meet our 2021 Venture Connect speakers

Adrian Percy
Chief Technology Officer, UPL Ltd
Benjamin Yerxa
CEO, Foundation Fighting Blindness
Bernard Worthy
CEO and Founder, LoanWell
Blake Stevens
Head of Alexandria LaunchLabs - AgTech, Alexandria Real Estate Equities
Carl Ryden
Co-founder & CEO, PrecisionLender
Dave Samuel
Founding General Partner, Freestyle Capital
Ed Field
President, BioLabs NC
Ellen Hukkelhoven
Managing Director, Perceptive Advisors
Emily Foote
Principal, Osage Venture Partners
Eric Ward
Co-founder, AgBiome
Ernest Rolfson
Founder & CEO, Finexio
Ginger Rothrock
Senior Director, HG Ventures
Hersh Tapadia
Co-founder & CEO, Allstacks
Igor Jablokov
CEO, Pryon
Jacqueline Olich
VP, University Collaborations, RTI
Jason Caplain
General Partner, Bull City Venture Partners
Jeff Ubben
Founder & Managing Partner, Inclusive Capital
Jessica Kenyon
Senior Vice President, The Conafay Group
Joe Maxwell
Managing Partner, FINTOP Capital
Jon Stonehouse
CEO, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals
Jordan Schindler
CEO & Founder, Nufabrx
June Gunter
Co-founder, Go-od Consulting
Justin Hubbard
Accounting & Outsourcing Director, Dean Dorton
Karen LeVert
President & Board Member, Ag TechInventures
Kim Nguyen
Vice President, CMC, Precision Biosciences
Krista Nash
Accounting & Outsourcing Manager, Dean Dorton
Larry Long Jr.
Director of Collegiate Sales, Teamworks
Lisa Shields
CEO and Founder, FiSpan
Matt Kane
CEO, Precision BioSciences
Matt Mitcho
CEO, Gemelli Biotech
Mike Ramsey
Founder, 908 Devices
Pat Scheper
SVP, Head of Venture Banking, Live Oak
Paul Garofolo
CEO, Locus Biosciences
Peter Kolchinsky
Managing Partner, RA Capital Management LP
Polina Marinova
Founder & Author, The Profile
Robert Boyce
CEO, Plakous Therapeutics
Rodolphe Barrangou
Founder, Intellia Therapeutics
Ryan Moore
Founding Partner, Accomplice
Sheila Mikhail
CEO & Co-founder, AskBio
Sonja Ebron
Co-founder & CEO, Courtroom5
Sonna Patel-Raman
President, NuPulseCV
Ted Wang
Partner, Cowboy Ventures
Tige Savage
Managing Partner, Revolution Ventures
Tom Rump
CEO, mesur.io
Tony Atti
Co-founder & CEO, Phononic
Toula Ousouljoglou
Co-founder, Go-od Consulting
Vasudev Bailey
General Partner, Artis Ventures