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Leadership Team
Our team is made of students and alumni who draw from their diverse set of experiences and backgrounds
Jacob Cordova
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Bright Yeti, NASA, Lockheed Martin
Katherine Allen
Co-Founder
Flo-Recruit, Forty Acres Scholar
Jeff Auster
Co-Founder
PwC, Forty Acres Scholar
Clarke Rahrig
Co-Founder
Microsoft
Daniel Miyares
Director of Operations
PetPair, Uber, Facebook
Michael Johns
Director of Ventures
Flo Recruit, Argonaut, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs
Nick Spiller
Director of Marketing
Capital Factory, Beta Business, LEA
Dana Tran
Director of Peoples
Circle Internet Financial, Capital Factory
Manu Gorrepati
Director of Technology
Capital One, Redfin, Point72, GroceryTV
Rishi Sriram
Chief of Staff
BHP, Plan II, SIG
Eduardo Herrera
Deal Flow Lead
Localy
Bala Somanchi
Ventures Lead
Public Health/Business Administration, BHA, WBA
Akash Vijay
Dallas Makerspace, Smart Materials Laboratory
Samhith Dharani
Bright Yeti, BSI financial, Ameritrade
Mili Pathak
Finance, Community Engagement Collective, WBA
Martin Krylov
Turing Scholar, Roblox, UTPC, UCF, Beekeeper
Adyan Ahmed
BHP & Finance, Neuberger Berman, Lawtrades, Texas Wranglers
Arjun Radhakrishnan
UBC, TUCG, The Tejas Club, Silver Spurs, BHP
Sheila Zhang
BHP+Computer Science(CSB), Liberty Mutual, Product@TX, Kappa Phi Lambda, CSBA
Advisors of Genesis
Andrew Bellay
Straty.com, FounderSoup, ExxonMobil
Bob Metcalfe
Polaris Partners, 3Com, Ethernet
Carol Thompson
The Thompson Group, Austin Chamber of Commerce
Jayesh Parekh
Sony Entertainment Television, Jungle Ventures
Josie Hosmer
University Venture Fund, Rockies Venture, Centric Legal Services
Rudy Garza
G51 Capital, Texas Exes
Alumni of Genesis
Aanandh Chandrasekar
FATHOM5, Capital Factory
Aiden Brasov
SG, SIG, BHP, Plan II
Alamin Momin
Alex Yelverton
PwC, Texas 4000, Sendero, Texas Health Catalyst
Alexender Lui
Alisha Gupta
Capital Factory, SELL, Humanity Rising, BHP
Anuj Jajoo
Aravind Srinivasan
Ashwin Hareesh
Ben Beverly
Brandon Chi
Catherine Cheng
Courtney O'Donnell, Ph.D.
Elaine Garner
Elizabeth Haynie
Grant Shaffer
Microsoft, JLL Technologies, Dell
Harrison Wells
Inara Haque
JD Weinstein
Juan Alvarez
Landing, Venture for America
Kelsi Kamin
Krishna Parikh
Lucious McDaniel IV
Lucky Oswal
Roblox, BHP
Mohit Gupta
Nicky Cumberland
In Loving Memory
Nikhil Guddati
Noah Penny
Rashu Jain
Revanth Poondru
Wharton
Ryan Diebner
Sam Lustberg
Scott Kennedy
Skyler Frost
Smaran Velidi
Sydney Fischer
Tom Jackson
Vibhav Joopelli
Zachary Ullah
To get involved, keep an eye out for our application openings at the start of each semester. We welcome all UT Austin students, from undergraduates to Masters/PhD candidates. If you have any questions, our leaders are available year-round!
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