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Donatello 1: Mentor Sessions
Monday, July 20
Michael
Dickinson
Chicken Ranch
Records,
Founder
Michael Dickinson is the founder of Austin-based record label
Chicken Ranch Records and co-founder of Nashville-based com-
panies Full Service Music and Do615. His partnership with re-
cording artists Peelander-Z has spawned the Mad Tiger Festival,
which has become an annual family friendly event at the end of
the SXSW Music Festival.
He serves as an advisor to Austin startup Weeli, and the upcom-
ing City of Songs television program. Dickinson is partnering in
both financial and social media startups launching in 2015. He
currently serves on the board of Austin music non-profit Anthro-
pos Arts and is a member of the Recording Academy and A2iM.
Tiffanie
Stanard
Prestige Concepts
LLC,
Founder & CEO
Tiffanie Stanard is a serial entrepreneur, named by Femme and
Fortune Magazine as one of the 30 Under 30 Inspiring Women in
Philadelphia. For over seven years, Stanard has been the Found-
er and CEO of Prestige Concepts (PC). PC is a brand enhance-
ment firm, specializing in marketing strategies and community
outreach campaigns. Stanard is the Founder and CEO of We are
MENT™, a wearable technology company that connects females
through a global network to learn, grow, and inspire. During
years of working with non-profit organizations, Stanard creat-
ed ConTechs: Connect + Tech = Community program, teaching
technology and business skills to urban communities. Stanard's
motto to entrepreneurs: "Accomplish Forgotten Dreams."
Jeffrey
Burlin
PwC,
Manager
Jeff Burlin is an electrical engineer by education, and technology
consultant by occupation. He is currently part of the core team
at PricewaterhouseCoopers' Emerging Technology Lab, where
he focuses his time on exploring new web technologies and un-
derstanding how they can be applied to solve enterprise-level
business problems.
He is also a strong advocate of agile and lean-startup principles,
and believes they can be just as valuable to large companies as
they are to startups and entrepreneurs.
11:45am
Donatello 1: Mentor Session
MONDAY
