Meet The Connect Team: Ian Sears

Get To Know Connect’s Marketing Intern My name is Ian Sears and I am a marketing intern here at Connect. I am from a small town north of Los Angeles. Making the move from LA to San Diego was nothing short of perfect for me. I have always said San Diego is what...

Meet The Connect Team: Petra Stegmann, Ph.D.

Get To Know Connect’s Springboard Senior Director Since joining Connect in 2012, it has been a truly exciting journey to be immersed in the innovation community and experience firsthand how the San Diego ecosystem has grown and continues to flourish. I have met...

Meet The Connect Team: Cait Kelly

Get To Know Connect’s Community Engagement Director Right now, children in rural areas are cultivating entrepreneurial skills like self-direction and scrappiness by building forts in the oak trees and racing nearly totaled cars in homemade dirt tracks behind...

Meet The Connect Team: Tre Braquet

Get To Know Connect’s Senior Marketing Manager My name is Tre Braquet and I am the Senior Marketing Manager here at Connect. I have always found a sense of belonging within a community where something bigger than myself was the mission. I grew up in Northern...

Meet The Connect Team: Christie Marcella

Get To Know Connect’s COO As I read Peanuts books with my four-year old, I realize I have a lot more in common with Lucy than just the black hair. If I knew I could have set up an advice booth instead of a lemonade stand, I would have. I love helping people and...

Meet The Connect Team: Taryn Goode

Get To Know Connect’s Head of Life Sciences I recently joined the Connect Team in March of 2022 after five years working with early-stage healthcare entrepreneurs at the San Diego site of Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS. I earned my undergraduate...