Meet the People
Building With You.
Hover any card to flip it. Every person on this page brings hands-on experience building, launching, supporting, or growing real products and companies.
Has spent decades building and supporting startups and software companies. After launching three startups in the 1990s, he joined Concur in 1998 and helped scale it from $10M to $1.7B in revenue. Since 2016, he has served as a mentor, investor, and advocate for the regional tech ecosystem.
Has spent his career building software companies, starting his first from his parents' basement in college. Since then, he has helped found, grow, and sell multiple SaaS companies — working across sales, marketing, product, development, operations, and fundraising.
Brings experience across entrepreneurship, operations, education, and federal program leadership. He has spent the past eight years teaching innovation and entrepreneurship at SD Mines, where he holds degrees alongside one from USD. He lives in Rapid City with his wife and three children.
Entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of BroodStack and ControlQore. Over the past 20 years, he has built and invested in companies across real estate, software, hospitality, and services, with several successful exits. He brings deep experience in strategy, finance, operations, and business development.
Leads product innovation and delivery at Wildfire Labs, and coaches founders on turning their ideas into launched products. Ship It, then Shape It.
Joined Wildfire Labs as a limited partner in 2025. She brings 10+ years of experience in go-to-market strategy, business development, and partnerships, with roles at WaitWhat, Dropbox, Newsela, Reforge, Pearl Health, and Cue Ball Capital. She holds a BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Leads product management for the Wildfire Labs app while managing the operational backbone that keeps founders, mentors, and the internal team aligned and moving forward.
A technology leader with 7+ years of experience across spatial data analytics, operations, and data-driven solutions. Based in Mumbai with an engineering background, she is passionate about innovation, sustainability, mentorship, and expanding access in tech.
Works with founders to move from idea to MVP, provides support when projects get stuck or need rescuing, and helps strengthen go-to-market efforts so startups can reach customers, test demand, and move toward revenue.
Builds and improves the Wildfire Labs product to deliver a seamless, scalable user experience. His work spans feature development, performance enhancements, and ongoing innovation across the platform.
Designs and builds the technology that brings founders' ideas to life — writing, testing, and shipping the systems that keep the platform running smoothly.
Leads social media and content marketing for Wildfire Labs, promoting the studio's Substack and podcast while working with founders to spotlight their startups. She is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of South Carolina.
Designs, architects, and ships the technology behind Wildfire Labs — building, testing, and maintaining the systems that founders rely on.