Mike DeVries

by boxcaradmin | Jul 18, 2023

Mike is the Chief Investment Officer at Start Garden. With 30 years of start up experience in both operating early stage companies as well as investing capital into early stage companies, Mike brings a valuable perspective in guiding start-ups through the process of...

Jack Ahrens

by boxcaradmin | Jul 18, 2023

Jack is a venture capitalist located in Kalamazoo, having co-founded TGap Ventures in 2002 with Peter Farner. Through TGap Ventures, Jack has funded various new and young firms in the high technology and medical industries. Typical investments by TGap Ventures range...

Charles Fry

by boxcaradmin | Jul 18, 2023

Business, Charles Fry likes to observe, is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. The self-described “blue-collar entrepreneur”has done a lot of perspiring during his multifaceted career as the founder and chief technology officer of a venture-backed IT outsourcing...

Thomas C. Kinnear

by boxcaradmin | Jul 18, 2023

Thomas C. Kinnear served as the D. Maynard Phelps Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Marketing at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He was formally Eugene Applebaum Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and founding Executive...

Joe Marr

by boxcaradmin | Jul 18, 2023

Joe Marr has over 30 years experience organizing, training, coaching and managing sales professionals and sales managers worldwide.  For 14 years Joe and his company, Sandler Training Ann Arbor, have helped hundreds of businesses succeed by optimizing, adopting and...