Advisors
Frank Pelosi, Jr., MD.
Frank Pelosi, Jr., MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. He is currently director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Program at the University of Michigan Health System. Originally from Galveston, Texas, Dr. Pelosi earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center––San Antonio, completed his internal medicine residency at Exempla St Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado; completed cardiovascular fellowship at Baylor University Medical Center and cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at the University of Michigan. He has been on faculty at the University of Michigan since 1999.
Dr. Pelosi has authored or coauthored over 200 manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters in national publications and has lectured and taught physicians throughout the country at national scientific meetings. He has served on national committees to establish standards in cardiac rhythm diseases and implantable cardiac devices. He is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Cardiology and has served as an advisor and consultant for several Fortune 500 biomedical companies. From his work at the University of Michigan, he is the cofounder and Chief Medical Officer of Avicenna Medical Systems, a medical software start-up whose products are used at the University of Michigan and several Veterans Administration locations throughout the United States.
Dr. Pelosi is most proud of his lovely and inspirational wife of 24 years and freely credits her for raising their three outstanding sons. Dr. Pelosi is a committed Christian, and his faith is a source of strength and inspiration in everything he does.
Babak Nivi
FOUNDER OF VENTURE HACKS
Babak Nivi's work in venture capital includes serving as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Bessemer Venture Partners and Atlas Venture. He was also an Associate at Seed Capital Partners.
His work in startups includes serving as a Vice President at Songbird and an Advisor to startups including Grockit, Songbird, and Newroo.
He has S.B., M. Eng., and Ph.D. dropout degrees from MIT, where he co-invented the technology for Kovio. He has two patents and has published a paper in Science. He was also a NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the MIT Media Lab.
Farb Nivi
Fascinated with social learning as a field of study since he was an undergraduate at Michigan, Farb Nivi has been on a course of learning for his current role ever since those early days. Later, when he was a teacher at the Princeton Review, Farb found great success by creating social learning in physical rooms. He was even named National Teacher of the Year (by the Princeton Review in 2001). Nonetheless, after nearly a decade of teaching at The Princeton Review and Kaplan, Farb realized that he was only reaching students with socioeconomic advantages. “Like most Americans, my concerns about the educational crisis in America prompted me to act,” he say. “I started to teach through video courses online in 2007, and web-based social learning features started evolving within my circle of collaborators very quickly. That was really the start of Grockit.” What exactly is Grockit? Find out in this in-depth look at what Grockit literally means, and what one college student said when he stopped Farb on a campus sidewalk after seeing the Grockit logo on his sweatshirt.
Peter Michaelides
Since graduating from the University of Michigan, Peter has spent his career in Cybersecurity, working with Oracle, Duo Security, Cisco Secure Works, and most recently, Armorblox, Inc. His experience is focused on End Point and Cloud Communication protection however his primary expertise is in Multifactor authentication and email security.
As an advisor, Peter has taken on a CISO-like role in guiding organizations across multiple technological environments toward a more secure and compliant position.