Meet the Sawmill Mentors

Meet the Sawmill Society Mentors

The mission of the Sawmill Mentor Network is to foster and facilitate the connection between mentor and mentees in the Rose-Hulman community, beyond the traditional and successful ad hoc approach, in a structured and systematic way. Mentors present their areas of interest and expertise. Then, mentees can identify and contact mentors they feel will be helpful to them.

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Adam Stolz, 2006 BSME, 2008 MSEM

President
Zepher Flight Labs

Expertise
Government Contracting
Autonomous Systems (drones)
Business Development/Networking

Industry Experience
Aerospace
Defense
Autonomous Systems
Internet of Things (IoT)

Wes Bolsen, 2000 BSEE, MBA Stanford School of Business

President and CEO
Imidex

Expertise
Strategic Planning
Marketing Fundraiser

Industry Experience
Biofuels
Agriculture
Wildfire

Jeremy Clarke, 2009 BSCS/SE

Founder
WebMerge

Expertise
Software
SaaS (Software as a Service)
Start-ups

Industry Experience
Anything SaaS

Tim Balz, 2017 BSME

Founder
Kalogon

Expertise
Creating Hardware MVPs
Market Discovery
First Production Run Setup

Industry Experience
Aerospace
Medical Startups
Aging Startups

Ethan Petersen, 2018 BSCS

Co-Founder
smileML

Expertise
Product-Market Fit
AI Startups
Defense Contracting

Industry Experience
Defense Contracting
B2B Sales

Tim Daniel, 1981 BSEE

Advisor/Investor
Wharton SBDC

Expertise
Entrepreneurship
Corporate Innovation
Product-Market Fit
De-risking
Getting Traction
Creative Approaches to Finding a Workable Business Model

Industry Experience
Health Care
SAS (Software as a Service)
B2B
Steve Blank's Customer Development Methods
Lean Startups