Mentors

• A few of the ways I have made money include: cowboy, carpenter, clam digger, contractor, cabinet maker, creativity consultant, writer, therapist, advocate, hard copy and software publisher, manufacturer, VC, angel investor, poet, corporate liquidator, laser/electro-optical exporter, private equity investor, HR, turn-around adviser, et al.
• I teach IOE 422 and am an entrepreneur with a wide range of experience. I am especially, though far from exclusively, interested in: serious games, entrepreneurship, engineering and the arts, biofuels from algae, women entrepreneurs, universal design, bootstrapping and private equity. I am happy to meet with student entrepreneurs.

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• Mr. Huffstutter is the Program Manager for Student Entrepreneurship and the Catalyst Resource Network at the University of Michigan's Office of Technology Transfer. Prior to his role as Program Manager, Wesley was a member of the business formation group, helping create startups based on technology developed at the University of Michigan...more

OFFICE HOURS

• Wednesdays 1 pm - 3 pm at Center for Entrepreneurship

• Dr. Timothy L. Faley is the managing director of the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies and adjunct professor of strategy in the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He was the founding director of the University of Michigan's College of Engineering Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization...more

OFFICE HOURS

• Tuesdays 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm at Mujo Cafe
• Thursdays 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm at Mujo Cafe

• Throughout his 20+ year professional career Mr. Ramirez has been extensively involved with early stage companies. As an attorney with Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosti he advised start-up companies with financing, commercial, corporate governance and intellectual property issues. In financings alone, he directed projects exceeding $15M...more

OFFICE HOURS

• Mondays 3 pm - 5 pm at the Center for Entrepreneurship

• Dr. Roston's recent professional activities have focused on helping start-up companies succeed by working closely with them to develop technology, product and business roadmaps. He is currently serving as the president for a company developing novel upper extremity prosthetics devices and the means for their control; as the general manager for a company developing a fully fiber-integrated, mid-infrared light source for military, medical and telecommunications applications; and as a technology consultant for Ann Arbor SPARK...more

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• Bill Milliken was elected to the board of 30,000-member Michigan Association of Realtors, 2007, and president of Michigan's Commercial Board of Realtors (CBOR), 2006. Named CBOR Realtor of the Year (2006). CCIM China Trade Mission delegate, 2006. Member of board of CCIM Institute (2006-07). Re-elected May, 2007 to board of Ann Arbor SPARK, the economic development agency for the Ann Arbor region (AnnarborSPARK.org)...more

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• Brian Balfour is a serial tech entrepreneur and alumni of the University of Michigan. Currently he is the founder of Viximo, a ten person internet startup located in Boston, MA specializing in social networks, virtual worlds, and online communities...more

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• McCorquodale is the Chief Technical Officer and a member of the Board at Mobius Microsystems which he founded in 2002 and is funded with over $23M in debt and equity financing. He has also recently served as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Michigan in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science where he taught a graduate course in process technology and device physics...more

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• Fadi Ghandour is Founder & CEO of Aramex International, a position he has held for the past 25 years. Aramex, one of the leading logistics & transportation companies in the Middle East and South Asia, was the first company from the Arab world to go public on the Nasdaq stock exchange. After five years of successful trading on it, Aramex returned to private ownership and, in June 2005, went public again on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM)...more

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• Susan M. Kornfield of Bodman LLP, Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been an intellectual property attorney for 26 years. She handles transactional and litigation matters involving technology development, commercialization, and infringement; copyright, trademark, trade secret and unfair competition, competitive intelligence, conflicts of interest, and post-employment restrictions. Her clients range from emerging enterprises to nonprofit museums and foundations to large global corporations. She has represented companies licensing technology from, and co-developing with, universities for over 20 years...more

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• Mr. Harris assists in matters involving intellectual property law, including both litigation and transactional work in the areas of copyright, trademark, trade secret, computer law, and Internet law...more

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• K.C. White is an intellectual property attorney at Bodman LLP, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He handles transactional and litigation matters involving copyright, trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition. He has worked with clients ranging from book authors and music artists to emerging enterprises and large corporations...more

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• Mr. Kulpa concentrates his practice in corporate and limited liability company organization and operation, corporate transactions, and finance law. He is actively involved with negotiating and drafting transactions for closely held and public companies dealing with start ups, general contract issues, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions...more

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• After graduation, and with a BSE in electrical engineering from Michigan in hand, Golhar made a bold decision not to pursue any job offers he had been given by various domestic and international corporations. In doing so, he was able to fully concentrate on networking with high-powered entrepreneurs and mentors, and with many of whom, he has formed life-long friendships. Golhar now is the Director of Funding & Acquisitions for Dincom, Inc in Atlanta, Georgia and is reviewing various funding transactions in excess of $1BB.
• Mr. Golhar’s expertise resides in structured high finance, commercial/residential real estate, and wealth coaching....more

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