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HQ Team

Baris Akis

Baris Akis

Co-founder & Managing Partner

Baris Akis (Stanford ’16) founded his first company during his freshman year and sold it the following year to focus on his CS degree with an AI specialization. He used the proceeds to start investing into his peers’ startups. During his third year, Baris noticed a significant disconnect between high-growth startups and top engineering students. As a result, Baris left Stanford in 2015 to launch Human.Capital, with the goal of connecting top engineers to unique, high-impact opportunities.

Shannon Harrington

Shannon Harrington

Engagement Manager

Shannon loves connecting people with their passions. She has spent her career within the People function across Venture Capital firms, a mid-sized tech company, and startups. After growing up in Philly, Shannon transitioned to the West Coast to attend Stanford where she majored in Urban Studies and competed on the Women's Squash team. Shannon is an Aries who enjoys board games, improv, hint water, and party planning.

Amy Herbertson

Amy Herbertson

Principal

Amy helps people and teams achieve their full potential. Since graduating Stanford class of 2011, she's worked in client services and technical program management at mid-sized tech companies. She's excited to partner with ambitious engineers and match them to companies that make their heart sing and their brains buzz! Outside of work, you can find Amy training for an Ironman, or reading at her favorite cafes in North Beach.

Jessica Chao

Jessica Chao

Principal

Jessica has recently joined Human.Capital after four years at Rubrik, where she built out their University program. Jessica saw Rubrik through hyper-growth, and got firsthand exposure to growing a successful, thriving, startup. Her passion and love for connecting with the students lead her to Human.Capital, where she’s excited to help connect even more students to exciting opportunities. She is a Bay Area native, attended Saratoga High School and UC Davis. Jessica enjoys exploring her creative side through singing, playing guitar, and editing photos for Instagram. She also loves winning in Catan, blogging about food, and traveling whenever she can!

Yuvraj Malhotra

Yuvraj Malhotra

Junior Principal

Yuvraj graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2017 with dual majors in Economics and Environmental Sustainability. Born in India, and raised in Dubai, Yuvraj grew up interacting with people from all religions and cultures, which helped cultivate his passion for people. After exploring a variety of jobs in different parts of the world, Yuvraj realized he wanted to pursue a career with a social impact, as well as one that served his passion for meeting new people. Following his internship at the United Nations HQ in New York, Yuvraj wanted to see what it would be like to work at a much smaller organization - one with less bureaucracy with a more hands-on approach to social impact. Human.Capital was the perfect fit, so Yuvraj packed his bags and moved to San Francisco! In his spare time, you can find Yuvraj traveling, eating (most often the case), playing the guitar, or hanging out with friends.

Katia Artyushenko

Katia Artyushenko

Executive Assistant

Armaan Ali

Armaan Ali

Co-founder & Managing Partner

Norma Bostarr

Norma Bostarr

Head of Operations

Norma graduated from UCLA in 2014 with a degree in Human Biology and Society. As a clinical research coordinator, she spearheaded the growth of a neurology clinic from the ground up and increased efficiency by 8x. As Chief Operations Officer of The Youth Movement Against Alzheimer’s, she led the team through the creation of processes and operations that are still being used today. She currently leads YMAA's policy initiatives and is working to create a CA Care Corps. At Practice Fusion she worked to reduce admin costs in healthcare while always leading her team and surpassing her sales goals. As a coordinator for the Grace Hopper Celebration, she cultivated the experience for high profile attendees (aka game-changing women technologists) and systematized the process for people to use in her role for years to come. In her free time, she loves to travel, explore nature, run, bike, and read!

Gelila Asnake

Gelila Asnake

Serion Principal

Gelila (UPenn ’11) loves finding potential in students and connecting them to life-changing opportunities in tech and beyond. Prior to joining Human.Capital, Gelila led the University Recruiting teams at Quora and Coursera where she partnered closely with various business units to recruit interns and new grads. She has lived in various parts of the world, but considers California home. Outside of work, Gelila enjoys playing tennis, discovering new cultures through travel, and mastering the art of parenthood.

Pasha Minkovsky

Pasha Minkovsky

Product Lead

Pasha is Berkeley Computer Science ‘18 and he is currently on a leave of absence to work as a partner at Human.Capital. Previous to joining Human.Capital he was working at Digital Genius’ ML research team in London.

Cami Docchio

Cami Docchio

Operations Associate

Cami (Johns Hopkins MS ’19 and University of Utah BS ’18) has always enjoyed helping people, and spent her 4 years in Utah working with kids at Primary Children’s Hospital while studying health psychology. After graduating, Cami pursued her Master’s of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins, where she explored the ethical questions of relationships, climate change, and the responsibilities of upcoming technology. While at Hopkins, Cami helped develop a support group for adolescent transgender patients, and is excited to bring that same passion and enthusiasm of supporting others to Human.Capital! Cami grew up outside of Philly, and enjoys traveling to spend time with friends, comedy shows, hosting game nights and petting dogs.

Thomas Williford

Thomas Williford

Innovation Fellow

Brandon Beckhardt

Brandon Beckhardt

Head of Platforms

Brandon (Stanford ’16) runs the Platform Team, the team that creates the automation, infrastructure, and resources to support our impact at scale. During his undergrad, Brandon was one of the initial Human.Capital team members at Stanford and was also on the gymnastics team while completing his CS degree. After graduation, Brandon joined Lending Club as a software engineer, where he worked on encryption and optical character recognition projects. After a year in industry, he realized that helping build Human.Capital and shaping the industries of the future would require his complete attention and decided to join the team full time. Brandon is driven by innovations that make society more productive on earth and beyond. In his spare time, you can find him running, reading a good book, or hosting dinner parties.

Jada Webster

Jada Webster

Membership Community

Jada (Stanford '16) her BS in Symbolic Systems (Decision-making and Rationality focus) and Minor in Modern Languages (Spanish, Portuguese). While in school, she helped build Stanford's Social Entrepreneurial Students' Association. Following graduation, Jada moved to brand consulting where she worked in Strategy, Writing, and Business Development. Jada is thrilled to join Human.Capital as Head of Special Projects and a Principal (Social Impact, Cybersecurity focus).

Zabie Elmgren

Zabie Elmgren

Principal

Zabie (Harvard ‘18) is a Principal at Human.Capital, working to connect our high-potential engineers to the diverse set of opportunities we represent. While completing her undergraduate degrees in computer science and economics, Zabie interned at a number of large and small tech companies in the Bay Area and in Washington DC. Zabie helped launch the Human.Capital team at Harvard and was both an Associate and Campus Director before joining the HQ team full-time. Outside of engineering, Zabie was on Harvard's Varsity Rowing Team and grew up between Oakland and Squaw Valley as a competitive racer and (later) extreme skier.

Neelan Veloo

Neelan Veloo

Junior Principal

Neelan (UIUC '19) is a Junior Principal at Human.Capital, passionate about entrepreneurship and mission-driven startups. While studying electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, Neelan spent alot of time within the entrepreneurial ecosystem, helping build and grow UIUC startups through EntreCORPS, a student-run startup consulting firm. Neelan wanted to work at a startup post-graduation and found the process to be incredibly difficult to navigate. It was around that time he got connected to Human.Capital and became a member. Upon hearing about the mission and long term vision for Human.Capital, Neelan wanted to be more than a member and recently joined the team! In his spare time, Neelan likes eating out (send him food recs!), playing basketball, and reading about anything/everything tech.

Tonya Osborne

Tonya Osborne

Executive Assistant

Katie Crawford

Katie Crawford

Principal

Associates and ambassadors

Aayush Bhutani

Aayush Bhutani

ECE, CMU, 2019

Ike Kilinc

Ike Kilinc

EVE, CMU, 2020

Hariank Muthakana

Hariank Muthakana

Computer Science, CMU, 2020

Kamyar Ghiam

Kamyar Ghiam

Business, CMU, 2020

Alex Singh

Alex Singh

Computer Science, CMU, 2020

Vaibhav Viswanathan

Vaibhav Viswanathan

Robotics, CMU, 2020

Douglas Qian

Douglas Qian

Computational Bio, CMU, 2019

Umang Bhatt

Umang Bhatt

ECE, CMU, 2020

Karan Dhabalia

Karan Dhabalia

Computer Engineering, CMU, 2020

Edgar Xi

Edgar XI

Stats & ML, CMU, 2019

Udit Ranasaria

Udit Ranasaria

ECE, CMU 2020

Cyrus Tabrizi

Cyrus Tabrizi

Robotics, CMU, 2019

Vidhart Bhatia

Vidhart Bhatia

Computer Science, CMU, 2020

Kabir Peshawaria

Kabir Beshawaria

Computer Science, CMU, 2020

Prithvi Gudapati

Prithvi Gudapati

Computer Science, CMU, 2020

Alex Nicita

Alex Nicita

Computer Science, Columbia, 2020

Ninad Nirgudkar

Ninad Nirgudkar

Astrophysics, Columbia, 2020

Spencer Yen

Spencer Yen

Computer Science, Columbia, 2020

Vivian Shen

Vivian Shen

Computer Science, Columbia, 2019

Sam Denton

Sam Denton

Computer Science, Columbia, 2020

Connor Goggins

Connor Goggins

Computer Science, Columbia, 2019

Johnathan Bi

Jonathan Bi

Computer Science, Columbia, 2020

Abhishek Shah

Abhishek Shah

Computer Science, Columbia, 2019

Abu Qader

Abu Qader

Computer Science, Cornell, 2021

Juliana Bain

Juliana Bain

Computer Science, Cornell, 2020

Keivan Shahida

Keivan Shahida

Computer Science, Cornell, 2020

Aneesh Agrawal

Aneesh Agrawal

Computer Science, Cornell, 2021

Michael Tan

Michael Tan

Ecenomics, Duke, 2020

Sara Du

Sara Du

Computer Science, Harvard, 2020

Vojta Drmota

Vojta Drmota

Computer Science, Harvard, 2020

Natlie Margulies

Natalie Margulies

Computer Science, Harvard, 2021

Melia Henderson

Melia Henderson

Computer Science, Harvard, 2020

Caiseen Kelley

Caiseen Kelley

Computer Science, Harvard, 2020

Su Yang

Su Yang

Computer Science, MIT, 2020

Sharon Lin

Sharon Lin

EECS, MIT, 2021

Rami Rustom

Rami Rustom

Computer Science, MIT, 2020

Ethan Sit

Ethan Sit

Aerospace Eng, MIT, 2021

Rachel Groberman

Rachel Groberman

Computer Science, MIT, 2020

Trishul Nagenalli

Trishul Nagenalli

Computer Science, Duke, 2020

Jie Cai

Jie Cai

Computer Science, Duke, 2020

Stella Yang

Stella Yang

Computer Science, MIT, 2020

Ronit Langer

Ronit Langer

EVE, Computer Science, MIT 2020

Nancy Hung

Nancy Hung

Computer Science, MIT, 2019

Adam Zhao Liang

Adam Zhao Liang

Computer Science, MIT, 2020

Jack Serrino

Jack Serrino

Computer Science, MIT, 2019

Steven Okada

Steven Okada

MS Computer Science, MIT, 2019

Logan Ford

Logan Ford

MS, AI, MIT, 2020

Kelsey Chan

Kelsey Chan Meng

Mechanical MIT, 2019

Erick Friis

Erick Friis

Computer Systems, MIT, 2019

Mina Fahmi

Mina Fahmi

Mech Engineering, MIT, 2019

Lauren Tang

Lauren Tang

Computer Science, Princeton, 2021

Jessica Ho

Jessica Ho

Electrical Eng, Princeton, 2020

Son Do

Son Do

Computer Science, Princeton, 2021

Austin Meija

Austin Meija

Computer Science, Princeton, 2021

James Cuffe

James Cuffe

Computer Science, Princeton, 2020

Ayushi Sinha

Aushi Sinha

Computer Science, Princeton, 2020

Yannis Karakozis

Yannis Karakozis

Computer Science, Princeton, 2019

Whitney Huang

Whitney Huang

Mech Engineering, Princeton, 2019

Roland Fong

Roland Fong

Computer Science, Princeton, 2019

Perry Cate

Perry Cate

Computer Science, Princeton, 2019

David Fan

David Fan

Computer Science, Princeton, 2019

Theodor Marcu

Theodor Marcu

Computer Science, Princeton, 2020

Tanay Kothari

Tanay Kothari

CS & Math, Stanford, 2020

Gunguk Kim

Gunguk Kim

Computer Science, Stanford, 2021

Nathan Kong

Nathan Kong

Computer Science, Stanford, 2020

Sigalit Perelson

Sigalit Perelson

Symbolic Systems, Stanford, 2020

Belce Dogru

Belce Dogru

MS, Computer Science, Stanford, 2020

Isabella Garcia Camargo

Isabella Camargo

Computer Science, Stanford, 2020

Nancy Xu

Nancy XU

Computer Science, Stanford, 2019

Marco Lorenzon

Marco Lorenzo

MS, Economics, Stanford, 2020

Sahil Chopra

Sahil Chopra

MS, Computer Science, Stanford, 2019

Levi Lian

Levi Lian

Computer Science, Stanford, 2021

Derek Huang

Derek Huang

Computer Science, Stanford, 2020

Ajay Jain

Ajay Jain

MS, Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2024

Elina Yon

Elina Yon

Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2021

Aakash Adesara

Aakash Adesara

Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2020

Albert Hu

Albert Hu

Computer Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2019

Aarash Heydari

Aarash Heydari

Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2019

Naman Priyadarshi

Naman Priyadarshi

Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2019

Shyamkarthik Rameshbabuouts

Shyamkarthik R.

Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2019

Jason Bao

Jason Bao

Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2019

Sameer Reddy

Sameer Reddy

Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2019

Edward Liu

Edward Liu

EE/Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2019

Aayush Patel

Aayush Patel

Mech Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2020

Mike Liao

Mike Liao

Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2019

Kyle Kranen

Kyle Kranen

EECS, UC Berkeley, 2020

Drew Kim

Drew Kim

Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2020

Riley Edmunds

Riley Edmunds

Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2019

Divya Nekkanti

Divya Nekkanti

EECS, UC Berkeley, 2020

Brian Friedenberg

Brian Friedenberg

EECS, UC Berkeley, 2020

Chanan Walia

Chanan Walia

Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2020

Pranav Sekhar

Pranav Sekhar

Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2018

Graham Hughes

Graham Hughes

EECS, UC Berkeley, 2020

Yvonne Chen

Yvonne Chen

Computer Science, UCLA, 2020

Teja Ambati

Teja Ambati

Computer Science, UIUC, 2020

Matthew Rastovac

Matthew Rastovac

Comptuer Science, UIUC, 2019

Michael Usachenko

Michael Usachenko

Computer Science, UIUC, 2020

Vidushi Rai

Vidushi Rai

Computer Science, UIUC, 2019

Rishabh Anand

Rishabh Anand

Electrical Eng, UIUC, 2020

Jiaqi Wu

Jiaqui Wu

MS, Computer Science, UIUC, 2020

Akhil Chainani

Akhil Chainani

Computer Science, UIUC, 2020

Sushmita Azad

Sushmita Azad

Comptuer Science, UIUC, 2019

Sathwik Pochampally

Sathwik Pochampally

Computer Science, UIUC, 2021

Jordan Campbell

Jordan Campbell

Stats & Econ, UIUC, 2020

Ishaan Parikh

Ishaan Parikm

Computer Science, Maryland, 2019

Cameron Payton

Cameron Payton

Computer Science, Maryland, 2019

Jack Qian

Jack Qian

Computer Science, Maryland, 2019

Sashank Thupukari

Sashank Thupukari

Comptuer Science, Maryland, 2019

Maghnus Mareneck

Maghnus Mareneck

Computer Engineering, UPENN, 2020

Jonah Erlich

Jonah Erlich

Computer Science, U Michigan, 2019

Vaibhav Bafna

Vaibhav Bafna

Computer Science, U Michigan, 2020

Ryan Lieu

Ryan Lieu

Computer Science, U Michigan, 2020

David Kobrosky

David Kobrosky

CS & Business, U Michigan, 2019

Devesh Modi

Devesh Modi

CS & Accounting, U Michigan, 2020

Yashmeet Gambhir

Yashmeet Gambhir

Computer Science, U Michigan, 2020

Pranav Tadikonda

Pranav Tadikonda

Computer Science, U Michigan, 2020

Divyansh Sharma

Divyansh Sharma

Computer Science, U Michigan, 2020

Adarsh Rachmale

Adarsh Rachmale

Electrical Eng, U Michigan, 2020

Nisreen Bahrainwala

Nisreen Bahrainwala

Computer Science, U Michigan, 2022

Emily Kuhn

Emily Kuhn

Computer Science, U Michigan, 2020

Kishan Trivedi

Kishan Trivedi

Computer Science, USC, 2019

Jillian Khoo

Jillian Khoo

Computer Science, USC, 2021

Shivangi Agarwal

Shivangi Agarwal

Computer Science, USC, 2019

William Wang

William Wang

Computer Science, USC, 2019

Yingyu Sun

Yingyi Sun

Computer Science, USC, 2019

Aniruddh Bharadwaj

Aniruddh Bharadqaj

Computer Science, USC, 2019

Nihar Sheth

Nihar Sheth

Computer Science, USC, 2021

Teresa Liu

Teresa Liu

Computer Science, USC, 2020

Kelly Lampotang

Kelly Lampotang

Computer Science, USC, 2019

Micah Zirn

Micah Zirn

MS, Computer Science, UPENN, 2019

Santiago Buenahora

Santiago Buenahora

Computer Science, UPENN, 2019

Rishab Jaggi

Rishab Jaggi

Computer Science, UPENN, 2020

Salomon Serfati

Saloman Serfati

Computer Science, UPENN, 2020

Alex Haynes

Alex Haynes

Computer Science, UPENN, 2019

Adele Li

Adele Li

Economics, UPENN, 2020

Jacob Friedman

Jacob Friedman

Computer Science, UPENN, 2019

Robert Zajac

Robert Zajac

Computer Science, UPENN, 2019

Andrew Awad

Andrew Awad

Computer Science, U Washington, 2019

Sharan Jhangiani

Sharan Jhangiani

Informatics & Stats, U Washington, 2021

Colin Summers

Colin Summers

Computer Science, U Washington, 2020

Saurav Pahadia

Saurav Pahadia

Computer Science, U Washington, 2022

Robi Lin

Robi Lin

Philosophy & Econ, U Washington, 2020