Bill Stephan served Indiana University for over 20 years including from 2000 – 2004 and then again from 2007 until his retirement from IU last year in 2022.

Bill served in a few different roles during his tenure with IU including as Vice President for Government Relations and Economic Engagement. During his tenure Bill was instrumental in developing IU’s economic engagement plans, fostering relationships with stage agencies to establish small business development centers, helping IU to achieve record setting results in the number of new startup companies, licensing revenues, royalty payments, and profitable exits. Further, he worked extensively with private sector partners and related business associations to align the universities resources and assets with workforce development needs of employers as well as facilitate access to faculty subject matter experts and related talent. Additionally, Bill helped foster deep cooperative research agreements with Crane NWSC, including establishing the university’s first office at Westgate at Crane and facilitated the creation of Crane’s office and research platform on the Bloomington campus.

Bill currently serves as Chair of the Board for IU Ventures.

After graduating from Kelley Business School at IU and Stanford Law School, Kathy spent over 20 years as outside counsel for technology and life sciences companies and the investors and executives that fund and grow them,

She then spent the next 10 years at a private equity firm focused on enterprise software as a general partner as well as general counsel and chief compliance officer. There she led structuring and executing for more than 75 investments and 50 exits.

In 2022, Kathy launched STACCS to offer transaction consulting services to companies and executives as they evaluate and execute investment and liquidity transactions. In addition to providing those consulting services, she also serves on the investment committee for IU Ventures and sits on several boards, including American Online Giving Foundation – the donor advised fund that powers billions of dollars of employer matched charitable contributions each year at companies seeking to engage their employees and improve their communities. Kathy also teaches at Boston University Law School and just wrapped up her corporate finance class and deals seminar yesterday.

In her nonexistent spare time she is a slow runner and avid user of a Peloton.

Dr. Gary Anderson is a retired Managing General Partner and now Senior Advisor of TL Ventures (Wayne, PA) one of the venture capital industry’s most prestigious technology investment groups. TL Ventures manages over $1.5 billion of invested capital targeting multiple focused technology areas. As part of TL Ventures, Dr. Anderson has helped to guide more than 30 companies through successful initial public offerings (IPO’s), mergers or acquisitions. Prior to TL Ventures in 1989, Gary was Executive Vice President at Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., where he guided corporate technology strategy and managed several successful information technology portfolio companies for four years. He has served as chief executive officer of several software companies and was a consultant or advisor to Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Motorola and other Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to joining Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. in 1987, he was a cardiologist focused on mechanisms of sudden death. As a Professor of Internal Medicine and Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Hahnemann University (now Drexel University) School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA, he was head of cardiovascular research at the Likoff Cardiovascular Institute and Associate Dean of the medical school. During his academic career, he published 184 manuscripts and abstracts and was a contributor to nine textbooks. He served on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals and was a member of many national and international committees including the National Institute of Health, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Anderson currently serves on several Boards of Directors and was founding chairman of Matchlogic (sold to Excite) and ChemGenics (merged with Millennium Pharmaceuticals). He plays an active role in numerous philanthropic and cultural organizations. In addition, he is chairman of the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Medals, America’s oldest awards for scientific achievement created 180 years ago and chairman of the Franklin Institute’s Bower Award for Business Leadership. At Indiana University Dr. Anderson serves on the faculty of the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (JCEI) and is Chairman of the National Advisory Board of the Jacobs School of Music. In addition he is on the Advisory boards of the JCEI, the Kelley School of Business and the School of Medicine.

He attended Wayne State University for undergraduate work and received his medical degree from the University of Michigan and completed his post-doctoral work at Indiana University. As a major in the US Army, Dr. Anderson served in Vietnam and at Fort Bragg, NC. His hobbies include fly-fishing and classical music.

Pat East is Executive Director of The Mill, a coworking space and incubator in Bloomington, Indiana. Their mission is to launch and accelerate startups and their vision is to become Indiana’s center of gravity for entrepreneurship. With 300 members and 50 companies, they operate as a 501(c)(3) non-profit.

He manages Flywheel Fund, which focuses on technology companies in Indiana. They write 50k initial checks and 50-150k follow-on checks into pre-seed and seed startups.

He previously cofounded Hanapin Marketing, an Inc 5000 and Fortune Great Place to Work honoree, which he sold in 2020. Partners included: Adobe, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter. Clients included: American Eagle, Home Depot, La-Z-Boy, NPR, ParkMobile, REI, Salesforce, Target, UCLA, University of Chicago, and Weather Channel.

A retired venture capitalist, Jane’s career has spanned nearly five decades beginning in Chicago in the 1970s with Allstate’s $250 million venture portfolio (including FedEx, MCI, Control Data, MaryKay, and Memorex). In the 1980s, she joined U.S. Venture Partners in Menlo Park, California, as a general partner in the first three funds (Sun Microsystems, Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Gymboree, and Callaway Golf). After spending the 1990s as a limited partner in multiple venture funds, doing pro bono non profit work, and serving as the CEO of Indiana University’s first technology spinout, Wisdom Tools, Jane joined Massachusetts-based Village Ventures, as a general partner. She also co-founded an affiliate Indiana-based fund, Spring Mill Ventures, focusing on Indiana businesses (Biostorage Technology, Sonarmed, PerfectServe, and Scale).

Jane is a 1972 Kelley graduate in Finance and received her CFA Charter in 1979. In her retirement she is on multiple non profit boards (hunger, homelessness and the environment) and continues to mentor and invest in double bottom line start ups.

She has served on the IU Foundation board for 18 years and is now emeritus, also formerly on the SICE and Kelley Dean’s Advisory Board.

She is currently on the Eskenazi Art Museum Board.

Jane’s family has funded an Endowed Chair in Alzheimer’s research and 2 professorships at the IU School of Medicine; has named the Commons at the Eskenazi Art Museum; and gave the lead gift for the sensory architecture installation ‘Amatria’ at the Luddy School. Jane continues to support Queer Philanthropy Circle, Jacobs School of Music, and Armstrong scholars and Little 500 women riders.

Jackson Boyar is Co-founder and CEO of Mentor Collective, which he founded in 2014 after an early career in management consulting. In 2018, Jackson received the Forbes 30 Under 30 Award in Education to recognize Mentor Collective’s impact on tens of thousands of college students. He is passionate about closing the equity gap in higher education and is a frequent speaker in affiliation with AAC&U, CCAS, Lumina Foundation, and ASU GSV. In his role as CEO, Jackson actively engages with Mentor Collective partners to help set a vision for student success in their communities. Jackson graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Indiana University, Bloomington, with a B.A. in East Asian Languages and Culture.

Jackson has provided invaluable partnership service to IU Ventures in the form of:

· Active Participant in networking and professional development activities hosted by IU Ventures

· Vocal advocate both regionally and nationally for IU Ventures and our programs

· Advisor to other IU affiliated startups

Ting Gootee serves as the Chief Investment Officer with primary responsibilities in investment strategies, due diligence, and portfolio development. Previously, Ting was Deputy Director, 21 Fund & Entrepreneurship at the Indiana Economic Development Corporation where she provided operational and financial management. She also headed the Fund’s university outreach and talent recruitment efforts. A Chinese native, and a Hoosier since 2001, Ting received her bachelor’s of arts from Beijing University as a Jin Yuxi Scholar, master’s of arts from Purdue University as a Lynn Fellow and an MBA in Finance from Indiana University as a Forte Fellow. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designations in addition to Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM).

Ting has provided invaluable partnership service to IU Ventures in the form of:

· Investing partner providing insight on due diligence and deal structuring

· Leads important syndication and networking opportunities among other Indiana based investors

· Mentor and advisor to IU affiliated startups

Cy Megnin has been an entrepreneur, founder and advisor for the past two decades. Past companies include Intel Capital portfolio company PrepFlash, an AI company that uses NLP to automatically create flashcards from any content, and CloudCoreo, a configuration management company that garnered investment from Microsoft and ultimately sold to VMware. Cy was in the 2014 class of “Forty Under 40” for Professional Remodeler Magazine at the helm of the long-running real estate investment firm OCPS and was twice-featured on TLC’s hit TV show “Flip That House”.

He is currently back in his hometown of Bloomington, Ind. with his wife Andrea and son Jack working for Elevate Ventures as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence after spending the last 15 years in Austin, Seattle and the Bay area.

He has a degree in Economics from Indiana University and an MBA from Baylor University, where he is an executive judge for their annual MBA Ethics competition.

Cy has provided invaluable partnership service to IU Ventures in the form of:

· Mentor and advisor to IU affiliated startups

· Active participant in IU angel network due diligence and meetings

· Advocate for programming throughout the region