Our Team
Management
Ethan HallBoard Chairman & Founder
Ethan HallBoard Chairman & Founder
Ethan Hall is a serial entrepreneur with prior startups in retail, automotive engineering, telecommunications, SaaS, and IoT spaces. Past companies founded include Performance Research, eAutohaus, Anthropic, Tap4Table, llumit, and RevMeter.
Ethan studied chemical physics at LeTourneau University in Longview, TX and mechanical engineering at UT Arlington.
Jeremy VickersBoard Treasurer & Co-founder
Jeremy VickersBoard Treasurer & Co-founder
Jeremy Vickers is the Executive Director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UT Dallas.
Prior to UTD, Jeremy was V.P. of Innovation at the Dallas Regional Chamber. Past companies include the Dallas Entrepreneur Center, Texas Research Alliance, InnovateDFW, Texas Institute for Sustainable Technology, and the North Texas RCIC.
Jeremy received his Master’s at SMU’s Cox School of Business and his Bachelor’s at Baylor University.
Skip HowardBoard Secretary & Co-founder
Skip HowardBoard Secretary & Co-founder
Skip Howard is the Founder and CEO of Spacee, leaders in spatial augmented reality. In 2014, he co-founded Cancer Gene Connect, the leaders in hereditary cancer risk assessments. Prior to CGC, he co-founded Pave Systems, judicial software company for higher education. Skip also consulted for Ross Perot’s real estate company, Hillwood. Skip currently runs the largest computer vision developers group south of New York.
Advisors
Chad DuncanSenior Advisor - Markets (Biomedical)
Chad DuncanSenior Advisor - Markets (Biomedical)
Chad Duncan is a Medical Device Sales and Marketing Professional based in Dallas Texas. In his 15 years of experience, Chad has been able to establish himself as a leader in the industry through the development, marketing, and sales of devices that represent millions of dollars in revenue. Chad has collaborated with such companies as Stryker, Nobel Biocare, and Symbios Medical.
Mentors
Mirna BaloulCorporate Patent & Intellectual Property Attorney
Mirna BaloulCorporate Patent & Intellectual Property Attorney
Mirna Baloul is an accomplished and highly analytical senior IP attorney with an MBA and extensive experience in patents, IP licensing, new business development, negotiations, and C-suite counseling. The past 10 years include clients from startups to Fortune 100 companies for securing patents, strategic IP planning and audits, technology-based litigation, copyrights and trademarks, preparing patent portfolios and supporting technology-based companies seeking to develop strategic patenting initiatives. Mirna also has 8 years hardware and software engineering experience including National Weather Service (NOAA), Motorola Inc., Nielsen Media Research positions.
Richard BurghardtCEO, CancerGene Connect
Richard BurghardtCEO, CancerGene Connect
Richard is the current CEO of CancerGene Connect, a cloud-based, SaaS provider of genetic counseling productivity tools and systems originally developed by UT Southwestern. He has wide experience in healthcare, SaaS, software development, management, and sales. Richard is also the CEO of DNA Mobile, a software development company with a focus on the mobile dating market. Its first app, Charade Date is available on the Apple App Store.
Michael SitarzewskiCEO of Epic Playground, Inc., Publisher of Launch DFW
Michael SitarzewskiCEO of Epic Playground, Inc., Publisher of Launch DFW
Michael Sitarzewski is a veteran entrepreneur, CEO of Epic Playground, Inc., a TechStars Cloud 2012 company, and Publisher of Launch DFW. He is heavily involved in the Dallas, TX startup community, building on the lessons from the Boulder and Denver community where he lived from 2006 to 2013. Michael is EIR, The DEC, mentor, REVTECH, and ran #BigDOCC Tuesdays in downtown Dallas. He brought Dallas New Tech and House of Genius to Dallas, designed Peer to Peer for America, and Dignity Field which solves unaddressed issues in the homeless continuum of care; the focus today is "housing first," and a consolidated “community first” approach.
Robert NeelyFounder & CEO, InspireMore, LLC.
Robert NeelyFounder & CEO, InspireMore, LLC.
Robert is the Founder & CEO of InspireMore, LLC. InspireMore is an online media publication that reaches approximately 50 million people per month with family-friendly, positive media content. He has a Masters in Leadership & Ethics and was previously a consultant at Deloitte Consulting in the Strategy & Operations division.