Alumni Founders Panel

Alumni Founders Panel

Friday (10/23) 4:25- 5:25 PM EDT

Come learn about and speak with alumni founders from Lehigh! This event will be following an AMA format -- attendees will be able to hear about the founder entrepreneurial journey's and understand the behind the scenes of how these founders journeyed their way to building their ventures! The panel includes CEOs of innovative apps, Creators of impactful products, and Founding engineers behind NASA wining technology startups -- All from Lehigh!. Make sure to RSVP here!

Our Panelists:

Ali Kaminetsky

Ali Kaminetsky is the founder of Modern Picnic - a direct-to-consumer brand that offers high end, insulated, vegan leather lunch bags for women. Modern Picnic has created multi-purpose products that have become not just an accessory in women’s closets, but an essential. Since launching 2018 Modern Picnic has been featured publications such as The New York Times, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Forbes, amongst others. Before starting MP, Ali worked at Macy's as a buyer in fine jewelry. Ali graduated from Lehigh University's Business School in 2016 where she studied Supply Chain Management and Marketing, and played on their Division 1 Tennis Team.

Doug Witte

Doug Witte is a co-founder at Muze, a creative chatting app that allows you to message with friends on a freeform whiteboard. He studied computer science and business at Lehigh, though dropped out after his sophomore year to start building the platform. Since leaving school, he has raised three rounds of funding and moved the team to New York where they currently operate at ten full-time members. Muze is currently live on the App Store and reached ~4000 downloads since their launch on August 15th.

Eliza Wastcost

Founder of Eliza's Brand Bar, a consulting business focused on content creation, social media strategy, and creative planning for start-ups and small businesses. Eliza is also a 2020 Venture for America Fellow, a program focused on building economic opportunities in emerging cities across the U.S. While at Lehigh, Eliza was heavily involved with the Baker Institute, winning over five Eureka Pitch Competitions and participating in the Hatchery and LSV during her time as CMO for A Sneakerhead’s Paradise.

David Bougard

David Bougard the co-founder of UBMe, inc. a Hyperlocal Communication and Engagement platform. David attended Lehigh University where he attained a Bachelor's Degree as well as a Masters in Engineering in Technical Entrepreneurship. Before UBMe David lived and worked in NYC as a sales executive at Yelp, before starting his own Marketing and Production agency in 2017. Today David is the Head of Growth & Business Development at UBMe where he focuses on bringing new technology to market.




Jon Akers

Jon Akers is formerly Founder and CEO of Lithium Cycles and Fietsklik.

Now the CPO of Otolith Labs -- A company that just won the NASA itech prize and is developing a technology that prevents vertigo!