Winterim is a five-day entrepreneurship immersion event that culminates in a pitch competition. We are back to being fully in person but will still offer the opportunity to alumni, parents, students, faculty/staff, and the professional community to attend some of our sessions.
Over 60 professionals served as speakers, mentors and judges for our 27 students during January 8-13. Here are the events our alumni/parents and the greater community are invited to participate in and/or watch.
Keynote
When: January 10, 2023 at 11am (PST)
Topic: “How to Translate Your Liberal Arts Education Into the Real World”
Former Commodities Trader turned reporter Nigel Jaquiss will share his thoughts on how to have the courage and skillset to tell the truth.
When: January 10, 2023 at 6pm (PST)
Topic: “Ownership as the Next Revolution: Independence Into Perpetuity”
Our speaker Elizabeth Darrow was the CEO of Organically Grown Company, while there she helped develop and implement the perpetual trust model later adopted by Patagonia and others.
Judges
- Juan Barraza - Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at VertueLab
- Christopher Bates - Managing Director and Chief CIO of Brampton Gillow Advisors LLC
- Stephen Green - Entrepreneur, Author, Recovering Banker & VC
- Mohan Nair - CEO Emerge USA, Author, Edmund Hillary Fellow (New Zealand)
- Brandon Ross - Senior Associate Analyst at Elevate Capital Fund
- Suzanne Stevens - Editor of the
- Jessica Zutz Hilbert - Senior Practice Management Specialist, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Speakers
- Jason Bolt - Founder & CEO at REVANT OPTICS
- J Cheema - Marketing & Strategy Expert, Allergan Aesthetics
- Elizabeth Darrow - Operations, Freeland Spirits
- Mitch Daugherty - Director, Built Oregon
- Carl Guess - Executive Presentation Coach at Elevator Speech
- Brian Gurski - Sr. Vice President/Strategy & Innovation, TrueFund Financial Services
- Catherine Healy - Owner & Creative Director, Flint Design Company
- Lisa Hearlinger - Founder, Ruby Jewels
- Brent Hutchings* - CEO of North River Boats
- J Pinky Jansen - Marketing Strategist
- Nigel Jaquiss - Former Commodities Trader turned reporter
- Nelson Pizarro - Adjunct Professor, Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Lewis & Clark College
- Hogan Johnson - Business Development Director, Flint Design Company
- Jake Kindrachuk - Partner, Village Family Capital
- Heather Kirshman - CIO, Point Forward Wealth Advisors, Founder/Managing Partner at Pod
- Ben McKinley - CEO/Founder, Cascade Web Development
- Greg Netzer - Founding Partner, Intro Brand Marketing
- Katharine Reinhold - Director Of Innovation, Adidas, Founder/Managing Partner at Pod
- Rick Turoczy - Cofounder & General Manager at Pie, Cofounder, Built Oregon
- Alex Wills - Global Finance Manager, Jordan Brand, Nike
Mentors
- Kanika Agrawal - General Manager, Lyft Bikes & Scooters
- Matt Bolte - Managing Partner, Chief Product Officer at ThenWhat
- Jim Chi - Founding Member of Oregon Sports Angels and Principal at Cascade Management Consulting
- Doug Freeman - Startup Communications Services/Consulting, Ideascape Inc.
- Eric Garman - Trade Development Manager
- David Harris - Retired Executive at Harris Oil, banking and insurance
- Shashi Jain - Innovation Artist for AI
- Hongda Jiang - Segment Finance Lead at
- Jon Maroney - General Partner, Oregon Venture Fund
- Skip Newberry - President and CEO of Technology Association of Oregon
- John Paik - SVP of Global Marketing at MiiR
- Tawny Schlieski - President of Oregon Story Board, Founder of Shovels and Whiskey
- Paul Vogel - Executive Director, Columbia Economic Team
- Christine Walter - Owner of Bauman’s Cider
- Robin Wang - Consulting CFO at CFO Selections
Ask Me Anything (AMA)
- Alex Gamboa Grand - Relationship Specialist, OEN, Co-Founder Way of Being
- Cara Turano - President and Executive Director, OEN
- Carl Guess - Executive Presentation Coach, Elevator Speech
- Claire Randall - President, Grand Central Bakery
- Dan Rasay - Managing Director, Egnaro Labs & President, PBK Management
- Dave Barcos - Director of Business Development, Formos
- David Harris - Executive at Harris Oil, banking and insurance
- Doug Freeman - Creative Business Communication, Ideascape Inc.
- Elaine Hsieh - Director of Community Engagement, TAO
- Eric Garman - Trade Development Manager, Oregon Department of Agriculture
- Gretchen Miller - Executive Producer, HIVE-FX
- Hanako Imber - SVP of Onboarding and Data Operations at Cloudmed
- Hongda Jiang - Segment Finance Lead at Intel Corporation
- Jessica Mullins - Engineer, Nike
- Jim Chi - Founding Member, Oregon Sports Angels
- John Stadter - Principal, NLVP
- Jon Maroney - General Partner, Oregon Venture Fund
- Lizzy FitzGerald - Entrepreneur In Residence, Daygold
- Matt Bolte - Management Consultant, ThenWhat
- Naomi Pomeroy - Chef/Owner, Beast/Expatriate
- Noah Koff - Business Coach, Redwood Partners
- Paul Vogel - Executive Director, Columbia Economic Team
- Roy Notowitz - Founder & CEO at Noto Group
- Shashi Jain - Sr. Innovation Manager, Intel
- Shawn Cole - President & Founding Partner, Cowen Partners
- Suzanne Stevens - Editor, Portland Business Journal
The Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership is located in room 344 of J.R. Howard Hall on the Undergraduate Campus.
MSC: 71
email entrepreneurship@lclark.edu
Chrys Hutchings
Director
chryshutchings@lclark.edu
503-768-7683
Catarina Hunter
Associate Director
chunter@lclark.edu
503-768-8683
The Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road MSC 71
Portland OR 97219