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2023 Winterim

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.

Winterim 2023 Overview/Booklet

Winterim Schedule

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