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Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: HeyHon Dan is a full-stack blockchain developer. His most recent decentralized app was awarded 3rd place at DAPPHack, a hackathon judged by the Chief Blockchain Architect at General Motors. Prior to HeyHon, Dan co-founded an organic tea company that was named among the Best New Beverages

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: HeyHon Lisa is a co-founder of HeyHon, which helps couples deepen their relationships through meaningful conversation. She has a proven track record of growth at startups in New York City, where she optimized conversions for a Forbes 30 Under 30 founder and led content marketing for

Cohort: 8 Team: Dennis Yancey, Arthur McClung, and Daniel Rodriguez Developing technologies to restore marine environments that have been compromised by overfishing. Our initial products are the first generation of robotic devices to cull sea urchins and reestablish kelp beds.

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: Marauder Robotics Dr. Dennis Yancey, is the CEO and co-founder of Marauder Robotics (formerly known as Coastal Waters Biotechnology 2, CWB2). Dennis has a B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and M.S. & Ph.D. Stanford University. He is a chemical engineer, who has

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: Marauder Robotics Arthur "Trey" McClung, is the CTO and co-founder of Marauder Robotics (formerly known as Coastal Waters Biotechnology 2, CWB2). He has written and managed several SBIR & STTR grants (Phase I & II), and also founded a product design and development company

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: Marauder Robotics Daniel Rodriguez loves technology, martial arts, and adventure. He holds 15+ years of experience coding and leading teams for major entertainment companies such as The Walt Disney Company, TV Guide, EA Sports, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. He studied Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: Mercedes-Benz USA Kaushik Datta currently leads the IT Innovation Hub team at Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. He has been an employee since 2003. Prior to his current role, he managed Enterprise Content Management Platform and web applications for 65+ websites including the brand website mbusa.com, dealer

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: Mercedes-Benz USA David Owen currently serves as Experience Designer within IT Innovation Hub team at Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. Having joined MB USA in 2016, his prior roles include IT Lead for Dealer Learning Management Systems. David's current focus within the Innovation Hub team includes UI/UX

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: Mercedes-Benz USA Jianan Sun currently serves as the Solution Architect within the IT Innovation Hub Team at Mercedes-Benz. She has been with Mercedes since October 2017. Her focuses within the team are to design innovation process, introduce customer discovery tools, and facilitate internal innovation-related initiatives. Jianan

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: Mercury Exchange Balakrishna Inamdar, or Mr. B as he is fondly known, is the co-founder and CEO of Mercury Digital Assets Exchange, Inc., a company focused to build a secure, reliable and fully regulatory compliant digital assets exchange for institutional investors. Mr. B left Intercontinental Exchange

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: Mercury Exchange Krishna is the co-founder and CTO of Mercury Digital Assets Exchange, Inc., a company focused to build a secure, reliable and fully regulatory compliant digital assets exchange for institutional investors. Krishna left Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) after working there for more than 10 years to

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: MotivoIQ Carter served in product leadership roles at companies such as Johnson and Johnson, Nestle and Campbell's. While at Johnson and Johnson, Carter pioneered the weather-responsive seasonal supply strategy for the company's flagship brands and launched multiple new products. Most recently, he was part of KPMG's

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: MotivoIQ Peter has more than a decade of experience architecting highly scalable software platforms in multiple industries including real estate and healthcare. Prior to that, he project managed the building of battleship destroyers at General Dynamics. Peter earned a degree in engineering from the University of

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: MotivoIQ Jeff is responsible for operations and customer development at MotivoIQ. Previously, he served as project manager at Bank of America's business continuity group ensuring optimal uptime for its technical infrastructure. He holds a bachelor's degree in risk management from Georgia State University and an MBA

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: MySpot Daniel Newman is the Founder and CEO of MySpot, a mobile parking technology company providing big data to municipalities, urban planners; and parking solutions to consumers and businesses. Daniel has built and developed MySpot for several years with heads of the NYC Parking Bureau and

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: NCR Mariano Maluf is an experienced Innovation Leader with 28+ years of experience delivering value in complex, global environments, including Fortune 100 segment leaders like NCR, Coca-Cola, Home Depot and BellSouth. His career also includes a regional HealthTech StartUp endeavor and a Verizon international subsidiary. As

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: NCR Peter Tosto is Director of Product Management at NCR innovation labs where he works with customers on solutions that go beyond current products. Previously, Peter held product management, portfolio strategy, and business development roles at IBM and Internet Security Systems. He led proprietary systems development

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: NCR Kevin King is a Product Management Director for NCR. He is in his 9th year with the company after moving up the ranks from a product manager into the leadership position. Kevin has responsibility for a large portion of the ATM portfolio that NCR offer

Cohort: 8 Flashpoint Company: NCR Matthew Burris is a systems engineer at NCR who is known for operating at the intersection of business and engineering. He is skilled at developing strategically aligned innovations that offer clear value across industries and stakeholders. Matt was the Founder of MatterFab and a graduate