About Organizers

Judy Robinett is the author of “Crack the Funding Code: How Investors Think and What They Need to Hear to Fund Your Startup" and “How to Be a Power Connector: The 5-50-150 Rule,” #1 of The Top Ten Business Books of 2014 by Inc.com. Robinett is a fundraising thought leader. She has been on the advisory boards of Illuminate Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California; Pereg Ventures, a venture capital firm based in New York; Springboard Enterprises based in Washington, DC. and is an emerging fund advisor. She was a managing director of Golden Seeds Angel Network; the CEO of publicly-traded Medical Discoveries; and she served on the faculty of Goldman Sachs's 10,000 Small Business program.