Brian is the CEO and founder of VentureOut, which he launched in 2012 while working at Gotham Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund. He started VentureOut as a vehicle to help bridge the gap between the innovators around the world and the opportunities available to them in the New York and San Francisco technology ecosystems.

Brian is also a proud advocate of the New York City's vibrant technology community, a role he plays as a speaker, a mentor, on the Board of Directors of the NYC Innovation Collective, Founding Member of NYC Tech International, a member of the FWD.us Innovation Council and as the Founder of the Chaminade Alumni Entrepreneurs Association.

Prior to VentureOut, Brian’s career has spanned venture, at Gotham Ventures, consulting, supporting early-stage tech startups in NYC, business development, at OTR Global, and sales, as the youngest institutional salesperson globally at Standard & Poor's. Brian received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Richmond.

As a startup founder with multiple exits, He thinks there are a lot of things broken with the way that entrepreneurs approach sales and marketing in today’s complex market. His team’s focus in 2018 is to make sure they can help as many people as they can scale their businesses without running out of money. He has knowledge of various fields that is helpful for startups and also can provide insight into many areas such as Team Building & Strategic Planning, Corporate Innovation & Partnerships, Growth Hacking & Lead Generation, Marketing & Community Engagement, Seed & Venture Capital, Emerging Trends & Digital Technology.

Lexie Kier is a Principal Strategist and Founder of AOK Group, a growth consultancy for startups. She advises bold brands and startups on fundraising, customer insights, branding and marketing and often takes on interim leadership roles to help with periods of intense change, entry into new markets, and expansion.

Previously, Lexie founded Cuurio, an index of startups and innovation platform helping bold brands find clarity, context, and connection. ​Cuurio helped a growing number of innovative brands and agencies (including Warner Brother, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oreal, and J. Walter Thompson) to create vibrant native mobile partnerships that activated consumers in new channels.

Eyal is a digital media executive with extensive experience in product leadership, business development and, early-stage capital raising.

He sources, manages and cultivates key strategic partnership and M&A endeavors.

As a business lawyer, Joseph represents startups to publicly-held technology, life science and consumer companies, venture capital and private equity funds and investment banks in a wide range of seed and venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other public offerings. Joseph has represented issuers and underwriters in dozens of IPOs and follow-on public offerings involving companies in the technology, life sciences and consumer sectors, including leading investment banks such as Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, and Oppenheimer.

He is currently a partner and Co-Chair of the Venture Capital & Emerging Companies Practice of McCarter, a 400+ lawyer U.S. law firm with a global practice.

Sam Newbold has been supporting VentureOut companies to secure US visas since 2013. He is experienced in a wide range of employment based, family based, and investment based immigration issues, working closely with the global startup and tech communities, representing cutting edge companies and talented individuals who comprise New York’s rapidly growing Silicon Alley.

Mr. Newbold also works closely with foreign investors seeking nonimmigrant or immigrant status through EB5 or E-2 investments, and he is also experienced in helping foreign business owners receive L visa status through establishing New Offices in the United States.

Joshua Siegel is General Partner of Rubicon Venture Capital VC fund that invests in Later Stage Seed and Series A & B venture capital financing rounds of early-stage disruptive technology companies. Rubicon only considers companies that have raised a minimum of $500k non-founder cash funding.

Formerly CEO of a French advertising agency for 17 years, Emmanuel has been a fine observer of the relations between media and advertisers. He now is the CEO of Adwanted, the first multi-channel advertising platform.

Anna Kotyza is the Content Director at VentureOut, creating content for VentureOut programs. Holding a strong background in storytelling, film-making, virtual reality, business development, strategy, research, video editing, content creation, and media.
Prior to VentureOut, Anna studied visual and media art production at Emerson University. And currently studying arts, business, technology and innovation in New York University.

Andrew joined ff Venture Capital as a Partner Operations Manager in 2018. In addition to his work at ff Venture Capital, he is a Kairos Fellow and the Founder of ZUPP a platform that offers wholesale prices and machine learning-generated recommendations on health & fitness supplements.

Prior to ff Venture Capital, he served as the CEO & Founder of OnTrack, founded KodiBlue, worked as an Associate Vice President at Delta One Solutions, a Technology Consultant at Oracle, and an Analyst at Nielsen. Andrew received a Bachelor's in Marketing and Management Leadership from Boston College.

Karim is the Head of Operations at HOF Capital, a technology venture capital firm. HOF has a broad portfolio acceleration platform, including offices in New York (headquarters) and London and a venture partner network around the world. We are backed by leading multinational corporations across 14 countries and 6 continents, which view HOF as the best way to work with the US innovation economy.

He received his Bachelor's degree in Finance from the Bentley University.

Fady is the Co-founder and a Managing Partner at HOF Capital, a global venture capital firm that offers seed and growth funds to tech-based startups. Prior to founding Hof Capital, Fady was active Investor @ Amplify.LA and a business developer at Switch. Fady received a degree in International Finance from the University of Southern California.

Brendan is Venture capital investor focused on identifying, evaluating and executing early stage investments in technology-enabled companies and supporting those businesses through business development, strategic positioning, and financial planning.

Florian is the CEO of EverContact. Evercontact extracts contact info from the email signatures in their client's incoming email. Their service creates new contacts for them and also auto-updates any changes to their existing contacts.

Previously, he was the founder of Global Roaming Group. Florian has been a director of Group Labotec, of which is a subsidiary of Group ACTI from October 1997 to October 2003. Florian is also the founder and has been President of Group Xplore since its inception in 1996. He was Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of FloVox from October 2004 to June 2006. Florian received a M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University.

As the director of product management at Sailthru, David assists in the management of 20+ person development team, oversees QA and Implementation groups, plans and maintains product roadmap, specifically core product enhancements, and engages in numerous other activities.

Sumay Parikh has experience in distressed business turn around, marketing, strategic partnerships, product development, and operations. Previously, Sumay bootstrapped a Real Estate Investment Fund in the Midwest, constructing High-End hotels. He has experience leading strategy and growth at several velocity stage startups. He is also the host of The Unsexy Startup podcast.

Experienced Chief Investment Officer and builder of large and successful asset management businesses. Demonstrated record of thought leadership, innovation, and forging teams to serve high net-worth, retail, and large institutional clients. Angel Investor, Advisor and Mentor for early stage companies which apply Artificial Intelligence, Machine/Deep Learning, Big Data, and other enabling technologies to solve real problems. Passionate about engineering better outcomes for investors by combining a strategic vision about what’s possible with a pragmatic understanding of what’s feasible.

Edwin is the Director of Growth at Ladder.io, a growth technology and services agency that uses proprietary technology and data-driven strategy to increase your ROI.

Edwin grows businesses with impactful analysis + tech-infused creativity, as an ROI-Driven Growth Strategy Architect and Director, Transforming Performance Marketing Into Systemized Solutions/Processes.

Allison Williams is Director of NVP Labs, a “bridge-to-seed” accelerator program at Newark Venture Partners. NVP Labs invests in early-traction B2B businesses that have strategic alignment with NVP’s corporate LPs (Audible/Amazon, Prudential, Dun & Bradstreet, Panasonic, RWJBarnabas and others). Before moving to venture, Allison became a seasoned leader with CEO and COO experience and a proven track record of driving expansive growth in startup technology companies. As founder and CEO at Yarly, in two and a half years, Allison assembled a talented technical team, built a cross platform mobile application, established a nationwide distributed salesforce and achieved profitability. In mid-2015, Yarly was acquired by YesVideo, a top competitor which powers over 30,000 retail locations, and Allison was retained as an advisor. Since then, Allison has been COO of a multi-national influencer brokerage software company (top clients include L’Oreal and Heineken) as well as Head of Strategy for a leader in the live streaming video space (top clients include Univision and Monumental Sports).

Founder Coach specializing in Seed to product-market-fit.
Serial Entrepreneur with mobile ecommerce focus - UX/UI visionary.

Joshua Futterman is Founder & CEO at ParkYou!

Over the last 25 years in New York, Los Angeles, and Singapore he has founded and run innovative companies and organizations in tech, pop music, finance, hospitality, and politics. Today, Joshua Futterman runs ParkYou!, a membership community supported by a powerful app platform that is solving the street parking nightmare in the world's densest cities. He also helps less experienced entrepreneurs achieve their goals and dreams with Techstars, Enterprise Futures Network, and through his overarching, industry-agnostic founder support/advisory service, ShadowGM.

Eric Wollberg is the Business Development at Gnowbe

Prior to Gnowbe, Eric was Director of Business Development at VentureOut, Eric sourced the world-class startups that populate our programs. Additionally, he helped develop and run our accelerators, so that our participants have a flawless and fruitful experience.

Eric was also an Israel Government Fellow, working at the Israel Innovation Authority. There he helped bring companies totaling $1.5 trillion in market capitalization to engage with Israeli startups. Eric studied innovation economics at Sogang University and graduated with a degree in economics from New York State’s Public Honors College at Geneseo.

Brandon Steiner is the founder and chairman of Steiner Sports Marketing and Memorabilia, the largest company of its kind in America.

In addition to Steiner Sports, Steiner is a premier motivational and inspirational speaker. Steiner has spoken to world-class organizations such as the New York Yankees, BMW North America, Nike, Live Nation, Cornell University, TEDx and Harvard Business School. Aside from speaking to audiences, Steiner is a permanent fixture in the media as a regular on ESPN NY Radio 98.7 FM and as co-host of Yankees-Steiner.

Justin Wisz joined RTP Ventures in 2018 as a Venture Partner.

Prior to joining RTP, Justin was the Co-founder and CEO of Vestorly, a cognitive content marketing SaaS platform for the financial services industry. As CEO of Vestorly from 2012 to 2018, Justin raised $11 million in venture capital, recruited engineering and data science talent, built operations around sales, customer success and marketing, and scaled business development partnerships with firms like MetLife, BNY Mellon, and Northern Trust. Justin grew revenue 752% from 2015 to 2018 and led the company to the Inc. 5000 before exiting.

Before Vestorly, Justin was CEO of AdvisorLeap, a digital marketing and lead generation agency for the financial services industry, and precursor to the Vestorly platform. Before AdvisorLeap Justin started his career at Fisher Investments in Woodside, California where he raised over $60 million in assets under management for the firm.

Drew Moffitt is Angel Investor at Techstars.

Successful startup entrepreneur (2 startups, 1 exit). Post selling TailBus, founded and lead the creation of four thriving corporate-backed ventures: XOM Materials (European B2B marketplace) for Klockner & Co, Transportation Mobility Cloud (automotive API-based open-framework software development platform) for Ford Motor Company, NextLoan (alternative lending and investment platform) for Reliance Capital, and B2B materials distribution marketplace for Confidential Company.

Tom Nicholson is Founding Member & Sourcing Chairman at ARC Angel Fund.

ARC Angel Fund invests in seed and early-stage companies with high growth potential. We focus primarily on Software, IT, Internet, Tech-Enabled Services, Business Services, Digital Media, Mobile, Healthcare IT, among others.

Uri Zilberman is Managing Partner at Real-Life Innovations (RLI).

An investor and a founder in Real-Life Innovations (RLI), an early stage Fund, that is focusing on Pre-Seed investments. RLI offers a unique business model that serves a need in the early stage arena:
They lead pre-seed to seed investments and help the Founders with strategy, creating a crisp product and business offerings, G2M, draft marketing plans and support the Company with its early customer engagements and its various Funding activities, to reduce risks and accelerate success!