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Hans Keirstead, CEO of AIVITA

Hans Keirstead, is a serial entrepreneur and currently the Founder, CEO and Chairman of Aivita Biomedical, a biotechnology company developing personalized vaccines for the prevention of infectious disease and treatment of cancer. He has now founded four biotechnology companies with successful exits in his previous three companies. Dr. Keirstead also holds Board positions in several prominent biotechnology companies.

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Mani Mohindru, CEO of Novasenta

Mani Mohindru, CEO of Novasenta has a non-traditional career path, starting as a scientist studying immune cells in the context of autoimmune diseases. She later worked in investment banking, which exposed her to different therapeutic areas, treatment modalities, and a full view of what a company can grow into. She then transitioned to the operations side of public biotechs as Chief Strategy Officer and eventually became a Chief Financial Officer before becoming the CEO of Novasena.

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Brian Finrow, CEO of Lumen Bioscience

Brian Finrow is the CEO of Lumen Bioscience, where they are reinventing how biologic drugs are made. Unlike to a lot of Bioscience CEO’s, Brian comes from the legal industry having spent over 8 years at Cooley. Lumen's patented technology allows them to use the well-known food algae spirulina to deliver therapeutic proteins.

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Joanne Mizell, COO of Banner|Aetna

Joanne Mizell is the Chief Operating Officer of Banner|Aetna. Banner Health and Aetna created a joint venture to improve the health care system for members, for providers, and for employers alike through new synergies, new partners, and simplification.

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Caleb Avery, Founder & CEO of Tilled

Caleb Avery is the Founder & CEO of Tilled, a PayFac-as-a-Service company helping software companies monetize their payments. Tilled raised a Series of A of $11M in May of 2021 and raised another $11M in the beginning of 2022 as they quadrupled their team and tripled their valuation in just over 6 months.

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Rob Carpenter - Founder & CEO of Valyant AI

Rob Carpenter is the Founder & CEO of Valyant AI which is on a mission to ease labor shortages through order automation. Valyant AI has built the world's first customer service AI designed for existing retail hardware such as drive through ordering machines. Prior to Valyant AI Rob was the CEO of AppIt Ventures, a software development company, and received his MBA from the University of Colorado with a specialization in Enterprise Technology Management.

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Kevin McGarvey - Founder & CPO/President of Hippo Health

Kevin McGarvey is the Founder & President of Hippo Health which is on a mission to easily connect patients and doctors through virtual care. Hippo Health has built a platform where you can talk, text, or video chat with a doctor when you need too. Prior to Hippo Health Kevin was the CEO of ErgentMD, an emergency physician, and has over 20 years of experience in healthcare startups.

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Cara Morphew - Partner at Sweater Ventures

Cara Morphew is a Partner at Sweater Ventures, a venture fund for everyday investors, including non-accredited retail investors. Sweater is looking to democratize venture capital by giving access to an asset class that historically is limited to the wealthy. Sweater recently raised $12M to build out their team and technology. Prior to Sweater Cara was an investor at Chicago Ventures, Selwyn Ventures and Co-Founder of BeenThere Technologies.

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Jen Farmer - Chief Marketing Officer of Neat Capital

Jen Farmer is the CMO of Neat Capital, a Colorado based Fintech company that recently raised their Series B-1 from Forecast Labs which is a division of Comcast. Neat has raised over $40M in venture capital and is revolutionizing the home lending process allowing people to compete with all cash buyers. Prior to Neat, Jen was the Head of Content Strategy for Pie Insurance where she started as employee #3 before they quickly grew to over 300 people.

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Vanessa Clark & William Kowalski, Founders of Atomos Space

Vanessa Clark & William Kowalski are the founders of Atomos Space, a venture backed startup focused on building the future of space mobility and logistics. Atomos is developing orbital transfer vehicles that reduce the cost of access to space by fostering greater ridesharing in launch vehicles which extends the useful life of a satellite. Atomos recently raised $5M led by Cantos Ventures.

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Adam Wells, CEO of Golden Section

Adam Wells is the CEO of Golden Section, a founders studio and venture capital fund focused on product development and helping companies scale to a successful exit. Adam is a serial entrepreneur and previously founded a real estate development company before going into consulting where he started his own firm, EDB Consulting. Golden Section has over 75 employees now and five offices across the world.

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Jonathan Jachimiec, CFO of MycoTechnology

Jonathan Jachimiec is the Chief Financial Officer of MycoTechnology, a food ingredient company that is on a mission to solve some of the hardest challenges in the food and beverage industry. Jonathan has helped MycoTechnology raise over $225M in funding and recently negotiated a joint venture in the Middle East. He is also the Co-founder of Molly Brown, a true "Grain to Glass" spirits company.

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Daniel Faber, CEO & Co-Founder of Orbit Fab

Daniel Faber is the CEO & Co-Founder of Orbit Fab, a space company building “gas stations” in space to provide the infrastructure necessary to create a robust in-space economy. Orbit Fab recently raised $10M in seed financing from numerous investors including Lockeed Martin Ventures and Asymmetry Ventures who led the round. Prior to Orbit Fab, Daniel was the CEO of Space Arena and Deep Space Industries.

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Yosh Eisbart, CEO & Co-founder of Fulfilld

Yosh Eisbart is the Co-Founder & CEO of Fulfilld, an intelligent location-aware warehouse management platform, which recently raised a $2.5M seed round that included former Amazon exec Jeff Wilke. Prior to Fulfilld, Yosh co-founded NIMBL which he and his team built to over $50M in revenue and over 300 employees before they were acquired by Techedge.

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