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Escape Velocity empowers visionary entrepreneurs to propel their businesses beyond the bounds of possibility. Our mission is to catalyze the growth of innovative startups by providing resources, mentorship, and access to networks. Through relentless support, we launch ventures into orbit, driving economic growth and shaping the future of our community and beyond.

Accelerator Chair for the Connecticut Chapter - https://www.eonetwork.org/eo-accelerator- Entrepreneurial Accelerator program statistically helping early stage companies grow from a minimum of $250k increasing the odds of their startup growing from $250k in revenue to over $1M+ in revenue by 4X comparing to going alone.Sit on the Entrepreneurs Organization Board for the Connecticut Chapter - Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) Chair. Celebrating emerging student entrepreneurs success and continued development and growth of their companies.

Umergence is a premier broker dealer placement agent specializing in private placements and alternative investments. Our representatives focus on institutional capital placements, M&A advisory, early to late stage direct investments, and late-stage secondary opportunities.Our world class team of seasoned professionals average more than 20 years in the industry and have collectively been involved with raising more than $75 billion of capital. We leverage a carefully cultivated network of domestic and international single/multi-family offices, high net worth individuals, private equity funds, pensions funds, endowment funds, sovereign wealth funds, institutional lenders and strategic investors.Building curated relationships for Family Office & Institutional Investors & locating exceptional deal flowOverseeing enterprise application development, integration and data management policy Developed full service, online business development platform, co-drafted all supervisory procedures, securities agreements, partnership and agency contractingPlatform facilitates public and private offerings of securities for startup companiesCosmic ClearanceMember FINRA/SPIC:https://brokercheck.finra.org/firm/summary/284368https://Umergence.comhttps://Community.Umergence.comhttps://Umergence.Ventures

Umergence is a premier broker dealer placement agent specializing in private placements and alternative investments. Our representatives focus on institutional capital placements, M&A advisory, early to late stage direct investments, and late-stage secondary opportunities.Our world class team of seasoned professionals average more than 20 years in the industry and have collectively been involved with raising more than $75 billion of capital. We leverage a carefully cultivated network of domestic and international single/multi-family offices, high net worth individuals, private equity funds, pensions funds, endowment funds, sovereign wealth funds, institutional lenders and strategic investors.Supervisory principal-- overseeing business development, deal flow, registered agent and firm compliance Member FINRA/SPIC: https://brokercheck.finra.org/firm/summary/284368https://Umergence.comhttps://Community.Umergence.com

SumatoSoft is a software development company which focuses on the partners’ business goals and needs, assigns experienced software development teams, ensures clear workflows and communication build and uses the best industry practices to ensure continuous value delivery.‍Having developed more than 120 custom solutions for more than 100 companies from 20+ countries since 2012, we can say and prove that we know how to develop custom software in the right way.Overseeing US project management and new business development for a team of over 80 software developersSpecialty full-stack development firm w/70% senior engineers, >100 successfully completed projects with 98% Clutch.co satisfaction rate and clients served in 25 different countriesAmazon consulting Partner; recognition by Goodfirms.co; topdigital.agency and Softwareworld.co

Managed staff, budgeting and full cycle project management for 12 developers and specialistsIT Projects and Operations Governance Committee Chair managing $1M budget for IT projects throughout the main campus and the regional campuses. Tech-Lead – Digitizing ticket sales, security process and public/private platform integration for all UCONN, theater, museums and eventsTech-Lead – Automated data activity log and digitization of over 8,000-member faculty data repository of published work and activity for all UConn faculty and staff on behalf of the UCONN Office of Institutional Research (OIR)