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Kenny Mitchell
Kenny Mitchell is the senior vice president and chief marketing officer of the Levi's brand at Levi Strauss & Co., where he steers global marketing for one of the world's most recognizable denim labels. Before joining Levi's in 2023, he built and scaled the marketing organization at Snap Inc. and held senior roles at McDonald's U.S., Gatorade and NASCAR. Over a 20-plus year career he has collected multiple Cannes Lions, two Emmy nominations, and a long list of industry honors, and he sits on the board of e.l.f. Beauty.
Jack Groetzinger
Jack Groetzinger is the co-founder and CEO of SeatGeek, the mobile-first ticketing platform he started in 2009 to make buying and selling tickets for sports, concerts and theater simpler and more transparent. Under his leadership SeatGeek has raised roughly $400 million, reached a valuation above $1 billion, and won primary-ticketing deals with Major League Soccer, the Dallas Cowboys, the Brooklyn Nets and dozens of Broadway theaters. A Dartmouth economics graduate and serial entrepreneur, Groetzinger has become one of the most vocal challengers to Ticketmaster's dominance, testifying before the U.S. Senate on competition in live-event ticketing.
Mahesh Devalla
Mahesh Devalla is the Chief Technology Officer of Players Health, a Minneapolis-based sports insurance and risk-management company that protects youth athletes and sports organizations. He leads product and engineering strategy and applies human-centered, ethical AI to athlete safety and real-time decision support. Before Players Health, where he rose from Director of Engineering, he architected enterprise-scale AI platforms across finance, utilities and software at firms including Citi, Bank of America, American Water, Hexagon and App Orchid. He holds a master's in computer science and artificial intelligence from Dartmouth College, authored the book 'The AI Dilemma: Why Businesses Still Fail to Embrace AI,' and has been named a USA 40 Under 40 honoree and ranked among global top AI leaders.
Manisha Shah-Bugaj
Manisha Shah-Bugaj is the CEO of Activ Surgical, a Boston-based medical technology company building hardware-agnostic surgical software and its ActivSight Intelligent Light imaging module. A medtech executive with more than two decades of experience, she previously built Olympus's U.S. gynecology business from the ground up, rising to General Manager and Global Vice President, before joining Activ Surgical as COO in January 2022 and becoming CEO that December.
Tony Kingsley
Tony Kingsley is a biopharmaceutical executive who runs Stablix, Inc., a New York biotech betting that you can treat disease by protecting proteins instead of destroying them. He took the CEO seat in February 2022 after a career of running one drug company after another - Scholar Rock, TARIS Bio, The Medicines Company - and heading global commercial at Biogen, with a McKinsey partnership and a stint in medical devices before that. In July 2025 he joined the board of Indivior. He holds a Dartmouth degree and a Harvard MBA.
Janna Colucci
Janna Colucci is the CEO and co-founder of Bundle, an Oakland-based software platform that drags construction materials procurement out of the paper-and-phone-call era. After watching a construction crew print out her emails and write responses by hand while building Delos' wellness-focused NYC headquarters, she teamed up with Stanford Business School classmate Edison Ding to build a digital buying platform for small and mid-sized residential builders that promises purchasing at 10x speed and 10-20% cost savings. A Dartmouth grad and Stanford MBA who cut her teeth in green building and co-created the mindfulMATERIALS sustainability standard, she raised a $4M seed round in 2023 and runs the company on a Lao Tzu leadership philosophy.
Jason Auh
Jason Auh is Head of Sales and Customer Success at Sensible, the San Francisco developer platform that turns messy documents into structured, schema-validated data through its SenseML configuration language. A Dartmouth graduate who came up through enterprise sales at NetBase Quid, Jason sits at the seam between the engineering that builds Sensible and the customers who bet their workflows on it - and he writes candidly about where document AI actually breaks in production, not just in the demo.
Jessica Chen Riolfi
Jessica Chen Riolfi is the co-founder and CEO of Uprise, a fintech building embedded tax and financial advisory for small business owners. She spent more than a decade shipping products at Wise, Earnin and Robinhood, ran TransferWise's Asia business across 15 countries, and started out in J.P. Morgan investment banking before pairing human advisors with AI to make real financial advice affordable for entrepreneurs.
Kristin Brief
Kristin Brief is the CEO of Terragia Biofuel, a Hanover, New Hampshire startup engineering thermophilic bacteria to turn farm leftovers into cost-competitive, low-carbon ethanol. A 20-year clean energy operator and former Breakthrough Energy Fellow, she previously co-founded medical diagnostics company Virex Health, which was acquired by Sorrento Therapeutics.
Lee Lynd
Lee Rybeck Lynd is a biochemical engineer and microbiologist who has spent four decades figuring out how to make plants pay for themselves as fuel. He is the Paul E. and Joan H. Queneau Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth, co-founder and CTO of Terragia Biofuel, and the scientist most associated with consolidated bioprocessing, the one-pot fermentation idea that uses heat-loving bacteria like Clostridium thermocellum to chew through crop residue and spit out ethanol.
Lindsey Allard
Lindsey Allard is the co-founder and CEO of PlaybookUX, a video-based user research platform she launched in 2018 to make customer feedback fast, affordable, and accessible to anyone from a solo freelancer to a Fortune 500 team like Google. A former Division I lacrosse player at Dartmouth and a graduate of the first Quantic MBA class, she ran product at three startups before building PlaybookUX with her college teammate Kristen Giovanniello. The company is bootstrapped, profitable within its first year, and reached roughly $1.8M in annual revenue without spending a dollar on advertising.
Andrew Fritts
Andrew Fritts is the CEO of Augment AI, a Seattle seed-stage startup building a 'Relationship Operating System' that pulls meetings, calls, notes, CRM data, Slack threads and buyer resources into a shared Decision Site so deals stop living in someone's inbox. A Dartmouth English and Government grad with 25-plus years running sales teams at firms like Accenture and N3, he's the rare sales lifer arguing that the salesperson should stop being the hero. His pitch, repeated across CustomerThink and SalesTechStar columns, is to flip B2B into 'Business with Business' (BwB): elevate the buyer, organize the chaos, and let AI handle the busywork so trust does the selling.
Catalina Gorla
Catalina Gorla is the co-founder and CEO of TruDataRx, a Vermont-based health technology company that helps self-insured employers cut pharmacy spend using objective clinical data and comparative-effectiveness analytics. A Dartmouth-educated former economist turned healthcare entrepreneur, she has spent over a decade attacking the hidden costs and conflicts of interest baked into American drug pricing. She previously co-founded Informulary, managed innovation programs at the Dartmouth Center for Healthcare Delivery Science, and delivered a TEDxBeaconStreet talk arguing the U.S. doesn't need a single payer so much as an informed one.
Chris Knape
Chris Knape is the CEO and co-founder of Rare Candy, a marketplace and toolkit for trading card collectors that has scanned more than five million cards. He spent a decade inside marketplaces and platforms - YouTube, Google Play, Thumbtack, Tempo - before turning a pandemic-era return to childhood card collecting into a venture-backed company built alongside Pokemon YouTuber Leonhart. Raised on a sailboat in the US Virgin Islands and trained at Dartmouth, BCG, and the youngest-manager ranks of early YouTube, he now spends his days authenticating, auctioning, and tracking the cards that nerds love.
Duncan MacLean
Duncan MacLean is the President and CEO of MacLean-Fogg, the Mundelein, Illinois manufacturing company his great-grandfather founded in 1925. A Dartmouth-trained engineer who started in quality control as a teenager, he is the fourth generation of his family to run the roughly $1 billion enterprise. He joined as a manufacturing engineer in 1996, spent 4.5 years in Germany, rebuilt the components business after the 2008 recession, and now leads global operations across fasteners, power systems, plastics, and 3D-printed tooling as the company crosses its 100-year mark.
Emily Choi-Greene
Emily Choi-Greene is the co-founder and CEO of Clearly AI, a Y Combinator (S24) startup in Seattle that automates the slow, paperwork-heavy security and privacy reviews enterprises dread. She spent five years at Amazon leading Alexa AI Security and later owned data security and privacy at Moveworks, performing hundreds of reviews by hand before building the tool she wished she had. A Dartmouth computer scientist who graduated with High Honors, she runs the company alongside her husband and CTO Joe Choi-Greene, whom she met in 2019 over an Alexa security review. Clearly AI has raised roughly $8.4M and counts Fortune 500s and global brands among its early users.
Graham McConnell
Graham McConnell is the CEO and co-founder of Nth Round, a Philadelphia fintech that helps private companies, family enterprises and funds manage equity, run investor portals, distribute reports and create shareholder liquidity. A Dartmouth cognitive science graduate who oversaw software at the $25B quant firm AJO Partners before launching the company with his father in 2018, he is a self-described saver and Bogle-style passive investor on a mission to simplify and democratize private investing.
Nick Whalley
Nick Whalley is the co-founder and CEO of Nutiliti, a utility management platform that handles the unglamorous but expensive work of turning power, water, and gas on and off across rental portfolios. A Dartmouth-trained engineer who spent three years on Goldman Sachs's electronic trading desk before leaving in 2020 to build software for property managers, Whalley runs a company whose pitch is blunt: manage properties, not utilities. Nutiliti automates activations, deactivations, bill payment, and accounting reconciliation, and exposes it all through a REST API so single-family rental and build-to-rent operators can stop drowning in utility paperwork.
Robert Huntington
Robert (Rob) Huntington is the CEO of Oakscale Franchise Partners and of Metric Collective, a New York-based group that builds, markets, and invests in franchise brands. A former high-school history teacher who ran the single largest Huntington Learning Center before earning an MBA at Kellogg and consulting at BCG, he now applies data, software, and digital marketing to a slow-moving industry, connecting entrepreneurs with franchise concepts and helping emerging brands scale. He led the angel round that seeded Oakscale with $1.2M in 2019 and frames franchising's challenge bluntly: the industry has been coasting downhill and now has to pedal.
Ron Faith
Ron Faith is the President and CEO of RBC Signals, a Redmond, Washington company that runs a global ground station network letting satellite operators downlink data on demand instead of building their own dishes. A serial entrepreneur who launched Apple's first standalone internet product in the mid-1990s, ran mobile commerce at Qpass, and led cloud data-protection startup Datacastle to an acquisition by Carbonite, he returned to his aerospace roots in 2019 and took the top job in January 2024. He pairs a Dartmouth engineering-and-philosophy double major with a University of Washington master's spent researching frequency selective surfaces for Boeing.
Stephanie Lawrence
Stephanie Lawrence is the co-founder and co-CEO of Traveling Spoon, the marketplace she built to put travelers at a stranger's dinner table around the world. Born from a failed quest to learn dumplings from a Chinese grandmother, the company connects guests with vetted home cooks - 95% of them women - across dozens of countries for private meals, cooking classes, and market tours. A Dartmouth and UC Berkeley Haas MBA who worked with Alice Waters and Google.org before launching, Lawrence turned a travel frustration into a business that funnels income to local women while preserving family recipes that might otherwise vanish.
Vanessa Coleman
Vanessa Coleman is the co-founder and CEO of Oceanworks, the largest global marketplace for recycled plastic materials and products. A serial entrepreneur with an MIT engineering and Sloan MBA background, she has turned mismanaged ocean-bound plastic into a traceable, brand-grade supply chain. Before Oceanworks she was founding CEO of power-electronics company FINsix and co-founded the clean-water social enterprise Saha Global. Her work connects hundreds of brands to vetted regional recyclers, backed by the Oceanworks Guaranteed certification and shore-to-shelf traceability.
William Ware
William Ware is the co-founder and CEO of DoseOptics LLC, a Dartmouth-affiliated medtech company in Lebanon, New Hampshire that turns a faint blue glow into a safety tool for cancer patients. Its systems image Cherenkov light - the same eerie glow seen in nuclear reactors - to show radiation dose landing on a patient in real time during treatment. A Thayer School of Engineering alumnus with a chemical engineering background, Ware has launched more than 20 patented products across pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, textiles, and medical devices, and partnered DoseOptics with Vision RT to fold Cherenkov imaging into mainstream radiotherapy.
Scott Schorer
Scott Schorer is CEO and Chairman of G-Tech Medical, a Mountain View startup building GutTracker, a wireless dermal-patch system that reads the body's gut signals at home over days instead of hours. A Dartmouth-trained engineer and former 82nd Airborne infantry officer, he has spent two decades founding, turning around and selling medical-device companies, raising more than $120 million in equity and earning his name on six patents along the way.
Alison Richards
Alison Richards is the CEO of Surest, a UnitedHealthcare company (formerly Bind) that builds a health plan with no deductibles and upfront prices people can see before they book care. A UnitedHealthcare veteran since 2012, she has turned the company's most contrarian benefits idea - let members shop for care the way they shop for everything else - into its fastest-growing employer plan.
Arnold Engel
Arnold Engel is the co-founder and CEO of Tundra, a zero-commission wholesale marketplace he started in 2017 with his wife Katie Engel after years running a global supply chain company. A Dartmouth economics graduate and former McKinsey consultant, Engel built Tundra to hand independent retailers the same buying power as big-box giants - no transaction fees, no markups, free shipping. The platform grew to more than two million ready-to-ship products and over 30,000 retailers, raising about $42 million across rounds including a $26M Series B led by Emergence Capital in 2021.
Brendan Fairbanks
Brendan Fairbanks is the founder and CEO of Perchwell, the modern MLS technology and data platform for residential real estate. A former finance professional who taught himself to code after the 2008 crash, he built Perchwell to bring the quantitative rigor of capital markets to the world's largest asset class. Launched in New York, Perchwell now operates the de facto MLS of the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) and is expanding to MLS organizations nationwide. In July 2024 the company raised a $25M Series B led by Lux Capital, bringing total funding to roughly $55M.
Colin McGlynn
Colin McGlynn is the Chief Business Officer at Copado, the intelligent DevOps platform built for Salesforce and low-code enterprise development. He runs the commercial engine of a company that raised $140M in Series C funding and crossed a valuation north of $400M. A Dartmouth economics and classical archaeology grad with a Yale MBA, he built his operator's instinct across BCG, Gartner, Business Intelligence Advisors, Uplift, and Own Company, where he overhauled go-to-market for a $150M+ ARR business before taking the reins of Copado's business strategy.
Colin South
Colin South is a New Zealand-born biotechnology executive and the founding leader of ArkeaBio, a Boston climate-tech company building the world's first vaccine to cut methane emissions from cattle. He grew up on a 1,000-head sheep farm, earned a PhD in bioprocess engineering from Dartmouth, and spent 25-plus years turning microbes into commercial products across the food, fuel, and energy industries. He launched ArkeaBio in 2021, ran it as CEO from January 2022, and in September 2025 stepped into the Chief Business Officer seat as the company brought in a new CEO and pushed toward field trials.
David Hendren
David Hendren is the Chief Business Officer of QURA, Inc., a Massachusetts medical technology company building an implantable sensor that streams real-time blood-pressure data to patients and physicians. A lawyer by training who has spent more than 25 years working every side of the deal table - venture capitalist, entrepreneur, CEO, board chair, advisor and counsel - he co-founded QURA in 2013 alongside its CEO. He also runs the advisory firm Augmentum Advisors, mentors startups through MassChallenge, sits on a Massachusetts Life Sciences Center review board, and advises VIC Technology Ventures, focusing his career on financing and commercializing healthcare and biomedical innovation.