eLab Advisors
The eLab advisors play a critical role in the shaping of our team’s business concepts. We rely on Cornell alumni with business and entrepreneurial backgrounds that can encourage startups to ask the right questions, solve hard problems and battle test their concept in a safe environment.
Serdar Mizrakci
Founder and CEO,
Element Farms
Andrés E. Gutiérrez
Co-Founder,
Comake
Aaron Walls
Co-Founder and CEO,
BrewJacket
Elisa Miller-Out
Managing Partner,
Chloe Capital
Eric Young
Co-Founder and Partner,
Canaan Partners
John Balen
Partner,
Canaan Partners
Justin Smithline
Co-Founder and General Partner,
Triple Impact Capital
Robert Raczkowski
Partner,
Launch Factory
Michael Annunziata
Co-Founder and CEO,
Farther Farms
Stéphane Jean-Baptiste
Co-Founder and COO,
Kreyol Essence, LLC
Todd Zion
Co-founder, President, and CEO,
Akston Biosciences Corporation
Erica Iannotti
Project Manager, Technology to Market
NYSERDA
Frank A. DeCosta, III, Ph.D.
Partner,
Finnegan Henderson
Marla Beyer
Co-Founder & CEO,
Hopscotch
Christophe Gerlache
Investor,
General Atlantic
Delia Hughes
Founder,
Tazzy Candy
Jason Guss
Founder and CEO,
Iterate Labs
Rob Karp
Founder and CEO,
MilesAhead
Alex Meyers
Co-Founder and CEO,
MyWorkouts
Ryoko Nozawa
Principal,
Cayuga Venture Fund
Zach Shulman
Director,
Entrepreneurship at Cornell
Nichole Bestman
Founder & CEO,
Shipfair
Apoorva Kiran
Co-Founder & CTO,
Iterate Labs
eLab carefully selects a limited number of experienced advisory board members who play a number of roles based on the needs of each individual team. The advisory board helps students in the following ways:
Ask tough questions
Advisory board memebrs ask tough ‘critical path’ questions designed to help our team’s to improve their concepts.
Provide perspective
Advisory board members provide perspective on issues ranging from the start up process and fundraising, to product development and distribution of equity to employees. They bring their experiences and wisdom to the table to help our teams succeed.
Provide feedback
Advisory board members provide regular feedback on strategy, products, pricing, sales strategy, marketing plans, investor decks, legal factors and many of the other issues that entrepreneurs explore as they undergo their journey.