Our Expert Lineup

Meet your teachers for Spring Summit

Mark Pecota

CEO of LaunchBoom

Mark has helped over a thousand creators launch and raise over $200M in crowdfunding campaigns. He is also author of #1 bestseller, CROWDFUNDED.

Karin Tsai

VP of Engineering, Kickstarter

Ex-Duo Lingo Engineering Director, current Kickstarter VP creating spaces for creators to bring their ideas to life

Noah Kinsey

Customer Outreach, Jellop

Noah and the team at Jellop managed ads responsible for some of the largest raises on Kickstarter.

Gianluca Gabrielli

Co-founder, ias.

Leads a creative studio specializing in high-impact visual storytelling for brands and crowdfunding success.

Ellie Clinton

Head of Product, Kickstarter

Over 10 years of experience in marketing and productive development, responsible for growing and leading teams at Kickstarter

Tanner Cummings

Founder, Cypress Resort

Raised $803K alongside wife Melissa to bring his Northern Georgia Resort to life.

Cheryl Tang

Head of APAC, Indiegogo

Head of APAC at Indiegogo, a world-leading platform for launching and crowdfunding innovative hardware products. Founded in San Francisco in 2008, Indiegogo has raised over $2.8 billion.

Jack Bushell

Founder, Wicked Grit

Creates videos raising millions, producing campaigns for Marriott, WeWork, Casper, Goodwill with global, high-quality storytelling.

Alexander Radcliffe

CMO, Gamefound

Marketing expert with over 8 years experience in the games industry. Grew a games youtube channel to over 50K subscribers.

Zachary Strebeck

Attorney, Legal Moves PC

Board game lawyer who represents clients across the tabletop and video game industries including Stonemaier, White Wizard Games, and Game Jolt.

Ori Kagan

Founder, Kagan Productions

Board Game Marketing and Video Expert helping creators raise millions.

Jeff Lieber

TurnKey Product Management

Growing brands on Amazing to 7+ Figures .

Ken Buras

President, IN2 International

40+ years of experience manufacturing innovative products.

Jason Hsieh

Chief Toy Officer, Toy Launch

Revolutionized toy marketing on Amazon, combining creativity with cutting-edge digital strategies

Peter Salib

Partner Manager, Shopline

Builds strategic partnerships across the crowdfunding, venture capital, accelerator, and non-dilutive funding ecosystem.

Will Ford

President of LaunchBoom

Will is an American entrepreneur, crowdfunding expert, and strategic advisor who is passionate about helping entrepreneurs and innovators succeed.

Justin Arakaki

Director of Crowdfunding, LaunchBoom

Justin helped develop LaunchBoom’s robust launch strategy and has been a part of every one of LaunchBoom’s crowdfunding launches since 2015.

Brandon Rollins

Fulfillment Expert, Fulflllrite

Connecting creators to shipping solutions that work specifically for their needs, with over 3,200 campaigns delivered.

Soren Fuchs

Crowdfunding Expert, LaunchBoom

Soren has coached over 150 crowdfunding creators to successfully launch and raise thousands of dollars - including Tandem Shower which raised $774,113 on Kickstarter.

Victor Shiu

Director of Games and Co-Founder, LaunchBoom

Victor has directed, produced and consulted hundreds of crowdfunding pages, videos, and pre-launch funnels that have raised over $100M in revenue.

Spencer Knowlton

Crowdfunding Expert, LaunchBoom

Our Senior Crowdfunding Specialist responsible for helping raise over $60M through crowdfunding and in ecommerce.

Adam Cuadro

Game Crowdfunding Expert, LaunchBoom

Crowdfunding consultant, ex-Funko. Worked with Disney, Lucasfilm, Netflix, Warner Bros.