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LeapYear Team
Committed and trying to help
Founder / Partner / Helper
VP DoorDash — US Marketplace
COO Fanatics Betting & Gaming
Hank Couture
LeapYear Advisors
Functional experts who know what great looks like
Advisor - Product
Head of Consumer Product - DoorDash
Stanford
Charlton Soesanto
Advisor - Sales
Global Head of Ad Sales - Uber
Ex-Google. Ex-Pinterest
Drew Mitchell
Advisor - Engineering
Head of Eng - Tegus ($900M Exit)
UChicago Grad + CS Faculty
Lionel Barrow
Advisor - Revenue Ops
Early DoorDash - First 40 Employees
WashU
Dylan Richter
Builder Network
Think of it like “phone-a-friend” for founders
Early DoorDash - VP New Verticals
Ex-Google. Ex-McKinsey
Harvard + U of Minnesota
Fuad Hannon
Founder & CEO - Tegus
Sold Tegus to AlphaSense for $900M+
Brown
Tom Elnick
Founder & COO - Local Kitchens
Founder & COO - Future
1st Employee DoorDash
Andrew Munday
Founder & CEO - Obie
YC 2019
Michigan State
Ryan Letzeiser
VP DoorDash - Customer Experience
Ex-Bain & Company
Northwestern + UPenn
Arielle Salomon
Founder - Serv
1st Sales Hire DoorDash - 10 years
Middlebury College
Brian Sommers
Early DoorDash - Ops / GM / Dashmart
Ex-Goldman Sachs. Ex-Morgan Stanley
Harvard
AK Barnett-Hart
CFO & Board Member - Tegus
Investor. Ex-Student Founder
Yale + Harvard
Bob Casey
Founder - PlaySpace (Acq. Google)
Early Eng - Mailbox (Acq. Dropbox)
Stanford
Sean Beausoleil
Founder - TaxProper (Acq. Opendoor)
YC 2019
U of Illinois + Rhodes Scholar
Thomas Dowling
Founder - Letter AI
YC 2023. VP - project44
UChicago + Michigan
Ali Akhtar
Founder & COO - Obie
YC 2019
Michigan State
Aaron Letzeiser
Founder & CTO - Foxtrot
UT Austin
Taylor Bloom
SVP, Growth & Marketplace - Rappi
Founder of DashPass @ DoorDash
Princeton
Jack Ruth
Founder & CEO - Upfront
YC 2023. GM DoorDash
Stanford
Thomas Stephens
CEO - Fleetpulse
Founder FR8Star (Acquired)
VP Uber Freight. Ex-BCG.
CCR Reckers
Stripe - Strategic BD + Chicago Lead
VP Business Development - ClimaCell
Harvard + Harvard MBA
Ian Tallett
Early Groupon - VP Product - 2nd PM
CPO Fetch. Early Ebay. Ex-DoorDash
Stanford + Stanford MBA
David Jesse
Founder Macro (Sold to mmhmm)
Head of Product at SafeBase
Purdue + Harvard
John Keck
Early DoorDash - 8 Years
VP Dasher & Logistics
Bryant University
Cody Aughney
Early DoorDash - 9 Years
Head of Strategic Finance
Princeton
Ben Dearborn
Early DoorDash - 8 Years
VP US Marketplace
UPenn
Ryan Parietti
VP Marketing - Tomorrow Health
Ex-Flatiron Health ($2B Exit)
U of Illinois
Shivani Stadvec
Founder & CEO - Broadlume
Ex-Google. Vertical SaaS Expert
William & Mary
Todd Saunders
Early Eng - Timber (Acq. Data Dog)
Early Eng - Braintree
Vanderbilt
Luke Steensen
VP Customer Experience - DoorDash
Sales & Ops - ResQ. Ex-Bain
Dartmouth + Western University
Steve Kenning
Head of BD - TruckSmarter
Early DoorDash - First 50 Employees
Sr. Director - Enterprise Sales
Peter Quinn
AI Product Manager - Google
Ex-OpenAI. Ex-Apple
Harvard + Northwestern
Logan Kilpatrick
VP Engineering - Eight Sleep
Ex-Head of Payments Eng @ DoorDash
2x Startup Founding Eng / CTO
Caglar Oner
Sr. Director Product - DoorDash
Ex-Groupon. Ex-Trader
MIT
Andrew Lisy
SVP, Enterprise Sales - OLO
Helped Build OLO from Seed to IPO
First 10 Employees
Juan George
Founder. Hacker. YC 2017
VP MessageControl (Acq. Mimecast)
Illinois
Eric Mills
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