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Dave Beck / Foundry 45
Dave Beck is co-founder and Managing Partner at Foundry 45, a Virtual Reality company that helps brands connect with their customers through immersive sales and marketing experiences.
Before starting Foundry 45, Dave served as the Chief Operating Officer at EquipCodes, a mobile SaaS and Augmented Reality company that developed experiences for organizations ranging from Fortune 500 businesses to the new Center for Civil and Human Rights Museum in downtown Atlanta.
Dave serves on the board of the MAK Historic District, and is very active in the Georgia Tech community as a mentor for MBA students and a teacher for Entrepreneurship classes.
Dave earned his bachelors degree in Marketing from Wake Forest University and his MBA from Georgia Tech.
Brian Mann / Cypress.io
Brian Mann is a senior software engineer who loves working in startups. He leads development teams specializing in web application services. After eventually falling in love with Javascript, he created a screencast series called BackboneRails, which he wrote, directed, edited and animated in his spare time. After the series gained international traction, he’s now building a startup attempting to solve some of the biggest challenges developers face today.
He’s an active member of the local tech community and enjoys organizing and giving talks at events. He works alongside his wife Jennifer, coincidentally another developer, who never gets tired of hearing his crazy ideas.
