People

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645 Team

Order	Name	Title	Department	Work Experience	Articles	Office	645 Team	Affiliation	Featured Articles
1	Aaron Holiday	Co-Founder and Managing Partner	Investment & ResearchFirm Strategy and Operations	Goldman SachsDFJ GothamCornell Tech	How VCs evaluate Product-Led Growth companies 645 Taking Action To Help Combat Racially Motivated Hate Crimes & Misogyny 645 Ventures Speaks to This Moment in Time: Our Long-term Plan to Combat Systemic Racism Avoiding Unnecessary Founder Dilution & Staying Out of Cap Table Trouble 3 Things Founders & VCs Should Know About Building Billion-Dollar Startups During Market Uncertainty Venture Capital Blind Spots Circle of Competence and the Venture Capital Investment Triangle Setting The Right Valuation For A Competitive Series A Round Software And Data Are Disrupting Venture Capital Firms	New York	Goldbelly Iterable FiscalNote Squire Resident Genially Skydropx Nanit Slope HeadsUp Condor Upside FairStreet	645 Team	How VCs evaluate PLG companies 645’s Long-term Plan to Combat Systemic Racism Venture Capital Blind Spots Circle of Competence and the VC Investment Triangle 3 Things Founders & VCs Should Know About Building Billion-Dollar Startups During Market Uncertainty Power Couple Fred & Joanne Wilson Talk Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Culture Shifting Weekend NYC
2	Nnamdi Okike	Co-Founder and Managing Partner	Investment & ResearchFirm Strategy and Operations	Insight Venture Partners	Embedded Fintech: A How-To Guide for Software Founders Seeking to Launch Financial Products Citizen Professionals and the Evolution of Software for Non-Technical Users: 645’s Investments in Apty and Navattic The Rise of Crypto Infrastructure Software: 645 Ventures’ Investment in Solidus Labs 645 Taking Action To Help Combat Racially Motivated Hate Crimes & Misogyny What startups should learn from Robinhood's pre-IPO stumbles The Evolution of Adobe and Future of Creative Software Introducing The Behavioral Change Economy 645 Ventures Speaks to This Moment in Time: Our Long-term Plan to Combat Systemic Racism The “Billion-Dollar MBA”: Charting the Paths of MBAs Who Build the Most Successful Technology Startups The Top Five Myths About Building Billion-Dollar Startups Surviving a Coming Storm: Explaining the Unique Factors Driving a Tech Market Correction, and How Technology Founders and Investors Can Persevere Through It 3 Things Founders & VCs Should Know About Building Billion-Dollar Startups During Market Uncertainty Venture Capital Blind Spots Circle of Competence and the Venture Capital Investment Triangle Charting A Path From Seed To A Competitive Series A Round Building a B2B Marketing Operation: Key Learning from Asaph Schulman Building on a Technology Theme Across Multiple Successful Startups Building Ad-Tech Companies that Reach Massive Scale Successfully Pivoting a SaaS Business Building a Successful SaaS Ed-Tech Company Learning from an Early SaaS Pioneer Creating Your Company’s Unique Sales Acceleration Formula Launching and Successfully Scaling a Vertical SaaS Company Building Enterprise Software Companies that Reach Large Exit Identifying Your Target Market Nnamdi Okike joins Yahoo Finance to discuss tech investing, SPACs, Web3, and the metaverse. Applications of Personalized Consumer: Market Characteristics	San Francisco	Eden Health LeagueApps Lunchbox Iterable Apty Navattic Bespoke Post Andrena ElectroNeek FiscalNote Solidus Labs Squire Shift5 RentSpree Overtime Order AptDeco Kickoff UPTIQ Vividly Ottopay Aryeo Shop Circle Setpoint	645 Team	Embedded Fintech: How software founders can launch financial products Evolution of Software for Non-Technical Users The Rise of Crypto Infrastructure Software
3	Vardan Gattani	Principal	Investment & Research	RiotFoursquare	Citizen Professionals and the Evolution of Software for Non-Technical Users: 645’s Investments in Apty and Navattic What’s Next for Product-Led Growth? Customer-Led Growth Unlocking Community-Led Growth for the Enterprise	New York	Navattic Shift5 Skydropx Vividly Shop Circle	645 Team	What’s next for PLG? Customer Led Growth Evolution of Software for Non-Technical Users
4	Jon Smith	Vice President	Investment & Research	Goldman SachsNickson Living	The “Billion-Dollar MBA”: Charting the Paths of MBAs Who Build the Most Successful Technology Startups Introducing The Behavioral Change Economy	San Francisco	Condor Upside Aryeo Setpoint	645 Team	The “Billion-Dollar MBA” Introducing The Behavioral Change Economy
5	Jay Reno	Venture Partner	Investment & Research			San Francisco		645 Team
6	Randi Jakubowitz	Vice PresidentHead of Talent	Founder Success	SeamlessGrubhubToptalParoHavas		Chicago		645 Team
7	Meredith Tibbals	Associate	Founder Success	First Round CapitalColumbia Business SchoolFacebook		New York		645 Team
8	Lexi Quirk	Vice President	Founder Success	Accenture	645 Mic’d with David Fraga CTO Foundry: Learning Corner #1 CTO Foundry: Learning Corner #2	New York	Genially HeadsUp Navattic FairStreet	645 Team	645 Mic’d with David Fraga, CTO Foundry: Learning #1
9	Stephen Lang	Designer	Founder Success	UniCornell TechArccos		New York		645 Team
10	Abe Spence	CFO	Finance and Operations	KatapultCitiLazard	645 Taking Action To Help Combat Racially Motivated Hate Crimes & Misogyny 645 Ventures Speaks to This Moment in Time: Our Long-term Plan to Combat Systemic Racism	New York		645 Team
11	Blake Jennelle	CTO	Engineering	DuckDuckGo		San Francisco	Kickoff	645 Team
12	Justin Fargione	Senior Engineer	Engineering	Dexter		New York		645 Team
14	Eric Parshall	Senior Software Engineer	Engineering	UpstartGreenwave Finance		Utah		645 Team
15	Britt Binler							645 Team

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Connected Network

Name	Area of Expertise	Title	Work Experience	645 Team	Affiliation
Al Zollar	FinancierB2B	Former Board Member	Red Hat		Connected Network
Albert Wenger	FinancierB2BB2C	General Partner	USV		Connected Network
Aniq Rahman	OperatorB2B	Former President	Moat		Connected Network
Bayo Ogunlesi	Financier	Founder	Global Infrastructure Partners		Connected Network
Ben Levin	B2B		Level Equity		Connected Network
Bill Lee	Financier	CIO	New York Presbyterian		Connected Network
Bill Lewis	Financier		Lazard		Connected Network
Carla Harris	Financier		Morgan Stanley		Connected Network
Carlton Charles	OperatorB2BB2C	Treasurer	Hearst		Connected Network
Caryn Effron	Financier		Ackman-Ziff		Connected Network
Cathie Black	OperatorB2C	Former Chairman	Hearst		Connected Network
Chad Dickerson	OperatorB2BB2C	Former CEO	Etsy		Connected Network
Charles Phillips	OperatorB2B	Former President	Oracle		Connected Network
Chris Dixon	FinancierB2C		a16z		Connected Network
Chris Pingpank	Financier		Shea & Company		Connected Network
Clarence Otis	Operator		Darden Group		Connected Network
Dan Teran	OperatorB2B		Managed by Q		Connected Network
David Wanek	FinancierB2BB2C		WTI		Connected Network
Ed Zimmerman	Financier		Lowenstein Sandler		Connected Network
George McCulloch	FinancierB2BB2C		Level Equity		Connected Network
Greg Avis	FinancierB2BB2C		Summit Partners		Connected Network
Greg Pass	OperatorB2C		Twitter		Connected Network
Howard Morgan	FinancierB2BB2C		First Round Capital		Connected Network
James Francis	FinancierB2BB2C		Paradigm		Connected Network
James Haddon	FinancierB2B		Ramirez & Co		Connected Network
Janet Reid	OperatorB2B		Bon Secours Health System		Connected Network
Jewel Burks Solomon	OperatorB2B		Google		Connected Network
John Alexander	OperatorB2B		CBORD		Connected Network
John Evans		CEO	DecisionCFO		Connected Network
John Thompson	OperatorB2B		Microsoft		Connected Network
John Traugott	Financier		Credit Suisse		Connected Network
Katie Koch	Financier		Goldman Sachs		Connected Network
Ken Goldman	OperatorB2C		Yahoo		Connected Network
Kimberly Marshall	OperatorB2C		Uber		Connected Network
Lawrence Satterfield	OperatorB2B		Cisco		Connected Network
Loida Lewis	FinancierB2C		TLC Beatrice		Connected Network
Malcolm Robinson	Financier		Avenue Cap Management		Connected Network
Marc Andreessen	FinancierB2BB2C		a16z		Connected Network
Marcus Mitchell	OperatorB2C		Google		Connected Network
Mark Patterson	Financier		MatlinPatterson		Connected Network
Martin Babinec	FinancierB2B		TriNet		Connected Network
Mauricio Frizzarin	OperatorB2B		Folhamatic		Connected Network
Mauricio Barbosa	OperatorB2B		Bionexo		Connected Network
Michael Rubenstein	OperatorB2B		AppNexus		Connected Network
Michael Rubin	OperatorB2C		Fanatics		Connected Network
Michael Seibel	FinancierB2BB2C		YCombinator		Connected Network
Michael Triplett	FinancierB2B		Insight Venture Partners		Connected Network
Neil Malik	FinancierB2BB2C		K1 Capital		Connected Network
Neil Mehta	FinancierB2B		Greenoaks		Connected Network
Oni Chukwu		Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors	Aventri		Connected Network
Rajat Gupta	Operator		Bunge Limited	Gupta	Connected Network
Ray McGuire	Financier		CitiGroup		Connected Network
Regina Benjamin	Operator		US Surgeon General		Connected Network
Robert Smith	FinancierB2B		Vista Equity		Connected Network
Rod Adkins	Operator		IBM		Connected Network
Roger Ferguson			TIAAFederal Reserve		Connected Network
Ron McCray	OperatorB2C		Nike		Connected Network
Scott Maxwell	FinancierB2B		OpenView		Connected Network
Troy Taylor		Chairman & CEO	Coca-Cola		Connected Network
Wade Rakes		President & CEO	Centene		Connected Network

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Founder

Name	Title	Articles	Founding Team	Affiliation
Alex Astafyev	CBDO		ElectroNeek	Founder
Alex Chircop	CEO		Ondat	Founder
Alex Shashou	President		Alice	Founder
Andrea Vattani	Chief Scientist		Spiketrap	Founder
Andrew Berman	Fmr COO		Nanit	Founder
Andrew Boni	CEO		Iterable	Founder
Andrew Boryk	Head of Innovation		Lunchbox	Founder
Andrew Trickett	CEO		Merge VR	Founder
Armando Solbes	CFO		Skydropx	Founder
Arpit Agrawal			UPTIQ	Founder
Artyom Keydunov	CEO		Cube	Founder
Asaf Meir	CEO		Solidus Labs	Founder
Assaf Glazer	Fmr CEO		Nanit	Founder
Brian Litvack	CEO		LeagueApps	Founder
Cashmere Nicole	CEO		Beauty Bakerie	Founder
Chaz Englander	CEO		Fat Llama	Founder
Chen Arad	COO		Solidus Labs	Founder
Chris Hoyle	Co-Founder CTP		Navattic	Founder
Connor Stauffer			Kickoff	Founder
Dan Porter	CEO		Overtime	Founder
Dave Salvant	President		Squire	Founder
David Lyman	CEO		Betterview	Founder
David Tobias	Co-founder		Betterview	Founder
DJ Wei	CEO		Lyte	Founder
Dmitry Karpov	CIO		ElectroNeek	Founder
Dmitry Koltunov	CTO		Alice	Founder
Dominic Giglio	CIO		Rad	Founder
Doreen Bloch	CEO		Poshly	Founder
Earl Lee	Co-Founder		HeadsUp	Founder
Egon Rinderer	CTO		Shift5	Founder
Egor Gryaznov	CTO		Bigeye	Founder
Eric Hutchinson	Founder		Resident	Founder
Franklin Lyons	Co-founder		Merge VR	Founder
Fred Brothers			UPTIQ	Founder
Gerald Yao	CSO		FiscalNote	Founder
Greg Ugwi	CEO		Thinknum	Founder
Harpreet Singh	CEO		Launchable	Founder
Irina Mladenova	President		Rifiniti	Founder
Jack Naglieri	CEO		Panther Labs	Founder
Jai Pradeesh	Founder		DeepSource	Founder
Jake Rothstein			Upside	Founder
James Smits	COO		Andrena	Founder
Jason Wilde	COO		Lyte	Founder
Jeremy Goldberg	President		LeagueApps	Founder
Joe Ariel	CEO		Goldbelly	Founder
Joe Lea	President		Shift5	Founder
Joel Gillman	VP of Engineering		Goldbelly	Founder
John Gardner			Kickoff	Founder
Jon Ambrose	Fmr COO		Rosie	Founder
Jonathan Chen	Fmr CTO		FiscalNote	Founder
Josh Lospinoso	CEO		Shift5	Founder
Joshua Halickman	CTO		Abacus	Founder
Juan Rubio López	CEO		Genially	Founder
Julia Shapiro	CEO		Hire a Esquire	Founder
Julie Ulrich	Co-Founder		Alice	Founder
Justin Effron	CEO		Alice	Founder
Justin Zhen	Co-Founder		Thinknum	Founder
Justin Zhu	Co-Founder		Iterable	Founder
Kalam Dennis	Co-Founder		AptDeco	Founder
Kieran Seán Fitzpatrick	CEO		Spiketrap	Founder
Kohsuke Kawaguchi	CTO		Launchable	Founder
Krishna Dunthoori	CEO		Apty	Founder
Kyle Kirwan	CEO		Bigeye	Founder
Mary Kay Huse	CEO		Mandolin	Founder
Matt Caulfield	CEO		Oort	Founder
Matt McCambridge	CEO		Eden Health	Founder
Matthew Collado	CCO		Rad	Founder
Max Klein			Ottopay	Founder
Michael Felix	CTO		Slope	Founder
Michael Gresty	CEO		Rifiniti	Founder
Michael Lucarelli	CEO		RentSpree	Founder
Michael Ryzewic	CIO		Rosie	Founder
Mikhail Rozhin	CTO		ElectroNeek	Founder
Momo Ong	Co-Founder		HeadsUp	Founder
Nabeel Alamgir	CEO		Lunchbox	Founder
Narie Foster	Former COO		MM Lafleur	Founder
Neil Chatterjee	CEO		Andrena	Founder
Neil McLean	Co-Founder	Customer Led is the Future	Navattic	Founder
Nick Nickitas	CEO		Rosie	Founder
Omar Qari	CEO		Abacus	Founder
Owen Turner-Major	Fmr CTO		Fat Llama	Founder
Patrick Sullivan	CEO		Source3	Founder
Paul Sirisuphang	COO		RentSpree	Founder
Pavel Tiunov	CTO		Cube	Founder
Peter Badgley			Upside	Founder
Praveen K. Dosodia	CTO		Solidus Labs	Founder
Raffaele Mautone	CEO		AaDya	Founder
Ran Reske	Founder		Resident	Founder
Randy Frank	Co-Founder		Navattic	Founder
Reham Fagiri	CEO		AptDeco	Founder
Rishi Prabhu	Co-CEO		Bespoke Post	Founder
Robert Meitus	VP Industry Development		Mandolin	Founder
Rosie Dallas	Director		Fat Llama	Founder
Rust Felix	CEO		Slope	Founder
Sanket Saurav	Founder		DeepSource	Founder
Sarah LaFleur	CEO		MM Lafleur	Founder
Sergey Yudovskiy	CEO		ElectroNeek	Founder
Simon Croome	VP of Engineering		Ondat	Founder
Snehal Fulzele			UPTIQ	Founder
Songe LaRon	CEO		Squire	Founder

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645 Alumni

Order	Name	Title	Department	Work Experience	Articles	Office	645 Team	Affiliation	Featured Articles
3	Alessio Fanelli	Principal	Investment & Research	Smart Torvy (Founder)Welcome TechnologiesMikamaiGenius	Transforming software testing from a bottleneck to an enabler: our investment in Launchable The Commoditization of Business Intelligence Tools, the Rise of "Embedded Intelligence," and Our Investment in Cube Dev GitHub at scale and how to help "Stadium" model maintainers Why machine learning falls short in early stage venture capital Scaling Your Enterprise Team with Yotam Yemini The case for BYOD (Bring-your-own-data) applications CTO Foundry: Learning Corner #1 CTO Foundry: Learning Corner #2 Static code analysis tools, the future of code reviews, and our investment in DeepSource	San Francisco	AaDya Bigeye Cube DeepSource HeadsUp Launchable Lunchbox Mandolin Oort Panther Labs RentSpree	645 Alumni	The case for BYOD (Bring-your-own-data) applications
5	Meha Patel	Vice President	Investment & Research	ZocDocGoldman Sachs	Embedded Fintech: A How-To Guide for Software Founders Seeking to Launch Financial Products Citizen Professionals and the Evolution of Software for Non-Technical Users: 645’s Investments in Apty and Navattic The Rise of Crypto Infrastructure Software: 645 Ventures’ Investment in Solidus Labs 645 Taking Action To Help Combat Racially Motivated Hate Crimes & Misogyny The Evolution of Adobe and Future of Creative Software Applications of Personalized Consumer: Market Characteristics The Top Five Myths About Building Billion-Dollar Startups	New York	Apty Genially Slope Solidus Labs Condor Ottopay	645 Alumni	Embedded Fintech: How software founders can launch financial products Evolution of Software for Non-Technical Users The Rise of Crypto Infrastructure Software
6	Guerin Schwarberg	Vice President	Founder Success	DeloitteGrand	Driving Your Product Roadmap: Key Learnings from Kevin Mattice (CPO, Cherre)	New York	Lunchbox Bespoke Post Andrena ElectroNeek Lyte Slope Squire Shift5 Order Navattic	645 Alumni	Driving your Product Roadmap