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.

Paul founded Graphite Financial, as an internal service for (nearly 50%) of Venture Capital’s ("ffVC") portfolio of early-stage technology companies since 2008. In 2016, while continuing to serve ffVC's portfolio, Paul oversaw Graphite Financial's transition to operating as an independent company to serve the broader startup community.

He is an expert in helping startups and other young ventures with strategy, financial modeling, fully outsourced or augmented bookkeeping & accounting, tax, compliance and interim CFO work.

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.

Agile performance marketer with a proven track record of jump-starting acquisition for businesses across industries.

Matt Listro brings extensive experience in business development and sales. Prior to founding Harbinger, he helped build the business development and strategy team at Crowdtap, a venture-backed brand content platform that’s consistently recognized by Inc., Fortune, and others as one of the fastest growing firms in America. Matt brought on and managed partnerships with 50+ top brands including GE, J&J, P&G, Sony Pictures, and Kraft.
Prior to Crowdtap, he managed business development initiatives for MAXIMUS, a publicly-traded program management and consulting firm, helping MAXIMUS expand into Europe. Matt also teaches at General Assembly. He graduated from Brown University and Columbia Business School with Dean’s Honors.

Alex Trotta is Vice President of Fintech Acceleration at Citi Bank. His goal is bringing Citi FinTech's mantra of Open Innovation to the world and in doing so, inviting cutting-edge technologies into a Fortune 50 company that is poised to evolve with the new technological climate. Citi's mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

Alex enjoys working with technology companies to help them better articulate the problem that they are solving and the target market they are solving it for. His ability to easily work with different types of people, from multiple backgrounds, and across various industries has allowed him to provide value in sales, strategy, marketing, and operations.

Brock joined Scout Ventures in 2017. As an Associate he focuses on early-stage investments in frontier technologies and software companies.
Prior to joining Scout, he worked in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Corporate Finance division advising startups pursing growth stage investments within the consumer, fintech and digital sectors.
Brock graduated from Boston College in 2015 prior to joining Lazard as an investment banking analyst where he worked on mergers and acquisitions in the consumer space.

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.

Trace Cohen is a serial entrepreneur in NYC and now the Managing Director of NYVP making angel investments in the best startups/founders.

He was the President and Co-Founder of Launch.it, a new self-publishing platform for PR professionals, agencies and brands to launch and socialize everything new.

Prior to that Trace was an SVP at iFluencePR where he “created understanding for a complex world.” He specializes in strategic PR for tech companies looking to develop their communications, branding and outreach strategies to connect with their communities and costumers with transparency.

Deep is a principal and the leader of Withum’s Technology Advisory practice based in New York City. Deep’s team of technology industry specialists provide consulting services including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and capital raising to both venture and private equity-backed companies, ranging from SaaS, e-commerce, marketplace, ad-tech and publishing sectors.

Deep is known for delivering high-value strategic advice to entrepreneurs, private equity, and venture capital firms as they seek to stay at the forefront of the rapidly changing market. He frequently presents and authors articles around technology trends, entrepreneurial strategies and the venture capital landscape. Deep also serves as a mentor and advisor to various tech organizations including 500 Startups, Y-Combinator and Techstars, and is a member of the New York Venture Capital Association, and the National Venture Capital Association.

Immigration attorney with extensive knowledge and experience in both business/corporate and family-based immigration matters. In a globalizing world, Maria works closely with both start-ups and established businesses to help them navigate the US immigration laws and be able to on-board and retain the talent and resources they need. She also works closely with individual clients who seek to sponsor their spouses, parents or children, as well as those who wish to become US Citizens.

Chris Errico is Co-Chair of the firm's US Startup Program and member of the Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies practice at Dentons. Chris is actively engaged in a diverse corporate practice, working with a wide range of fast-growing technology, software, digital media and life science companies at every stage of their development.

Chris regularly counsels emerging growth companies on transactional matters, including venture capital, seed/angel financings; public and private offerings; asset and stock acquisitions; debt financings and mergers and acquisitions. Chris also advises his clients on a daily basis regarding complex securities matters, corporate governance matters, joint ventures, strategic transactions, and general legal issues.

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.

With 20+ years of marketing experience, Fran's team and her have taken Advantages from a local printing business in New York City to a multi-million dollar powerhouse branding and communications agency with national clients from the service, retail, manufacturing and not-for-profit sectors. By telling authentic stories through purposeful marketing, they teach brands how to leverage their organizational assets and amplify their reach.

Fran is now dedicated to sharing her intimate journey of brand discovery, which unlocked her potential and resulted in Advantages’ success. Since her first WHY Discovery with Simon Sinek in 2006, she has developed her own unique twist on his iconic Golden Circle and “Start With Why” philosophy. Fran loves sharing what she has learned to inspire others to explore their core values, their mission, vision and the personal “WHY” that will propel them as leaders to excel every day.

Chipper is an experienced internet investor and business builder, based in NY.  He co-founded Firestartr, a London seed-stage investment platform helping >30 promising entrepreneurs build leading global companies across fintech, marketplaces, new media and cloud/SaaS.  Chipper’s current focus is Fintech, with investments including: Transferwise, Pantera, Railsbank, Wagestream, Yoyo Wallet, AngelList.

Chipper previously led Corporate Strategy for eBay in Silicon Valley developing its first mobile strategy and spearheading over $3 billion in strategic acquisitions, including Skype.  A management consulting partner in Asia, he co-founded McKinsey’s global Mobile Commerce Initiative, and co-built Booz-Allen’s Jakarta office.

Harvard (Physics), Cambridge (Math), and MIT (Management).

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.

Joe spends most of his time working with investors and helping early-stage entrepreneurs and speaks at events such as the NYC Economic Dev. Corporation's Jumpstart & Fasttrac Program'sFashInvestConnecticut's CTech& is a Mentor to Angel Groups such as 37 Angels and TopStone Angels. Joe is also a Founding Partner of ARC Angel Fund I & IIseed tech funds based in NYC with Investments such as Upnext (acquired by Amazon), Medivo, Sidecar, Kanvas (acquired by AOL), YieldMo. Prior, he was a board member of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates and on the Investment Committee of Elevate Innovation Partners.

Harry is the Vice President of Finance for Bowery Valuation. Their goal is to redefine the commercial appraisal space through big data, advanced technology, and extensive expertise. Their proprietary platform allows their appraisers to work smarter and faster, which means we can deliver unparalleled accuracy and consistency, in a fraction of the time.

Previously, Harry was an associate at ff Venture Capital in 2016, where he was associate-managing the Due Diligence team. He primarily conducted analyses of new and follow-on investments, coordinated deal flow processes, helped source new deals, and worked closely with the AI NexusLab.

Aman Kandola joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 2017 as an investor in the New York City office. Aman focuses on identifying high-potential machine learning, esports, VR/AR, and cybersecurity startups.

Before joining BVP, Aman studied Computer Science and Statistics at Harvard University where he particularly enjoyed learning about new statistical techniques and algorithms. He also worked as a co-founder of a logistics service in New York and a social media mental health software startup based out of the Harvard i-Lab incubator. Aman also worked as a software engineer at Bloomberg LC. For leisure, Aman enjoys playing music, playing video games, dancing on a Bhangra team, and watching sports, most notably Liverpool FC and his hometown New York Knicks.

Rafael is the Head of Talent Attraction at UiPath, a global software company that develops a platform for Robotic Process Automation (RPA). On March 6, 2018, UiPath received a $153 million investment from Accel, CapitalG, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, valuing the company at $1.1 billion.

Rafael received a BA in Finance and his MBA in IT and Sustainability. Rafael has a lot of experience as a consultant, having worked at Linkedin and LML Consultant Group. He has also founded two companies of his own: OwnOut and getAchef.

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.

Aaron is a partner at Quiet Ventures, who design useful products worth talking about and build apps for fellow founders who are almost ready to quit their day jobs.

Aaron has a lot of experience and has built: a slackbot to make teams more fulfilled at work; an SMS-based laundry startup that sends you puppy pictures; Founders Friday, a weekly meetup and community; the NYC Salon, a bi-weekly "TED, with friends"; and The Annual "Friends Rent a Ski Mountain" event, where 125+ friends rent a mountain in Upstate NY.