Judges
- Ben Wright
Vice President, 3M Ventures at 3M - Beth Kieffer Leonard
Managing Partner at EisnerAmperLLP - Cathy Connett
Sofia Fund - Dan Mallin
CEO & Founder of Lucy - Gary Holmes
President and CEO, CSM Corporation - Fred Haberman
Haberman & Associates - Hailey Margetta
Market Development Director, Bell Bank - Heidi Johnson
Senior Advisor, Minnesota Impact & Ecosystem Partnerships at ECMC Group - Howard Leonhardt
Executive Chairman & CEO at Leonhardt Ventures LLC - Jeff Robbins
Attorney at Avisen Legal, P.A. - Jeff Tollefson
President & CEO at Minnesota Technology Association - John O'Connell
Director at Plug n' Play Minnesota - John Whaley
- Ken Greer
Augeo - Lisa Crump
Founder, Cairn Ventures - Michael Gorman
Managing Director, Split Rock Partners - Mickayla Rosard
Groove Capital - Neela Mollgaard
Executive Director, Office of Small Business and Innovation at MN DEED - Paul Campbell
Brown Venture Group - Phil Soran
FlipGrid - Ping Yeh
CEO, VOCxi Health - Rick Gage
CEO at YourMLSsearch - Rick Huebsch
UMN TechComm - Sara Russick
Gopher Angels - Sandy Yu
Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management - Michele Nguyen
Managing Partner, Atland Ventures - Scott Litman
Managing Partner, Co-Founder at Lucy - Jeff Robbins
Attorney at Avisen Legal - Shawn McIntee
Attorney at Greenberg Traurig, LLP - Stephanie Rich
Bread & Butter Ventures
- John Bergstrom
Partner, RiverPoint Investments - Harish Vundavalli
Senior Information Technology Architect, Strategic Education, Inc - Clarke Porter
Director of Secretary and Treasurer, Inteleos Foundation Board of Directors - Steve Wellvang
Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP - Kirk Lundeen
Partner at Pathways Investments - Jonathan Hanson
Owner, Skyhawks Sports Minnesota - Jarin Schmidt
VP of Client Partnerships, Livefront - Carla Pavone
Principal, Isles Growth Initiative - John Behr
Educational Technology Innovations - Jay Ruhl
SVP, Bell Bank - Chris Ghere
Assistant Director of Venture Development, UMN TechComm - Clare Richards
Founder, Impacks - Meghan Stiling
Vice President, Berghuis & Hunt Inc - Amy Bratt
Fractional CRO, Amy Bratt LLC
- Linda Hofflander
Principal Strategist / Consultant, The HANDA Group - Priya Senthilkumar
VP, Technology & Product Engineering, Pearson. - Katie Youtsos
Strategy, Innovation & Monetization Consultant, Carbontec Inc. - Brad Lehrman
Attorney & Partner, Soffer Lehrman Law Group PLLC - Bill Shadid
Strategic Marketing Leader, Building Envelope Sealing, Aeroseal - Michael Stutelberg
Scientist, AURI - Keith Waxelman
President, Wax Enterprises - Josef Hofmeister
Assistant Vice President, Bridgewater Bank - Charlie Spanjers
CEO, Berd Spokes - Cathy Connett
CEO and Managing Partner, Sofia Fund - Stephen Wolff
Sr. Economic Development Specialist, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development - Gregg Mast
Executive Director, Clean Energy Economy Minnesota - Peder Sandhei
Planner Principal, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency - Philip Hult
Development Manager, Generation Atomic - John O'Connell
Director, Plug and Play - Nina Axelson
Founder, Grid Catalyst Steve Van Tassel
- Anna Braun
VP, Director of Business Development, JT Mega - Robert Brooks
Operations/Supply Chain Leader, General Mills - Allison Hohn
Managing Director, MBOLD - Jason Robinson
Director, AURI - Megan Stevens
Category Manager, Coborn's Inc. - Steve Sorenson
Director of Marketing and Client Service, Summit Creek Advisors - Emily Lafferty
Director, Seven Sundays - Kathy Roland
Venture Partner, Oak Investments Partners - Giselle Restrepo
Managing Director, Roundpeg Consulting LLC - Marty Solhaug
President, Sunny Hill Investment Company - Erika Camplin
Food Business Economic Development, MN Dept of Ag - Bruce Tiffany
Owner & Farmer, Tiffany Family Farms - Iris Tzafrir
Global Director, Innovation Value Capture, Cargill - TJ Varecka
Executive Director, Kinneberg Management Group - Michael von Fange
Senior Brand Manager, Jack Link's - Lisa Vongchingtrong
Director, Walmart + Membership, Walmart - Rebecca Lee
Senior Director of Purchasing & Merchandising, Twin Cities Co-op Partners - Rachael Perron
Culinary and Branding Director, Kowalski's Markets - Sam Durant
Marketing Consultant and Brand Strategist, Window Seat - Jennifer Barta
Fractional CEO - Tess Stender
Manager of Strategy Execution, Cargill - Morgan Loecke
Content Producer, JT Mega - Lauren McNamara
SVP of Business Management, SunOpta - Belen Rodriguez
Director of Production & Strategic Initiatives, We Are Nuts
- Hailey Margetta
Market Development Director, Bell Bank - Mike Eull
CEO/Founder, Sell Fuse - Audrey Sommerfeld
CEO, Win Marketing - Andrew Schneider
Senior Manager - Tax Advisor, Track LLC - Drew Lindorfer
Small Business Finance Manager, DEED - Kara Kuykendall
Founder, True North Leadership - Tom Domiano
VIP Business Banking Relationship Manager, Huntington Bank - Kishor Patil
Sr Manager Cloud Engineering, Best Buy - Neil Linscheid
State Specialist (Entrepreneurship), University of MN Extension - Ben Ihde
Entrepreneur in Residence, BETA - Mike Williams
Senior Technical Sales Architect - Team Lead, Zoom - Morgan Kerfeld
Associate Director, Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship ; Founder, Telo - Thom Sandberg
Founder & Partner, The Kenyon Consortium - Alyson Onstad
Founder, Onstad Consulting LLC
- Laurent Frecon
Partner, LFE Capital - Tim Huebsch
Senior Manager - Global Financial Systems and Global Business Solutions, General Mills - Scott Litman
Co-founder, MN Cup and Managing Partner, Lucy - Bobby Astrup
Founder & CEO, TripTaker Ventures - Grant Gibson
Principal, Great North Ventures - John Tedesco
CEO, Drip - Casey Hebling
Founder/CTO , Software for Good - Zack Meierhofer
AI Strategist, Blank Metal - Dan Mallin
Founder & CEO, Lucy AI - Dipankar Saha
Principal Solutions Architect, RBC Wealth Management PARTNER at EisnerAmper
- Sunil Bafna
CXX, Ethersign - Samson Seiffert
Director, Sales Strategy & Operations, Sezzle - Zach Meierhofer
Product Manager, Lucy AI - Rick Gage
Chair, Carlson - Garret Lauderdale
VP Idea Fund of La Crosse - Neal Wozniak
- David Nguyen
Senior Fellow, University of Minnesota - Danny Lindsey
Director of Healthcare, Kipsu Tim Butler
Managing Partner, GrowthFire, LLC
- Jim Delaney
Founder & Principal, Engine for Good - Stephen Rueff
Chair, Department of Arts Entrepreneurship, Minneapolis College of Art and Design - Brian Gustafson
Managing Director of Investments, Tonkawa - Wendy Hanson
CEO, MobileAxept - Sarah Miller
Realtor/Interior Designer, Fox Homes - Joy McBrien
Founder & CEO, Fair Anita - Erik Halaas
Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program Manager, Macalester College - Sean Lundy
Special Projects & Initiatives Manager, City of Bloomington - Katie Kalkman
Executive Director, Impact Hub - Matt Ladhoff
Senior Lecturer, UMN Carlson - Demi Radeva
CEO, Akros Advisory Services logo - Katie Piehl
Founder, Bloomwise Partners - Connie Rutledge
CEO, FINNOVATION Lab - La Juana Whitmore
Business Strategist and Accredited Small Business Consultant, La Juana Whitmore Consulting - Ephi Eyal
Expert in Residence, Rippleworks - Hemasundara Reddy
Technical Architect, Publicis Sapient - Tony Lloyd
Chief Learning officer, Culture Shift companies - Jennifer Hawkins
Sr Management Consultant, MN Management & Budget - Kate Winter
Chief of Staff, Medica Health Plans - Reynolds-Anthony Harris
Founder, LP & Design - Bao Lee-Yang
- Will Nielsen
Chief Economist, Ecotone Analytics GBC
- Angie Conley
Director of Venture Center, UMN - Xavier Frigola
Treasury Service Lead, Mayo Clinic - Peder Hatling
Managing Director, BA Securities - Geoff Hannigan
Director of Business Development, Mayo Clinic - Kathy Anderson
Founder, Nuovo Inizio - Himanshu Laiker
Medtech/Healthcare Advisory Board Member, BETA - Ellen Dupler
Clinical Research Operations, Kerecis - Mike Pietig
General Manager, CompliancePro Solutions - Charlie Schaller
Chief of Staff to the Chief Medical Officer - Clinical Policy, UnitedHealth Group - Nathan Widenman
Mayo Clinic Office of Entrepreneurship, Mayo Clinic - Ross Meisner
Retired - Kate Siegrist
Partner, EisnerAmper - Brian Repko
Retired - Alfred Olivares
Global Managing Partner, HTEC - Peter Horwich
Medical Alley - Martha Sewall
Executive Advisor, Transformedtech - Amanda Welters
Senior Associate, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. - Joseph Pulikkotil
- Mick Tiedman
Principal, Medical Alley - Dan Hurka
VP of Enterprise Technology, Zimmer Biomet - Barbara Nelson
Board Chair, University Enterprise Laboratories - Ryan Schafer
Realtor, Minnesota Home Guys Tech Fellow, Boston Scientific
- Ty Anderson
Managing Principal, Andcor - Ben Bowman
CFO, Zipnosis, Inc - Ryan Gordon
Sr. Vice President, Business Development, Rion - Ernest Grumbles
Managing Partner, Grumbles Law - Daniel Tenenbaum
Partner, Lathrop GPM - Amy Brandli
VP Strategic Operations, YourStory Health - Daniel Tenenbaum
Partner, Lathrop GPM - Brian Gustafson
Director, Olympus Ventures LLC - Missy Youmans
Owner & Executive Consultant, Yourmark - Sean Williams
Ecosystem Innovator, Director of Entrepreneurial Services - Kate Kuehl
Technical and Business Consultant, Kuehl Consulting - Joe Hedrick
Financial Advisor, UBS Financial Services - Allan Martinez
Director of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Macalester College - Nick Beste
Founder, Mighty Spark Food Co. - Ashley Mahoney
Director, MIN-Corps at the University of Minnesota - Luke Burns
VP of Customer Success, Lucy AI - Kimberlie Moock
Innovation Hub Operations Coordinator - Andy Lee
Venture Associate, UMN TechComm - Nisarg Gahndi
VP Investment Banking, Piper Sandler
- Lisa Schlosser
Executive Director, Technovation.mn - Deb Mallin
Founder & Creator Mighty Doodle, Debby Webby - Aaron Cerny
Junior Achievement - Kristin Greyson
Co-Founder, Minno - Karen Scott
Vice President of Sales Enablement and Training, Patterson Dental - Tyler Vogel
Director, Wings of the Night - Kelly Goldthorpe
Sr Product Manager, ŌURA - Rachel Crowley
CEO & Founder, JeeSpark Consulting LLC - Colby Cartledge
Director of Growth Innovation, Thrivent - Erik Von Glan
Manager of Corporate Development & Ventures, Andersen Corp. - Cameron Waters
Human Resources Leadership, City of Burnsville - Michele Nguyen
Investor at Atland Ventures - Sophia Youngdahl
Customer Growth Associate, Google - Ashley Mahoney
Director, MIN-Corps at the University of Minnesota