Mentors

Mentor Eric Echelmeyer software development and consulting services 3

Eric Echelmyer

Location: Las Vegas

Career Experience: Finance, Accounting

Industry Experience:

I have worked in IT services for the past 8 years with roles in finance, operations, and enterprise transformation. Prior to that I have worked in investment banking / management and consumer retail operations.

Mentor Yanmin Zhu-Howard incubator entrepreneurship program 1

Yanmin Ro Zhu Howard

Location: Las Vegas

Career Experience: Finance, Accounting

Industry Experience:

CPA Auditor, accounting, bookkeeping, financial reporting. Guidelines on how to set up books and create systems. Understands and works with Quickbooks. Understands errors SMBD make in accounting and financial reporting. Loans, financial statement reports, gap requirements. Has worked with a startup that went public. Works on private and public side. Very hands on. Busy season is January through March. 

Mentor Christopher Peters software development consulting 2

Christopher Peters

Location: Las Vegas

Career Experience: Finance, Accounting

Industry Experience:

R&D Consultant in taxes at KPMG. Large and small businesses. Most startup experience is through consulting them with taxes. Also a CPA.  Lots of tech company consulting experience. 

Mentor Chris Guenther software consultancy company 2

Chris Guenther

Location: Reno

Career Experience: Operations, Manufacturing

Industry Experience:

My entire career has been focused on high tech manufacturing and operations. I have worked in a 24×7 manufacturing environment since my original position in semiconductor. I am a leaders of operations and engineering teams and have led teams that are larger than 700 people. I have built operations organizations from scratch including engineering, technicians, commercial, and operations.

Mentor Justin Steele accelerator start up in nv 1

Justin Steele

Location: Las Vegas

Career Experience: Operations, Technical Development

Industry Experience:

Justin is an entrepreneur and executive with an extensive back ground in launching new products and services in high tech industries. He has decades of broad experience in many aspects of high tech world, mainly focusing on internet, cloud, software development, and mobile communications.

Justin also has experience in many aspects of business such as marketing, business development, sales, advertising, finance, accounting, operations, and administrative management.

Mentor Chris Yount stratup nevada 1

Chris Yount

Location: Reno

Career Experience: Marketing, Operations 

Industry ExperienceB2C: Consumer Products & Services, B2B: Business Or Enterprise Products & Professional Services

Experience And Industry Summary Areas Of Special Expertise Include Family Business Issues, Both Buy And Sell-Side M&A, Brand Marketing, Manufacturing/Distribution Efficiency, Corporate Turnaround, General Management, And Strategic Direction.

Mentor Chris Riche startup nevada 1

Chris Riche

Location: Reno

Career Experience: Operations, Technical Development, Finance, Marketing 

Industry Experience: N/A

Experience And Industry Summary Professionally, I love building, leading, and working across high-performing teams to deliver results by a) gaining deep market and competitive understanding, b) creating, validating, and getting organizational buy-in to winning strategies, c) translating those strategies into successful product/service offerings, and d) developing and executing efficient and effective marketing and sales plans.