Entrepreneurship Advisors & Mentors

Damion Hankejh Damion Hankejh has founded, invested in, and advised startup ventures for more than two decades. He is a founding partner at Inkg Labs, an NYC-based IP accelerator. Damion was honored as a Smithsonian Laureate for his work as founding CTO of Virtual Operating Room (now Swedish Medical), a pioneering research project at the nexus of medicine, robotics and technology which set the stage for the first fully accredited virtual operating rooms worldwide. Damion studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT with an emphasis on Massively Parallel Computing Architectures, Machine Intelligence and Physics.

Craig Alberino For more than 20 years, Craig Alberino has helped companies implement innovative strategies that produce transformative business success. His longstanding work with technology companies is focused on accelerating their growth from startup to market-leader status. Craig founded Ingk Labs in 1996 and launched InstantService, the first carrier-class Internet telecommunications platform for live-agent customer service, which was acquired by Oracle in 2010.

Thorsten Claus Mr. Claus is a telco2.0 enthusiast and a Senior Investment Manager at T-Venture of America, Inc., the corporate venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom. As an adviser, he is helping his companies to engineer product and service innovations, and to create and execute strategies for a flat and free world. He previously was director of scouting, due diligence, market assessments, competitive intelligence, business cases, and launch execution at  Detecon, a subsidiary of T-Systems International, the professional services arm of Deutsche Telekom for large enterprises and multinationals.

John Chisholm Mr. Chisholm is a board member of The Seasteading Institute, and a trustee at Santa Fe Institute. He helped define the Enterprise Feedback Management SaaS market, leading two successful companies (Decisive Technology and CustomerSat) from 1992 to 2009, after serving in management and marketing positions at HP and Xerox. Mr. Chisholm has degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and volunteers with MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service to help young entrepreneurs start their own businesses.

Maritime Advisors
 

Hardberger Law Firm Headed by Max Hardberger, an aviator, ex-ship captain, ship recovery specialist, marine surveyor, and maritime investigator, the firm draws on Hardberger's in-depth experience and expertise to provide real-world solutions to international maritime problems.

Marius Popa Mr. Popa, Ph. D. in hydrodynamics, is a naval architect and Principal Engineer at DNV Energy Aberdeen, UK. He is highly specialized in naval structural analysis, and trained as a field surveyor. Mr. Popa is also a connector in the maritime world, administering the Maritime groups on LinkedIn and other work-centered social networks, with a total of over 10,000 members.

 Immigration and Political Advisors

Ronald R. Rose _Ronald R. Rose is one of the founding partners of Rose Carson Kaplan Choi & White LLP. He has been practicing law for over twenty five years, primarily focusing on cross-border, high technology and entertainment law matters. Mr. Rose has represented a large number of successful Silicon Valley based start-up companies over the years. He is a member of the State Bar of California, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and the International Bar Association.

Ron Gotcher Ron Gotcher is managing partner at Global Immigration Partners. He has 30+ years of experience in the field of business immigration law, with a focus on providing immigration services to information technology and biotechnology firms and their employees.