Thursday, February 9th 2012

Venture Challenge™

San Diego State University

Semi-Finalist and Wildcard:

  • Neil Senturia, CEO, San Diego News Network
  • Steve Untiedt, Partner, Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
  • Gary Sutton, Serial Entrepreneur
  • Hus Tigli, CEO, Silicon Kinetics
  • Zeynep Ilgaz, CEO, Confirm BioSciences
  • Douglas Giese, Ph.D, AgileNano
  • Ricardo dos Santos, Senior Director of Business Development, QUALCOMM, Inc.
  • Joel Gragg, Associate, Huntington Capital
  • Russ Mann, CEO, Covario, Inc.
  • Dema Zlotin, Founder & VP of Strategic Services, Covario, Inc.
  • Craig Macdonald, VP of Marketing & Product Development, Covario, Inc.
  • Dave Ryan, Managing Partner, Mission Ventures
  • Alan Creutz, Ph.D, Cerius, Interim Executive Solutions
  • Trever Acers, Managing Director, The Integrity Investment Group
  • Bob Greenstone, CEO, Permission Interactive Inc.
  • Thom McElroy, Entrepreneur
  • Cary P. Mack, Managing Director, LECG
  • Yukon Palmer, President & Founder, Field Technologies
  • Craig T. Stevens, CEO, Mar West Ventures, Inc.
  • M. LaRae Bakerink, Co-Owner, WBB Securities, LLC
  • Lewis Silverberg, Private Investor
  • Frederick W. Pierce, IV, President & CEO, Pierce Education Properties, L.P.
  • Matthew O. Jones, President, VanLaw Food Products, Inc.
  • Steve Nelson, President, Midwest General, Inc.
  • Chris Celentino, Managing Partner, Duane Morris, LLP
  • Mario Woizeschke, Vice President & Relationship Manager, Union Bank of California
  • Phil Trubey,Entrepreneur
  • James G. Perkins , Ph.D, COO Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
  • Peter Shaw, Principal, Shaw Management Advisors, Int’l LLC
  • Jerry Hall, COO, Alliant Insurance Services, Inc.

Finalist Judges:

  • Jay S. Kunin, Board of Directors, San Diego Tech Coast Angels
  • Jim Morris, President, JBM Properties Inc.
  • Jonathan Huberman, President, EMC Consumer and Small Business Products Division
  • Ron Fowler, CEO & Chairman, Liquid Investments, Inc.
  • Mary Allis Curran, Executive Vice President, Union Bank of California

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Any questions, contact Kiley Peters at 619-594-8873 or kiley.peters@projects.sdsu.edu

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