mHub Mentorship


mHUB’s mentor networks is comprised of a broad base of industry leading experts. Our mentors have backgrounds ranging from technical to business development. They provide support to our members in areas that include but are not limited to manufacturing innovation, IoT, electronics and other cutting-edge technologies, business development, sales and marketing, various areas of the law, and financing.

We value diversity of our mentors, not just in terms of skills and expertise but also diversity of race/ethnicity, gender, experience, and thought. Our mentors hail from Chicago, the Midwest, and across the US. They volunteer their time and expertise to offer guidance and leverage their networks in support of mHUB members. These generous contributions directly impact the success of our members.

Mentor Commitment

Mentors commit to a four-month period with four one-hour sessions per month. Mentors are selected based on the skill set and knowledge demands of mHUB's member community.

Interested in Becoming an mHUB Mentor?

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Click here to apply today.

Meet our Mentors

Alicia del Real

Executive Coach, The Center for Advanced Emotional Intelligence

Skills:
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Leadership and Team Building
  • mPOWER Cohort
Alina Pitman

COO & Head of Consulting, Ballistix

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Customer Discovery and Development
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Sourcing and Supply Chain Management
Allison Winstel

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Skills:
Andy Kamphuis

Shareholder, Illinois Market; Vrakas CPAs + Advisors

Skills:
  • Financials: Budgeting, Accounting, and Risk Management
Anna Maria Viti-Welch

President, Viti Companies

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
Carlos Correia

VP and General Manager, Assets and Sustainability Performance, UL

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Customer Discovery and Development
  • Design for Manufacturability
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Product Design Engineering
  • Product Testing
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Sourcing and Supply Chain Management
  • Software Development
  • Software-Hardware Integration
  • Leadership and Team Building
  • Exporting
  • International Trade
Daniel Wang

CEO, MSPbots.ai

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Leadership and Team Building
Ethelbert Williams

Head of eCommerce, US Customer Development Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Financials: Budgeting, Accounting, and Risk Management
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Product Design Engineering
  • Sales and Marketing
Gail Ludewig

President, TotalWorks, Inc.

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Financials: Budgeting, Accounting, and Risk Management
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Sales and Marketing
  • mPOWER Cohort
Haven Allen

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Skills:
Henry Alder

Managing Director, Access to Care Partners LLC

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Sales and Marketing
Ilan Cohen

Founder, Loudog Consulting

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Financials: Budgeting, Accounting, and Risk Management
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
Luis Andrade

Director, Client Intelligence & Discovery

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Customer Discovery and Development
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Product Design Engineering
  • mPOWER Cohort
Luisa Castellanos

COO, Science on Call

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Financials: Budgeting, Accounting, and Risk Management
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Sales and Marketing
Manas Mehandru

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Skills:
Marcelo Sacchetin

Principal Product Security Engineer, Rebellion Defense

Skills:
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Software Development
  • Software-Hardware Integration
  • Leadership and Team Building
Mark Litton

Owner, Howard Medical Company

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Financials: Budgeting, Accounting, and Risk Management
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Sourcing and Supply Chain Management
Melanie Mosley

CEO, Light Dynamics Inc.

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Design for Manufacturability
  • Product Design Engineering
  • Product Testing
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Software Development
  • Software-Hardware Integration
  • mPOWER Cohort
Michael Smith

Founder/CEO, MP Smith Strategies, LLC

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Product Design Engineering
  • Sourcing and Supply Chain Management
Paul Luna

Senior Marketing Innovation Manager, The Kellogg Company

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Product Design Engineering
  • Sales and Marketing
Shannon McGhee

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Skills:
Shilpi Kumar

Consultant, Khoj Lab

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Design for Manufacturability
  • Product Design Engineering
  • mPOWER Cohort
Stuart Bernstein

Chief Problem Solver, Solve For (X)

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Customer Discovery and Development
  • Financials: Budgeting, Accounting, and Risk Management
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Leadership and Team Building
Susan Dawson

Partner, Navigant Law

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • mPOWER Cohort
Troy Henikoff

Managing Director, MATH Venture Partners

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Sales and Marketing
Briana Yesilli

Attorney, Cooley

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • mPOWER Cohort
Candance Chow

Managing Director, NextGroup LLC

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Customer Discovery and Development
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
Chris Gammell

Developer Relations Lead, Golioth

Skills:
  • Product Testing
  • Software Development
  • Software-Hardware Integration
Christie Johnson

Partner, Prodct

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Design for Manufacturability
  • Product Design Engineering
  • Product Testing
  • Sourcing and Supply Chain Management
  • Leadership and Team Building
Dan Waterloo

Owner, Interface Technologies

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Product Design Engineering
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Sourcing and Supply Chain Management
Erin Hallstrom

Director of Digital Content Strategy, Endeavor Business Media

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Sales and Marketing
Frank Taaning-Grundholm

Regional Sales Manager, Kollmorgen, RegalRexnord Group

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Design for Manufacturability
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Product Testing
  • Sales and Marketing
Giordana Mahn

Associate, Fish & Richardson

Skills:
  • Product Design Engineering
  • mPOWER Cohort
Isaac McCoy

Dean of the School of Business, Entrepreneurship, and CIS, Stillman College

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
James Waring

Director, Director-to-Consumer & E-Commerce

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Design for Manufacturability
  • Financials: Budgeting, Accounting, and Risk Management
  • Product Design Engineering
  • Sales and Marketing
Joey Mak

Executive Director, Chicago:Blend

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • mPOWER Cohort
Justin Aschenbener

Engineering manager II, Samsara Inc

Skills:
  • Product Testing
  • Software Development
  • Software-Hardware Integration
  • Leadership and Team Building
Karen Kerr

Executive Managing Director, GE Ventures

Skills:
  • Customer Discovery and Development
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Sales and Marketing
Manish Mehta

Partner in Charge, Benesch Friedlander

Skills:
  • Design for Manufacturability
  • Product Design Engineering
Matthew Doubleday

Principal, Creative Advisors

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Customer Discovery and Development
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Leadership and Team Building
Maureen Wozniak

Major Accounts Manager, Better Business Bureau

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Sales and Marketing
Michael O'Brien

Strategy and Business Transformation Manager, Lydall

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Financials: Budgeting, Accounting, and Risk Management
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Sales and Marketing
Nicole Stevenson

VP Strategy & Marketing, Flex

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Sales and Marketing
  • mPOWER Cohort
Nii Dodoo-Amoo

Principal, Solon Capital Partners

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Financials: Budgeting, Accounting, and Risk Management
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Product Testing
  • Sourcing and Supply Chain Management
Nik Rokop

Coleman Foundation Clinical Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Illinois Institute of Technology

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Financials: Budgeting, Accounting, and Risk Management
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Sales and Marketing
Olivia vonNieda

CEO and Founder, Kanvia Coffee Company

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Financials: Budgeting, Accounting, and Risk Management
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Product Testing
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Leadership and Team Building
Patrick Donohue

President, Donohue Ventures, Inc.

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Customer Discovery and Development
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Sourcing and Supply Chain Management
Rahul Chaudhary

CEO, Namaste Laboratories

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Financials: Budgeting, Accounting, and Risk Management
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Sourcing and Supply Chain Management
  • Leadership and Team Building
Roza Szafranek

Founder & CEO, HR Hints

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Customer Discovery and Development
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Product Testing
  • Leadership and Team Building
Shivam Sinha

Portfolio Manager, Glax Capital

Skills:
  • Business Strategy
  • Financials: Budgeting, Accounting, and Risk Management
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Software Development
Steve Dinelli

Angel Investor, Independent

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Customer Discovery and Development
  • Financials: Budgeting, Accounting, and Risk Management
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Sales and Marketing
Steven Sheiner

Partner, Camden Street Partners LLC

Skills:
  • Advertising/PR/Communications/Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Financials: Budgeting, Accounting, and Risk Management
  • Fundraising and Investor Strategy
  • Organizational Development and Human Resources
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Leadership and Team Building

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