Started my startup out of a Startup Weekend. Analytics and data enthusiast. Working to make people's interactions #IRL more efficient by leveraging technology —starting with event planning.

Adam Sherbell

All around creative with a passion for social media, tech and startups. Past Startup Weekend Winner.

Nicole Dominguez

- Freelance designer with a deep love for the beautiful marriage between design & code. I'm incredibly passionate about creating products for the web and mobile, with experience in Corporate, Startups & Hackathons.

- UI Design / UX / Front End Development / Mobile Design

Meng He

- Senior UX Design Lead @SocialFlow
- Co-founder @TasteShindig
- Millennial marketing advisor for @BenandJerrys
- @Foodspotting ambassador
- Adores homemade ice cream, quantified self, and corgis

KC Oh

KC is an interaction design lead at Fjord, a service design consultancy that helps businesses create great services through design. He has worked with companies large and small including: ESPN, Etsy, Flixster, Citibank, and Gojee.

Kenny Peng

I have a soft spot for high-performance software, web technologies, game design, Nerf guns, and laser pointers. I currently work at School Yourself, an education technology company focused on creating the best math and science content. In my copious spare time, I bake, dance, and occasionally dance while baking.

Gaurav Panchal

Gaurav is a self-proclaimed tech geek with a precise eye for design. He has insightful knowledge of design and how it impacts the web, and vice-versa. He currently works for ERA Franchise Systems as the Web Production Designer and also partakes in side ventures with start-up companies.

Julie Blitzer

Julie Blitzer is an independent User Experience Consultant for digital agencies, startups and technology companies. She helps companies better understand and serve their audiences through research, design and a unique interdisciplinary background in politics, business and mathematics. Julie is also an instructor at General Assembly.

Julie worked as a UX Designer for JOOR, AppNexus and UX Lead for Advomatic. She has donated instruction and mentoring to Girls Who Code and StartupWeekend NYC. Past speaking appearances include SXSW Interactive 2010 & 2011, Netroots Nation, IPDI's Politics Online and Organizing 2.0.

Ashley Williams

web dev+educator. i like games and neuroscience and math and jokes and derrida. @flatironschool professor. @codeforamerica NYC brigade, @betaNYC dev captain.

Christina Wallace

Christina is responsible for launching the New York campus of Startup Institute. She has an eclectic background with experience ranging from classical music, acting, and arts management to management consulting and entrepreneurship. Most recently Christina was the founding CEO of Quincy, a vertically integrated ecommerce brand based in NYC, and experienced first-hand the difficulties of finding top talent prepared to the hit the ground running in a startup environment.

Mark Thompson

Mark is an Associate at the Partnership Fund for New York City, a $110 million evergreen fund. Founded by Henry Kravis in 1996, the Partnership Fund is a private fund with the civic mission of strengthening and diversifying New York City’s economy. Mark focuses on investments in the healthcare, education, tech, and retail & tourism sector of NYC and is active in the fund's initiatives including the NY Digital Health Accelerator and NYC Seed.

Scott Thompson

Scott Thompson is a software engineer at Gilt Groupe, where he works on personalization initiatives. He's a full-stack engineer but particularly enjoys focusing on large-scale data mining, predictions and recommendations. Before joining Gilt in May 2012, Scott was a developer at adMarketplace, where he built ad pricing systems, and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, where he wrote software to support financial risk models. A grad of the University of Waterloo, Scott is a native Canadian. Outside of work, he enjoys hacking on the latest web technologies and home-brewing.

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