Zach Millrood

Zach Millrood is Vice Chairman at Savills San Diego with more than 23 years of experience advising occupiers across industries and managing complex real estate portfolios on a regional, national, and international scale. Specializing exclusively in tenant representation, Zach is known for his strategic planning, accountability, and client-focused execution, consistently delivering successful outcomes regardless of […]
Annie Norviel

Annie is Audit Partner at Moss Adams LLP San Diego office and she leads the Life Sciences Practice in Southern California and Phoenix region. She has extensive audit and consulting experience with strong technical accounting knowledge and the ability to effectively lead engagements for serving private companies and SEC registrants. Annie is a Foundation Board […]
Abubakar Jalloh
Brian Kirkpatrick

Brian Kirkpatrick is a Director on the Life Sciences Team, part of the Innovation Banking Group at Western Alliance Bank. He oversees portfolio management and underwriting teams for the western half of the U.S., as well as business development activities in the Southwest. The Life Sciences Team provides full-service banking capabilities and debt financing options […]
Kristine Wexler

Kristine Wexler is the Managing Director of Bernstein’s San Diego office. Kristine is responsible for overseeing the San Diego office and works closely with high-net-worth individuals, families, and non-profit organizations implementing comprehensive wealth management strategies. She often works in concert with clients; other professional advisors to address critical planning issues, such as transferring wealth, philanthropy […]
Ram Krishnan

Ram Krishnan is a Senior Director of Engineering at Qualcomm. Ram’s tenure at Qualcomm spans over three decades, during which he played pivotal roles in various divisions. As a key leader in the modem chipset division, he contributed to the pioneering launch of the world’s first 4G service. Later Ram worked in Qualcomm’s IP department, […]
Chase Thomet

Chase joined JMI in 2014. He is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities as well as providing strategic and operational support to portfolio companies. Chase is currently a director of Greenlight Guru, Swiftly, and Visiting Media. He is a board observer at SOCi and Vena Solutions. Prior to joining JMI, Chase was an investment […]
Mike Faddoul

Mike is a partner in Crowe LLP’s life sciences audit practice. Mike has over 33 years of experience providing audit services to public and private companies in the Life Sciences, Manufacturing and Distribution industries. Mike has significant experience working with both privately-held and publicly traded companies. His experience includes SEC 1933 Act and 1934 Act […]
Ben Gamboa

As Associate Dean of Career Education at MiraCosta College, Ben manages program development of innovative and employer-aligned workforce development programs, career services, experiential and work-based learning programs, and over $4 million in workforce and economic development grants annually. Over his 23-year career in California’s community colleges, Ben has designed and facilitated systems- and team-based leadership […]
Brad Chisum

Brad Chisum is the Co-founder and CEO of EyePop.ai. Prior to co-founding EyePop.ai, he helped create Launch Factory, a startup studio created to build more intelligent startup companies. He is the former CEO and co-founder of Lumedyne Technologies acquired by Google in 2014. While at Google, Chisum served as the Product Manager for the technology […]