Extreme Tech Challenge | Icebreaker

Extreme Tech Challenge | Icebreaker

Members

Sujay Suresh Kumar

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Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Lilu | Forbes 30 Under 30 | UPenn | NSF Fellow | Hax, YCombinator Alum

Barrett Parkman

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VP, Portfolio & Seed | Goodwater Capital | Former Founder

Gokce Gizer Clover

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GG is a serial entrepreneur, a founder at heart supporting founders to build resilience and thriving organizations. She works with tech companies from idea to fundraising to achieving sustainable growth as an advisor, investor, coach, and expert. At the intersection of business, design, and behavioral psychology, she has developed a unique approach with proven models, tools, and methods, providing the structure for teams to work toward their vision with clarity, purpose, and conviction. Her cross-disciplinary background and experience allow her to incorporate a wide range of fields, including organizational development, entrepreneurship, design, management, storytelling, neuroscience, and sustainability. She coached and mentored hundreds of founders, as Contest Director of the Extreme Tech Challenge, and as a mentor for WeWork Labs, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Innovation Norway, Parsons Venture Lab, Katapult Accelerator, Stanford Center for Professional Development, among many other programs. Her company Beyond42 offers training, workshops, and leadership development programs for digital tech companies to assist them in building a solid organizational structure and culture as they move out of their startup phase into established organizations with growing teams. Through co-creative and custom assessment, diagnosis and strategy development processes she enables corporate teams, startup founders, and non-profit organizations to identify and implement sustainable strategies. She is cofounder and creator of TransformBase and cofounder of EdenBase fund and ecosystem in London. She founded Onkaro in 2014 to provide pitch and investor-deck-specific content and communication design services through workshops, consulting and coaching sessions for digital technology startups in the early stages of building their businesses and fundraising. She's been actively involved in the startup community as a service provider, an advisor, a pitch coach and as an investor working closely with founders, investors, and industry experts. GG served as the Contest Director of Extreme Tech Challenge, leading one of the world's largest startup competition with Semi-Finals at CES and Finals on Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island. GG also worked at ACTAI Global (a non-profit community of entrepreneurs, innovators, conservationists, and athletes) to build the community, produce and curate content for events around the world. Investments include: AngelList, Basket, Canva, Popile, TWIN Science, SELECT, Sporzy and Sangha Capital.

Catherine Bischoff

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Charismatic executive with over 25 years of global experience across startups, corporates, and non-profit organizations, known for my exceptional communication skills, business development acumen, stakeholder relations outcomes and ability to navigate complex, ever-evolving technological landscapes. Catherine is very energetic, possesses a high degree of creative intelligence and excels at building and managing distributed teams and leads with curiosity, experimentation and authenticity. She is deeply committed to driving community engagement, planetary protection and social impact through her investments and board work at the Extreme Tech Challenges, Akazi Capital and other climate justice and arts focussed initiatives.

Victoria Slivkoff

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Deep Tech Investor Relations | VC Platform | Innovation Ecosystem Leader | serendipitous TV Personality