Nominations are closing soon!

Nominations for Titans of Tech close on Monday, November 21st at 8am. Awardees will be announced in our newsletter on Monday, November 28th. Head to this link to submit your nominations: https://bit.ly/titanF22

Here are the names of the nominees that we have received so far:

• Allison Steitz: Head of Growth and Innovation at Paystand

• Andrea Pesce: Director of industry Alliances, Innovation & Business Engagement Hub at UCSC

• Andrew Devlin: CEO of PitchHub 

• Aviv Elor: Co-Founder and Principal Investigator at Immergo Labs

• Bates Marshall: CEO and Co-founder at Ambient Photonics, Inc.

• Bella Bonner: Executive Director of Black Surf Club

• Benjamin Richardson: Director at Defense Innovation Unit

• Bob Cagle: CEO, productOps

• Chris Bley: Co-Founder and Director of Monterey Bay DART and Founder of AirSpace Integration

• Cindi Busenhart: Founder and CEO of MERGE4 

• Elmar Mair: Co-founder of Neatleaf

• James O'Connor: CEO and Founder of Innovation Within

• Jordan Layman: Owner of Idea Fab Labs

• Juan Bravo: Director of Technical Services at Cruz foam

• Julie Edwards: Coordinator, Career Technical Education at Pajaro Valley Unified School District

• Leila Takayama: Associate Professor at UCSC, VP of Design and HRI at Robust.AI 

• Maggie Mathias: Chief Product Officer at 2NDNATURE

• Nada Miljkovic: CEO of GetVirtual

• Richard “Ed” Green: Professor at UCSC/Co-founder Claret Bio

• Scott Nelson: Executive of Veritas Substrates and International Biz Dev at Plant Sciences, Inc.

• Sri Kurniawan: UCSC Associate Professor of Computational Media

• Stacy Nagel: Google Staff Program Manager at Google

• Susan Ruiz: Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz

• Tammie Weigl: Director of ISD, County of Santa Cruz

• Terri Oropeza: CIS Faculty | Internships and Work Experience at Cabrillo College

• William Wiseman: CEO and co-founder of Climatize

Nominees who have been a Titan in the past have been omitted.

Past Titans

February 23, 2017

• Ken Kannappan, Plantronics

• Ryan Evans, Inboard

• Keri Waters, Calliope Waterworks, Inc.

• Sol Lipman, Ya Doggie

• Jacob Martinez, Digital NEST

• Toby Corey, SolarCity/Tesla

• Peggy Dolgenos, Cruzio Internet

• Drew Meyer, Amazon Web Services

• Mohamed Abousalem, UC Santa Cruz Office of Research

• Margaret Lawrence Rosas, Looker

January 25, 2018

• Darrin Caddes - Chief Design Officer at Poly

• Doug Erickson - Santa Cruz New Tech MeetUp / Nanigans

• Heidi Schriefer - Looker

• Ted Holladay - Studio Holladay

• Jeremy Almond - Paystand

• Bonnie Lipscomb - City of Santa Cruz Economic Development Office

• Justis Earle - HANSNAP

• Keri Waters - Buoy Labs

• Robert Singleton - Santa Cruz County Business Council

• JoeBen Bevirt- Joby Aviation

January 17, 2019

• John Felts - Cruz Foam

• Chrissy Meyer - Partner at Root Ventures

• Guy Kawasaki - Chief evangelist, Canva. Board member, Cheeze. Brand ambassador, Mercedes-Benz.

• Sara Isenberg - Santa Cruz Tech Beat

• Robin Hunicke - Professor at UCSC and Co-Founder at Funomena

• Socrates Rosenfeld - Jane Technologies

• David Dennis - Microsoft / Ventana Surfboards & Supplies

• Orion Melehan - LIFEAID Beverage Co.

January 8th, 2020

• Mark Randolph / Netflix

• Nina Simon / MAH

• David Haussler / UCSC Genomics

• Alexandra Navarro / Digital NEST

• LeBaron Meyers / #NotMe

• Jason Borgen / SC County Office of Education

• Sam Paschel / Zero Motorcycles

• Aaron Huang / student at UCSC

• Brad Barbeau / CSUMB

• Joe Burton / Poly

March 2nd, 2021

• Alex Gershenson / Supply Shift

• Alexander Wolf / UCSC Baskin School of Engineering

• Becca Fenwick / UCSC

• Chris Miller / Cloud Brigade

• Hilary Bryant / Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County

• James Hackett & Chris Frost / Equal Access Santa Cruz

• Michael Sikand / Our Future

• Nicole Beck / 2ndNATURE Software Philippe Kahn / FullPower Technologies

• Roya Pakzad / Taraaz Research