Working with Accelement’s entrepreneurs, Eduardo develops value propositions, analyzes business strategies, and uncovers effective partnerships to drive business growth both in the US and abroad. He facilitates collaboration with large audiences across public and private sectors, many times in cross-cultural environments.

An example of an innovative program to build bridges between people, processes, and technologies, “GameOn!” is a recent partnership created between Microsoft, Real Madrid Foundation, and Central Washington University. It combines entrepreneurial coursework, coding skills training, and sports, enabling middle and high school students to pursue scholarships and an advanced degree. As Director of Emerging Business Team at Microsoft, Eduardo developed successful business strategies for entrepreneurs in many parts of the world.

Ken Carlson helps entrepreneurs prepare for the rapid-fire questions that come during pitches to investors, business partners and prospective employees/partners.

Ken has more than 40 years experience in the financial services industry working with advisors and an investor in a variety of technology startups, focusing on investor relations and networking. He has held senior roles in technology start-ups as well as international financial institutions.

At Accelement, Ken will review product and business concepts, pitches and executive summaries and offer observations based on experience as a coach and investor. His networking experience makes him a connector to prospective investors, consultants and business partners in Washington’s entrepreneurial community.

Claire’s work with entrepreneurs, focusing on new business development, presentations and content marketing, shows founders how to build relationships, maintain connections and generate business throughout the Pacific Northwest. She understands how the mix of event attendance and participation, timely content development and marketing automation, can help founders successfully target business leaders and investors with their messages.

She has worked in every facet of the startup ecosystem from recruiting investors, industry experts, thought leaders, and executives as panelists and speakers, to managing events like First Look Forum, WTIA’s accelerator program, and Zino Society’s investor summits. Claire shows how to bring high energy, passion and a positive attitude to presentation pitching.

My skills and expertise are in bringing strategy to execution. With a business degree in strategy and product management, and experience of working in hi-tech, I have brought these two worlds together from ideation to implementation. My primary function is product management, product marketing. Helping start-ups to figure out monetization, business models, implementation is at the core of my interest in the community.

Mike believes in giving 110% to everything he does, whether it’s building a manufacturing business, crafting a financial plan, brewing great beer or dreaming up new inventions.

Based on his wealth of experience, he coaches in many areas including manufacturing, business strategy, financial planning, pitching to investors, and patent strategy.

As a native Seattleite, Mike taps into an extensive network of contacts here in the Pacific Northwest as well as nationally. His success in working with individuals and businesses comes about because he loves every minute of it.

Andrew Hayden has spent over 25 years building, managing and executing brand and marketing programs for companies ranging from global giants like IBM, Siemens and Coca-Cola, to multiple startups. His startup work includes as a co-founder, a Vice President of Marketing for a venture funded media startup, and brand architect/director for a company that raised over $60M in Series A. He holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial design from Syracuse University and an MBA in business and marketing from Emory University.

Currently, he helps early stage startups define their brand foundation and use it to build effective business and marketing processes.

I have nearly two decades of marketing experience and 10 years leading Marketing teams inside of scaling Startup organizations. As VP of Marketing, I was responsible for the building and later selling of the company Trover to Expedia, and I led B2B and B2C Marketing for Cheezburger – the brand that popularized memes. Over the course of my career, I have demonstrated success in creating growth strategies for businesses, brands, and teams. I have also been highly successful in building B2C businesses. I have a BS in Marketing from Arizona State University and B.S. policy in life.

Nabil has a BS from MIT and a law degree from Stanford University. As an attorney, insurance executive, financial advisor, and board member, he helps startups in management, finance, healthcare regulatory and privacy compliance.

Nabil applies his background and experience in law, finance and management to further the success of each startup. As an entrepreneur, Nabil faced the same financial challenges as all startups, and works with entrepreneurs to identify options that permit them to maintain greater ownership and control of their businesses then traditional equity financing.

Bobby’s deep entrepreneurial experience, with both B2C and B2B companies, branches into emerging technology, clean energy, entertainment, lifestyle, healthcare, retail and consumer packaged goods. He helps founders develop a strategic vision of their early stage company.

By building business and marketing strategies across a spectrum of industries and technologies, he brings mission and vision to life. Focusing on the needs of entrepreneurs, Bobby, gets to the essence of “Why” a company exists and “How” to position it in the marketplace for success.

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Ken will review product and business concepts; identifying how to target customers effectively, and address real customer needs. By focusing on product positioning, developing a product roadmap, finding product-market-fit and choosing a go-to-market strategy, Ken helps define the what, the who, and the how soon. In addition, he can help define resources and partnerships needed to sell the product effectively in different channels.

His experience includes building businesses from scratch in both consumer and b2b spaces, both startups and within large companies (Amazon, Microsoft and Kentucky Fried Chicken). He’s often the first person brought on board to achieve fast, successful, market penetration.

Shreya’s engineering degree followed by a stint in worldwide petroleum exploration, tested her analytic skills. Running a successful startup forged her business management skills. As part of the New Orleans BioInnovations Center, Shreya helped commercialize technologies coming out of local universities and graduate schools.

At Accelement she offers her expertise to entrepreneurs dealing with fundamental business choices. Instead of advising from a single perspective, her work in both startups and large corporations has taught her to value active risk assessment to avoid pitfalls.

Today, as an attorney, with her own Seattle firm, she has a boundless passion for helping fellow “idea people” with questions about business formation, risk management, and patents and intellectual property.

Lawrence I Lerner advises entrepreneurs in many industries and functional areas. Areas of expertise include digital strategy, payments, social media/mobility, retail, healthtech, fintech and media. He shows entrepreneurs why achieving strategic and tactical goals now, can engineer their next opportunities. His ability to see around corners for market needs, helps his clients identify and create game-changing services and products.

Lawrence understands a founder’s challenges and has real world, actionable solutions to offer. Having worked for and with top-tier consulting firms, such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cognizant Technology Solutions, and UST Global; technology startups, like Zakta, LEVL, FrontFundr, CoinBeyond and others he can explain what tools you’ll need to compete effectively.

Janet’s passion is global workforce mobility and cultural transition – helping companies find, retain, and motivate people from around the world. She’s an experienced coach and organizational development consultant, having lived and worked on four continents coaching NGOs, corporations and startups including JikoPower, Social Venture Partners, IBM, O2, ING Bank, the Slovak EU representation in Brussels, and the Open Society Foundation. During her ten years in global health, Janet worked in Bolivia, Cote d’Ivoire, Czech Republic, Kenya, Madagascar, Nepal and Zambia.

She speaks six languages and has a sense of humor in almost all of them. She holds degrees from McGill University and Georgetown University.

I am a business coach and executive coach to entrepreneurs, most often considered to be a consigliore/muse/mentor/connector extrordinaire for all aspects of starting and growing a company. My primary expertise is in B2B or B2B2C when it comes to market development. I have supported hundreds of founders in preparing for fundraising, co-founded several angel groups, and think like an investor but having the experience and heart of an entrepreneur.

Having spent 20 years building enterprise and worldwide consumer-facing products for global high-tech companies, Michelle is now following her quest to help other entrepreneurs and small businesses make a difference in the world. She is Founder and Principal Consultant of Madison Browne Productions, specializing in creative, actionable business solutions and strategies for small to mid-sized companies. By focusing on core mission, business needs, brand intent and customer values, Michelle combines perceptive, innovative, and holistic insights with pragmatic planning and problem solving to produce strategic marketing and business development solutions for realizing success in today’s marketplace.

Suzanne, a creative founder and dynamic leader, shares expertise in capitalizing on physical and online sales growth opportunities. She practices informed decision-making, coming from meaningful customer insights, building successful brand marketing strategies. Deeply understanding customers, crafting real value propositions and advocating for customers enhances the shopping experience both online and offline.

Suzanne demonstrates how applying appropriate technology and data analysis achieves better vendor and partner relationships, essential to help businesses reach their goals and scale for the future. Her strategic vision and implementation result in physical and online growth in the B2C retail sector and the B2B banking sector.

Mark Neuhausen is a problem solver who gets it done. He brings 40+ years of entrepreneurial experience launching new products and services in small, medium, and large companies. Mark is an angel investor in Seattle, and an active connector among entrepreneurs and investors. His formal education includes Physics degrees from MIT and a Wharton MBA.

Mark’s rewards come from helping others succeed. His young adult children include an MD, a Stanford Ph.D, and an attorney. Show him your stuff, tell him what you want, and he will actively work with you to get you to where want to be.

David Prindle specializes in entrepreneurship and business operations for small businesses ranging from start-ups to accelerating companies that are preparing for the next phase of growth. David has worked for and consulted to a wide range of entrepreneurial companies, including marketing agencies, software developers, sales training services, food manufacturers and non-profit organizations. David will be advising on a range of topics including business plan development, product market fit, hiring practices, productivity tools, general accounting, business law, company culture and HR, office planning, operations and business development. He will also be managing the coaching team and the business operations for Accelement.

Pascha Scott focuses on building brands using a range of marketing tools, strategic planning and positioning, brand focal points and key messaging.

Pascha has over 25 years of experience working on b2c and b2b brands including technology, sustainable building materials and real estate. She has a particularly deep history in food, beverage and hospitality brands.

Pascha is available to answer questions about preparing brands for every stage from launch to regional, national or international growth. To achieve business goals, she considers a mix of communication vehicles that may include advertising, PR, graphic design, websites, social media, tradeshow, retail design or packaging.

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