Stephanie Jarrett, Bulu Box (Lincoln)

As CMO of Bulu Box, Stephanie leads marketing strategy as well as all branding and design efforts for the website, print material, product packaging and video production.

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Justin Kemerling, MindMixer (Omaha)

Justin has led all aspects of design for MindMixer over the past year and has recently come on as chief design officer as our very talented product team moves the application into the next phase. Most recently, this included the relaunch of MindMixer.com (engagement, stories, astronauts, more).

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Rick Knudston, Flywheel (Omaha)

As co-founder and chief designer at Flywheel, Rick is responsible for all aspects of Flywheel’s user experience, user interface and branding work, including application design, site design and marketing materials.

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Jake Stutzman, Elevate (Omaha)

As creative director at Elevate, Jake leads a multidisciplinary team of designers who help organizations add value through brand foundations and design innovation. They solve problems through brand-building and user-centered design.

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Riddhiman Das, Galleon Labs (Kansas City)*

Riddhiman is co-founder and technical counsel at Galleon Labs, software developer at Kansas City startup EyeVerify and a graduate research assistant at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.

Work examples: Riddhiman writes software for EyeVerify’s eye vein biometrics mobile application, which uses off-the-shelf smartphones for secure information and transactions. At Giddeon Labs, he and his team of software developers help other businesses with problems using technology. At UMKC, he works on implementing and analyzing gossip-like algorithms for distributed systems.

Reza Derakhshani, EyeVerify (Kansas City)

Reza is EyeVerify‘s chief scientist as well as the original eyeprint inventor and patent holder. He leads EyeVerify’s R&D efforts, continuously trying to improve performance and add functionality through scientific and technological innovations core to its technology. 

Work examples: Reza is responsible for creating core solutions to challenging problems in mobile image processing, machine vision, biometric security and pattern recognition that are the foundations of EyeVerify’s eyevein biometric technology. 

Kelly Kerns, ABPathfinder (Kansas City)

Kelly is the co-founder, COO and chief architect at ABPathfinder. He’s responsible for product vision and all technical aspects of product development, including requirements, user-experience, architecture, development process and quality assurance. He’s worked tirelessly to understand autism therapy to build an application that meets the needs of therapists helping children.

Work examples: Kelly has brought the ABPathfinder web-based therapy management tool from concept to reality. Over the last year he increased the product feature set by nearly 500 percent, adding modules for new data collection types, therapy work flows and support for mobile data collection. He conceptualized and developed ABPathfinder’s exclusive artificial intelligence analytics engine, which helps therapists build efficient and effective therapy plans. Studies have shown a 25 percent increase in skills acquisition for patients following these therapy plans.

Matt Secoske, Social Assurance

Matt is co-founder and CTO of Social Assurance, leading overall product and technical direction for the company. Its product is a web-based (SaaS) social media management tool for banks. 

Work examples: Social Assurance is obviously my current darling, with me developing much of the system. I’ve had the pleasure of a varied career. My job prior to starting SA was as chief software architect/CTO at Prairie Ventures, which included several portfolio companies ranging from (clinical) lab automation to remote patient monitoring systems and a self-publishing platform. I also worked with a social media company called Twylah from ideation to execution of the first versions of the product and led development of core components of Sojern’s first platform.