Mentors
| Name (click for LinkedIn profile) | Role & Organization | Kick-Off Meeting Date & Time |
|---|---|---|
| Femi Adebayo | Product Manager, Microsoft | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM |
| Jared Andersen | Former Director of Product Marketing for Copilot, Microsoft | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM |
| Sarin Babu | Director, Private Equity Performance Management – Supply Chain, Alvarez and Marsal | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM |
| Dan Baird | Writer, UW Bothell | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Meenkashi Balasubramaniyam | Founder and Interview Strategist, MockInterviewLoop | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM |
| Prashant Bansal | Telco Sales Head- North America, Tata Elxsi | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM |
| Sumanth Bellam | Principal AI Product Manager, T-Mobile | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Mentor’s Corporate office |
| Albert Chan | President and Chief AI Officer, Rowland AI | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Virtual |
| Satyabrat Chowdhury | Founding Member and Field CTO, Corestack | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM |
| Purnima Dayanandam | Technical Program Manager, Microsoft | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM |
| Yash Deshpande | Senior Finance Manager, Microsoft | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Microsoft office, Redmond |
| Rajesh Dighde | Senior Director, Ex-Microsoft, Ex-Meta | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Pratik Divekar | Sr. Product Manager Tech, Amazon | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| David Donhoff | CEO/Founder, Leverage Planners | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM TBA |
| Philip Drammeh | Consultant (self employed) | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM |
| Kate Effland | Vice President, Client Experience, Campbell & Company | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Thomas Goos | President & CEO, Image Source | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ImageSource Corporate Office |
| Michael Huag | Digital & Data Transformation Systems Lead, Hewlett-Packard | |
| Albert Jalso | Managing Principal, SkyRiver Advisors | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM |
| Prasantha Jayakody | President & CEO, Ruby’s Lab Corporation | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM |
| Meghana Joshi | Operations Planner/Program Manager, Microsoft | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM |
| Sean Joyce | Senior IT Project Manager, Ocuco | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM |
| Kavita Kamani | Partner Group Product Manager, Microsoft | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM Virtual |
| Praveen Kumar | Principal Product Manager, Microsoft | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM |
| Lior Koresh | IT Infrastructure Engineer, Elastix AI | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM |
| Varadharaj Krishnan | Senior Manager of Security Engineering, Uber | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Mentor’s corporate office |
| Doug Lewis | Principal and Founder, Live Edge Labs | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Sailaja Malladi | Senior Director of Technical Program Management, Stealth Startup – AI Infrastructure | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM |
| Akshobhya Mann | Principal Solution Consultant, Adobe | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 10:10 AM – 11:10 AM Virtual |
| Ushma Mehta | Executive HR Consultant | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM |
| Adrian Menstell | Sr. Business Analytics Manager – Media Attribution, T-Mobile | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Sanjay Mishra | VIce President, Product, DigitalOcean | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM |
| Tyler Moynihan | VP Business Development, Flyhomes | Fri, Dec 2, 2026 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM |
| Riley Ovall | Alumni and Stakeholder Events Manager, UW Bothell | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Maria Pledger | Human Resources Associate Generalist/Workforce Generalist, Providence | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM |
| Shakil Pogaku | Technical Program Manager, The Boeing Co | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM |
| John “Larry” Raklios | Consultant, JL Raklios Consulting LLC | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| David Shadmi | Principal Technical Program Manager, New Relic | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM |
| Katie Stiles | Chief Financial Officer, Instinct Science | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM |
| Kathiravan Thangavelu | Principal Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM |
| Raj Thiagarajan | Global Director – CyberSecurity, Microsoft (Retired) | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 1:10 PM – 2:10 PM |
| Taylan Yildirim | Vice President, Delivery- Telecom, Concentrix | Fri, Dec 4, 2026 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM |