Speakers, Instructors, & Advisors
Fireside Chats
VU has over 150+ Fireside Chats with Venture Capital Investors, Private Equity Investors, Angel Investors, Strategic Investors, Large Innovative Corporations, & Top Founders! Fireside Chats are available to current cohort members and VU alumni via our private educational video platform.
Advanced VC/PE Modules
VU has 20+ VC/PE Modules that are taught by VU's investment team (J. Skyler Fernandes, Andrew Zalasin), as well as other venture capital and private equity investors, startups, and strategics
Kevin Angeles
Former Executive Vice President, Strategy and Planning and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for HSBC Bank USA
Chris Douvos
Managing Director, Venture Investment Associates
Founder & CEO, Touchdown Ventures
Jacob Shapiro
Karlov Street Capital
Jacob teaches VU's Real Estate Private Equity Module
Previously a Principal at Cleveland Avenue
Investment Banking, Baird & Co.
MBA, Kellogg
BA, Columbia
Advisors
Shayne Evans
The Academy
Brett Fink
VC at Moderne Ventures,
Previously at 500 Startups & SnapChat
Steve Frenkel
Venture Partner / Advisor, VU Venture Partners
Pamela Goldberg
Babson College & Tufts University
Mary Hu
Investment, Diversity, & Inclusion Initiative
Chicago Women in Business Group, Capstone Co-chair, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Jitendra A. Kavathekar
Investor and Former Managing Director @ Accenture Ventures
Founder and Managing Director, Accenture Ventures, Global Open Innovation
Experienced entrepreneur of tech companies Pixo, Devicescape, Twiki
Silicon Valley veteran running tech teams creating iconic products at Yahoo, Motorola, Palm
Board Member of Silicon Valley Forum
Timothy Knowles
The Academy
Frank Rimalovski
VC & Professor at New York University
Bahiyah Robinson
Founder, VC Include
Laura Kauer Rodriguez
VC at Bulldog Innovation Group (Yale's Angel Alumni Seed Fund)
Viney Sawhney
Professor,
Harvard University
Shariq Khan
Independent Supervisory Board Member, UzAuto
Independent Supervisory Board Member, UzAuto. Chairman of Audit Committee as well as Renumeration and Appointment Committee
Leila Ira
Managing Director, InteR-Acting
InteR-Acting helps clients with financial and strategic partnerships, strategic business advice, corporate development and growth expansion, and marketing & communication strategies.
Partner, Corporate Development and Investor Relations at DizzitUp
Former Co-Founder and Managing Director of Leading Teachers
Marvin Liao
Partner at
500 Startups
Diron Jebejian
Managing Director at Credit Suisse
Bruce Taylor
Founder at TAYLOR Consulting
Previously at Stanford GSB
Founder, Taylor Consulting (Strategy, Marketing, Innovation, Funding, etc.)
Formerly Executive Director, Global Innovation Programs at Stanford GSB
Managing Director, Stanford Ignite, Stanford GSB
20+ years Silicon Valley experience (Dolby Labs, SNOCAP, Personify, PwC)
MBA, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
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