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.

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.

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.

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.

Ivy is the Founder and CEO of IvyTL, with a goal to: identify, build, and set-up key tracking analytics and KPIs for publically-traded companies in Hong Kong; draft, refined and finalized public park experiences with New York City Housing Authority and partners; design branding, digital and traditional assets, including website and newspaper ads, for Brooklyn’s largest tutoring center; and establish brand guidelines, advertisements, and value proposition for Bay Ridge’s first dual-language preschool.

After graduating from Pace University, Ivy has a lot of experience, working at IPG, Gap, and Ladder.io. Ivy also takes part in a lot of service work.

Sandra Creamer has spent her career focused on business transformation. Working in technology for companies including Accenture and Oracle, and then on branding and innovation for beauty and consumer products at Procter & Gamble, and consulting firms such as CBX and Fahrenheit 212, part of Capgemini Consulting, Sandra has helped businesses tackle challenges and changes to help companies stay ahead of evolving behaviors, trends, and preferences.

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.

Michael is an expert healthcare innovator and experienced entrepreneur. As CEO, Michael raised three rounds of venture funding and secured health plan partnerships to cover over 30 million people. 

Ms. Loren A. Busby, CFA serves as Managing Member of Cresco Advisors LLC. Ms. Busby provides financial and advisory services to fund managers and small businesses under the moniker Cresco Advisors LLC. She was a Partner at NGN Capital. She had been involved in the private equity or venture capital industry for almost 20 years. Ms. Busby joined NGN Capital from Walden Capital Partners L.P., where she invested in and managed several small- to mid-size investments in the manufacturing, distribution and technology sectors. She serves as a Member of Board of Managers at Promosome, LLC. Ms. Busby is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and Vice Chairman of its Alternative Investments Committee. She is a Board Observer of Medrium, Inc. In addition, Ms. Busby is a Youth Venture Mentor and Columbia Business School Ambassador. 

Jonathan Gordon is Managing Director of Winter Street Ventures. They are healthcare executives and medical professionals experienced in transforming and improving healthcare delivery to vulnerable patient populations.

He is a healthcare innovator with deep industry experience on both the provider and entrepreneurial sides. Focus on the intersection of innovation, strategy, and policy to identify opportunities to change and improve healthcare.

Margaret joined HIT Lab back in 2014 and is now the Deputy Director of Strategy. HIT Lab directs digital health research and strategy development for healthcare consulting and innovation group with roots at the Columbia University Medical Center They lead the concept, design, implementation, and evaluation of research of the impact of digital technologies across the healthcare ecosystem.

Margaret holds a Bachelors in Biology from Fordham University and a Masters of Public Health from Columbia University.

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.

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.

General Legal Counsel: Clem has served in a "Business and Legal Affairs" position for two emerging companies and provided business and strategic counseling for numerous companies.
Business Combinations: Clem has handled the mergers of large public corporations and purchases of family-owned proprietorships.
Securities: Clem has counseled a wide range of companies on securities issues, from Fortune 100 public companies to pre-formation start-ups.
Entrepreneurial Law: Clem has represented start-up, emerging and established technology companies in a variety of ways, including Venture Capital Raises, Partnership Agreements, Employment Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements and more.
Entertainment Law: Clem has worked as a production company executive handling all legal aspects of film, television, internet and corporate production. Clem currently represents several production companies and talent.

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.

Digital Health Innovator. She has a Masters in Economics, graduated from Institute for Integrative Nutrition and is a serial entrepreneur. In her twenties, she went from top grades to unable to read a book by working as a model to being overweight and medicated like an elderly person. With a constantly changing and ever-expanding array of different diagnoses, Mette took matters into her own hands. Having felt the powerlessness of being an unsolvable case Mette want to help empower others in a similar situation.

Nihal noted expert in the emerging adoption of mobile technologies for media properties and consumer brands, has founded five mobile startups and invested in over seventy since 1999. Nihal is a Founding General Partner at Eniac Ventures, the first seed stage venture fund focusing exclusively on mobile technologies. Prior to Eniac, Nihal founded LocalResponseInc., which makes ads more relevant from social signals, a pivot from buzzd, the first mobile real-time city guide. Nihal grew LocalResponse to an eight-digit annual revenue run rate which placed the company to the Forbes 2013 list as #67 of America's Most Promising Companies and #568 on the 2013 Inc. 5000's Fastest Growing Companies. Prior to LocalResponse, Nihal founded ipsh!, one of the first full-service mobile marketing agencies in 2001, which was acquired by Omnicom (NYSE: OMC) in 2005. Nihal's investment portfolio includes Admob (sold to Google), Airbnb, HotelTonight, Swiftkey, Tapad, and Uber. Nihal graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Philosophy and a BSE in Computer Science.

Gaurav is a principal investor who originates and executes private equity and private debt investments in growth stage and middle market companies. Additionally, Gaurav invests his own capital as an independent angel investor (associated with Berkeley Angel Network).

Gaurav currently works for China Orient Asset Management ($160 billion AUM) and previously worked in investment banking for six years at institutions such as Barclays and BMO Capital Markets. Prior to his career in investment banking, Gaurav headed Corporate Development at US Oncology. Prior to US Oncology, Gaurav held a number of roles investing in private and public securities.

As an angel investor, Gaurav seeks investment opportunities in growth-stage companies in the HCIT, healthcare services, consumer, and TMT industries (although open to looking at businesses in other industries).

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.

Dr. Ron Razmi is the Founder and CEO of Kinders. He brings extensive clinical, business, and technical expertise to addressing key issues facing healthcare organizations today. He began his career as a cardiologist and was one of the pioneers in application of MRI systems in managing cardiac patients. He built the software system, cardiovascularmri.com, to serve as a platform for education and training of cardiologists in use of MRI in managing their patients. Ron worked with top life sciences companies in strategy, M&A, and product development. He founded Acupera in 2011, a population health management software platform.

Ron completed his medical training at the Mayo Clinic and holds an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.

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.

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.

Robert joined Michael Page as their Senior Recruitment Consultant in 2017 before he was promoted to his current role as Managing Consultant of their Sales & Marketing division. In addition to working at Michael Page he is the Executive Consultant of Global Sales and Strategy at Beast Technologies. Prior to that he served as the Chief Business Development Officer of Beast Technologies, and the Client Relationships Director of Kforce.

Robert is an experienced professional with 6+ years B2B and B2C sector with a heavy focus on B2B Marketing and Sales. He graduated with a Masters in International Marketing Management from MIP Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business.

Brett joined the VentureOut team in January 2014 as the Director of Business Development responsible for developing the pipeline of programs sponsor and partner outreach and startup due diligence. Prior to VentureOutBrett spent time in consulting, finance, and sales within a number of startups and small institutions. While not at work you can find him playing guitar, checking out local music or cheering on his beloved Knicks. He earned his Bachelor's of Science in Management at Tulane University where he studied Finance and Music and is proud to call New Orleans a second home.

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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.

Danish Munir joined Genoa Telepsychiatry since 2015 and he is currently the Technology VP. Before this, he also served as CTO and Co-founder of 1DocWay, which is a Web-based Telepsychiatry company. They help clinics that treat behavioral health patients but don't have enough provider capacity by finding them the right providers and equipping them with a purpose built telepsychiatry platform to facilitate remote care delivery. Before his career, Danish attended The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, and earned the bachelor degree in Engineering and Computing information Sciences there.

As Deputy Director of Innovation Research, Laura leads HITLAB's mHealth and digital health research efforts. This includes conceptualizing, implementing and evaluating projects to improve healthcare worldwide. She brings a global perspective and a passion for strategizing innovative, stylish and resourceful solutions to pressing healthcare problems.

Laura has studied, worked and traveled around the world. Before joining HITLAB, Laura provided qualitative research and strategic consulting for Oxfam and International Medical Corps, and led grants, new media and institutional development efforts for a non-profit working to expand education access in Cape Town, South Africa. She has also worked with Boston University School of Public Health to perform exploratory investigation of remote technology-driven solutions for disaster relief, and led award-winning independent qualitative research on patient-provider relationships in South Africa’s women’s health services.

Laura holds a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a Master's degree in Public Health from Boston University.

Prior to joining HITLAB, Jamie worked at Columbia Business School, where she designed and facilitated original learning programs on innovation for the Executive Education Program.

Jamie is  a licensed social worker and brings with her an extensive passion for improving the lives of others. Before her time at Columbia, she worked as an individual therapist, primarily with individuals with eating and weight disorders. In addition to working directly with clients, Jamie was involved in the research and design of a mobile health technology app as part of a novel treatment for eating disorders. She also has experience working with underserved youth and individuals with disabilities.

Jamie received her Bachelor’s in Psychology from Bryn Mawr College, her Master’s degree in Developmental Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and her Master’s degree in Social Work from Fordham University.

DXC is the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change. Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology is a $25 billion company with a 60-year legacy of delivering results for thousands of clients in more than 70 countries. Our technology independence, global talent and extensive partner network combine to deliver powerful next-generation IT services and solutions.

Ms. Chere Parton serves as COO of Aetna Digital. Previously, Ms. Parton was the National Head of Provider eSolutions for Aetna where she oversaw the strategy, development, marketing and deployment of all electronic solutions offered to the national health care community. Prior to joining Aetna in 2004, Ms. Parton was the Corporate Project Executive for Provider eConnectivity at Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia where she also oversaw the development of the strategy and execution of provider electronic solutions. She has over 20 years of experience in health care and has led provider marketing functions, business process reengineering and contracting negotiation oversight of over $50 million annually. In 2011, she was honored with a Healthcare 11 award recognizing 11 of the nation’s top executives and thought leaders in the healthcare IT industry by eMids Technologies and Healthcare Payer News. Ms. Parton holds a bachelor’s degree from Elizabethtown College and is accredited as a Fellow by the Academy for Health Care Management.