He is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the healthcare sector and startups, building strategies, developing products, and managing. He has had successes and failures, learning valuable lessons along the way. He is the one who leads organizations and teams by setting up processes, hiring employees, fostering internal culture, and managing growth, P&L, RevOps, and customer success.

He is passionate about startups, making connections, and introducing to GTM, product-market fit, CRM, analytics, and fund-raising topics.

Mentoring areas: his expertise lies in providing valuable insights for the healthcare, SaaS, telco, logistics, space, and defense industries.

Striužas is an experienced Finance Professional with a proven track record of delivering exceptional quality work. He possesses a wide range of skills including business planning, financial analysis, controllership, technical accounting, accounting, team and risk management, auditing, and business consulting.

Mentoring areas: mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, and technical accounting.

He works as a Project Scientist with the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s GISMo team at Stanford University. He is also an associate professor in the Economics Department at Gettysburg College and co-directs Gettysburg Lab for Experimental Economics (GLEE). While being a longtime affiliate of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics (IRLE), Baltaduonis also worked as a Visiting Senior Research Scholar at Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) during the 2019-2020 academic year and a Visiting Senior Scholar at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from 2015 to 2017.

Baltaduonis is interested in several research areas including industrial organization, energy and environmental economics, energy security, and experimental and behavioral economics. Currently, his research is mainly focused on the behavior and design of electric power markets. Additionally, he conducts workshops on laboratory economics experiments that are intended to inform.

Mentoring areas: energy and environmental economics, energy security, and electric power markets.

He is an experienced Research Laboratory Manager who has worked in research and higher education environments. He has a strong background in Materials Science and Physics, with expertise in the microstructural and morphological properties of matter related to batteries, photovoltaics, polymers and composites, ceramics, oxide heterostructures, inorganic, and organic semiconductors. Vailionis is highly knowledgeable in X-ray Diffraction and X-ray Microscopy and is skilled in MATLAB and Fortran programming languages.

Mentoring areas: focused on research in Materials Science and Physics.