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THANK YOU to the professionals below who volunteered their time and expertise to review materials, watch LIVE pitches, ask pointed questions, score and deliberate in order to identify the most promising companies, according to CTO's criteria, and to provide constructive feedback to the entrepreneurs.
2024 National Finals Judges:
Sara Chamberlain, Earth Foundry VC
Nguyen Le, MUUS Climate Partners VC
Carolin Funk, Blue Bear Capital VC
Faith Davis, Exelon Corporation
Erik Steeb, EPRI / Incubatenergy Labs (ret)
2024 Global Ideas Finals Judges:
Lisa Farmen, Aquastry LLC
Terry Kelly, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Joy Larson, CalSEED / New Energy Nexus
Don Megrath, VectorPoint Ventures
2024 National Semi-Finals Judges and Facilitators:
Held 10/28/2024
Paul Breslow
Melinda Briana Epler
John Ellersick
Ron Erd
Laura Ferracane
Allison Flynn, facilitator
Adam Gerza
Bettina Grab, facilitator
Nina Harding
Mikhail Hutton
Jerry Johnson
Nneka Kibuule
Aden Kinne
Philip Li
Vincent Lui
Piyush Malik
Kathryn Meng
Keegan Murphy
Rex Northen
Kid Parchariyanon
Vivek Phanse, facilitator
Andra Pligavko
Brent Ridley
John Scull
Cynthia Seymour
Troy Tyler
Will Wiseman
2024 Global Ideas Semi-Finals Judges and Facilitators:
Held in July 2024
Lisa Farmen
Ian Foraker
Myriam Frankel
Bettina Grab
Sunay Gupta
Brian Marrinan
Joy Montgomery
Candelaria Primero Narvaez
Kid Parchariyanon
Jane Richards
Patricia Silva
Kevin Tan
Jim Totty
Ron Yeager
Serdar Yucel
Cesar Zamora
2024 Regional Judges and Facilitators:
West, Central and Southern Regions:
Larry Aller
Nupur Amin
Peter Atanasoff
Gordon Belcher
Neil Bellenie
Kevin Chenoweth
June W Choi
Eric Conrad
Colette Cote
Nathalie Couët
Jared Craft
Erica Crell
Roger Dettloff
Kenneth Epstein
Lisa Farmen
Allison Flynn
Brian Glazebrook
Susanne Hayes
Mikhail Hutton
Giri Iyer
Nader Jandaghi
Terry Kelly
Tetyana Kletskova
Mike Krebs
Sachin Kumar
Nino Lazariia
Jay Majithia
Eloisa Marquez-Gonzalez
Joy Montgomery
Stephen Moritz
Zev Orzy
Harry Ostrander
Stephen Oyler
Alyssa Patnode
Matej Peretin
Rajkumar Rajagopal
Julie Roy
Eric Schiff
Lisa Schmidt
Cynthia Seymour
Terry Shire
Hitesh Solanki
Andrew Stern
Jonathan Stokely
Abhijit Supekar
Sara Swenson
Greg Thomson
Stan Tomsic
Walter Wu
Huan Yan
Linda Zeger
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