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Teaching Team

Lean LaunchPad brings together a unique teaching team that includes instructors and mentors who are experienced and successful entrepreneurs and investors. During the course, each team will have a dedicated mentor, and you'll meet with them on a regular basis. In addition, the instructors will work closely with each team throughout the course. Click on a picture to learn more.

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Kim Polese

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Instructor

Kim Polese is Chairman and co-founder of CrowdSmart.

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Michael Chai

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Instructor

Michael is presently SVP Product Technology for Savvas Learning LLC

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Jim Hornthal

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Lead Instructor

Jim Hornthal is a parallel entrepreneur, angel investor, and educator.

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Allesandro Rinaldi

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Spring '21 Mentor

Principal at Launch Factory

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Cheryl Rosner

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Spring '21 Mentor

CEO | Founder | Board Director | Investor | Advisor

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Beau Giannini

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Spring '21 Mentor

Founder & CEO - Ternary Intelligence

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Jeep Kline

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Spring '21 Mentor

Partner - MrPink VC

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Vera Kenehan

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Spring '21 Mentor

Vice President at Parallel Wireless

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Katie Rodan

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Spring '21 Mentor

Co-founder of Rodan + Fields

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Scott Raskin

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Spring '21 Mentor

President Quotient Technology

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Arding Hsu

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Spring '22 Mentor

Senior Advisor at Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation

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Lenny Stein

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Spring '22 Mentor

Senior Strategic Advisor at Splunk

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Kim Davis King

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Spring '22 Mentor

Partner at Launch Factory

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Ralph Guggenheim

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Spring '22 Mentor

CEO - Alligator Planet

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Rick Fitz

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Spring '22 Mentor

Founder & Principal at Double Digit Advisory

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