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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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Celebrate Failure

Company Spotlight in Tech

Northwestern Mutual Chicago

Nathan Kinzinger

One North Interactive

Objective Paradigm, Inc.

Trading Technologies

ITPeopleNetwork

Braviant Holdings

Stephanie Klein

Pro Material Solutions

First Communications

Sterling Douglass

Steadfast Networks

Emerging Technologies, Inc.

Intelligent Medical Objects

Frank Naeymi-Rad

Pavel Sokolovsky

onShore Security

Linda Maclachlan

Punchkick Interactive

SimpleRelevance, Inc.

Erik Severinghaus

KENTECH Consulting Inc.

InstruMMents Inc.

Mladen Barbaric

AIT Worldwide Logistics

Jason VandeBoom

Tock and The Alinea Group

Elexa Consumer Products

Chicago Innovation Exchange

Jessica Droste Yagan

Alex Niemczewski

Elements Holdings Group & Subsidiaries

Adage Technologies

Chicago Health Executives Forum

Georgia Casciato