Invest in Grenoble -Alps Isere

Sharon is an Economic Development professional for France in North America, from her base in Los Angeles.

Sharon assists dynamic French companies and labs in their endeavors in the US and Canada and promotes the Grenoble area and AURA region to US and Canadian tech-sector companies and manages ecosystem partnerships between France and North America.

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP. 

Caroline Cherkassky is a partner of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP.  Caroline’s practice focuses on advising venture capital firms, angel investors and emerging growth, development stage, and middle market companies on a variety of matters, including venture capital and other financings, employee compensation, securities laws compliance, technology transactions, mergers and acquisitions, stockholder agreements, equity incentive plans, corporate governance, and other general corporate matters. She regularly serves as outside general counsel to early-stage companies and also advises executives regarding employment and compensation matters.

Wavemaker Partners

Eric Manlunas is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wavemaker Partners, an early-stage cross border venture capital firm he founded in 2003 that’s dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Singapore. Eric is a two-time start-up entrepreneur turned venture capitalist who has a proven track record as an early investor in over 300 early-stage businesses. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Eric founded two technology start-ups, one in e-Commerce (Interfoods.com) in 1996 and the other in Internet services (Sitestar) in 1999, both of which were successfully built and eventually sold to strategic buyers.

Eric began his career as a consulting associate with Arthur Andersen’s retail management consulting division from 1991-1995. He earned an MBA from Pepperdine University in 1995 and an undergraduate degree in Communications from Florida International University in 1990.

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IBA

Michael McClune runs the SoCal based International Business Accelerator (IBA) which catapults startups and high-growth companies into global growth. The IBA prepares US companies for new market expansion by leveraging its proven curriculum, a peerless network of international business experts and access to traditional and non-traditional growth capital. 

Amy Wood

Program Manager at Most Fundable Companies at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School

Kathryne Cooper

Partner at Jumpstart Nova

CBRE

As Executive Vice President, Jake leads a tenant representation team based in the CBRE Headquarters in Los Angeles focusing on compines in media, technology, and entertainment industries.

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center