We will have handfuls of seasoned mentors throughout the week to provide our attendees with expertise advice in various subjects such as digital marketing, business plan writing, legal advice, funding, and more.
If you're interesting in booking a session,
you must sign up for a specific time slot HERE.Our mentors for Thursday and their
areas of experience (in bold) are:
Charlie Flynn
Nationwide
https://www.nationwide.com/
Technology
Charlie Flynn is a business development professional at Nationwide Insurance with 9+ years of experience. His areas of focus include strategic development, project management, organizational and IT strategy execution, and customer relationship management.
Janis Mitchell
Precise Resource
http://www.preciseresource.com/
Technology, Information Security, Executive Search
Janis Mitchell has been honored by U.S. Small Business Administration as Small Business Person of the Year for Central Ohio, and by the National Association of Women Business Owners as one of the Cbus’s Visionary Award winners. In 2000, Mitchell founded Info Fortress Solutions, the first in the world to deliver Cross Company single sign on with SAML protocol, which she then sold to Betrusted (now Verizon).
John Paull
http://www.uptrendco.com
Technology, B2B
I help b2b technology service companies grow from good idea to sustainable businesses and beyond.
Nafis Azad
Ghost Lab
https://www.ghostlab.io/
Technology, E-commerce, Music
Nafis Azad is an entrepreneur, product designer, and software developer that has worked with startups in diverse industries across the nation from seed-stage concepts to established market-leaders. He runs Ghost Lab, a user experience design and software development agency in Columbus, Ohio, partnering with clients to strategize digital products, design user experience, and use cutting-edge software development to bring it all to life.
Marshall Magee
Technology Development Executive
Technology, Health care, Hardware (product)
Marshall is a recent transplant to Columbus. He has been involved with product development his entire career starting with two successful startups in Atlanta and then moving on to an internal startup at Motorola. His most recent stop was with Welch Allyn in New York, managing multiple teams of software developers across multiple continents to create cutting-edge medical devices.
Sean Doran
Wiretapwiretap.com
Technology, B2B
Head of Design at Wiretap
Micheal Shepherd
Chase
Small Business Loans
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-shepherd-48b7b95b/
Todd Elliott
Chase
Business Banking/All financial needs
https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-elliott-06bab7b/
Warner Moore
Bold Penguin
Technology, Scaling Startups, Web Operations, Information SecurityWarner Moore is a driven technology leader and architect with a background in web operations and information security. He has focused his career in working with high growth organizations where technology is their business and product. He has an ability to align information security and external compliance drivers to an engineering culture. Warner has helped companies scale from as low as 38 employees to as high as 500. Currently, he's working with Bold Penguin helping build a company in the insurance technology space.
