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BVA Mentors and Advisors

Join our growing network of volunteer startup mentors and advisors!

For information about BVA's Mentors and Advisors Program and to tell us about your experience and interests, please complete this Volunteer Mentor/Advisor Form.

Some of our Mentors and Advisors are featured below.

Akshay Khole

Product Owner at Paychex 

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Amitpal Dhillon

MultiCloud SME | Cybersecurity Leadership | Web3 GenAI 

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Andrew Salzman

Investor and Advisor, Specialist in Market Development and Product-Marketing-Sales Growth 

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Bob Rapp

Patent Practitioner Registration at Initial USPTO Patent Practitioner Registration

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Brandon Wilson

Co-founder of Steadynamic

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Brian Johns

Startup Advisor
Software Engineering Manager

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Christian Templeton

Strategic Projects @ Google | Idea to Growth Stage Advisor/Investor

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David Chen

Founder & CEO of Arith Inc. Co-author of IEEE

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David Mortaz

Ai Entrepreneur | Founder | Angel Investor | B2B SaaS Sales

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Dennis Charlebois

Educator in Entrepreneurship. Investor/CEO/Advisor in High Tech Ventures

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Ellen Linardi

SVP Product & Design at Clover Networks

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Gyan Patra

Sr. Manager, Technical Program Management, LinkedIn | Executive MBA

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Hemant Sahani

Vice President of Product Management at VMware Workspace ONE

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Henry Sheng

Chief Executive Officer at VAR Live

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Ian Felix

Taking products from the lab to the commercial market place

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Irfan Mohammed

COO & Co Founder@ Chups

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Juan Montermoso

Senior Executive Consultant and Professor of Practice in Marketing

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Jim Vogt

Experienced Tech CEO

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Julia Benner

CEO and co-founder of MissedFits

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Kevin Gagan

Senior Client Partner, Global Leader, Enterprise Coaching at Korn Ferry | Board Member | Advisor

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Kevin Macaluso

Senior Operating Executive
Startup Advisor

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Mandeep Singh

M.S. Computer Engineering SCU
Army Officer
Researcher at the SCU Robotics Systems Lab

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Meg Brossy

Growth Advisor, Board Member, Sports Tech, Data Monetization

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Phil Carpenter

CMO at ALICE Technologies Inc.

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Ray Combs

Educator, Entrepreneur, Consultant, Mentor, Board Member

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Razzak Jallow

Chief Financial Officer at FloQast

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Ryan Giordano

Operations, Customer and Analytics Leader

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Sebastian Spitzer

Venture Specialist at Schaeffler

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Shriram Natarajan

Experienced CXO | Board Member | Investor

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Steve Skotzke

Teacher, Lecturer, Innovator, Creator, Advocate, Problem Solvier

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Tanvi Shah

Product Lead
Search and feature strategy

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Tony Leong

Startups, Mentor, Creator, Seed Investor

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Yasmin Yamat

CEO | Co-Founder HIGH BEAM Foundation

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Wendell Wenjen

Brand and Product Marketing | Strategic Partnerships | Business Development

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Jagat Singh

Partner and Investor

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Wickey Wang

Director of IT Security Audit@MeridianLink | Teaching Cybersecurity

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