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.

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.

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.

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.

Katherine is a brand and digital marketing strategist with over 11 years' experience delivering creative brand strategy and data-driven marketing strategy to clients of all stripes, from Fortune 500 companies to the start-ups. She has deep expertise in working with companies in the B2B space, especially in tech and healthcare. She is open to all kinds of creative projects. 

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.

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.

managing director at Infinia Group, where he leads Infinia Ventures, a practice dedicated to the startup ecosystem.

Before Infinia, he was at Havas Worldwide New York following a stint as a freelance strategy consultant at a number of creative agencies. He has done strategy consulting work in brand, digital and growth strategy for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 and the US government

Joseph Schneier is the founder and CEO of Trusty.care, a company dedicated to improving the financial and health outcomes of older adults. He has been working at solving complex social issues for the past twenty years. With a commitment to leaving the world a better place, Jo has been privileged to build products around early childhood literacy, foreign language acquisition, workforce development and has also conducted research on behalf of the Department of State, USAID, Johns Hopkins SAIS, and many other organizations. 

Mr. Schneier is a frequent speaker and mentor and has recently spoken at TEDMed, Lake Nona and StartupHealth JP Morgan. He is a mentor at Cornell, NYU, Columbia and Wharton. Cognition is a Techstars and StartupHealth company and won the 1776 Challenge Cup.

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.

Business and financial leader with the ability develop and deliver strategic development and execution of company-wide financial policies and procedures. Distinguished, hands-on experience in driving corporate development activities, assisting startups, reorganizing financially distressed companies, and the managing the acquisition and integration process. Astute leader who adds value through proactive decision-making, business process re-engineering, and proven global leadership abilities coupled with mentoring and coaching skills.

Jacob is working at the nexus of startups, technology, and healthcare. He is developing successful business ventures that advance healthcare and our transition to a clean energy future. His current work focuses on healthcare security and technology adoption and is informed by rigorous medical research as a team member at innovative laboratories at McMaster and UBC.

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.

Imraan Ahmed is a General Partner of Armory Square, having joined the fund in 2018, and serves on the Firm’s Investment Committee. Mr. Ahmed has more than 15 years of experience as an operator, advisor and investor in New York, Silicon Valley and emerging Tier II/III regions. He is passionate about empowering early stage entrepreneurs disrupting traditional industries, advancing fundamental societal issues and unleashing our human potential through technology. Mr. Ahmed is particularly interested in technology enabled healthcare transformation and leads the firm’s investing efforts in the sector.

Previously, Mr. Ahmed was a Principal with Radius Ventures. Since inception, the firm has invested ~$200 million in over 40 healthcare companies across three funds. In his role at Radius, Mr. Ahmed focused on leading the firm’s healthcare technology investing and portfolio management efforts. He worked with several Radius portfolio companies including Aethon (acquired by ST Engineering), Healthsense (acquired by Great Call), Management Health Solutions, Tabula Rasa Healthcare (NASDAQ: TRHC) and Tactile Medical (NASDAQ: TCMD).

In addition, Mr. Ahmed is a co-founder of Touch of Gray and KF20 Capital. These angel syndicates focus on investing in technology enabled seed, early commercial and expansion stage companies across a variety of sectors. Representative investments include ACV Auctions, Explorer Surgical, HENRY the Dentist, Maven Clinic, OMNY and Simile / DepthKit.

Prior to entering the venture capital industry, Mr. Ahmed’s career spanned a diverse range of entrepreneurial, investing and advisory roles. He was the Co-Founder of Atlantis Health System, initially conceived to modernize and de-fragment the home healthcare industry. He also served as an investor with New Heritage Capital, a Boston based private equity fund that focuses on investing in high growth, family and founder owned businesses. Mr. Ahmed began his career in investment banking, initially with KPMG Corporate Finance and then Merrill Lynch, where he focused on executing M&A for healthcare, technology and media companies.

Mr. Ahmed holds a BS in Finance from The University of Maryland, College Park where he was a QUEST Honors Program Fellow and an MBA from Columbia Business School. In addition, he is a Kauffman Fellow and serves as Co - Chair of the organization’s NY Chapter.

Dr. Richard Park is board-certified in emergency medicine and completed his medical studies at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Dr. Park is the author and co-editor-in-chief of McGraw-Hill’s Intensive Review of Emergency Medicine. His unparalleled education combined with his vision for delivering highly accessible, top-quality medical care has made CityMD the top urgent care in the NY metro area. Dr. Park lives on Long Island with his wife and two children.

Steve is a reformed attorney and former non-profiteer. Fresh out of law school, he clerked for a Criminal Division judge in the Newark, NJ Superior Court. Later, he dug into a corporate litigation career. Before long, Steve was overcome by his passion for social justice. He joined an NYC antipoverty nonprofit and spent several years helping to bring the program to a national scale. Steve was thrilled to join the Unite Us team. Through his Network Development role, he gets to meet tons of great service providers and forward-thinking government leaders.

Charles LaCalle devotes much of his time to analyzing edtech and digital health startups as potential investments for Dreamit. He also heads community management for the 250+ Dreamit portfolio companies.

Prior to joining DreamitCharles worked as an associate at Flatiron Investors, a seed-stage investment firm. He gained operational experience as a project manager at Allied Health Media (education technology) and a product associate at LearnVest (fintech). Charles holds a dual degree in Government and History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University. He is also on the board of StartOutwhich provides mentoring for LGBT founders and is an active mentor in Big BrothersBig Sisters.

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).

Omid joined ZA Ventures in 2017. Before joining ZA Ventures, he was the Investment Principal at MVM. Prior, he was the Director of Strategy and Business Development for Becton Dickinson’s $1.3B diagnostics business. Omid was also a management consultant in Monitor Deloitte’s Life Sciences and Healthcare team.

Omid holds a Masters in Bioengineering Innovation & Design from the Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia. He was also awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research on access to healthcare in the Middle East.

Sander is a Partner at Lifeforce Capital, a leading early-stage, healthcare-focused venture capital firm based in San Francisco and New York. Previously, Sander served as Vice President, Business Development for Pager, a venture-backed digital health company focused on improving patient access to the right care. Sander helped to evolve Pager’s business to a national enterprise-facing company selling to leading payers and health systems while overseeing sales, account management, strategic partnerships, and corporate development. Before Pager, Sander was a founder of Northwell Ventures, the corporate venture arm for New York State’s largest health system, and a leader at Cleveland Clinic Ventures focused on making venture investments in outside companies and developing spin-outs based on Cleveland Clinic technology. He began his career in healthcare private equity after graduating from Dartmouth with a BA in Molecular Biology.

Peter is best known as the founder of Medscape. While he was CEO of SCP Communications, Inc., Peter was inducted into the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame in 2013, and he has been listed as one of the 1,000 most creative people in the U.S. He is past president of the Healthcare Marketing & Communications Council, Inc., a director of both Crossix and Context Matters and a member of the Medical Advisory Boards of Everyday Health, Milestone Venture Partners, TrialX, and the Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health Initiative. A frequent guest speaker and widely published author, Peter holds an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. from New York University.

Karine Agajanian is an Analyst at Anzu Partners, where she handles aspects of fund administration, distressed debt, and operations. Prior to this role, she was an Account Administrator for an insurance broker in Salt Lake City, Utah. And prior to that, she was a Data Engineer for Venture Data, where she compiled reports on national political surveys for clients such as Wall Street Journal and NBC.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Psychology and Environmental Studies from the University of Utah.

Omri experienced Corporate Innovation and VC Analyst with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. He has skilled in Corporate Innovation, Accelerator, Operations Management, Cyber, AI, Retail, Sales, and Fundraising.
He is a strong business development professional with a Bachelor's degree focused in Economics & Philosophy from Columbia University in the City of New York.

Jen is passionate about health care delivery transformation and loves spending time at the intersection of public policy, strategy, and innovation. Prior to joining Galileo, Jen spent 13 years at Sachs Policy Group (SPG). At SPG, Jen served as a senior expert on New York State Medicaid policy and government programs across SPG’s client base and led SPG’s innovation practice.

She received her B.A. in public health studies with departmental honors distinction from the Johns Hopkins University, her M.P.H. from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and her M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.