todd outten | Comcast

Todd Outten is a serial entrepreneur and hands-on technical executive with a strong interest in developing and implementing new technologies and business models with start-ups and mature organizations looking to innovate. Interested in the intersection of content, commerce and technology as it relates to new pull distribution models for digital and physical products and services. Start-up experience from conception through prototype to business modeling, market launch and customer adoption. Additional expertise in identifying, pitching and raising capital (angel, venture, strategic). Over seventeen years experience in designing, prototyping and launching technical architectures for digital media creation and distribution, ad networks, and financial systems. Over ten years experience in running production workloads in public and hybrid cloud (largely AWS). Hands-on AWS developer and architect, including: DevOps, design patterns, security (IAM/RBAC/VPC), big data, and high-level services. Teach AWS classes (intro and advanced). Primary inventor on patents for Digital Rights Management, Distributed Content Delivery and Caching, Consumer Intelligence Marketing and Advertising, and Direct Marketing.

susan yee | Broad Street Angels

Susan Yee has more than 35 years of technology and entrepreneurial experience and is currently serving on the Executive Committee of the Union League’s Broad Street Angels investment club. She has founded several Internet firms and currently serves as CEO of Active Data, a technology firm that has provided web applications, enterprise calendaring, and online ticketing services through www.WhenNow.com. Her expertise includes working with clients in the higher education, healthcare, K-12, non profit, government and corporate markets. She recently closed an asset purchase sale of Active Data’s core enterprise software products in 2017. She is also the President of 94 Brodhead Associates, her commercial real estate firm and SCY Investments, her investment arm. Investments include startups in behavioral health technology, consumer millennial, cannabis, cryptocurrency, email apps, healthcare patient engagement through video, lactation inventory management and patient engagement, ecommerce QA, and self-storage facilities throughout the US.

Sri Sriadibhatla | Ben Franklin Tech Partners

Sri Sriadibhatla, Ph.D. is Senior Manager, Business Development and principle support for life sciences programs. Sri manages the Technology Acceleration Fund (TAF) loan program in the Health & Digital Health Sector. He has over twelve years of experience in technology evaluation, licensing, investment and commercialization.

Prior to joining Ben Franklin, Sri was Technology Scout at FMC Corporation and led initiatives in developing, adapting, streamlining, and executing an Open Innovation model. Sri holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Center for Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine) from the University of Nebraska Medical Center.