Board of Directors of the Futures Forge Scholarship Fund
Mike Salguero
Founder/CEO, ButcherBox, a $550M/yr D2C sustainable meat business with no VC capital. Expert at brand-building and marketing, executive leadership, business financial management, and experienced board member of for-profits and nonprofits. Boston University BA, Babson MBA.
Ben Heywood
General Partner, SkyRiver Ventures. Founded and led $15M+/yr medtech platform, experienced venture capitalist, startup mentor, nonprofit board member. MIT BS, Mechanical Engineering; UCLA MBA.
Nithya Ramanathan
Co-Founder, CEO of Nexleaf Analytics, a global tech nonprofit that recently received $12M from the McKenzie Scott Foundation to scale their products and services to the 60 poorest countries across Africa and Asia. 15 years experience leading strategic partnerships & fundraising, operations, executive leadership in the global nonprofit sector; TED fellow. Cal Berkeley BS, Computer Science; UCLA PhD, Computer Science.
Ruvi Kitov
Co-founder and former CEO of Tufin, a cybersecurity software company (over $100M/year revenue, went public in 2019 on NYSE, acquired 2022). Experienced entrepreneur, executive leader, software engineer. University of Maryland, BS, Computer Science.
Mark Daniels
Managing Director & CSO at Brookwood Financial Partners ($4.5B historical AUM). Founder/CSO, Yesway, Inc. Princeton AB (Astrophysics), M.Eng (Aerospace Engineering & Computer Science). Strength and experience in corporate finance, investing, raising equity, creating businesses, leading operations, and teaching.
Publicly auditable records (tax returns, financials, etc) are available upon request. Please email audits@futuresforge.org.