Our Team

Our Team

Da Zhang
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Behavioral and Mental Health
Narges Baniasadi
Emergence Founder & Executive Director
David Butler
Researcher in Residence
Sooni Gillett
Director of Programs
Tim Joehnk
Events Lead
Dr. David Maron
Faculty Director at Stanford Prevention Research Center
Jessica Nyquist
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Food Is Medicine
Ruchika Sikri
Director of Accelerator
Rudy Vincent
Business Partnerships Lead

Instructors & Coaches

Aarti Chandna
Partner at Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund & Impact Advisor
Melanie Edwards
Founder at Mobile Metrix & Adjunct Faculty at Stanford University
Sam McClure
Lecturer at Stanford Law School & Managing Partner at Cedar Grove LLP
Hedi Razavi
Co-Founder at Keewi Inc.
Lauren Sweeney
Head of Early Stage Product & Technology Services at Inflect Health
Joshua Tamayo-Sarvar
Vice President of Innovation at Vituity & Inflect Health
Oliver Waterhouse
Co-Founder at Base Genomics

Industry Advisors

Aarti Chandna
Partner at Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund & Impact Advisor
Pete Hartigan
Founder at Sage Labs
Mark Kramer
Co-Founder at Reimagining Social Change
David Lawee
Founder & Managing Partner at CapitalIG
David Placek
President & Founder at Lexicon Branding
Scott Saslow
Founder at One World Investments
Allison Taylor
CEO & Founder at Thought Marketing
Oliver Waterhouse
Co-Founder at Base Genomics