Entrepreneurs Serving Entrepreneurs
We know what it’s like to start and scale a business.
We are a team of local Entrepreneurial Ecosystem-Builders (known as Venture Catalysts)
We take a system-level view of the entrepreneurship and innovation assets in a community and region, connect entrepreneurs and innovators to key resources, and work with partners to fill gaps where necessary in order to help elevate the entire ecosystem and enable a culture of possibilities.
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Andrea Divine
Controller
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Brian Brown
Lane County Venture Catalyst
brian@raincatalysts.org
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Cecily Gubitosi
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Ellyn Mole
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Hai-Anh Vu
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Heather Blake
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Jade Rehder
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Jerry Bautista
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Jonathan Carpenter Eells
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Jorge Estefan
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Jude Anderson
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Nate Conroy
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Rachel Jagoda Brunette
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Tom Wiederrecht
Finance and Operations Director
tom@raincatalysts.org
Our Board of Directors
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Juan Barraza
Board President, Executive Committee, Finance Committee
Director of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, VertueLab
Founder of Pitch Latino and Latino Founders Accelerator
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Katrina Hull
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Artees Vannett
Treasurer, Sustainability/Fundraising Committee
Director of Operations – Grey Snow Management Solutions an Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska Economic Development Corporation
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Erin Reynolds
Past Board President, Executive Committee, Finance Committee
City Manager for the City of Florence
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Robert Gable
Secretary, Executive Committee, Systems Committee
Manager of Workforce Development, EmpRes Healthcare Management
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Ranjit Ghoshal
Board Member, Stakeholder Appreciation Committee, Sustainability Committee
Founder of MillionSteps.com, Fellow of the School of Social Entrepreneurs, Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacture & Commerce
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Nola Osinubi, PhD