Christina Dikareva is the Founder & CEO of Analyst Market, the leading online financial research marketplace. She is also certified yoga instructor, having received her 200 hour certification from Yogaworks in New York City in 2012. Christina has taught studio classes, workshops, corporate yoga and private yoga sessions. As an entrepreneur, she designs her yoga training to improve fitness, reduce stress and increase mental capacity. Christina has a BA from University of Michigan and MBA from University of Chicago Booth.

Get to know founders at your stage over a delicious breakfast. Dig into relevant topics and make a conference connection as you plan your day.

Sign up for office hours and the break-out session of your choice. 

Thursday arrivals check-in

Will Bunker, Founder of Match.com, will speak about the different aspects of Growth. As the central theme to this year's fnSummit, growth is integral to all of the members of Founders Network. It can be difficult to know how to classify growth, and with his extensive background in growing Match.com, Will Bunker will unpack growth into its base components. Explore how to classify the areas of growth for your startup, and get actionable insights into the meachanisms that will drive you from Bootstrap to Billions

Yu-Kai Chou is a world leader in gamification, with his Octalysis Framework. Learn from an industry leader how to grow by studying the motivations of people's subconscience. We are all driven by hidden motivations, and during this session, you will learn how to align your startup with the motivations of your customers and future customers to gain traction and grow.

Sit down for a fresh and casual lunch with founders from your sector. Trade stories, ask for advice, and enjoy the beautiful setting.

After receiving his Ph.D is Neuroscience from the University of Southern California, Dave Herman delved into Data Science at PayOff. Over the course of his career, Dave has developed a passion for understanding human behavior at mass scale and leveraging those insights to build truly transformative experiences that improve as many lives as possible. Specifically, Dave develops algorithms and control systems that are focused on product needs and develop analytical teams around those designs to take those and other emergent ideas to scale. 

Dave has over 12 years of experience researching and managing data/algorithms in: psychometrics, human-machine interaction, psychophysics, biophysics, robotics, MRI, image processing, machine vision, time-series algorithms, matching, recommendation, & reinforcement algorithms, animal-models, control systems, standard and alternative credit risk models, financial forecasting, cost-optimization models, and iterative bayesian methods.

Join Johannes and Greg from FanAi for this culture workshop. Work with Johannes & Greg to define your "non-negotiables" in terms of your unique company culture. And learn how to maintain those values as you hire and grow. 

Johannes Waldstein is the Founder of FanAi, and has co-founded 5 different companies in 4 different countries, in 3 different languages, with 4 different cultures. Having scaled his Product team to over 100 employees at Dunnhumby, Johannes has a keen focus on the relevance of growing your team culture with intention.  

Back when Pixar was ILM, Gregory Tutton worked alongside it's founding members. At the London Summer Olympics in 2012, Gregory represented the HealthTech industry.  Later at  Manage Star, he managed 40+ engineers, and lpreviously was the Head of Strategic Planning at Network Architects, a startup that existed pre dotcom bust. 

Mark DiTargiani is the Head Coach at Satori Sales Strategies.  Mark helps salespeople grow their results by growing themselves. Mark coaches sales leaders in being more conscious, aware, and motivated in their coaching with their direct reports. Using expertise used in over 7000 companies across the US from the Cargill Consulting Group, Satori implements a repeatable and scalable sales process and manages clients' salespeople to the process.

 Enjoy Mayacamas Ranch! Take time to relax and soak in your surroundings. Decompress by the pool overlooking Napa Valley. Explore the grounds on a 1 mile hike through the natural property. Play bocce ball and volleyball in the meadow. There will be private 1:1 Office Hours held throughout the property with experts from our partner companies - by appointment only.

Dig in to your current technical and business obstacles with startup mentors Howard and Caleb in a private session. Previously at NASA and a former startup founder, Caleb has over 17 years of experience in the tech space, specifically Project Management.  With expertise in marketing and strategic parternships, Howard now mentors early and later stage entrepreneurs  full time. 

Receive legal counsel from Natalie Wilson, Senior Counsel at Hanson Bridgett. Discuss mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, public offerings, public company reporting, and private equity fund formation and investments in your 30 minute, private session.  

Mark DiTargiani is the Head Coach at Satori Sales Strategies. Mark helps salespeople grow their results by growing themselves. Mark coaches sales leaders in being more conscious, aware, and motivated in their coaching with their direct reports. Using expertise used in over 7000 companies across the US from the Cargill Consulting Group, Satori implements a repeatable and scalable sales process and manages clients' salespeople to the process.

Daniel Hoffer, Partner at Tandem Capital, focuses his efforts on new consumer Internet and related opportunities. Dan was previously Founder/CEO of CouchSurfing. He has expertise in product ideation and development in the pursuit of new opportunities, team and company building, fundraising, business development, and deal structuring, strategy. He received an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Harvard College.

Will Bunker is the Founder of GrowthX and SVG Syndicate where he invests alongside experienced founders with revenue and then "coaches them up."

 Mark Oden is a Product Manager for Cisco Spark, a startup within Cisco;.  Mark is  an experienced product manager who can help founders focus on increasing efficiency, boosting morale, and scaling teams with an operations mindset. 

Sample an array of impressive wines generously provided by  Fantesca Estate & Winery!

Gather outside for a farm-to-table meal as you overlook the the valley. As the sun sets over one of the most beautiful areas of California, you will dine atop the Mayacamas Ranch ridge, with vast views washed in the setting sun.

Joe Cannella is the founder of Salute Spirits, maker of Cannella Cinnamon Cordial and Amaro Cannella. Growing up in Las Vegas, his dad owned a baseball card shop and a pool hall, igniting his entrepreneurial tendencies and appreciation for small business owners. In college he founded the Santa Clara Entrepreneur Organization, an undergraduate group that survives today after 17 years. After graduating he took an entry level sales position at Google, and after 9 years working with large retailers (Macy's, Wal-Mart, eBay, Williams-Sonoma), he hung up his laptop to build the foundation for his family owned and operated spirits company. Starting completely over in 2014 as an industry outsider, his products are now in over 100 locations in California and Nevada, with near term plans to expand to major markets around the US.

Sit down and roast s'mores with our founder panel. Participate in an intimate discussion surrounding the "new" way to foster business relationships with integrity and intent; both with your internal company culture, and your external network.

Serial Entrepreneur Blake Caldwell founded Iarc in 2013, and is currently the CEO & Founder of MoGuard Inc. With deep roots in the Southern California tech community, Blake has acted as the Co-Director for Startup Next LA, powered by Techstars and Google for Entrepreneurs, since 2013. Blake is actively involved in providing mentorship for, and growing the tech community in his region. 

Arun Agrahri co-founded Airseed in 2012 and served as its Chief Technology Officer before its acquisition in April 2015. Prior to that, Arun worked at NetApp where he enjoyed building large scale systems. Arun has expertise in search relevance, distributed systems, security, e-commerce, full stack development, building distributed scalable systems, technical recruiting and is an entrepreneur at heart. Arun's current project is Nucleus; a messaging app that makes you be more social and less transactional with your professional relationships.

John Lyotier is an entrepreneur and a successful marketer with more than 20 years of experience in promoting, launching, designing, and jumpstarting new businesses and products through innovative marketing concepts. John’s forte is to leverage technology and marketing automation to ensure that early-stage companies compete on equal footing to large, established companies.  John has launched several internet and mobile ventures and has worked with domain names, enterprise software, and online technologies for several years. As one of the co-founders of YO! and as the Chief Marketing Officer for the parent company, Left of the Dot Media, John contributes to the global strategy, vision, and technology roadmap to help propel YO! onto the global stage.