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.

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.

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!

Joshua Ness is an Open Innovation Manager with Verizon in New York City. He is also co-founder at StrategyHack and co-director for the NYC chapter of Startup Grind, a global community of entrepreneurs.

He teaches enterprise teams how to drive intrapreneurship and collaborate with startups to create new markets for growth. He also works to educate, inspire, and connect people as a mentor and educator on topics like networking, corporate innovation, and growth.

Bo Ren is an investor, product manager, and writer in NYC. She believes in humanizing tech and building a more diverse and inclusive future. She previously worked for Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr. She is currently building a venture fund for underserved founders.

Julie Shin is the Head of Strategic Operations and Innovation at Citigroup. She reports to a Citi Operating Committee member and executes enterprise transformation initiatives with management teams that drive the organization’s strategy across products, geographies, operations, technology, and global functions. Julie also manages a portfolio of FinTech ventures to test for proof of concept and commercialization viability in improving client experiences, scaling internal capability building, delivering efficiency and growth opportunities, and enabling open innovation with partnership from businesses and senior leadership teams.

Shaina Horowitz is the Vice President of Product & Programs at New Lab, a company on a mission to scale frontier technologies and define the future of technology and human experience. In her role, Shaina oversees the development and implementation of programs and offerings that New Lab delivers to a range of important stakeholders. Whether it's New Lab's community of 100+ startup companies, entrepreneurs, corporate partners, government agencies or academic institutions-- Shaina is focused on developing meaningful new programs that help achieve impact greater than what any single entity is capable of on its own.

Olivia Musmanno is Partner at Quake Capital.

Quake Capital is a unique accelerator focused on making seed level investments in new and early-stage ventures across a wide range of industries. Working closely with key advisers, and tapping into exclusive relationships developed over the last 30 years, our team boasts unparalleled access to the top players in finance, development, manufacturing, and distribution.

Ricardo Roberts is Venture Partner at VU Venture Partners.

He is Venture Partner with a proven ability to help startups grow at VU Venture Partners, a San Francisco-based multi-stage investment fund. A strategic leader who sees the big picture and can share that vision with others. Passionate about fintech and blockchain, and even more excited about the investments our team made within those verticals. He looks forward to additional investment opportunities in those verticals, along with eSports, as He leverages his financial services and digital advertising background.

Lisa is the Founder and CEO of AccentC3. At AccentC3 the accent is on communication with their desired audience, clarity in their speech, and confidence communicating in a new cultural landscape. They have worked with people in several industries, from technology to finance, "big law" and healthcare. They also work with a global clientele from countries such as Brazil, Russia, China, France, and Italy.

Lisa also has a lot of experience in this field. She graduated from The University of Cambridge with an ESOL Certificate in English Teaching to Adults. Lisa has been a Speech and Language Pathologist for many companies, even as an independent consultant.

Brent is CEO & Co-founder at Condensed.

Brent leads condensed.io, a tight team of digital branding specialists helping startups find their identity and reach new heights. Brent is also a product designer and co-founder with Keepers Coffee Soda and BollyX.

Marcos Dinnerstein is Executive Council Member at NYVC

After being an editor at Digital.com, Marcos is now an Executive Council Member at New York Venture Council, with experience at establishing processes and continually improving them. He is an effective Product Management team member, possessing a ‘Figure it out and get it done’ attitude. New York Venture Council members are leading NYC-area venture capitalists, family offices, angels, entrepreneurs, universities, media and professional advisors, all dedicated to increasing deal flow and ecosystem cooperation in the world's financial capital.

Kevin drives Voy Media with a forward-looking vision that aligns clients’ business goals with frequent changes in the marketing industry. Kevin is an avid outdoorsman and nature lover; when not in the concrete jungle of New York, he can be found trying to explore a real one.

Matt Swulinski is a serial entrepreneur, strategist, and growth hacker that leverages a data-driven approach while focusing on cutting through the noise and driving ROI for startups & enterprises. He combines Fortune 500 Innovation Consulting experience with learnings from founding his own startups to help accelerate growth for other companies. He serves as a Mentor & Startup Advisor at various VC firms and startup accelerators, delivering value through coaching & teaching growth marketing boot camps around the US.

Joy is an experienced founder, investment evaluator, and advisor to high growth innovative companies across sectors seeking to scale sustainably. She advises on partnerships, business modeling, go to market strategy, operations, and financial modeling. Joy has advised dozens of companies across geographies from M&A and strategic planning to process improvement and supply chain management.

Joy is an active advisor across accelerators and university startup communities including VentureOut, Techstars, I2F CyberNYC, Cal Hacks, and Columbia University’s Entrepreneurship Design Studio.  Joy is an alumna of Columbia Business School, The London School of Economics, and UC Berkeley.