Delaware Innovation Week 2016

Revital Hirsch is an Investor in Residence with Saul Ewing LLP with more than a decade’s experience in life sciences venture capital investing. Ms. Hirsch has substantial experience in evaluating business plans and investor presentations, reviewing and negotiating term sheets, and modeling the impact of various financing alternatives on capital structure and exit proceed distributions. As Saul Ewing Investor in Residence through the firm’s RAMP (Resources, Access and Mentoring Program) initiative, Revital provides emerging companies in technology and life sciences with business and venture financing guidance.

Senior at the University of Delaware. He is studying biomedical engineering and is heavily involved with the campus’s entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem. He is always building new products and pitching them to anyone who is willing to listen.

Senior Finance Major at the University of Delaware. Jordan has been involved in the university’s Entrepreneurship Program, learning about the Lean Startup Method, for the last 4 years. Before working on GeoSwap, co-founded an engineering help website The Practice Set.

Rory Laitila is co-founder of itr8group.com, an agency specializing in custom applications and software development strategy, and SyncQL.io, a platform for building API connected applications. Rory & itr8group are a part of the growing Wilmington and Delaware tech scene and work out of The Loft at Start-it Up Delaware, in Downtown Wilmington.

Min Lee is as a technology enthusiast with great excitement about the current landscape of web technologies. As a thankful alumni of Delaware’s coding school, Zip Code Wilmington, he promotes the idea of building better technology by building people. Programming and house music is his bread and butter. At most times, you will find him writing code to that funky bassline.

Nat Measley, CEO (“Master of Fun”), The Fun Dept.

Nat Measley, MPA is a proven and successful entrepreneur with a history of designing, building and implementing organizational process. He is an experienced and exceptional public speaker, facilitator, and teacher with a strong background in leadership in higher education, business and entertainment. As the Global Director of Training and Development for The Fun Dept., Nat works directly with executives, decision-makers and HR professionals to develop plans and paths focused on employee engagement and education, tied directly to specific business-outcomes and goals.

Nat is the author of Playing it Forward: The Definitive “How To” Model for Creating a Winning Workplace Culture

Bhavana Hindupur is a software programmer with an experience of over 7 years in framework and full-stack web application development. She wrote her first computer program at the age of 8 in the BASIC language to calculate simple interest, and has been in love with programming and math ever since. Her passions include Eclipse Collections, keeping up with the latest trends in the programming world, getting better and better at functional programming, and convincing fellow programmers to place their curly braces on the next line. Bhavana recently moved to the United States with her husband and her toddler and is currently living and working in Newark. She is very excited by the technical community in Delaware and is eager to contribute to it.

With a Martindale-Hubbell, AV Preeminent® peer review rating, Jim focuses on patent and other intellectual property (IP) matters, and frequently represents challengers in pharmaceutical patent (ANDA) litigation. Starting in the Manhattan office of a preeminent IP law firm in 2001 and moving to Delaware in 2004, Jim's legal career focused on securing and enforcing patent and other IP rights and defending those wrongfully accused of infringement, in cases across the United States, with an emphasis in Delaware.