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Elena Mercado
Founder & Chief Executive
San Francisco
Founded Stackpass in 2014 after a decade building and selling clinical software. Started the program with eleven partner tools and a spreadsheet of founders who needed them.
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Daniel Kwon
Head of Infrastructure Partnerships
San Francisco
Former distributed systems engineer. Joined in 2016 and negotiates the cloud, security, and developer tooling credits at the centre of the pass.
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Amara Okafor
Head of AI & Data Track
New York
Published machine learning researcher. Runs the AI and data track, from GPU allocations to the mentor bench behind them.
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Jonas Lindqvist
Head of Climate & Energy Track
London
Spent twelve years in industrial energy before joining in 2019. Runs climate, energy, and heavy-industry membership across Europe.
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Priya Raman
Lead, Fintech Track
New York
Former payments product lead. Supports treasury, capital markets, and the regulated fintech members other programs turn away.
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Tom Sullivan
Head of Platform
San Francisco
Runs talent, go-to-market support, and the founder peer groups inside the community. Previously built two recruiting functions from scratch.
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Mei Tanaka
Head of Asia-Pacific
Singapore
Opened our Singapore office in 2023. Twenty years operating and building ecosystems across Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia.
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Grace Adeyemi
Chief Financial Officer
San Francisco
Oversees program operations, partner reporting, and compliance across four jurisdictions.
01How we work
One person, start to finish.
The person you meet is the person who stays
Whoever reviews your application becomes your program manager. They handle your credit allocations, your mentor matches, and your introductions. Nobody hands you off after onboarding.
Joining us
We hire rarely and slowly, usually from within the network. If you have operated in one of our tracks and want to help founders for a living, write to us directly. Say hello
02Advisors & mentors
Operators on call.
Advisors who have built the thing you are building, one stage ahead. They are not on a roster for the website — every one of them has taken a founder call in the last quarter.
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Nadia Chowdhury
Former CTO, payments infrastructure at scale
Systems architecture, reliability, and engineering org design past 100 people.
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Rafael Ortiz
Two-time founder, both acquired
Enterprise go-to-market, first ten sales hires, pricing under pressure.
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Beatrice Nwosu
Former Chief People Officer
Compensation design, performance culture, and founder-to-CEO transitions.
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Ken Watanabe
Research lead, machine learning
Model evaluation, applied research roadmaps, and hiring research talent.
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Marisol Duarte
Regulatory counsel, health and fintech
Clearance pathways, compliance architecture, and audit-ready operations.
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Oliver Brandt
Former CFO, public technology company
Financial discipline, board reporting, and preparing for the growth round.