Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change

Denis Nekliudov

Google Developer Expert

Denis is an engineer at Lyft. His expertise includes the development of mobile apps for social, financial, transportation and advertisement fields. He's worked on a huge variety of mobile projects across UI, UX, software architecture and many more. He enjoys public speaking and loves sharing his experiences through conferences, courses, blog posts, forums and open source projects. Denis co-host and editor in chief of Android Dev Podcast. When he's not working or creating some cool open source stuff, he enjoys cycling, swimming, boxing, playing tennis and traveling all over the world.

Etienne Caron

Google Developer Expert

Etienne is a software developer who's worked on all tiers (server, web, mobile, and embedded) of large scale software platforms. He is currently a freelance software development consultant. Etienne has been an active member of the Android developer community in Montreal since 2010 and regularly devotes his time to mentoring startups, developers and students in the mobile space. Mentoring has included various subjects, such as client-server architecture, Android design patterns, continuous integration, software development methodologies and general software design. He also gives regular talks on Android-related topics.

Faisal Abid

Google Developer Expert

As an Entrepreneur, I put on many hats during the day to get the job done. My goal is to apply technology to all facets of life and find problems worth solving. In my free time, I am a Google Developer Expert and give workshops and talks on Machine Learning, Flutter, Kubernetes and more.

Hemanth HM

Google Developer Expert

Computer polyglot, FOSS philospher! 🤓 Loves The WEB & CLI. Ambidextrous, native Bangalorean! Currently living in CA. Blog's about programming. FOSS on GitHub. Authored 300+ node modules with 22M downloads a month! Google Developer Expert for Web && Payments. TC39 delegate, working on JavaScript feature proposals. DuckDuckGo community leader. Member of Node.js Foundation. Google Launchpad Accelerator mentor. Hosts TC39er.us podcast. Curates JSfeatures.in Co-Hosts ReadSpecWith.us

Jeremy Glassenberg

Google Developer Expert

Jeremy is an experienced Product leader of over 13 years with a specialty in managing developer platforms and APIs at successful startups like Box and Tradeshift. He managed and expanded developer platforms to communities of tens of thousands of developers, and led high profile integrations promoted by Salesforce and Google. To support the community, Jeremy mentors startup accelerators such as Alchemist, Acceleprise, and Techstars in Platform and API strategy. He has also given talks at API and Product Management conferences, and interviews for Product and Platform blogs. He is also the Lead Instructor at Product School and the author of Product School's latest core curriculum.

Jeremy Wilken

Google Developer Expert

Jeremy has been passionate about the web since it began, and more recently the ability to enhance experiences through voice. He has worked at companies like VMware, ebay, and Teradata as an application solution architect and UX/UI professional. Angular is a major focus for Jeremy, having used it since it was first introduced, as well as the Google Assistant platform for which he builds actions and hardware to support. He speaks about Angular and the Assistant and the web at conferences and events and also provides customized training. He is the author of Angular in Action and Ionic in Action, and is involved in a number of open source projects and meetups. Jeremy lives in Texas with his family, and when he isn’t coding, you can find him brewing beer.

John Hanley

Google Developer Expert

John is a software engineer and cloud architect with over three decades of experience. He helped develop Unix, SCSI, Disk Arrays, Paragon, Norton Ghost, and Storage Manager as lead software architect and major software contributor. Today he designs cloud systems with a heavy focus on security and networking and writes enterprise class backend software. Authentication and Identity Systems are his favorite.

Lynn Langit

Google Developer Expert

Lynn is a Cloud Architect and Developer. She is working on bioinformatics (genomic) pipelines - often serverless. Lynn is also an author of 30 data and cloud courses on LinkedIn Learning.

Mark Scheel

Google Developer Expert

Mark Scheel is president of the software consultancy Digital Construction Inc. in Denver, Colorado, which has been solving difficult problems for clients for more than twenty years. He was the Android Platform Lead at a successful Denver area app company, with a medical consumer app that reached 7 million Android downloads from the Google Play store. Mark studied Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins University and holds a Masters in Computer Science and a Masters in Business Administration with a focus in entrepreneurship from the University of Colorado.

Mike Wolfson

Google Developer Expert

Mike is a senior-level Android\Java developer with a proven history of success and a long list of accomplishments. He's also a great developer, an excellent communicator and leader, and has a comprehensive knowledge of the full life-cycle of mobile-focused development and design. Mike's a passionate coder too, with an eye for simplicity – and a love for writing beautiful, pragmatic, code.

Mustafa Ali

Google Developer Expert

Mustafa has been building for Android since its early days. He has worked on apps ranging from banking and contactless payments to messaging and video streaming for large brands with millions of users. He is passionate about building complex products for large audiences and building and scaling engineering teams. At Shopify, Mustafa leads the Payments and Hardware engineering team that builds modern payment terminals and software that process transactions worth billions of dollars each year in over 150 countries.

Rabimba Karanjai

Google Developer Expert

Rabimba Karanjai is a graduate student at Rice University pursuing his PhD in Computer Science. He is a technology enthusiast, loves to contribute his time in opensource technologies and believes in open web. He works with Mozilla Research team in WebVR as part of his research work and would love to chat with you regarding Web VR/AR/MR or Security

Ryan Harter

Google Developer Expert

Ryan is a multi-skilled engineer who loves making awesome apps for Android. He spends a lot of time in the Android source, and shares what he finds with everyone through blog posts, speaking engagements, and just helping out other developers and working on open source software. When he's not coding, you'll find him travelling the world, skateboarding, biking or playing music.

Uday Kumar

Google Developer Expert

Uday is an experienced Product leader with over 20 years of Product Strategy and Management experience, leading digital and platform product teams. His experience spans non-profits, startups, consulting, and banking/card sectors. Uday has led teams that developed distance learning platforms, procurement systems, and demand planning systems. Currently at Capital One, he leads the card authorization platform teams that are building modern, cloud-native decisioning systems that process millions of transactions worth billions of dollars each day.

Victor Trac

Google Developer Expert

Victor has been building the "cloud" ever since starting his own dial-up BBS system in middle school. Since then, he's gone on to build software, cloud infrastructure, and even data-centers at organizations as diverse as early stage startup companies to the US DoD. As an advocate of Linux and Open Source Software, he routinely contributes to open source, gives talks at conferences and community meetups, as well as helps organize GDG Cloud Austin. He also helped start the Texas Linux Fest, Texas' largest community-run conference dedicated to Linux and OSS. Victor has a B.S. Electrical Engineering from Clemson University and is President of Cloudkite.io, a Google Cloud Platform Partner, founded in 2015. He is also a GCP certified Professional Cloud Architect and a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).

Vinay Gaba

Google Developer Expert

Vinay Gaba is a Senior Software Engineer working at Airbnb. Prior to Airbnb, Vinay worked at Snapchat, Spotify, and Deloitte and got his Masters in Computer Science from Columbia University. He has been working on Android since 2011. He likes to spend his weekends working on his side projects, surfing and making elaborate travel plans. These days, Vinay magically appears in a lot of Jetpack Compose related conversations!

Vincenzo Chianese

Google Developer Expert

Vincenzo Chianese is an Italian Software Developer, Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP and Auth0 Ambassador focused on WebAPIs and User Interfaces. He has been working for the last few years in API Companies such as Apiary, Oracle, LunchBadger, and Stoplight. Currently, he's working for SentinelOne He's also a prolific speaker and always willing to fly for a conference. In his spare time, he maintains different open source projects, including Express Gateway, an open source API Gateway written in JavaScript and Prism — an OpenAPI 2/3 mock server

Matt Ridenour

Google Developer Expert

As a Systems Design Director at IDEO, Matt loves to bring innovation to life. Matt builds innovation programs to support entrepreneurs and changemakers designing solutions to our world’s big challenges. Matt’s work has spanned climate innovation, circular economy, food systems, education and international development, with clients including corporations like Kraft-Heinz, governing bodies like the United Nations, and funders like The Rockefeller Foundation.

Alessia Falsarone

Managing Director, PineBridge Investments

Alessia is a sustainable finance investor at PineBridge Investments, a global asset manager with headquarters in New York. Her work bridges the gap between environmental sustainability and financial innovation. Alessia is a member of high-level advisory groups which promote environmental and climate finance including the London Stock Exchange Green segment, the SASB and the UN PRI. She is a contributing author to several publications including the “PAYTECH Book” by Wiley that leverages payment technologies for the redesign of carbon markets. In recognition of her innovative vision for business and society, Alessia has received the 2019 Honoree Award from the Women's Venture Fund. A fellow of the Aspen Institute, she is an alumna of Stanford University and the MIT Sloan School of Business.

Anu Nigam

Managing Partner, Enjoy The Work

Ever since Anu joined his first startup in 1996, He enjoys working with small, driven teams, helping to transform cutting edge technologies into real businesses. His first two startups revolutionized fiber-optic telecommunications, resulting in two acquisitions among the top 10 largest VC-backed M&A deals of all time. After the .com crash, he shifted his sights to consumer internet and started one of the world’s first social networks, hi5.com, which grew to 60M MAU. Later in his career he followed the explosion of smart phones to found an app discover site that organically attracted 15M installs.

Cassie Bowe

Principal, Energy Impact Partners

Cassie is a Principal at Energy Impact Partners. EIP is a $2B venture fund investing in energy, climatech, and adjacent industries that is backed by a coalition of 30+ global utilities, energy companies, and industrial partners. Prior to joining EIP, she worked at SunPower, one of the largest global solar companies, on policy and strategy. She has also gained operating experience at energy storage, micro-grid and energy asset management startups in business development and finance roles. Cassie holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a BA in Economics from Harvard University, and was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy (2018).

Devan Batavia

General Partner, Enjoy The Work

Devan loves the early stage journey, particularly uncovering the magical intersection between what the market wants and how to sell it. He’s had the good fortune of wearing many hats in his startup life from business development, to product management to sales. For the last 10+ years, He’s built and led go-to-market teams for 3 organizations, Jive which went public in 2011, Origami Logic was acquired by Intuit, and TripActions, still a public company valued at over $5B at last check. Building startups has fed his ambitions for years, and he joined Enjoy The Work so that he could impact not just one startup, but rather a portfolio of them across the globe.

Illai Gescheit

Venture Partner, Siemens Energy Ventures

Illai Gescheit is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He spends his career building businesses and working with entrepreneurs in diverse areas such as smart mobility and climate technologies. Illai is a Venture Partner at Siemens Energy Ventures. In his previous role he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at BP, where he built the next generation of sustainability and impact ventures for BP. Illai coaches and mentors founders and startup teams in many organizations and helps them scale and solve the world’s most challenging problems. He is an inventor of over 20 patents and his entrepreneurial story was featured in the Harvard-MIT book publication Entrepreneurial Negotiation. Illai developed the ZIZO (Zoom In Zoom Out) design methodology and led workshops in top business schools such as London Business School and Cambridge University.

Jacqueline Ros Amable

Managing Director at Venture For ClimateTech.

Jackie currently serves as the Managing Director for Venture For ClimateTech, supporting New York State's bold vision to be leaders in ClimateTech adoption and environmental justice alongside partners and co-creators, NYSERDA and SecondMuse. Previously, Jackie was the CEO and founder of Revolar, a company that built tiny devices to keep your loved ones safe. In a prior role at Techstars, Jackie covered the Americas and helped elevate entrepreneurs and ecosystem builders from Canada all the way to Argentina."

John Brennan

President and Managing Partner, JWB Advisory Partners

John Brennan is the President and Managing Partner of JWB Advisory Partners serving as an advisor to CEOs, Boards of Directors, and private equity investors across the technology, consumer, digital health, and life sciences industries. John’s experience includes having served as President and Chief Operating Officer of a venture-financed informatics company and Senior Vice President of a Private-equity financed CRO as well as President and Managing Director and Senior Vice President and Managing Director of two global management consultancies.

Jonathan Lowenhar

Founder & Managing Partner, Enjoy The Work

Jonathan loves working with entrepreneurs - whether as an operator, advisor or board member his passion has been to help early companies to launch, young businesses to grow and maturing enterprises to reach scale. Over the last 15 years he's successfully managed a $1B business segment for a large public company, led the turnaround of a distressed $100M+ revenue business, launched and sold a venture-backed startup and led the rapid growth of a fintech enterprise software business.

Kunal Doshi

Impact Investor, Capricorn Investment Group

Kunal Doshi works at Capricorn Investment Group where he conducts required diligence, evaluates investments, and assists existing portfolio companies. At Capricorn he acts as a Board Observer for select technology-impact venture and growth investments currently valued at ~$3.5 billion. Some of Capricorn's past and current investments include Form Energy, Got It, Joby Aviation, Pagatech, Planet, Saildrone, SpaceX, Tesla Motors and QuantumScape.

Lesley Ross

General Partner, Enjoy The Work

Lesley has worked in tech for 14 years as an operator in growth and analytics roles. She founded Quantified Ardor in 2016 to support growing startups around the world on data-driven decision-making. She has also spent the last 7 years as a startup advisor (including as a mentor for Google For Startups since 2016) while holding multiple COO positions for startups at various stages.

Rick Hartwig

General Partner, Enjoy The Work

With more than 20 years as a technology product development and marketing executive, Rick has helped grow companies from seed stage to series F. He led multiple companies through acquisition as a VP or CMO, and has worked with numerous CEOs to successfully raise $100M+ in funding. Later, as he moved into consulting and advising, he sought to become an even better company advisor and leadership coach. He became certified with both the College of Executive Coaching and International Coaching Federation as part of this effort.