Workshop Faculty

Meet the Entrepreneurs Workshop Faculty!

Riki Banerjee, PhD  Synchron

Chief Technology Officer

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Robert D Barnes, MSc  Amazon Web Services

Principal Consultant

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Rush Bartlett, PhD  Sluice AI

Co-Founder & CEO

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Dan Brounstein, MBA  Saluda Medical

Chief Strategy Officer

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Ian Burkhart  North American Spinal Cord Injury Consortium

President

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Andy Cornwell, PhD  Startup Community at 11000 Cedar Incubator

Director

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Cheryl Dudek, MBA  Cleveland FES Center

Director of Operations

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Tom Flores, PhD Tarsus Pharmaceuticals

Associate Director, Innovation Lab

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Marcus Gerhardt |  Blackrock Neurotech

Co-Founder & CEO

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Lindsey Jardine Stealth Startup

Director, Clinical & Regulatory Affairs

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Jeff Kramer, PhD Volta Research & Consulting

Founder

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Michel Maharbiz, PhD iota Biosciences Inc

CEO

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Tim Marjenin |  MCRA LLC

Vice President, Head of Neurology Regulatory Affairs

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Lisa McKenna, MS |  Cleveland FES Center

Public Affairs Specialist

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Suraj Mudichintala Action Potential Venture Capital

Senior Associate

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JoJo Platt | Platt & Associates

President

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Daniel Powell | Spark Biomedical

CEO

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Chris Pulliam, PhD | Case Western Reserve University

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

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Deadra Recksiedler, MS | Cleveland FES Center

Program Specialist

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Erika Ross Ellison, PhD | ONWARD

VP, Clinical, Regulatory, and Quality

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Jake Sabia, BS | Precision Neuroscience

Product Manager

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Jon Sakai, MS | Cionic

Head of Commercialization

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Karen Spilizewski, MBA, MS | RiverVest Venture Partners

Managing Director

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James Zanewicz, LLM, J.D. | Tulane School of Medicine

Chief Strategy Officer

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Craig Hayden,  J.D. | Tarolli

Patent Attorney

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Blake Perkins, PT, DPT, ATP | Metro Health System

Physical Therapist & Research Investigator

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Steve Fening, PhD  |  Case Western Reserve University

Sean Nagel, MD  |  Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute