Mentors

Mentors are successful entrepreneurs, business leaders, investors, and scientific technical experts. EFL Mentors work hand in hand with founders over the course of the nine month program. Mentors provide customized advice on go to market strategies, product strategy, technology development, fundraising strategy, and other aspects related to scaling your business. Mentors also provide industry and investor connections

MENTORS

EFL mentors are experts in their fields, and bring deep industry roots and fundraising expertise to every interaction with their startups.

Adam Wollowick

Partner/Founder | Precision Life Science Partners

Digital Health

Ade Ajanaku

Staff Product Manager | Intuit

Digital Tech

Adi Eckhouse Barzilai

Co-Founder & CEO, Present Gaming

Digital Tech

Alan Harris

Physician-Scientist, Entrepreneur, and Pharmaceutical Executive

Life Sciences

Alan Roemer

Board of Directors | Multiple Biotechnology Companies

Life Sciences

Alessandro Piol

Technology Investor and Advisor

Deep Tech, Digital Tech

Alex Tuzhilin

Prof. Information Systems | NYU Stern School of Business

Digital Tech

Alexandra Manick

Principal | Schooner Capital

Deep Tech

Alexi Nazem

General Partner | AlleyCorp

Digital Health

Alisa Niksch

Attending Pediatric Electrophysiologist | Tufts Medical Center

Digital Health

Andrei Vrabie

GC & COO | Parameter Ventures

Digital Tech, Digital Health

Andrés Blanco

Investment Associate | LM Ventures

Deep Tech

Andrew Koopman

President | NextStage Bioconsulting

Life Sciences

Andy Feldstein

President | ViaSpectrum

Digital Tech, Digital Health

Andy Hamilton

President Emeritus | New York University

Life Sciences

Anjali Ganguli

Chief Strategy Officer | Syndax Pharmaceuticals

Life Sciences

Ann Lai

Managing Partner | Skeleton Key VC

Deep Tech, Digital Tech

Anna Turetsky

Principal, Venture Investments, The Mark Foundation

Life Sciences

Anthony Curro

Board Chair | Xylyx Bio; Curro Consulting

Life Sciences, Digital Health

Arda Ural

Americas Leader for Life Sciences Sector | Ernst & Young (EY)

Life Sciences

Arthur Klausner

Life Sciences Executive and Investor

Life Sciences

Avi Rosenbaum

Founder | Advisors.bio

Life Sciences, Digital Health

Balki Iyer

Founder and CEO | Bridge Green Upcycle

Deep Tech

Beth Johnson

Board Member | Invesco & Bill

Digital Tech

Bharat Tewarie

CEO | Helio Genomics

Life Sciences, Digital Health

Bill O'Farrell

Startup Founder; Advisor; and Co-Founder/Former CEO | Body Labs, SpeechWorks, and OpenAir.com

Deep Tech, Digital Tech

Brannon Jones

Principal | AlleyCorp

Deep Tech

Brian Neer

CIO | Neer Venture Partners

Digital Tech

Bruce Cronstein

Prof. Medicine, NYU Langone Health

Life Sciences

Bruce Zetter

Charles Nowiszewski Prof. of Cancer Biology | Harvard Medical School

Life Sciences

Bud Ghegan

Managing Director | Berkley Capital

Digital Tech

Carlos Pinheiro Neto

Prof.and Vice-Chair, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery | NYU Langone Health

Digital Health

Carmen Kerschbaum

Senior Executive, CFO & COO, Life Sciences Executive & Investor

Life Sciences, Digital Health

Casey Perley

Director | Army Applications Laboratory

Life Sciences, Deep Tech

Charles (Chuck) Paul

Principal | GlueIQ; Investor | Chemical Angels

Deep Tech

Chipper Boulas

Founder, Business-builder, and Investor

Digital Tech

Chris Ho

Director | Vickers Venture Partners

Deep Tech, Digital Tech

Chris Maher

Founder & General Partner | Samaritan Partners

Digital Health

Claire Leurent

Strategic Investor in Biotech & Healthcare

Life Sciences

Claire Wadlington

Managing Director | 1414 Ventures

Digital Tech

Cy Whitten

Vice President | CRCM Ventures

Deep Tech, Digital Tech

Dan Madden

Principal, National Security, Squadra Ventures

Deep Tech

Daniel Leibholz

Senior Vice President, Former CTO | ADI

Deep Tech, Digital Tech

Dave Shor

Multi-time Founder, CEO, Advisor, Mentor | Multiple Technology and Consumer Product Companies

Digital Tech

David Famolari

Managing Director | Hearst Ventures

Digital Tech

David Heinemann

President | Heinemann Advisors

Digital Tech

David Jacob

Investor

Digital Tech

David Nierengarten

Research Analyst and Managing Director | Wedbush Securities

Life Sciences

Dennis Hillen

National President | Pearl Health

Digital Health

Deren Koseoglu

Vice President of Global Accounts | eMolecules

Life Sciences

Devin Mann

Director, HiBRID Lab | NYU Langone

Digital Health

Diana Keenan

Director | In-Q-Tel

Deep Tech

Diana Maltsman

Lead Director, Principal Architect | CVS Health

Digital Health

DiDi Dione

Founder | H+M R.I.S.E. Consulting

Deep Tech, Digital Tech

Dinesh de Alwis

SVP, Head of Clinical Drug Development | Generate Biomedicines

Life Sciences

Doron Sagman

President | Arel Biopharma Consulting

Life Sciences, Digital Health

Doug Stern

Partner | PlumTree Ventures

Digital Tech

Elcin Zan

Chair, Nuclear Medicine | Cleveland Clinic

Life Sciences, Digital Health

Emre Koksal

Founder | FenixPyre; Professor |The Ohio State University

Digital Tech

Eric Hagestad

Principal | Telemark Associates

Life Sciences

Eric Tan

Partner | Blackwood Healthcare Breakthroughs

Life Sciences, Digital Health

Eric Wedepohl

Investor, Lawyer, and Counselor

Deep Tech

Erica Schroeder

CMO | Symphony AI

Digital Tech

Ernie Bio

Managing Director | Forgepoint Capital

Digital Tech

Francois Nader

MD, MBA; Chairman, Acceleron Pharma, Benevolent AI, Talaris/Board Member, Moderna/Senior Advisor, Blackstone Life Sciences

Life Sciences

Frank Vallese, Sc.D

Entrepreneur, Startup Mentor, and Innovation and Partnership Leader

Deep Tech

Gary Landsberg

Managing Principal | Landsberg Strategic Advisory

Deep Tech

Gill Sawhney

Senior Life Sciences Investment Banker and Consultant

Life Sciences, Digital Health

Glenn Krevlin

Founder, Principal, and Portfolio Manager | Glenhill Capital

Digital Tech

Hernando Bunuan

Founder & Managing Partner, Z2Sixty Ventures

Deep Tech, Digital Tech

Howard Kivell

Former Urologic Surgeon | Integrated Medical Professionals, PLLC

Digital Health

Hyuk-Jeen Suh

General Partner | SkyRiver Ventures

Deep Tech, Digital Tech

Ian Greenberg

VP Business Development, Corporate Development | GSK

Life Sciences

Inna Lobel

Creative Director, Head of Industrial Design | frogNA

Deep Tech

Jae Zhong

Senior Program Manager, Digital Ventures | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Digital Health

Jafar Rizvi

Portfolio Manager and Partner | Harding Loevner LP

Digital Tech

Jeremy Kagan

Managing Partner | Textbook Ventures

Digital Tech

Jesse Shefferman

CEO and Founder, Protara Therapeutics, Inc.

Life Sciences, Digital Health

Jin Montclare

Prof. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Life Sciences

Jinsy Jacob

Physician | Human+Machine Rise

Digital Health

João Sedoc

Assistant Professor | New York University

Digital Tech

Jodd Readick

CEO | Clarify AI

Digital Tech, Digital Health

John Dexheimer

President | LightWave Advisors

Deep Tech, Digital Tech

Josh Raysman

Principal/Advisor | Negative Split - Digital Advisors

Digital Health

Joshua Habib

Senior Vice President | Covera Health

Digital Health

Kirsten Detrick

CEO | Parke-Hadley Advisors

Life Sciences

KK Kambhampati

Partner | Cloquet Capital Partners

Deep Tech, Digital Tech, Digital Health

Komal Bajaj

Professor/Physician Executive | Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Digital Health

Kris Kemeny

Technology Investor & Executive, Venture Capital

Deep Tech

Kristin King-Jankiewicz

Head of Group Management | Boston Harbor Angels

Deep Tech, Digital Health

Kristof Kloeckner

Strategy and Technology Advisor; former CTO and General Manager | IBM

Digital Tech

Kunal Sethi

General Partner, Ayuh Ventures

Life Sciences, Deep Tech, Digital Tech, Digital Health

Luis Cabral

Prof. Economics and International Business, Chair of Economics Department | NYU Stern School of Business

Deep Tech

Luna Schmid

Partner | Google Ventures

Digital Tech

Manuel Jaime

Member | NuFund Venture Group

Digital Health

Marc Weill

Senior Advisor | Two Sigma Ventures

Life Sciences, Deep Tech

Maria-Louisa Izamis

Senior Director of Product Innovation | Flagship Pioneering

Life Sciences, Digital Health

Mark Kolb

Partner | Tech Council Ventures

Digital Health

Mark Yarmarkovich

Faculty | NYU School of Medicine

Life Sciences

Maude Tessier

President | Lobster Point Consulting

Life Sciences

Melissa Moore

Vice President of Clinical Research | Plus Therapeutics

Life Sciences

Merika Koday

Vice President | Accelerator Life Science Partners

Life Sciences

Mike Pambianchi

Business Fellow | Breakthrough Energy

Deep Tech

Millie Liu

Managing Partner | First Star Ventures

Deep Tech

Miriam Bredella

Associate Dean for Translational Science, Director Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Professor of Radiology

Digital Health

Mirko Kerschbaum

CEO and Founder | PEGAZA

Deep Tech

Mohit Joshipura

Chief Medical Officer | OpenLoop Health

Digital Health

Mona Jhaveri

Director, Music Beats Cancer

Life Sciences

Morgan Hitzig

General Partner | Overmatch Ventures ; Officer | US Navy Reserve

Deep Tech

Muredach Reilly

Vice Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, Director of the Irving Institute | Columbia University Medical Center

Life Sciences

Nadav Shimoni

Managing Partner | A-Squared Ventures

Digital Health

Nancy Ondovik

Principal, New Company Creation JJDC | Johnson & Johnson

Life Sciences

Navneet Puri

Founder & Principal | ABAN Consulting

Life Sciences

Nazeer Bhore

CEO and Founder | Bhore Solutions

Deep Tech

Neal Padte

SVP, Operator | Curie.Bio

Life Sciences

Nil Gural

Principal | Polaris Partners

Life Sciences

Nimit Mehta

Partner | Bain & Company

Digital Tech, Digital Health

Noam Solomon

CEO | Immunai

Life Sciences

Oliver Mitchell

Founding Partner | Autonomy Ventures; Venture Partner | ff Venture Capital

Deep Tech

Omri Shacham

Partner | Elliptic Ventures

Deep Tech, Digital Tech

Orlando Figueroa

President | Orlando Leadership Enterprise

Deep Tech

Patrick Mahaney

CEO and Co-founder | National Center for Urban Operations

Deep Tech, Digital Tech

Paul Horn

Governor | New York Academy of Sciences; Former Senior Vice Provost | NYU

Deep Tech, Digital Tech

Paul Howard

Executive Director, Public Policy and Corporate Affairs | Amicus Therapeutics

Life Sciences

Peter Alff

Senior Venture Partner | Orange Grove Bio

Life Sciences

Rachael-Linn Spooner

Executive Coach & Strategic Operator

Digital Health

Rana Al-Hallaq

Partner | Pfizer Ventures; Executive Director | Worldwide Business Development, Pfizer

Life Sciences

Rick Lipkin

Founder, Co-Chair | Catalytic Impact Foundation

Life Sciences, Digital Health

Rick Peng

Digital Health Innovation, Business Development, Licensing | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Digital Health

Rob Ryan

Investor | CVS Health Ventures

Digital Health

Rob Wolk

Executive Chair | Catalytic Impact Foundation; Founder & Co-Chiar | Princeton Alumni Angels

Digital Health

Robert Padulo, Ph.D

Venture Capitalist; Board Member; Senior Advisor; 4x-Entrepreneur; Managing Partner | Treasure Coast Ventures

Deep Tech, Digital Tech, Digital Health

Roger Klein, MD JD

Principal, Roger D. Klein, MD JD

Life Sciences, Digital Tech, Digital Health

Roland Turck

Managing Partner | TurckBio

Life Sciences, Digital Health

Ron Lennox

Life Sciences Investor, Board Member, and Founder

Life Sciences, Digital Health

Ryan Lewis

Partner, SRI Ventures

Digital Tech

Sam Phelps

Vice President, Infrastructure & Impact | CIM Group

Deep Tech

Sapna Srivastava

Director | Independent

Life Sciences

Sarah Dolman

AVP, Site Selection | Veeva Systems

Digital Health

Scott Saxberg

Founder and CEO | Cache Island Resources Inc.

Deep Tech, Digital Tech

Sean Schreiber

EVP/COO | Alliance Health

Digital Health

Sebastian Barriga Bermeo

Founder & Managing Partner | milemark•capital

Life Sciences, Deep Tech

Sebastian Titz

Investment Manager | 3M New Ventures

Deep Tech

Sejal Patel

VP Chemistry | Scorpion Therapeutics

Life Sciences

Ser-Chen Fu

Partner | Pacific 8 Ventures

Life Sciences, Digital Health

Serhat Pala

General Partner | Cross Ocean Ventures; President | NuFund Ventures

Deep Tech, Digital Tech

Sharad Mishra

Director, Venture Fund | Labcorp Ventures

Digital Health

Sharon Mates

Founder, Chairman, and CEO | Intra-Cellular Therapies

Life Sciences

Shiv Sutaria

Assistant Chief Medical Information Officer (ACMIO) | Mass General Brigham Healthcare at Home

Digital Health

Shivan Bhavnani

CEO and Founder | GIMBHI

Digital Health

Shoibal Datta

Head of Digital Health Sciences | Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Digital Health

Silvia Codony

Assistant Vice President | NY Ventures

Life Sciences

Sonal Matai

Managing Director & President, US Business | Karl Storz United States

Digital Health

Sonny Vo

Managing Partner | Nanostar Ventures

Deep Tech

Stephen Chang

Strategic Partner | Cell One Partners

Life Sciences

Steve Socolof

Managing Partner | Tech Council Ventures

Deep Tech, Digital Tech

Thomas Wisniewski

Partner | RosePaul Investments

Digital Tech

Vamsi Velcheti

Prof. Medicine, Hematology, Oncology | New York University

Life Sciences, Digital Health

Victor Garcia

Chief Technology Officer | Coforma

Digital Tech

Victoria Chernow

Scientist, Climate & Energy | Science for America; Investment Advisor | Playground Global

Deep Tech

Vijay Iyengar

Principal | Aarogya Consulting

Life Sciences

Wally Wang

Founder and Managing Partner | SAV(Scale Asia Ventures)

Digital Tech

Wayne Mackey, Ph.D

Founder and CEO | Statespace Labs

Digital Tech

Zach Harrell

Physical Scientist | Army Applications Laboratory

Deep Tech