We get excited about a lot of things in the startup scene across North Texas, and one in particular is the growing number of people wanting to get involved. In the spring of this year, we started The DEC Ambassador Program, a volunteer network providing leadership opportunities in the startup community. Over the course of three months, we introduced a group of individuals that share in the DEC values and mission of creating a collaborative ecosystem and connected them to various organizations and people across the city and country that are doing just that.
The first class of Ambassadors had a direct impact to over 25 organizations, both locally and nationally, and each were given the tools to help local startup companies succeed by being a connector to the resources available in our community. By the end of the program, we were blown away by their enthusiasm to continue staying involved and have seen so many of them out and about in the community making an impact.
We have been honored to serve alongside the first class of Ambassadors and look forward to another amazing group of individuals ready to go head first in to the startup scene.
With that, we are excited to announce the Fall DEC Ambassadors class:
Mouyyad Abdulhadi, Texas Health Resources
John Adolph, Parqer
Michael Albrecht, AT&T Foundry
Emiola Banwo, Student at University Texas at Dallas
Mariah Castillo, Student at Southern Methodist University
Amelia Clark, Digital Marketing Consultant
Bentely Davis, Compassion Plans
Maribel De Leon, TZOM Films
David Fares, BizTraffic, LLC
Dexter Freeman, Dallas Regional Chamber
Stacey Guillen, Baylor Health Care System
Laurie Green, TipApplause
Jake Hamlin, QEVC
Chase Harker, The Feld Group Institute
Aassia Haq, Consultant & Strategic Advisor
Kristin Houston, Attorneys Serving the Community
Jacob Katz, Executive Security Systems, Inc.
Jun Ho Koh, Student at Southern Methodist University
Amanda Marcovitch, CBRE
Edna Navarro, Clay Piggy
Kimberly O’Neil, The Giving Blueprint
Shahrzad Rizvi, City of Dallas
Megan Rush, Ericsson
Darlene Schneider, White Spaces
Taylor Schrang, Taylor Schrang Consulting
Chris Sundberg, Deloitte
Kiran Talluri, Cowles & Thompson
Baiju Thakkar, Priceline.com
Jonathan Van, UT Discovery Fund
Nicholas Vrana, Technology Spa
Kelly Welborn, idreamSpeakers, LLC
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