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Alchemist Accelerator mentor?
If you feel that you have the experience and track record to guide our startups to extraordinary success, we want to hear from you.
Alchemist Mentors
Alchemist Mentors are distinctive in their own fields. Below is a sample of our past Mentors:

Aashima Gupta
Former Executive Director, Digital Technology Incubation and Solutions
Kaiser Permanente

Adam Pisoni
Co-Founder & CTO
Yammer (MSFT)

Ahryun Moon
CEO
GoodTime.io

Alessandro Vigilante
Head of US West Coast Innovation
Fidelity Investments

Alex Bessonov
Chief Security Officer
LG Electronics
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Ashu Garg
General Partner
Foundation Capital

Asim Murad
VP Technology Partnerships
Bank of America

Cathrine Andersen
Former Cisco, Innovation Labs and Emerging Products
CEO, Assemblage (CSCO)

Chad Rigetti
Founder and CEO, Rigetti Quantum Computing
IBM; Yale

Cheryl Cheung
Enterprise Innovation
CIBC

Chris Gale
Co-Founder
Clover Health

Chris Yin
EIR, Venrock
Former Director, Product Management, Coupa

Clara Liang
Airbnb, Director of Product
Former Jive, CPO

Dafina Toncheva
Partner
US Venture Partners

Daniel Johnson
CTO and Head of Innovation
Guardian Life

Donald Tucker
Manager
Cisco Investments

Doug Davis
SVP IoT Group
Intel Corp.,

Elaine Wherry
Co-Founder & CXO
Meebo (GOOG)

Emna Ghariani
CEO
Flowfinitee (formerly Veamly)

Ernest Rolfson
Former VP Corporate Alliances
Emdeon

Ethan Prater
VP, Products; Yale; Wharton MBA
Castlight Health

Gabor Angeli
Eloquent Labs, CEO (Funded by Khosla, acq by Square)
UC Berkeley, Stanford Ph.D

Gary Swart
CEO
oDesk

Gretchen DeKnikker
Co-Founder and CMO, Social Pandas
Director, LivePerson (LPSN)

Hans Reisgies
Founder, CTO, Sequent
Former Director, Vivotech

JC Simbana
Former Vice President, Digital Health & Life Sciences
Silicon Valley Bank

Jared Harwayne-Gidansky
Emerging Tech Group Lead
BNY Mellon

Jay Onda
Strategic Investments
Orange, Silicon Valley

Jonathan Ballon
Intel, GM IoT
General Electric, CSO

Joshua Wise
Co-Founder, Founding CEO, wise.io
Professor of Astrophysics, UC Berkeley

Julian Gay
CEO, Xendo (Acq by AppDirect)
Former Sr. Product Manager, Orange

Kevin McCarthy
Open Innovation Leader, Global Business Development
Procter & Gamble

Ludovic Copere
Senior Manager, Growth Ventures & Innovation
Sony

Maciej Kranz
Cisco, VP
Corporate Strategic Innovation Group

Madhu Nutakki
Digital CTO and Head of Mobile Innovation and Delivery
AIG, Kaiser Permanente IT

Melissa Miao
Former Director, Business Development; Stanford University, Harvard MBA
McKesso

Michael Dolbec
Managing Director
GE Digital

Mike Olson
Founder & CEO
Cloudera

Niles Lichtenstein
CEO, Enwoven
Harvard

Pete Kim
Co-Founder and CEO, MightyHive
Former Head of Business Development, Google Media Platforms

Peter Berg
Strategic Partnerships
Visa

Ralf Christian
Former CEO Energy Management Division
Siemens

Ravi Belani
Stanford Lecturer,
ex-Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Richard Tucker
VP, Sales & Marketing
Canada Life Reinsurance

Roee Peled
Sr. Director, Strategic Partnerships
Flextronics

Scott Matthews
Former Vice President User Engagement and Growth
Castlight Health

Scott Nelson
CTO
LogicPD

Sridhar Solur
Director, Wearables / IoT
Hewlett-Packard

Steve King
ex-CEO
DocuSign

Stu Schmidt
Creator of Sales Methodology
WebEx

Thomas Hawes, M.D.
Managing Director
Sandbox Industries, BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners

Tim Draper
Founder
Draper Fisher Jurvetson Skype, Baidu, Parametric

Timothy Chou
Stanford Lecturer, ex-CEO
Oracle-on-Demand

Tony Shakib
General Manager, IoT
Microsoft

Venkatesh Seetharam
Partner
Capital One Growth Ventures

Vinod Khosla
Co-Founder
Sun Microsystems