Tufts New Ventures Competition
2025 Judges and Screeners
Finals Judges
Chuck Auster
Founder and Partner, Runtide Capital Partners; Chairman of the Board of Advisors, Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts
John Cuming
Fmr. Pres. Cuming Microwave Corp.
Mike Doyle
CEO, President and Board Member, Spire Health
Nehemiah Green
Principal Business Development, AWS Startups
Taina McField
Associate Dean, Tisch College
Carol Monderer
CEO, Carol Monderer Publishing
Kenny Nova
Founder & Investor, Stat Scientific
Catherine Popper
Early Stage Investor, Advisor and Board Director, Launchpad Venture Group
Marilyn Salzman
President at Salzman Consulting, LLC
Amy Siegel
Founder, S2N Health
Elisabeth Tsilikounas
Business & Operations Strategic Consultant
Semi-finals Judges
Ruth Agbaji
Founder & CEO, Code Wiz
Meghan Brown-Enyia
Founder, ADHD At Work
Ron Fisher
Cofounder, Avina (YC S22)
Bob McTighe
Board Director, Acadia Center and Potencia
Judy Neufeld
City Council Member, City of Somerville; Consultant, Judy P. Neufeld Strategies
Richard Ouyang
Chief Client Officer, Stealth Mode Big Data Startup
Jean Pham
Co-founder & CEO, Cellens
Lyndsey Rissin
Director of Science Strategy & Partnerships
Nick Svencer
General Manager at Pramand LLC and Rejoni, Inc.
Mohan Thanikachalam
CEO, President, and Co-Founder at Dynocardia
Qxhna Titcomb
Manager of Core Product, Hampton
Jun Yoon
Co-Founder & COO at Potencia Inc.
Screeners
Latifah Almayal
Investment Analyst
Ty Blitstein
Project Officer
Judy Charamand
TrakCare GenAI Innovation Research Team Lead
Shenandoah Cornish
Cofounder & Codirector, Museo Minca
Tony Cueva Bravo
Head of Business Development and Strategy, Rebill.com
Ze’ev Drukker
Co-founder
Fiachra Finegan
Specialist, Moderna
David Harrison
Co-founder
Hadley Haselmann
Culture of Inclusion Specialist, Applied Materials
Bobby Johnson, DMD, MD
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Resident and Co-founder of Duo Toothpaste.
Maggie Kullman
B2B Marketing Manager, Mastercard Data & Services
Daniel Lewis
Co-Founder & COO at Winno
Trevor Nicks, PhD
Co-Founder & CTO, Caravel Bio
Trisha Pal
Manager, Corporate SR
Isabella Passaro
COO and Co-founder, medikana
Enxi Popa
Co-Founder, CEO
Mitchie Qiao
Strategy
Molly Ryan
Senior Sales Executive
Elaine Tassinari
Founder and Managing Member of Intellectual Property Law, Kendall Square Law Group.
Amanda Wang
Cofounder and CEO, Potencia
Ricci Prize Judges
Luca Mazzaferro
Research Scientist, Chemical Engineering PhD Candidate, Tufts University
Sofia Paschenti
Tufts Gordon Institute MSIM Graduate.
Zoisa Stafford
Tufts Materials Science Engineering Master’s Student
Zoe Watson
Tufts Gordon Institute MSIM Graduate
Creative Arts Prize Judges
Anj “Fayemz” Fayemi
CEO & Co-Founder at Rivet
Josh Kapelman
EVP & Managing Director, Hilldun Corporation
Christine O’Donnell
Executive Director of ShowUp
Irena Pereira
Cofounder and CEO, Rainbow Unicorn Games
Elana Varon
Business Writer and Editor