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Melissa Kaufman

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The Garage at Northwestern University

About

Melissa Kaufman is the executive director of The Garage at Northwestern. She is a former Googler, startup veteran, and entrepreneur with a decade of experience at consumer technologies companies in Silicon Valley. Currently, she is a committee member of ChicagoNEXT (Mayor Emanuel’s technology council), a member of the Chicago Technology Initiative, and a venture partner at Chicago Ventures. She was named to Chicago Inno’s 50 on Fire in 2017 and Crain’s Tech 50 in 2018. Melissa received her BA in computer science from Dartmouth College.

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Steadfast Networks

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Business Technology Partners

Northwestern Mutual Chicago

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Liberty Advisor Group

Sara Fitzgerald

Scout Security, Inc.

AAron Dannenbring

Antenna International

Accretive Health Inc.

Kristopher Kubicki

Hyde Park Venture Partners

Truss Holdings, Inc.

Strata Decision Technology

Lawson Products

SMB Help Desk, Inc.

Matthew Cleaver

First Communications

Punchkick Interactive

Elements Holdings Group & Subsidiaries

Active Graphics

Braviant Holdings

Stephanie Klein

Fuse Digital Marketing

Chicago Health Executives Forum

Georgia Casciato

SourceOne Global Partners

MFV Expositions

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