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Our team is made of students and alumni who draw from their diverse set of experiences and backgrounds
Grant Shaffer
Marketing Co-Lead
Microsoft, JLL Technologies, Dell
Jacob Cordova
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Bright Yeti, NASA, Lockheed Martin
Katherine Allen
Co-Founder
Flo-Recruit, Forty Acres Scholar
Jeff Auster
Co-Founder
PwC, Forty Acres Scholar
Clarke Rahrig
Co-Founder
Microsoft
Manu Gorrepati
Chief of Staff
Contrary, Point72, TPEO, TREL, BHP
Nick Spiller
Director of Marketing
Capital Factory, Beta Business, LEA
Michael Johns
Director of Ventures
Flo Recruit, Argonaut, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs
Daniel Miyares
Director of Operations
PetPair, Uber, Facebook
Alex Yelverton
Ventures Lead
PwC, Texas 4000, Sendero, Texas Health Catalyst
Alisha Gupta
Marketing Co-Lead
Capital Factory, SELL, Humanity Rising, BHP
Aanandh Chandrasekar
FATHOM5, Capital Factory
Juan Alvarez
Landing, Venture for America
Aiden Brasov
SG, SIG, BHP, Plan II
Nikhil Guddati
Associate
Forty Acres Scholar, SIG, UBC, BHP
Anirudh Sudarshan
Felix Biotechnology, Boeing, Convergent, Neuroscience
Lucky Oswal
Roblox, BHP
Anuraag Routray
Dedman Scholar, NASA, Plan II
Dana Tran
Stone Ridge Technology, Hook’d Magazine
Smaran Velidi
Enphase Energy, UT Roundnet, BHP
Akash Vijay
Dallas Makerspace, Smart Materials Laboratory
Janice Nguyen
Gravitational Ventures
Diego De Los Santos Costa
Galera
Advisors of Genesis
Andrew Bellay
Straty.com, FounderSoup, ExxonMobil
Bob Metcalfe
Polaris Partners, 3Com, Ethernet
Carol Thompson
The Thompson Group, Austin Chamber of Commerce
Jayesh Parekh
Sony Entertainment Television, Jungle Ventures
Josie Hosmer
University Venture Fund, Rockies Venture, Centric Legal Services
Rudy Garza
G51 Capital, Texas Exes
Alumni of Genesis
Alamin Momin
Alexender Lui
Anuj Jajoo
Aravind Srinivasan
Ashwin Hareesh
Ben Beverly
Brandon Chi
Catherine Cheng
Courtney O'Donnell, Ph.D.
Elaine Garner
Elizabeth Haynie
Harrison Wells
Inara Haque
JD Weinstein
Kelsi Kamin
Krishna Parikh
Lucious McDaniel IV
Mohit Gupta
Nicky Cumberland
In Loving Memory
Noah Penny
Rashu Jain
Ryan Diebner
Sam Lustberg
Scott Kennedy
Skyler Frost
Sydney Fischer
Tom Jackson
Vibhav Joopelli
Zachary Ullah
Genesis interviews for its leadership team on a rolling basis, and all UT Austin students from undergrad to Masters/PhD are eligible to join. The first step is scheduling a coffee chat with one of our leaders – our schedules are open year round!
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Questions?
leadershipteam@genesis.com