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The Minnesota Cup Review Board
We have assembled a diverse group of business leaders, each who has extensive experience in working with leading, early stage growth companies and providing feedback, mentorship and resources that have lead to success.
This esteemed group of business leaders will select the winner of the Minnesota Cup after reviewing the many plans we receive and listening to the five finalists present their ideas.
Dave Cleveland - Co-founder, Riverside BankLeslie Frecon - CEO, LFE Capital
Art Fry - 3M Corporate Scientist (Retired ), Inventor of Post-It Notes
Skip Gage - Chairman and CEO, Gage Marketing Group
Morris Goodwin - President and Chief Operations Officer, The Hogan Company
Michael Gorman - Managing Director, Split Rock Partners
Sima Griffith - Founder, Aethlon Capital
Fred Haberman - President, Haberman & Associates
Gary Holmes - President and Owner of CSM Corporation
Joel Lebewitz - Partner, Lurie Besikof Lapidus & Company, LLP
Brad Lehrman - Managing General Partner, Portage Equity Investments II, LP and Partner, law firm of Lommen Abdo PA.
Joy Lindsay - President and Co-Founder StarTec Investments, LLC
Scott Litman - Co-founder Minnesota Cup, Managing Director SDWA Ventures LLC
Dan Mallin - Co-founder Minnesota Cup, Managing Director SDWA Ventures LLC
Dan McElroy - Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED)
Shawn McIntee - Partner, Maslon
Mike Moore - Director, William C. Norris Institute.
Jay Novak - Editor / Publisher, Twin Cities Business
Debra Paterson - Regional President, Metro MN Community Banking Wells Fargo & Company
Doug Ramler - Principal Co-Chair Entrepreneurial Services Group, Gray Plant Mooty Law Firm
Sam Richter - Chief Executive of SBR Worldwide and SVP/Chief Marketing Officer at ActiFi
Thom Sandberg - Founder The Kenyon Consortium
Dale Wahlstrom - CEO, The BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota
Jessica Zeaske - Associate Director, Venture Center, University of Minnesota
