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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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