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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.

Bart Barden

COO and Managing Director EBET 

Phil Carpenter

CMO at ALICE Technologies Inc.

Amr Darwish

Founding Member
COO at MaxPower Semiconductor, Inc.

Ian Felix

Taking products from the lab to the commercial market place

John Hughes

Enterprise Tech CEO & Entrepreneur

Brian Johns

Startup Advisor
Software Engineering Manager

Brandon Jones

VP of Art
Co-Founder at Burlingame Studios

Tony Leong

Vice President, Strategic Growth at Firework

Ellen Linardi

SVP Product & Design at Clover Networks

Kevin Macaluso

Senior Operating Executive
Startup Advisor

Phil Marcoux

Ex Silicon Valley CEO
Company Founder
Mentor and Coach

Irfan Mohammed

COO & Co Founder@ Chups

Guiti Nabavi

Recruiter, EE/CS, Investor, Entrepreneur
Women Who Code Silicon Valley chapter cofounder

Brendan O’Flaherty

Chief Executive Officer at cPacket Networks

Sumanth Pavuluri

Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision

Kennedy Pereira

Vice President
CCaaS Ecosystem
Global Alliances & Partnerships at Uniphore

Sri Rao

Investor, Advisor, Entrepreneur

Henry Sheng

Chief Executive Officer at VAR Live

Mandeep Singh

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

Will Saso

GTM Leader/ Advisor / Coach

Robert Suk

Building cool stuff at Amazon Lab126

Jim Vogt

Experienced Tech CEO

Michael Wang

Director of Business Development at ISSI Integrated Silicon Solution

Brandon Wilson

Co-founder of Steadynamic