- Allison Barmann
VP Strategy, Bush Foundation
- Gina Blayney
President, Junior Achievement
- Dave Cleveland
Co-founder, Riverside Bank
- Cathy Connett
Experienced Business Professional and Investor
- Lisa Crump
Founder, Cairn Ventures
- Jim D'Aquila
Founder & CEO, Rendersi, LLC
- Leslie Frecon
CEO, LFE Capital
- Skip Gage
Chairman and CEO, Gage Marketing Group
- Sima Griffith
Founder, Aethlon Capital
- Gary Holmes
President and Owner, CSM Corporation
- Margaret Anderson Kelliher
President & CEO, Minnesota High Tech Association
- Joel Lebewitz
Partner, Lurie Besikof Lapidus & Company, LLP
- Brad Lehrman
Attorney at Law, Soffer Charbonnet Law Group
- Howard Leonhardt
Serial Entrepreneur
- Joy Lindsay
President and Co-Founder, StarTec Investments, LLC
- Scott Litman
Co-founder, MN Cup and Managing Partner, Equals 3
- Dan Mallin
Co-founder, MN Cup, Founder, Equals3 and Managing Partner, Magnet 360
- Shaye Mandle
President/CEO, Medical Alley Association
- Shawn McIntee
Partner, Maslon LLP
- David Meyer
Titan Machinery
- Wendy Nelson
Vice President, Carlson Family Foundation
- Kari Niedfeldt-Thomas
Corporate Strategy & Execution
- Doug Ramler
Principal Co-Chair Entrepreneurial Services Group, Gray Plant Mooty Law Firm
- Jeffrey Robbins
Partner, Entrepreneurial Services Practice Group, Messerli & Kramer
- Thom Sandberg
Founder, The Kenyon Consortium
- Joel Schleicher
Chairman and CEO, NextOne LLC
- Phil Soran
Co-Founder, FlipGrid
- Pete Speranza
Business Development Principal, 301 Inc.
- Jeff Steinle
Counsel, Fredrikson & Byron
- Tom Vanderheyden
Vice President, Business Development and Commercialization, UnitedHealthcare
- Whitney Place
Assistant Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Agriculture
- Dale Wahlstrom
President and CEO, ACT 3, LLC
- John Bergstrom
Managing Director, Cherry Tree Companies
- Barbara Butts Williams
Executive Dean, External Relations and Partnerships, Capella University
- Ryan Hagedorn
Chief Operating Officer, Edmentum
- Jessica Haselton
Director of Grants Management and Strategic Initiatives, ECMC Foundation
- Ron Lancaster
CTO, Structural
- Teresa Marchek
Senior Director of Product Management, Be The Match, Principal Consultant, Yellow Burst Consulting
- Andrew Morrow
Marketing Manager, Office of Technology Commercialization, University of Minnesota
- Todd Murtha
Attorney, DJL Corporate, Founder & CEO, Careerwave.me
- Clarke Porter
Executive Advisor, Credly, Partner, Pathways Investments LLP
- Patrick Regan
Partner, Chartered Management Company
- Jeff Ronneberg
Superintendent, Spring Lake Parks Schools
- Sara Russick
General Partner, Capita3, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Gopher Angels
- Jeff Shelstad
CEO, Reflection Sciences Inc.
- Josh Slayton
SVP, Business Development, Research, and Innovation, ECMC Group
- Josh Susser
Partner, Cascadily
- Steve Wellvang
Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP
- Ian Adams
Managing Director,
Clean Energy Trust
- Ben Arcand
Co-Founder & Principal Engineer, ArteMedics
- Cathy Connett
CEO & Managing Partner, Sofia Fund
- Dominik Elsaesser
VP of Technology & Innovation, Filtration Solutions, Pentair
- Rick Huckle
Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of Board, Riverland Bank
- Pamela Kellenberger
Consultant, Kellenberger & Associates
- Priscilla Koeckeritz
CEO & Founder, EnergyPrint
- Dan Lieberman
President, Lieberman Companies
- Gregg Mast
President & CEO, Earthtech Energy, Executive Director, Clean Energy Economy Minnesota
- Eric Olson
External Innovation Manager, Cargill
- Gordon Ommen
Founder & Principal, Capitaline Advisors
- Tammie Ptacek
Attorney & Partner, Stinson Leonard Street LLP
- David Quinby
Attorney & Partner, Stoel Rives
- Gabi Sabongi
3M Executive Retiree
- James Schmidt
CPA & Partner, Eide Bailly LLP
- Bill Shadid
Director, Building Technologies/Materials, Axiom Marketing, President & Founder, Shadid MARKET(ing)TM Consulting, LLC
- Michael Stutelberg
AURI
- Stephen Wolff
State Program Administrator, Principal, DEED
- Jennifer Barta
R&D Director Dairy Foods Product Platforms and Innovation, Land O'Lakes
- Anna Braun
Director of Business Development, JT Mega
- Joel Conner
Chairman & CEO, Bellisio Foods
- Brian Erickson
Marketing Program Manager, MN Dept. Agriculture
- Barry Gisser
CFO, Science Museum of Minnesota
- Mike Kenefick
Partner, Kenex Holdings
- Chris Kwiat
Schwan's
- Steven London
CEO, iCrimeFighter, Co-Founder, Six Points Capital
- Joe Montgomery
Global Account Director, Star
- Lolly Occhino
Scientist of Food and Nutrition, AURI
- Brad Pederson
Partner & Business Attorney, Maslon LLP
- Josh Resnik
CEO, The Wedge Community Co-op
- Kathy Roland
Venture Partner, Oak Investments Partners
- John Satumba
Regional R&D Director, Cargill
- Jim Schmidt
Partner, Eide Bailly LLP
- Sam Snyder
Director of Corporate Development, Grain Millers
- Marty Solhaug
President, Sunny Hill Investment Company, Senior Director, Total Rewards, Sleep Number Corporation
- Cindy Sorenson
Founder & CEO, The Grocery Group
- Steve Sorensen
Sr. Category Manager, Lund Food Holdings Inc.
- Pete Speranza
Business Development Principal, 301 Inc.
- Anne Steinfeldt
Consultant, Gelati Co.
- Bruce Tiffany
Owner & Farmer, Tiffany Family Farms
- Iris Tzafrir
Strategy Business Development Manager, Syngenta
- TJ Varecka
Director, Kinneberg Management Group
- Lisa Vongchingtrong
Trend Manager, Food & Beverage, Target Corporation
- Alexis Walsko
Founder & CEO, Lola Red
- Ken Wilmer
SVP, Minnesota Bank & Trust
- Dale Woodbeck
General Manager,
Lakewinds Food Co-op
- Pamela York
Founder & CEO, Atasi Ventures, Partner, Capita3
- Anne Bergstrom
Principal Consultant, AB Consulting Company LLC
- Kevin Besikof
Partner, Lurie, LLP
- Pamela Bishop
VP of Economic Development, Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation
- Brett Brohl
Managing Director - Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator, Techstars
- Jane Dailey
Owner, Jane Dailey Consultants
- John Fritz
Location President, Choice Bank
- Brian Gustafson
Managing Director, Investments, Tonkawa - Carlson Family Office
- Maia Haag
Co-Founder & President, ISeeMe
- Duane Johnson
Co-Founder, Tuloko
- Pamela Kellenberger
Consultant,
Kellenberger & Associates
- Adrienne Leahey
Director, Front-End Innovation, LEGO Education, LEGO Group
- Brad Lehrman
Attorney & Partner, Soffer Lehrman Law Group PLLC
- Warren McLean
President,
Northside Economic Opportunity Network (NEON)
- Sarah Miller
Business & Community Representative, MN DEED
- Justin Richie
Director of Data Science, Nerdery
- Thom Sandberg
Founder & Partner, The Kenyon Consortium
- Karen Schaffhausen
Founder, BusinessIntervals
- Ed Zabinski
Owner, Zabinski Consulting
- Charlene Charles
Co-Founder, The PartnerWay
- Derek Chin
Director of Innovation, Nerdery
- Jeff Fox
Director of Group Systems, Securian Financial Group
- Laurent Frecon
Vice President, LFE Capital
- Sima Griffith
Founder & Managing Principal, Aethlon Capital
- Tim Huebsch
Senior Manager - Global Financial Systems and Global Business Solutions, General Mills
- Don Krantz
Vice President - Sonar Localization Systems, Digi Labs
- Joel Lebewitz
Partner, Lurie LLP
- Joy Lindsay
CEO, President & Co-Founder, StarTec Investments, LLC
- Scott Litman
Co-founder, MN Cup and Managing Partner, Equals 3
- Mark McGuire
Co-founder and President, Gravy
- Jeff Nelson
Manager, DEED
- Eve Poeshl
Director of Solutions Architecture, MentorMate
- Kashif Riaz
Director of Data Engineering, Securian Financial
- Sam Richter
Chief Executive, SBR Worldwide SVP
- Matt Ronge
CEO & Co-Founder, Astro HQ
- Randy Schmidt
Hardware Development Manager, IBM VLSI Design
- Matt Schmitt
Tech Ventures Ops Director, Cargill
- Carlos Seoane
CEO, Extempore
- Jesse Sixkiller
Attorney, Gray Plant Mooty
- Bjorn Stansvik
CEO & Founder, MentorMate
- Meghan Stiling
Enterprise Architect, Nerdery
- Robert Weber
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Great North Labs
- Terri Barrerio
Volunteer Coordinator, Impact Hub, Owner and Principal, Terri Barrerio Consulting Services
- Eartha Borer Bell
Executive Director, Frogtown Farms
- Brad Brown
Principal, Socentia
- Jim Delaney
Founder & Principal, Engine for Good
- Duchesne Drew
Vice President of Community Network, Bush Foundation
- Irene Fernando
Hennepin County Commissioner - District 2
- Reynolds-Anthony Harris
Managing Director,
Lyceum Partners + design
- Amanda LaGrange
CEO, TechDump
- Matt Lewis
Director, Greater MSP
- Kari Niedfeldt-Thomas
Managing Director, CECP
- Janet Ogden-Brackett
Associate Director, Nonprofits Assistance Fund
- Connie Rutledge
Managing Director, FINNOVATION Lab, Co-Founder, SlingGrip
- Max Schwartz
Attorney, Gray Plant Mooty
- Margie Siegel
Director, Center for Nonprofit Management at the University of St. Thomas
- Kayla Yang-Best
Founder and Creative Sourcing Lead, Seasoned Specialty Food Market
- Angel Adams
CEO & Founder, Catchwind Innovations
- Shauro Bagchi
Partner, Maslon LLP
- Dr. John Blank
Chairman of the Board, TreeHouse Health
- Adam Choe
Managing Director of Gener8tor Minnesota, Gener8tor
- Mauris DeSilva
CEO & Founder. 3D PARS
- Maura Donovan
Vice President of Corporate Engagement, Marquette University
- Juliana Elstad
President & CEO, Elstad Medical
- Sean Feeney
Cloud Engineering Practice Director, Nerdery
- Xavier Frigola
Director, Mayo Clinic Business Accelerator / RAEDI
- Thomas Gunderson
Retired Medtech Research Analyst, Piper Jaffray
- Frank Jaskulke
VP - Intelligence, The Medical Alley Association
- Ryan Johnson
Attorney & Shareholder, Fredrikson & Byron
- Kelly Krajnik
Business and Technology Development Manager, Mayo Clinic
- Beth Leonard
Managing Partner, Lurie LLP
- Patrick Lyon
Sr. Director, Strategy & Marketing - Care Management Services, Medtronic
- Dan Mallin
Co-founder, MN Cup, Founder, Equals3 and Managing Partner, Magnet 360
- Cheryl Matter
Senior Director - Innovation, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
- Frank Mortari
VP of Corporate Development, Bio-Techne
- Lars Oddsson
CTO & Co-Founder, RxFunction Inc. and Faculty, Technological Leadership Institute, University of Minnesota
- Kyle Pak
Chief Product Strategist, Optum
- David Rosa
President & CEO, NeuroONE LLC
- Chris Schad
Director of Business Development - Discovery Square, Mayo Clinic
- Dr. Christopher Scorzelli
Medical Technology/Innovation Consultant, Minnesota Humble
- Kari Severson Snaza
SVP, Strategy and Development UHC Global, UnitedHealth Group
- Martha Sewall
Executive Advisor & Consultant, transformedtech, Project Advisor, Pediatric Device Innovation Consortium
- Rick Sitarz
VP of Commercial Development, Lifecore Biomedical
- Kathy Tune
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Fourth Element Capital
- Tom Vanderheyden
Retired, Former Executive at BCBS and UHG
- Ty Anderson
Managing Principal, Andcor
- Alyza Bohot
CEO & Owner, City Girl Coffee
- Lee George
Executive Director, Career and Internship Services and Director of Corporate Relations, Augsburg College
- Ryan Gordon
VP of Business Development and Commercialization, StemoniX
- Ernest Grumbles
Founder and Managing Director, Grumbles Law PLLC
- Franz Hofmeister
Founder, Brands Across America President/CEO, Quaker Bakery Brands
- Russell Michaletz
Experienced accounting professional
- David Ness
VP of Innovation R&D, U.S. Bank
- Sonia Punwani
Global Bakery Category Leader, Cargill
- Ted Robb
Business Development Manager, Call Strategies
- Daniel Tenenbaum
Principal, Gray Plant Mooty
- Dick Vogen
Logistics Information Consultant, C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.
- Missy Youmans
Strategic Data Analyst, State Farm, CSO, Yourmark
- Roberto Zayas
Director of Entrepreneurship, St. Olaf
- Ty Anderson
Managing Principal, Andcor
- Alyza Bohot
CEO & Owner, City Girl Coffee
- Ben Bowman
Serial Entrepreneur
- Lee George
Executive Director, Career and Internship Services and Director of Corporate Relations, Augsburg College
- Ryan Gordon
VP of Business Development and Commercialization, StemoniX
- Ernest Grumbles
Founder and Managing Director, Grumbles Law PLLC
- Franz Hofmeister
Founder, Brands Across America President/CEO, Quaker Bakery Brands
- Russell Michaletz
Experienced accounting professional
- Aekta Mouli
Managing Director, Atland Ventures
- David Ness
VP of Innovation R&D, U.S. Bank
- Sonia Punwani
Global Bakery Category Leader, Cargill
- Ted Robb
Business Development Manager, Call Strategies
- Daniel Tenenbaum
Principal, Gray Plant Mooty
- Dick Vogen
Logistics Information Consultant, C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.
- Missy Youmans
Strategic Data Analyst, State Farm, CSO, Yourmark
- Roberto Zayas
Associate Director of the HHMI Inclusive Excellence Grant Program, University of St. Thomas
