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Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

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Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

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VR is a space ripe for innovation and many Founders are working hard to be one of the leading startups in the space. Our panel of experts will take a deep dive into current challenges facing VR startups including market adoption/high costs for consumers, the need for high quality content, becoming more mobile, and more.

Panelists

Siddharth Saxena

CEO & PRODUCT ARCHITECT

oblix 

Siddharth Saxena is the Founder & CEO of Oblix, a virtual reality company based in Brooklyn, New York. Oblix is the developer of Go Guess, a social, geographic guessing game for the Oculus Rift. Prior to founding Oblix, Siddharth led the Architecture Genome Project at Architizer, the largest online platform for architects. Siddharth holds a bachelor’s degree in Architectural Studies from Brown University.

Cindy Mallory

Marketing + Emergent Tech Strategist, JAKT Co-chair VR/AR Association

Cindy is the former CMO of VR game studio DreamSail Games. She built her first international research committee on location based VR entertainment while establishing a network of over 35 arcades in 7 countries to play her studio's mecha game.

A scientist with a mission, Cindy spoke on VR monetization models in Russia and VR real estate use cases at NYC Television week in 2017. She's now proud to support JAKT on their mission to use technology to create solutions that will positively impact 100 million people by 2027.

George Likourezos

Partner

Carter, DeLuca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

George Likourezos is a law partner at the intellectual property law firm of Carter, DeLuca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP in Melville, NY. He specializes in patent law and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He has particular expertise in fields of technology including digital electronics, computer architecture, communication systems, electrical circuits and components, optical scanning and imaging, semiconductor devices, semiconductor manufacturing, virtual and augmented reality, and related electromechanical arts.

Anton Yakubenko

CO-Founder & ceo

geocv

Anton Yakubenko, PhD is the Co-Founder and CEO of GeoCV, the exclusive provider of virtual tours via 3D-enabled smartphones. His 12 years of industry experience as a 3D computer vision expert, include working with Samsung, where he's proven a strong track record of building successful companies​.

Dennis Adamo

CEO

CelestialTech.io

Dennis is a Serial Entrepreneur and a Digital Marketing and Media Executive with over 20 years of start up experience in New York’s Silicon Alley. His companies have raised over $50 Million in venture capital. His “Start Up” companies included some of the most well known and prolific in the the new media industry starting in 1994. These include; Pseudo Programs, The Financial Commerce Network, Venturehighway, Wicked Wireless and ABRI. Dennis has also worked on start up initiatives within large companies such as; Newtek Business Services, Yahoo!, iCMA and LG Ad Russia Dennis is a trailblazer, and has shown tremendous ability to create functional businesses in new industries and markets.

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PETER NICHOLAS

DIRECTOR OF INVESTMENTS

FACILITATED GROWTH

Before joining Facilitated Growth in 2013, as a series 7 and 63 registered representative, Pete was involved in investments spanning both the public and private markets. At National Securities, he maintained client relationships, managed client accounts, and oversaw a team of people. As Director of Investment Strategy at FG, he is currently using his assets to assist entrepreneurs in navigating through the early stages of the business process, with a focus on investor sentiment. His ability to read and assess situations is considered by the partners when making a proprietary investment.

Agenda

6:15 - 6:30 PM

Mingling & Introductions; Light Snack & Refreshments

6:30 - 7 PM 

Feedback Pitch: 2 Early Stage Startups (e Jason@StrtupBoost.com to be chosen)

7 PM - 7:45 PM

Panel of Experts


7:45 - 8:15 PM

Business Development Networking


Sponsors

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Panelists

M. Wazihullah

Moderator

Born in a corrugated iron hut in Bangladesh with no running water, Wazi came to America to study Electrical Engineering (Univ of Pennsylvania), Finance (Wharton), and an MBA (Stanford University). Working as an Investment Banker, Venture Capitalist and Management Consultant (The Boston Consulting Group) gave Wazi the tools to become an Entrepreneur – starting companies he has sold, run or folded.

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Co-Founder and Head of Production, Luminoustudios

Sania has several years of experience as a director, writer, producer and editor of features, shorts and commercials. She has directed commercials for clients such as Polaroid, Google Maps, StoryCorps, Fiverr and Splacer. She is highly experienced in creative development, dramatic filming and working with actors. She has written over 5 original feature film scripts and dozens of short-form content. As a creative and line producer, her films have received national and international recognition and awards at prestigious film festivals.
BFA from NYU in Film/TV.

Kristine Di Bacco

Partner

Fenwick & West LLP

Moderator



Kristine Di Bacco represents emerging technology companies primarily in the consumer Internet, e-commerce, FinTech, digital health, consumer hardware and software sectors. Her practice includes a broad range of corporate transactional matters, including the formation of new startup companies, venture capital financings, mergers & acquisitions and public offerings. Kristine provides clients with practical and thoughtful advice to help solve their business and legal issues, and assists clients in structuring, negotiating and closing business transactions quickly and effectively. Kristine also represents and advises leading incubators, angel investors and venture capitalists investing in technology companies. Prior to joining Fenwick & West, Kristine worked for Torys LLP, a large business law firm with offices in Toronto, Canada and New York City.

Jane Yum

Senior Expansion Manager

Peerspace

Furniture Control

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Jane Yum is a Senior Expansion Manager at Peerspace, an online marketplace that connects professionals and businesses to unique and undiscovered spaces for any activity. As a member of the metro operations team with Peerspace, Jane is responsible for growing and optimizing the supply in the New York market while helping define a playbook for scaling the business across new markets. Prior to startup life, Jane came from a background in integrated marketing with a focus in experiential. As a native New Yorker, and a graduate of Princeton University and the NYU Stern School of Business, Jane enjoys building relationships and engaging with the tech and entrepreneur communities of New York.

Sue Bernstock

President

WorkVille

City Paradigm 

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Sue has extensive experience building brands and increasing revenue streams. She began her career in the fashion industry, working in the buying offices of Saks Fifth Avenue and VINCE. She uses her consumer science expertise and agile negotiating skills to build disruptor brands. Sue is currently President of Workville, an elite coworking space home to the city's best startups. After one year Workville is already expanding!

Kelly Helmuth

Chief Growth Officer

Bestest, LLC

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Kelly is the Chief Growth Officer of Bestest--a social technology that is disrupting and dis-intermediating the static, outdated (and now, questionable) world of polling and opinion research. Before Bestest, she spent 5 years in business innovation, facilitating the cross-pollination of ideas between startups and multi-national corporations. A pioneer in online and mobile publishing, Kelly served 11 years as Managing Director of a new media company in the U.S. and Canada. She is the ghost-writer of Unlock Your Inner Entrepreneur (The Editing Company, 2012) and a graduate of Georgetown University. Kelly started her first company at age 21 and grew it to $8 million in sales.

Jessica Rubin

Co-Founder and Business Development & Partnership Development

Harbinger Strategy

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Jessica Rubin (Co-Founder) brings extensive experience in business development and strategy. Prior to Harbinger, she led digital strategy and business development for Katie Couric, both at Yahoo News and at ABC. Jessica developed and executed Katie's digital and social strategy and also built and managed relationships with a number of top advertisers including Dove, CVS, and Ford. Before that, Jessica worked at Fox and CNN, where she helped pioneer CNN's social strategy. Jessica graduated from Cornell University with honors and from Columbia Business School with Dean's Honors.

Agenda

6:30pm - 6:45pm

Enjoy Light Snacks & Refreshments

6:45pm - 7:15pm

Startup Feedback - 3 Startup Pitches with Feedback from our Panel of Experts and Audience (Must sign up ahead of time)

7:15pm - 8pm

Panel 

8pm - 8:15pm

Q & A with Audience


8:15pm - 8:30pm

Business Development Networking: Mix and Mingle with the Audience and Panelists

"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan and not quite enough time."

jane Doeso | Ceo Splash

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Jason Wachter

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R. Harrison

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

R. Harrison

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

Moderators

Jason Wachter

Stan has been building dev teams for nearly a decade. He has experience managing product on the vendor side, as well as consulting with the client to clarify the relationship between product development the business case. After relocating to Silicon Alley and launching Ezetech in 2015, Stan has championed an MVP methodology as an effective means of solving business problems of all shapes and sizes.

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Born in a corrugated iron hut in Bangladesh with no running water, Wazi came to America to study Electrical Engineering (Univ of Pennsylvania), Finance (Wharton), and an MBA (Stanford University). Working as an Investment Banker, Venture Capitalist and Management Consultant (The Boston Consulting Group) gave Wazi the tools to become an Entrepreneur – starting companies he has sold, run or folded.  

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Panelists

David Sorin, Partner, Co-Chair - Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Company Practice, McCarter & English

Dave Sorin is an office managing partner of McCarter & English and Co-Chair of the Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Companies practice. He focuses primarily on privately- and publicly-owned startup, early stage, emerging growth, and middle market technology, tech-enabled and life science enterprises, as well as the investors, executives, and boards of directors who support and lead them. Dave has a long track record of successful representation of growth companies, having been repeatedly recognized by well-known periodicals for a unique combination of legal acumen and sound business judgment. He also brings to bear his broad range of knowledge and experience in counseling enterprises and investors in diverse emerging growth markets, technology industries (including software, information technology, e-commerce, cybersecurity and communications), and life sciences. Many of the companies he represents are well-known names throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.

Thejas Nalval, Director, WallachBeth Capital

Thejas is a Director with WallachBeth Capital and leads the firm's Strategist Consulting (SCOUT) group, providing institutional investors regular guidance on portfolio construction and trading optimization techniques.

Prior to joining WallachBeth, Thejas spent several years at Goldman Sachs, where he was a Vice President on the Macro Trading desk within the Securities division. He was responsible for trade execution and risk management surrounding large index rebalance strategies and sensitive liquidity events.

Thejas holds an MBA in Quantitative Finance from the NYU Stern School of Business and a BA in Economics from Rutgers University. When he's not working, Thejas can be found running in Brooklyn or memorizing hip hop lyrics.

Nikhil Lakhanpal, Co-Founder Narmi

Narmi provides superior financial technology to the 12,000 financial institutions in the United States. Narmi's core product is a white-labeled mobile and online banking platform that helps financial institutions better attract, retain and engage their end-users.

Nikhil previously served as CEO of a $18mm credit union. He discovered first-hand how painful and antiquated technology is at financial institutions and co-founded Narmi to do something about it. Prior to Narmi, he spent three years in Citigroup's Investment Banking Division focusing on M&A and equity / debt capital raises.

Nikhil graduated from Georgetown University.

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