Introducing the 2024 Mentors for Innovation Week Speed Mentoring!

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Tonight, students, faculty, staff and alumni will gather for our second annual Speed Mentoring event as part of CWRU Innovation Week. We're thrilled to share our list of volunteer mentors, who bring valuable experience from a range of industries spanning health care to technology to finance to culinary. They’ve worked at companies including Google, Amazon, eBay, Best Buy, Philips Healthcare, Omnova Solutions and more.

Take a look at the list below, and connect with our mentors on LinkedIn:


Susann Brady-Kalnay, professor, NeoIndicate
Tiffany Cashon McNamara (MBA '20), senior director, Sears think[box]
Jonathan Cohen, entrepreneur 
Andy Cornwell (CWR '10), director, 11000 Cedar Startup Incubator
William Gorton, retired, Gorton & Company
Shanna Greathouse, founder and CEO, pigybak
Anirban Sen Gupta, CTO, Haima Therapeutics; professor, CWRU
Colette Hart, senior director, Cleveland State University
Justin Hunsaker, executive communication coach, John Polk & Associates
Carlin Jackson (CWR '15, GRS '16), principal consultant, Theo. Wyes David, Ltd.
JeShaune Jackson (CWR '14, MBA '14), director, strategic partnerships, BridgeBio
Joe Jankowski, senior advisor, Innovation and Economic Development, Case Western Reserve University, Henry Ford Health, Baptist Health South Florida, Tampa General Hospital
Mandy Johnson, chief administrative officer, Spice Field Kitchen
Jonathan Klinger, principal consultant, Klinger Advisory
Franco Kraiselburd (CWR '24), CEO/founder, Asclepii Inc.
Mark Krosse, volunteer mentor, SCORE Cleveland 
Megan Kuhar, associate director for marketing and communications, CWRU Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship
Jim LeMay, V.P. Corporate Development (retired), Omnova Solutions
Mike Linton, host of CMO Confidential Podcast and Board Member, CMO Confidential
Anthony Manna (MBA '17), vice president, M7 Holdings
Dale Mesnick (MBA '92), principal, NEOacq
Michael Nieset, principal, Encore Venture Labs
Andrew Rising, managing partner, Encore Venture Labs
Steve Rumancik, CEO, Peak Technology
Larry Sears (CIT '69), instructor, CWRU
Bob Sopko, Entrepreneur in Residence, CWRU, JumpStart Inc., YBI
Evan Stein, sales executive, Cloud and AI, Google
William Tavel (CWR '17, GRS '18), Entrepreneur in Residence, CWRU
Nancy Tinsley, president, Innovation Accelerators 
Hal Yaeger (MBA '81), managing director/chairperson, PolyKinetix
Maciej Zawadzki (CWR '93), founder and CEO, Quantelligence, Ltd.