100k Coaches, Screeners and Judges: 2021 OVERVIEW WORKSHOPS COACHES, SCREENERS & JUDGES FAQ RESOURCES SEMI-FINALISTS, FINALISTS AND WINNERS EVENT LANDING PAGE PITCH PRACTICE COACHES Elaine Chen Director, Tufts Entrepreneurship Center; Cummings Family Professor of the Practice in Entrepreneurship Jack Derby Professor of the Practice, Tufts Entrepreneurship Center Tina Weber Lecturer, Tufts Entrepreneurship Center Noah Elion Noah Elion, Co-Founder & CEO, Chums (YCombinator Winter 2021 batch) Phillip Ellison Cofounder, ULink – $100k Social Track 1st place winner, 2016; Manhattan Borough Advocate, Office of the New York City Public Advocate Farah Momen Co-Founder, The Now Exchange – $100k Social Track 1st place winner, 2019; Fletcher D-Prize Winner, 2019; Associate, FedTec Melissa Pickering Director, LEGO Education Product Experience Gilad Rosenzweig Executive Director, MITdesignX FINALS JUDGES General Technology Ben Carson Partner, Fvlcrum Funds; Co-Founder & Partner Interprise Partners; Chairman, ARGO Systems, LLC; Board Member, Tufts Entrepreneurship Center Karen Cassel Chief Executive Officer, MedicAlert Foundation; Advisor, Icon Savings Plan; Board Member, Tufts Entrepreneurship Center David Jen Director – Head of Finance and Investments, X; Venture Partner, UP.Partners; Board Member, Tufts Entrepreneurship Center Sarah Kugelman Founder, skyn ICELAND and gloss.com Healthcare & Life Science Pamela Goldberg President and CEO, Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC); Board Member, Tufts Entrepreneurship Center Steve Remondi CEO & Founder, Xsphera Biosciences; Board Member, Tufts Entrepreneurship Center Dan Volchok Associate Dean at Tufts University, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Social Impact Kofi Asante Head of Strategy & Business Development, Elroy Air; Venture Partner | Board Member, Fvlcrum Funds; Board Member, Tufts Entrepreneurship Center Steve McDermid Managing Director, Emerson Collective; Board Member, Tufts Entrepreneurship Center Fran Slutsky Founder, I+D+M, Creative, LLC; Professor Adjunct, Brown University; Senior Fellow, The Lewis Institute of Social Innovation, Babson College Lisa Tanzer President, Life is Good SEMI-FINAL JUDGES General Technology Annica Blake Managing Director Business Development, Thinklabs Peter Clay Co-Founder, Force of Nature Cleaning LLC; Angel Investor, Launchpad Venture Group; Board Member, Tufts Entrepreneurship Center Nancy Karp CFO, Kobi Karp Architecture and Interior Design; Board Member, Tufts Entrepreneurship Center Andrew Takacs Senior Innovation Specialist, Danfoss Healthcare and Life Science Anastasia Budinskaya Scientific Leader in Neurology at a Global Diagnostics Company Brian Herrick Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Cambridge Health Alliance; Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine; Instructor, Harvard Medical School Bob McTighe Director of Finance and Administration, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP) Matt Verminski Startup Advisor/Consultant Social Impact Dawn Kikel Founder and CEO; ARCADIA HOME Jenna Logue Program Administrator, Tisch Summer Fellows, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life; Instructor, Career Development; Bentley University Matt Purdy TitleStartup Program Manager, HealthTech & FinTech, MassChallenge Peter Sacco Founder, CEO, Adelante Shoe Co. THE FRIEDMAN NUTRITION INNOVATION INSTITUTE (FNII) PRIZE JUDGES Ron Shigeta Investor for Alix.vc Heather Terry Co-Founder & CEO, GoodSam Amy Wu Founder, From Farms to Incubators THE FRIEDMAN NUTRITION INNOVATION INSTITUTE (FNII) PRIZE SCREENERS Wendy Behr Chief R&D Officer, Sovos Brands Michael Blau Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP STEPHEN AND GERALDINE RICCI INTERDISCIPLINARY PRIZE JUDGES Sophia Atik Tufts University MSIM ’19 2018 Ricci Prize Winner Jake Lombardo Co-Founder & CEO, Anodyne Nanotech 2019 Ricci Prize Winner (Anodyne Nanotech) Fiona Wang Senior Operational Excellence Digital Specialist, Takeda 2020 Ricci Prize Winner (Cellens) SCREENERS General Technology Ali Hill Founder, Sound Advice Women; Managing Partner, Sound Advice Consulting Services David Mok Director of D3 Marketing & Partnerships, Labelbox; Mentor, First Round Capital James Rogers Co-Founder & CEO of Torii Paget Stanco Business Development, Gemini Healthcare & Life Science Jaclyn Dunphy Associate and Co-Founder of FL78, Flagship Pioneering; Co-Founder, Cabin Labs Ryan Pandya Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Day Jean Pham Co-Founder, Cellens; Vice President, External Affairs, VietChallenge Laura Taraboanta Manager, Clinical Innovations, Click Therapeutics, Inc. Social Impact Sara Allred Associate Director of Programs, Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University Hani Azzam Principal Associate, Product Management (Travel), Capital One; Venture Partner (Diaspora), Plus Venture Capital (+VC) Sam Laber CMO, Founder at Spoonful Sherri Sklarwitz Director of Programs, Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University Katie Stebbins Executive Director, Food & Nutrition Innovation Institute; Innovator in Residence, MIT Innovation Initiative; Board President, Global EPIC