Winterim is a five-day entrepreneurship immersion event that culminates in a pitch competition.
Over 60 professionals serve as speakers, mentors and judges for our 31 students during January 7-12, 2024. Alumni, parents and the greater community are invited to join us in person or virtually for the Pitch Competition on Friday, January 12.
Pitch Competition
When: Jan 12, 2024 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Pitch Competition
This is a chance for family, friends and fans to see all the team pitches
Judges
- Tony Abena - Operating Partner, Lightview Capital
- Alline Akintore - Partner, Oregon Venture Fund
- Devon Horace - Principal, Portland Seed Fund
- Ann McQuesten - Corporate Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
- Mohan Nair - CEO Emerge USA, Author, Edmund Hillary Fellow (New Zealand)
- Malia Spencer - Reporter, Portland Business Journal
- Christine Walter - Owner and Head Cider Maker, Bauman’s Cider
Speakers
- Marcelino Alvarez - CEO, Photon Marine
- Mitch Daugherty - Director, Built Oregon
- Carl Guess - Executive Presentation Coach at Elevator Speech
- Paula Hayes - President & CEO, Hue Noir Cosmetics, Board Chair, Lewis & Clark Board of Trustees
- Catherine Healy - Owner & Creative Director, Flint Design Company
- Michelle Hunt - Former CEO, The No-Bake Cookie Co.
- Chrys Hutchings - Managing Director and adjunct professor, Bates Center - Lewis & Clark College
- Michelle Lantow - Retired CFO
- Allie Magyar - Founder & CEO, Hubb
- Hunter Meece - Real Estate Capital Markets & Startups
- Jelani Memory - Founder & CEO, A Kids Co.
- Katharine Reinhold - Director Of Innovation, Adidas, Founder/Managing Partner at Pod
- Carly Richter - Recruiter at True Calling Recruitment and HR Annie
- Junea Rocha - Cofounder & CMO, Brazi Bites
- Rick Turoczy - Cofounder & General Manager at Pie, Cofounder, Built Oregon
- Amelia Wilcox - Educator, creative problem solver, clinical psychologist, Lewis & Clark professor
- Alex Wills - Global Finance Manager, Jordan Brand, Nike
Mentors
- Kanika Agrawal - General Manager, Lyft Bikes & Scooters
- Michelle Arnau - Cofounder & CEO, Mimikai
- Noah Brockman - Team Lead, OSBDCN’s Capital Access Team (CAT), Pointman Consulting
- Jim Chi - Founding Member of Oregon Sports Angels and Principal at Cascade Management Consulting
- Mitch Daugherty - Director, Built Oregon
- Alli Deverman - Azure AI Innovation Program Lead, Microsoft
- Sean Edwards - Partner, Village Family Capital
- Alma Emadi - Cofounder and Principal at Symbol, Adjunct at Lewis & Clark
- Matthew Fox - Entrepreneurship Professor, Lewis & Clark College
- Doug Freeman - Startup Communications Services/Consulting, Ideascape Inc.
- Alex Gamboa Grand - Relationship Specialist, OEN, Cofounder, Way of Being
- Stephen Green - Executive Director, Business for a Better Portland
- Eric Hoest - CFO, Wyld
- Shashi Jain - Innovation Artist for AI
- Hongda Jiang - Segment Finance Lead at
- Jake Kindrachuk - Partner, Village Family Capital Jon Loomis Director of Hospital Finance, OHSU
- Patrick Maloney - Principal & Founder, Occam Advisors
- Pat McCauley - CEO & Owner, Bridgewell Agribusiness LLC
- Ben McKinley - CEO/Founder, Cascade Web Development
- Brianne Mees - Cofounder/CEO, Tender Loving Empire
- Darius Monsef - Founder & CEO, Genie.gg
- Robin Wang - Consulting CFO at CFO Selections
Ask Me Anything (AMA)
- Alan Amling - Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Tennessee, CEO Thrive and Advance LLC
- Raed Attia - Human Capital Consultant at Deloitte, Venture Partner at Taihill Venture
- Dave Barcos - Director of Business Development, Formos
- Matt Bolte - Management Consultant, ThenWhat
- Sheri Cole - Director OSU Sustainable Food Manufacturing
- Graham Crawford - EVP Finance & Operations, Gales Footwear
- Jack Derington
- Elaine Hsieh - Director of Community Engagement, TAO
- Holly Hurley Feather - CEO and Founder at HHF Strategy, Head of Hype at The Listening Booth
- Hongda Jiang - Segment Finance Lead at Intel Corporation
- Dan Kihanya - Director of Path Ahead Ventures REI
- Rèland Logan - Founder and Owner of Gray Digital Marketing
- Allie Magyar - Founder & CEO, Hubb
- Maria Pearman CPA - Partner GHJ
- Thor Retzlaff - Co-Founder at Wasted* PBC
- Neil Simon - Executive Vice President at Resolute, Coastline PR
- John Stadter - Principal, NLVP
- Isaiah Steinfeld - AWS Startups, GM/Global Head of ACE
- Adam L. Turco - Founder & President, Primetrics
- Paul Vogel - Executive Director, Columbia Economic Team
- Alex Wick - Master Forester at Cascadia Carbon
- Paul Zorner - CEO and CoFounder at Remote Epigenetics
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
Portland OR 97219