Our Members and Alumni
Meet our Netcito community, a diverse group of highly successful entrepreneurs from around the United States.
Frankie Abralind is Executive Director of The Good Listening Project, a nonprofit that promotes good listening to support patient safety, nursing resilience, and physician wellbeing. Previously, Frankie served as the lead designer for the Innovation Hub at Johns Hopkins Sibley Memorial Hospital, where he worked on improving the healthcare experience for patients, staff, and visitors. Frankie studied design at Cornell University and earned his MBA from the University of Maryland.…
Life, as they say, comes full circle. Many moons ago, I earned my BS in Human Environment and Design from MSU and worked in sales for The North Face. While there, I volunteered and taught people with disabilities how to ski. Working with an underserved population is tremendously rewarding. This opened my eyes to the need for adaptive equipment to empower people of all abilities the freedom to explore the outdoors in comfort.…
Bilaal Ahmed is the founder of Linktank, a comprehensive roundup of events, organizations, and people in policy, advocacy, and research.
Nabeel is a visionary entrepreneur with 17+ years of extensive Marketing and Business Development expertise and has been part of 7 startups with4.5 successful exits. Nabeel is currently working on developing another tech-based startup, Tripli, a peer-to-peer social marketplace for travelersand locals. Nabeel is highly skilled in constructing and executing strategy, defining positioning and value propositions, increasing brand awareness, building partnerships, coaching high performance teams, developing and launching new products and services, and representing the company as a spokesperson.
I’m a father of 6, astrophotographer, student pilot, gamer, podcast host, and founder and CEO of a software quality assurance agency, JDAQA. We help custom software development and SaaS companies with their manual, automated, performance, and security testing efforts. We have an incredible team that flexes up to 60 people across the US and in the Philippines.…
Mazen is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience. Started his current digital agency (WebQuest) in 2014 as a one-man agency based in Dubai, and grew it to a staff of six full-time employees and 2-part-time admin staff with clients across the Middle East, Europe, and the US.
Mazen started his professional career as a technical instructor in 2002 when he taught networking and programming courses at a technical institute.…
Dave is currently the COO at Hitch! (HitchRides), a DC-based start-up with a digital dispatch and mobile payment platform for the Taxi industry. Since graduating from Bowdoin College with an Econ major and Comp Sci minor, Dave has been able to prove himself as a software engineer, private equity analyst and acquisition negotiator, sales engineer, client-facing enterprise software consultant, strategy consultant, and sales & BD manager.…
Allie founded her entrepreneurial design firm, Mind Into Matter, to help clients unlock their motivation and drive and build their lives around it. Sheis an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland’s Academy for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and leads Design Thinking workshops for General Assembly, Linktank and her own sessions. She also coaches one-on-one with clients to help them “design think” their lives.…
I started my agency, 9miles Media, back in 2008 when I was 14 years old. I sold my first WordPress website project to two realtors in Sonoma County, California for $450. They had no idea that my buddy and I were teenagers, but they went on to become some of the top brokers in the state and referred us to others.…
My name is Thomas Armstrong, and I just graduated from NC State University in Raleigh. I studied entrepreneurship and at the same time my brother and I built a digital marketing agency, 9miles Media, from 2 to 14 people based in downtown Raleigh. https://9milesmedia.com
I was introduced to Peter Mellen several months ago by a mutual friend, and he’s been an invaluable mentor to me.…
I’m the Co-Founder of Mission Collaborative, where we help people of all ages and backgrounds design more fulfilling careers through a 30-day online Fellowship. I’m passionate about making career information more equitable and accessible so that everyone can obtain the resources and the community needed to navigate the many career changes throughout their life successfully. My passion for career development started in college when I noticed that my peers approached their education pathways based on little to no information about how it would affect them long term.…
Jason Aviles is CEO of FLYOGI, LLC, Executive Director of Wilmington Placemakers Inc., Project Director of Wilmington Green Box and Co-Founder of Artist Ave Station. A graduate of the consciousness-based institution Maharishi University of Management (MUM), Aviles developed an original interdisciplinary course of study in Youth Development and Social Change. While attending MUM, Jason was introduced to Yoga and lost over 60 pounds.…
Zach started his career in the energy industry as a wholesale power market analyst at ICF International. He moved to a position as Director of Market Solutions at GridPoint Inc., an Arlington, VA based smart grid company, where he structured smart grid transactions while building one of the industry’s first comprehensive financial models. Zach left GridPoint in August 2009 to found Skyline Innovations with the idea of helping small and mid-sized businesses implement clean energy solutions through an easy to understand and implement shared savings model.