Brian McMahon - Former CEO of MapQuest

Brian McMahon is the former CEO of MapQuest, which had the second-highest share of the online mapping market in the United States, second only to Google Maps. For the past three years, McMahon has driven vision, strategy and operations for all business units within MapQuest and oversees some of the most exciting and successful product updates in the company’s history. He is also a startup Advisor and Investor; and Co-Founder of Fishbowl Labs.

Wayne Chiang - Chief Architect and Cofounder of ThreatQuotient

Wayne is the Chief Architect and Co-Founder of ThreatQuotient, one of the hottest cybersecurity DC startups in the area, raising close to $27M from NEA.  ThreatQuotient provides ThreatQ, the only Threat Intelligence Platform that centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources.  He serves on the Advisory Board for the Virginia Tech Apex Systems Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Lisa Cuesta - Principal at NextGen Venture Partners

Lisa is a Principal on the investment team at NextGen Venture Partners. Before joining NextGen, Lisa worked at Google in strategy and product roles and the ecommerce team at Pepsico. Lisa earned a BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School. 

Jake Schaufeld - CEO and Cofounder of Real Time Cases

Jake is the CEO and cofounder of Real Time Cases, an edtech startup that is reinventing the way case studies are administered in college and graduate level courses. What we do is to use up-to-date information that comes from the CEOs of startup and high growth companies directly in order to best simulate what it will be like to receive an assignment from a superior in the working world. They have raised $2M. Jake is a Forbes 30 under 30 in 2017 Education.

Joshua Anton - CEO and Cofounder of X-Mode Social

Joshua is the CEO and cofounder of X-Mode Social, a big data location intelligence startup based out of the Fishbowl Labs. X-Mode’s location platform maps over 5% of the US population monthly and their panel powers attribution and customer segment based solutions for over 25+ companies in ad-tech, fin-tech, market research, and real estate. They have raised $2.5M.

Moderator: Deep Gujral - Principal - Withum Advisory Services.

Deep is a serial entrepreneur who currently leads Withum’s Technology and Media Advisory practice. He manages a group that provides Accounting and CFO support to CEO’s and Finance teams at high growth technology startups - working on tasks such as accounting, capital raising, finance transformation, FP&A, bookkeeping, and systems implementation. He works with CEO’s and CFO’s at SaaS, e-commerce, marketplace companies institutional venture capital or private equity capital.  Prior to Withum, Deep was an early founding member of an Enterprise SaaS platform FashionGPS, that was acquired by Launchmetrics (a PR analytics firm) for $160 million.