TEAM

Mentors, coaches, investors, and other valuable members of the agriculture, aquaculture, environmental, innovation, and startup ecosystems provide their expertise to the accelerator program. The interactions and counsel they provide to participating startups is the most valuable aspect of the program.

MIKE THIELKE

F³ Tech Executive Director
Startup | Funding | Logistics

CHRIS HLUBB

F³ Tech Program Director
Aquaculture | Entrepreneurship

SAM ZAPPAS

F³ Tech Business Strategy
Revenue and Business Strategy

TONY KERN

F³ Tech Board Chair
Technology | Investment

GEORGE NEMPHOS

Managing Partner at Nemphos Braue
Startup | Funding | Logistics

BILL MCCOMAS

Partner at Bowie & Jensen
Aquaculture | Entrepreneurship

FLOR ANDRES

CFO/VP Finance KIK Personal Care
Revenue and Business Strategy

CHRISTINE BUCAN

Executive
Technology | Investment

MENTORS AND INDUSTRY EXPERTS

CHUCK BLUMENSCHEIN

Recirculating Aquaculture | Waste Water Engineering

JOE COLYN

Food Manufacturing | Branding | Seed Investing

RYAN LOCKE

Agricultural Biotechnology | Crop Protection | Biological Pest Control

DAN RIDER

Forestry | Farming

The F3 Tech Accelerator program is funded in part through funding from the U.S. Economic Development Administration