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Justin is a seasoned startup sales leader with a proven track record of driving Series A to Series C growth. As the first full-time sales hire for three founders who have collectively raised over $523 million, Justin has consistently delivered results, including 2-3x YoY growth and securing a $1.6 million deal with a leading US insurance company.
With expertise spanning AI & Predictive Analytics, AppDev, IoT, and EdTech, Justin excels in helping founders transition from founder-led sales to a repeatable sales motion. He focuses on team development, strategic opportunities, and removing blockers to technology adoption, having managed teams of up to 8 enterprise account executives and 40 channel representatives.
Justin holds a Master's degree in engineering and management from MIT, where he focused on the design and management of complex systems. He is also a certified brand strategist under Professor Galloway, a preeminent expert in the field.
As the founder of Luminal, Justin leverages his expertise in strategy, operations, partnerships, and solution consulting to help startups reach their full potential and create positive impact through innovative go-to-market strategies and cutting-edge technologies like LLMs, ML, and automation.
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Shree is a technologist with over a decade of experience building and scaling technology companies across various industries, including fintech and healthcare. As a problem solver and hacker at heart, Shree draws from his extensive expertise in engineering and product management to drive innovation and tackle complex challenges.
Most recently, Shree served as a Senior Technical Product Manager at UCM Digital Health, where he focused on leveraging AI to optimize patient care. Prior to that, he held the position of Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Innovation Incubator for over three years, contributing to the development and growth of early-stage startups.
Passionate about the potential of AI to accelerate humanity's progress, Shree currently serves as the Technical Director of Gen AI & Product Development at Luminal, where he works on cutting-edge AI technologies and their ethical applications. Additionally, he is a VC & Startups Ambassador at AI LA, a non-profit organization supporting AI research, development, and public education in the greater Los Angeles region.
Shree holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Neuroscience from Boston University and has published work on the application of artificial intelligence in optimizing patient care from admission to discharge. As a fierce techno-optimist, Shree remains dedicated to harnessing the power of AI to create positive impact and drive meaningful change.
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Daniel is an experienced seasoned entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in building and scaling successful companies. As a founder, he has consistently demonstrated his ability to tackle complex problems and drive growth across various industries, including non-profit, healthcare, higher education, and facility management.
With a track record that includes two successful exits, and multiple Inc 5000 awards for fastest-growing private companies, Daniel has proven his expertise in leading angel, venture, and private equity-backed companies from the earliest stages to become category leaders. He has grown teams to over 100 employees and served thousands of customers, transforming offline B2B operations into thriving digital businesses.
Daniel's diverse background includes executive leadership roles in venture capital and publicly held media companies, as well as founding a consumer and brand marketing company that achieved a successful exit. His expertise spans SaaS scaling, artificial intelligence, go-to-market strategy, new market development, operations planning and execution, scalable systems and processes implementation, team development and mentorship, fiscal oversight, and revenue growth.
Driven by a beginner's mindset and a passion for solving hard, large-scale problems that deliver societal benefits, Daniel continues to build product-led companies with intelligent, passionate, and driven people.
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Anthony has a track record of over 30 years of hands-on inventing, co-founding and building innovation businesses in the areas of MediaTech, FinTech, BioTech, Energy, Web3 and Mobile/Telecoms spanning the US, UK, EU and Southern Africa.
Anthony and his teams pioneered song downloading in collaboration with AT&T/Bell Labs, launched the first international content distribution “internet” for mobile devices, and built and sold North America’s largest ringtone company which generated over $1.5 billion in mobile content sales. Through this pioneering work in startups he was featured on CNN, Discovery Next Step and Wired Magazine. But he has also worked for or run projects for three Fortune-500 companies.
Having earned a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of California and training in exponential organizational methodologies, Anthony has raised over $38 million in innovation financing, co-authored 11 patents in the areas of interactive media sharing UX, and assisted nearly a dozen entrepreneurs seize their dreams. Apart from being able to uncover novel and disruptive advances in technology, products and distribution models, Anthony enjoys product enhancing, internationalization, and team building for innovation businesses from angel through exit.
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Manuel Mark is a seasoned builder, strategic advisor and angel investor, driving transformative innovation and growth within the venture ecosystem. He brings a unique perspective, blending both the meticulous precision of his German upbringing with over 20 years of experience in product design and business leadership in the US. Manuel has led critical functions within high-growth startups and enterprise companies, seamlessly integrating user-centric design with robust business strategies to drive business growth and success.
Manuel has spearheaded major UX initiatives, including directing projects supporting over $4BN in revenue, transforming IBM's API Connect into an award-winning product, and driving a startup's growth from inception to $100M in annual recurring revenue. He remains committed to fostering innovation and operational excellence across product management, UX, customer experience, communications, marketing, business development, and growth strategy. Specialties include digital transformation, product-led growth, growth design strategic leadership.