Girls in Tech Founder & CEO Adriana Gascoigne has announced additional tech and investment leaders to the panel of judges at Lady Pitch Night US.
Lady Pitch Night SF 2015 is a half-day pitch competition for female entrepreneurs of early stage startups to be held at the NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center in San Francisco on November 10, 2015.
Girls in Tech, an organization focused on empowering, engaging women in tech, along with NASDAQ, Genentech, H&R Block -- Small Business, LoopUp, YouNoodle and Go Daddy, is hosting the North American launch of this global event. The winner will receive a $25,000 cash prize and additional resources such as office space for six months provided by RocketSpace and laptops for the winning team to move their startup forward.
Additions to the panel of judges include:
Alison Wagonfeld - Operating Partner of Emergence Capital. Prior to joining Emergence, Alison was the Executive Director of the Harvard Business School California -- Research Center located in Menlo Park, California. Prior to HBS, Alison worked at Intuit, where she co-founded QuickenLoans.
Duncan Logan - Founder and CEO of RocketSpace, a technology campus in the heart of San Francisco. RocketSpace's perfect ecosystem has fueled the success of more than 700 startups, including Uber, Spotify and Leap Motion, and more than 75 corporate partners, such as Tata Communications, Accenture, Converse, and British Airways. At 24, he started his first company, CITYPRO, which he built to $8 million in revenue over a three year period, before its sale in 2000.
Monique Morrow - CTO New Frontiers Development and Engineering at Cisco as of November 2014. Monique was the first CTO of Cisco Services from June 2013 to November 2014 where she lead the development of Cisco Services Technologies mapped to Services Customer Solution Reference Architecture that is now foundational for Cisco Customer Solutions implementation. Monique has a track record of co-innovating with customers, that has transcended the globe from North America, Europe and Asia
Gil Penchina - Serial Entrepreneur and Prolific Angel Investor, Penchina is the largest angel on AngelList where he is a partner in Flight.vc, which manages over 20 investment syndicates supported by over 3,000 other angels. The co-founder of Fastly, and board member at Vouch Financial, he was the CEO of Wikia and a member of the pre-IPO team at eBay. He has a Bachelors in Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA from Kellogg.
Denise Terry - CEO of Embrace Health, Denise led product and sales teams for high tech startups across mobile, consumer Internet, social media and SaaS, including three acquisitions by Microsoft and Experian.
Jonathan Abrams - Founder & CEO of Nuzzel and co-founder and Managing Partner of Founders Den. Previously, Jonathan was the founder & CEO of Socializr, Friendster, and HotLinks, and a software engineer at companies such as Netscape and Nortel.
Michael Hughes - Co-CEO and Co-Founder of LoopUp, Founder of The Silicon Valley Internship Programme (SVIP), and an Executive Board Member of the British American Business Council.
Andy McLoughlin - Venture Partner with SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in the Bay Area. Prior to joining SoftTech in 2015, Andy was co-founder and EVP of London and San Francisco-based Huddle, a leading enterprise SaaS collaboration company.
For more information on Lady Pitch Night or to apply, visit the website.