The Conduit Fellows Expert Network
Surrounding our companies with the deepest bench of hardware experts.
Our Fellows expert network represents every major aspect of experience and access that any company might face. They offer a wealth of experience, mentorship, and advisory services to ensure the support of our companies from day 0 through growth.
Conduit Fellow
Tap into the "Full-Stack" of hardware and software executives, builders and startup executors
From funding, firmware, and factories our Conduit Fellows support our portfolio companies across the gauntlet of hurdles that any disruptive physical-tech company may encounter.
Investors, advisors, mentors and board members who have been there before.
Our Fellows volunteer their time and expertise to guide our startups from strategic product mvps, hardware and software execution, through growth rounds of fundraising.
The Conduit Fellows
We are hundreds strong... a community of builders, thinkers, creators and investors all aligned with a common mission to have entrepreneurship to become a team-sport!
Christy Johnson
Strategist
Intra/Entrepreneur,
Board Member
Strategy &
Entrepreneurship
Artemis Connection
Flextronics
McKinsey
Don Coyner
Strategic Design
Brand, GTM
Executive
XBox
Skype
Nintendo
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Gabriella Draney Zielke
CEO, Scifi Author, Founder and Venture Partner
Todd Holmdahl
FMR Head of Hardware
Microsoft Quantum, XBOX, MS Hardware
Alex Capecelatro
CEO, Josh.ai
Taylor Black
Principal, Microsoft Incubation Studio
Amanda Giannini
CFO, General Partner
ReAlign Ventures
Natasha Baker
Founder, CEO, SnapEDA
Steve Kaneko
Design Leader
xMicrosoft
Hololens, Zune, PC Hardware
Ivan Almaral
Design Leader
Sai Dhanak
CPO/VP Product
xLatch
Benjamin Rappoport
Product and Design Specialist
xApple, xSonos
Dhruva Rajendra
CPO / Product Builder
xLatch
OrlaLucey
Operations Executive
xAugust Home
Andrew Kontra
Director of Product Technology at Latch, Matter Board Member
Shannon Eubanks
VP Hardware Engineering
Regulatory and Compliance
Stuart Ashmun
Hardware Executive / Leader
Microsoft: PC Hardware, XBox
Tim Stonelake
Hardware Engineering
xLatch, xBose, xLutron
Jay Kothari
Head of Product Management
Google Hardware, Design Platform
Dr. Melissa Steach
Artist. Author. I-O Psychologist
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Tony Aug
Founder, NimbleGravity
xCTO, Arrow Electronics
Adam Benzion
SVP Strategic Alliances
Edge Impulse
Byung Cho
ID + CMF Developer,
Meta
Josh Bayer
Managing Director
Studio Mega
Per Reinhall
Professor, Founder
UW Mechanical Engineering, VICIS
Casper Sulisz
CEO, Intent
Software - IoT / SaaS
Sam Strickling
Principal of Innovation
Fortive - Tektronix (Fortive)
Tobias Eichenwald
CEO Senic
Grant Morgan
Founder, Investor
R-Zero
Monica Plath
Founder, Little Bird Connected Care
Darin Smedberg
CTO
Jono Rosen
Investor, Technologist
xApplied Invention
Euan Abraham
SVP Operations
Serve Robotics, xLatch, xGoPro
Andy Johnson
Product Development
Context
Garret van der Boom
Smarthings Energy, xWink
Santhi Analytis
Founder, Hardware Executive
Moxxly, Gradient
Michael Corr
Founder, CEO
Duro Labs
Narissa Chang
Mechanical Engineering Exec
Igor Institute, Nike Digital
Kathy Fedirchuk
HW Program Management
Igor Institute, Bloomberg, Nike Digtial
Tim Fern
Founder, Executive
Kambeo, Canary, Meta, Jawbone
David Colmenares Ph.D
Deep Metrology and ML
Meta, IUNU, Proprio
Mark Vallinga
GTM, Scale Operations, Strategy
Remeha, xJLab, xSonos
Zack Kramer
COO, Operations, Product
COO Pendrell, xSonos
Tyler Schleich
SVP, Operations
Oura
Pete Bernard
Edge Compute SME, GTM, Strategy
Microsoft Azure Edge HW / 5G
Anders Brown
CEO, Managing Director
Tegria, Luxsoft, Radius
Sanford Spivey
V
Pioneer Square Labs. Sonos, Latch
Dave Mathews
CEO, CTO, Inventor, Founder
So so many things....
many more...
lean on and learn from the vast experience of those who have taken the journey before you.
Conduit Fellow