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Meet the Mentors

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Adam Oskwarek – Meet the Mentor

I'm a seasoned operator with 20 years of experience across startups, corporates, and venture — spanning Founder, COO, CPO, & growth leadership roles. I thrive in fast-paced environments where clarity, structure, and execution are critical and I'm calm, unflappable and focused under pressure. I've worked in large corporations & startups/scale-ups in edtech, climatetech, fintech, SaaS and more.

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Meet the Mentors

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Sam Hirbod – Meet the Mentor

With over 14 years of experience in consulting and coaching, I help professionals, founders, and teams build clarity, structure, and momentum. At HubSpot, I lead partner growth and enablement, supporting some of the company’s largest agencies as the…

Meet the Mentors

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Linda Scotti – Meet the Mentor

I’m Linda Scotti, an Executive & Career Coach with 23 years in tech (including 12 at Google and 5 at Indeed) and 9 years in corporate coaching. Certified in Positive Intelligence, I help leaders navigate transformation, scaling, and high-pressure ch…

Meet the Mentors

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Mikhail Sidakov – Meet the Mentor

I’m an innovation manager, venture scout, and 2x founder. My career began with internships at Robert Bosch and Renault, followed by several years at BCG, before I launched two startups, raised funding, and sold one of them to a strategic investor. T…

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Lizabeth murphy – Meet the Mentor

AS a seasoned Chief People Officer & Organizational Psychologist with over a decade of experience serving startups, VC-backed ventures, and SMBs in the tech, retail, and services sectors. As the founder of Advise Me, I combine strategic leadership, operational excellence, and holistic coaching to help founders and leadership teams build high-performing, people-first organizations.

Ludwig Wullner – Meet the Mentor

I’m Ludwig, a Senior Manager at McDonald’s Global Technology. I lead backend and frontend deployment operations and the Deployment Reliability Engineering function, focusing on making large-scale releases predictable, secure and repeatable across global markets. I blend technical fluency with process design and people leadership to help engineering teams move faster with less operational risk.

Aymen Segni – Meet the Mentor

I’m a Cloud & SRE Leader with deep expertise in platform engineering, cloud-native architectures, and DevOps best practices. Over the years, I’ve helped companies—from startups to enterprises—scale their infrastructure, improve reliability, and optimize performance. As a mentor, I focus on guiding engineers through career transitions, technical challenges, and leadership growth.

Demian Gutierrez – Meet the Mentor

I have 20+ years of experience in software development roles. I founded two companies serving government and building enterprise systems. As a professor, I modernized software engineering/computer science curriculum by integrating theory with hands-on learning. At Amazon/AWS as a Principal Engineer, I provided technical leadership for complex, critical services, and mentoring for 50 people org.

Catalin Rosu – Meet the Mentor

I am a Software Development Lead with a strong background in software engineering, specialising in architecting and delivering robust software applications, as well as leading and building high-performing teams. With nearly two decades in coding, my transition to leadership was driven by a passion for creating impactful solutions the right way with the right team.

Larry Jacobson – Meet the Mentor

15+ years experience managing cross-functional technology teams, delivering impact while fostering innovation and a growth-oriented culture. I've worked at Amazon, Snap, and several midsize companies and startups. Currently I am an independent career and leadership coach, and have a few entrepreneurial efforts in the works.

Larry Jacobson

August 16th, 2023

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