Meet The Coaches

Mike Lockwood '97
Group Ideation/Value Proposition
Vice-President at Hub International
Pete Kalenik
Group Ideation
Chicago Police Officer, Civil Affairs Sargent for the US Army Reserve, Founder and Executive Board Member for the New Leaders Council in Chicago. 
Kevin Gillespie '05
Group Ideation
CEO at SmartLeadsLab, Co-Founder of Wax and Wick Candles, Co-Owner of Positronic Tattoo 
Matthew Fromm '05
Group Ideation
​Partner Channel Manager at Cogent Communications
Casey Smagala
Group Ideation
Director of Development and Community Engagement at Albany Park Community Center
Steve Gaughan '75
Value Proposition
Worldwide Account Manager at FedEx
Jim Rohrlack '89
Value Proposition
President at Henry House Medias
Colm Lennon '91
Customer Segmentation/ Positioning 
VP of Customer Solutions at RL Canning
Samantha Isdale
Positioning 
Senior Content Marketing Manager at WPromote
Peter Herrnreiter '03
Marketing for Startups
Digital Director at Motion PR
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Nick Rosa '69
Group Ideation
Former CEO and Investor. Co-Founder of Sandbox Industries
Dan Hernandez '84
legal
Senior Engineer for Hernandez Innovations & Patents
Paul Benson '79
pricing
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Bogdan Ivan
sales planning
Business Operations at Telnyx
Mike Lockwood '97
Group Ideation
Vice-President at Hub International

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Lisa Lucas
marketing sizing
Vice President at NBCUniversal, Inc.

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Paul Raya '91
legal
Patent Attorney at Cook Alex Ltd

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Steve Gaughan '75
value prop
Worldwide Account Manager at FedEx

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Tom Festle '77
financial modeling
CFO at E.ON Climate & Renewables North America
Gino Bartucci
storytelling
Director of Food & Beverage, Dana Hotel and Spa

Tom Johnson '65
finances
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Colm Lennon '91
customer segmentation / positioning
​VP at RL Canning
John Egan, '09
Web/App Development
Chicago freelance web designer
Pete Kalenik
storytelling
Chicago Police Officer and U.S. Army Reserve Sergeant
John Jaworski '72
finances
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Peter Herrneiter '03
marketing for startups & planning
Digital Marketing Director at Nerdio
Bob Zurawski '77
implementation plan
Senior Manager at Engineering at LGS Innovations
Wayne Suerth '63
funding request
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