He joined the team in August 2016 and covers the following industries: startups, fintech, apparel and social media. He is also monitoring disruptive trends in finance and tries to identify future challenges for banking.

Prior to this position, Florian gathered working experience at major Austrian and international banks. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the Vienna University of Economics and Business

David Antokal’s mission is to be a perfect equity partner to small business owners and entrepreneurs through respectful and valuable engagement, building bonds that extend beyond business. His company leads and co-invests in equity investments in growth-ready companies between $5-$50 million of revenue and up to $5 million of EBITDA. They bring to bear a focused group of operating advisors and a supportive network to help make the best decisions for long-term success.

Relentlessly pursuing the agile, test-driven discipline of growth marketing, Jake is a life-long learner that continuously finds new ways to grow companies. Jake currently works for Current, a financial technology company that provides collaborative banking solutions, starting with a smart debit card and app for parents to provide better financial education for their kids.
 Before this, he worked at Ladder, a growth marketing agency that uses proprietary technology and data-driven strategy to increase your ROI.

Josh Rochlin was an early pioneer in the New York Internet venture community, founding MyCalendar.com and serving as its CEO before selling it to Sports Huddle in 2001 (now owned by CBS).

Josh then led business development and strategy at GoAmerica (GOAM), the first wireless internet service provider (now Purple Communications). Prior to IBM's acquisition of Teckst (formerly Xtify), Josh served as its founding CEO. Prior to joining Teckst, Josh served as the Chief Administrative Officer at Marc Ecko Enterprises, where he oversaw all non-apparel businesses and ventures.

Justin is the Vice President of NYCEDC, New York City Economic Development Corporation. NYCEDC consists of teams of skilled and dedicated individuals with know-how and expertise across many fields including community/neighborhood development, workforce development, real estate, industry and sector analysis, design, urban planning, marketing, engineering, financial analysis and more. He graduated from The George Washington University with a B.B.A. in International Business and Marketing. He also graduated N.Y.U. with an M.U.P.

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.

Luke is an investor and advisor for early stage ventures, PE and corporate media clients. Luke was formerly the market lead for McKinsey’s Fast Growth Tech practice serving consumer clients on a variety of growth and operational strategies. As an Engagement Manager he has experience leading digital strategy and transformation projects for consumer finance, media and telecom clients.

Prior to McKinsey, Luke ran the digital media division of a Hollywood literary agency, consulting on digital video content, organization and advertising strategy for publishers and television networks in addition to representing IP for film/TV. Luke is a Feldberg Fellow of Columbia Business School and a Scholar of Merton College, Oxford.

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.

Peter Liu is a designer and developer. He believes there’s a huge divide in resources and talent between the technology world and the social impact world and his mission is to create technology that empowers people to overcome their biggest challenges. He’s worked with non-profit organizations, small businesses, and tech startups to lead projects from initial designs to actual implementation.

Collectively is a digital consultancy that works with start-ups and impact organizations to create sustainable social impact through design and technology.

Rob is a digital sales executive with extensive background in creating mutually rewarding business development, publisher & media partnerships, Rob's focus has been on leveraging emerging technologies to provide software. Rob has delivered monetization solutions during his 25 years of successful selling, team building and strategic planning. An expert in reaching millennials, Rob has a history of making the needle move for his clients. Together with the partners at ETAG, he can teach teams "how to fish ...or catch the fish for them."

The EdTech Advisory Group is a partnership of EdTech career professionals dedicated to the betterment of student outcomes and providing companies who deliver platforms that drive academic success: access, guidance & strategic business services.

Alessandro has been involved in the technology industry for over 30 years, first as a software developer, then as a marketing and business development executive both in a large corporation and in a startup, and finally as a venture capitalist. As a VC, Alessandro has invested in software, new media, communications technologies, and infrastructure. He still gets excited about new technologies and ideas and he is always looking forward to learn and contribute to every project he gets involved in. And he is an even greater fan of working with brilliant engineers and talented managers. He is an angel investor, a mentor and an advisor to a number of companies in the New York area. He also co-authored the book "Tech and the City: The Making of New York's Startup Community”. Recently, he started a new firm, AlphaPrime Ventures, investing in technologies that protect people and assets.

Alex developed a leading healthcare innovation focused crowdfunding site and created a healthcare CrowdChallenge model to help partners and investors crowdsource and market test the best ideas in healthcare. He leads a team of up to 35 professionals in open innovation, product development, and business development programs for clients and sponsors including GE, Pfizer, Takeda, J & J, HHS, Aetna, the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association and over 70 more.

Anne-Sophie worked at Objective Solutions International, a global executive search firm specialized in Finance and Technology. Her role included the sourcing of senior-level candidates from Senior Associate to Partner level, followed by first-step screening, coaching, salary negotiation and deal closing. She also spent time researching potential new client companies, business lines, and core competitors within the financial services, consulting, and tech industry marketplaces.
Previously, Anne-Sophie worked at Tiqqle, an early stage tech startup focused on bringing hyperlocal chat software to the mobile space, where she was responsible for all marketing and brand strategy efforts. As the head of the New York City Marketing Division, she oversaw the team conducting a field test across Manhattan and the boroughs. Her role also encompassed launching a social media campaign, and hosting promotional events for potential investors throughout NYC.

Ash is the director of StartEd Accelerator (previously known as EDGE EdTech). With 10+ years experience advising and building partnerships for organizations solving problems in education, Ash is passionate about applying technology to solve challenges in education, finance, and machine intelligence.

Christian is in charge of the German Accelerator in NYC and is a managing partner at Napali Partners, a boutique consulting and advisory firm. Christian was previously SVP, Head of Marketing at Indiegogo, the world's global crowdfunding platform. .
Before that, Christian was General Manager and SVP Corporate Development for Alloy Digital (now Defy Media). He also served as General Manager for Takkle (acquired by Alloy Digital), and held senior management roles at Cellfish Media, and Bookspan (Bertelsmann/ Time Warner). Christian is on the board of Above Average (Broadway Video’s Youtube studio) and Pruftechnik AG and is an active investor in early-stage startups. Christian is a frequent speaker at industry events, avid traveler and fluent in English, German and Spanish.

Conor is an Associate for ff VC, one of the best performing seed- and early-stage venture capital firms investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. ffVC identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at their inception – across geographies and emerging industries.

Conor graduated from Boston College with a B.S. in Management and Marketing and received his M.B.A. in Private Equity and Finance from The University of Texas in Austin - Red McCombs School of Business. Conor has a lot of experience as an Associate working with Park Street Capital and Seven Peaks Ventures.

Craig is the President of Branison Group. Branison Group provides merger and acquisition (M&A) advisory services to business owners, corporate executives and private equity groups.

David Matlin is special counsel to McCARTER & ENGLISH, focusing in the areas of transactional, securities and general corporate law matters. He represents primarily privately- and publicly-owned startup, early stage, emerging growth, and middle market technology and life science enterprises, as well as the investors, executives, and boards of directors who support and lead them in corporate finance transactions, securities offerings, periodic securities law compliance, and mergers and acquisitions.

David had been counsel at SorinRand. He has also been a partner in the New Jersey office of Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corporation and of the Princeton office of Hale & Dorr LLP. David returned to legal practice eager to apply his combined legal and healthcare industry experience to assist our clients in achieving their goals.

Dave Sorin is an office managing partner of McCarter & English and Co-Chair of the Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Companies practice. He focuses primarily on privately- and publicly-owned startup, early stage, emerging growth, and middle market technology, tech-enabled and life science enterprises, as well as the investors, executives, and boards of directors who support and lead them. Dave has a long track record of successful representation of growth companies, having been repeatedly recognized by well-known periodicals for a unique combination of legal acumen and sound business judgment. He also brings to bear his broad range of knowledge and experience in counseling enterprises and investors in diverse emerging growth markets, technology industries and life sciences.

Jonathon is a principal at Riverside Acceleration Capital, a Riverside Company fund, investing in Enterprise software companies at the early-growth phase. The Riverside Company is a global private equity firm focused on making control and non-control investments in growing businesses valued at up to $400 million.

Most recently, Jonathon was with Comcast Ventures, also investing in enterprise software. He spent several years helping build start-ups as a product manager and ops processional, having been Director, Operations at Yext and Managing Director, Product Development for BrightWire. He led all product and engineering efforts at BrightWire, and managed all members of that team, after significant time as the organization's Product Manager. His prior experience includes several years in growth-stage Venture Capital at Investor Growth Capital (working primarily within the enterprise and SMB software sectors), Secondary Direct Venture Capital and general Mergers and Acquisitions Investment Banking. Jonathon graduated from Duke in 2004 with a degree in Biomedical Engineering

Jorge is a service professional with a background in venture capital and law practice. Most recently, Jorge provided capital to entrepreneurs as a venture partner at SILAS Capital, a New York firm that Jorge helped build into a trusted partner for entrepreneurs starting and scaling high-growth consumer businesses. As part of the team, Gorge invested in brands such as CASPER, RINGLY, TRACKSMITH, and others.

Today, Gorge focuses on the talent side of the venture capital business by helping people enter the industry, advising fund entrepreneurs who are starting new firms, and teaching and mentoring students. Jorge’s current projects include helping InSITE Fellows scale across the U.S. its cutting-edge university-based entrepreneurship and venture capital programs for graduate students (MBA, MD, JD, Ph.D.). Jorge is also teaching the Business of Venture Capital at Yale, which is an introductory seminar on venture capital and innovation investing for undergraduates. Subscribe to Jorge’s newsletter, Venture Stack at venturestack.news for the latest.

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.

Justin Gage is an investor at Cornerstone.  He works on analyzing early-stage deal flow of software companies in spaces like VR and Big Data and meeting cool people along the way. He helps source companies, does deep diligence on stuff Cornerstone's interested in, and research industries and geographies that might be relevant to the company.

He received a B.S. in Computer Science and Data Science from NYU Stern School of Business.

Mark O'Neill is the CTO at MM Lafleur. MM Lafleur's purpose is to provide women with the rotation of professional, sharp clothes that can be thrown on in the morning with only cursory thought. True to the mission of making women's lives easier by cutting steps instead of adding them, MM.LaFleur will deliver to your door a box of clothes specially picked out for you.
Mark has had over 15 years of experience as a Chief Technology Officer at Thrillist and JackThreads. Mark graduated from Tufts University with a degree in Computer Engineering.

David Teten is a Venture Partner with HOF Capital, an international venture capital fund based in New York. David has a particular interest in fintech, sales tech, and HR tech. He was previously a Managing Partner with HOF Capital and Partner for 6 years with ff Venture Capital, one of the best-performing seed- and early-stage venture capital firms in the U.S. He has served on the boards of Authorea (sold to Wiley), Earnest Research (Observer), Ionic Security, Signup.com, and Whisk (sold to Deem).  David also has advised clients such as Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Icahn Enterprises, LLR Partners, Birch Hill Equity Partners, and other institutional investors. He earlier was a serial fintech entrepreneur with two exits. David holds a Harvard MBA and Yale BA, both with honors.  He writes regularly at teten.com.

Ece focuses on investments in application software and business services companies in venture and growth stages. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures, Ece worked at BlackRock, where she focused on developing and executing exposure management and trading strategy solutions for large institutional clients. Ece graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. in Economics and a secondary concentration in Government. She also held positions at Google, where she worked on market expansion and sales strategy, and in Morgan Stanley’s Capital Markets group.

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.