Russ Rands is an innovation leader applying more than 13 years of innovation and strategic business consulting experience at Fortune 1000 organizations, with particular emphasis on developing growth strategies that leverage open innovation models, including grand challenges, kickstarts, accelerators, lean startup, design thinking and co-creation opportunities.
While working full time as an IT consultant, Ranjith moonlights as a part-time entrepreneur. Ranjith previously helped found two businesses and recently started an Indian meal delivery service called FlyingCurry. While trying to streamline FlyingCurry, Ranjith started to optimize delivery and discovered an opportunity to simplify the way food is ordered and delivered. Ranjith’s latest delivery venture is LobbyHop, which has a mission to ‘enable little freedoms’ for its customers.…
Victor incubated Decision Science at the NewSchools Venture Fund, where he was Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Victor was formerly Senior Advisor on Innovation to the President of Georgetown University and Deputy Mayor of the District of Columbia, where he oversaw the city’s $1+ billion education budget and helped put in place many reforms. Victor was also previously an elected member of the D.C.…
I like making things. In the last 15+ years, I’ve played a significant role in building and leading a movement to engage patients and consumers more fully in their health and healthcare through digital technology. Perhaps your doctor’s office or health plan has recently added a “patient portal”? Or maybe you track your activity through a Fitbit or another digital device?…
Haley got her start in DC on Capitol Hill working for two Members of Congress. During her time on the Hill, she discovered her passion for yoga and the practice. After completing her 200hr yoga teacher training, Haley left the Hill to teach yoga and work for Vegetable and Butcher as their Community Manager. She worked to build out and manage V+B event based marketing and Brand Ambassador program.…
As Co-Founder/CEO of Kimball, Matt is running sales, product management, customer service, and anything not software development. In March 2019, he successfully closed the sale of ReactiveOps to a prominent Boston-based private equity firm, and exited as Founder/CEO. ReactiveOps does two things: DevOps consulting and outsourced operations, where they act as their client’s “outsourced, in-house” ops team.…
Aaron Rosenthal is the founder and chief executive of Golfswell, LLC. With a passion for golf and business, Aaron left his career in public service to serve the game of golf. Golfswell is a technology company tackling golf’s biggest problem: the amount of time it takes to play. Golfswell provides traffic management software to golf courses to speed up play and saves players and courses time and money.…