Team Biographies

Chandler Lewis (he/him/neurodivergent) is the Founder and Managing Director of 360 Social Impact Studios. He brings over 15 years of experience in childhood and adult education, social innovation start-ups, non-profit management, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and management consulting. He has a history of working with organizations and institutions that serve under-represented communities, specifically on homelessness, addiction, and mental health. He continues to be a leader in the community through his involvement as the Executive Board President for Circle of Friends for Mental Health, a 501(c)3 non-profit providing therapeutic arts-based programming throughout the Puget Sound region in Washington, and as a Trustee for the UW-based Foundation for Understanding through Students (FIUTS). He has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Washington and a Master’s of Science in Organizational Leadership from Johns Hopkins University.

Chandler also works extensively with the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial ecosystem and has worked as an Adjunct Instructor for the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Site Program at UW and currently as a Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) Practitioner for NASA's Astrophysics Division. He is committed to supporting the community and proudly serving as an Executive Mentor and Advisor for several notable programs in the region, including The Tombolo Institute at Bellevue College, WSU, and SP3NW’s Flexible Infrastructure for Resilient Entrepreneurship (FIRE) Program, UW CoMotion Labs, UW School of Nursing, UW Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and the Master of Science in Entrepreneurship Program at the Foster School of Business.

In a career that spans 25+ years in Business leadership function, Madhup has spearheaded business development activities, customer – partner relationship enablement and GTM (Go-to-market) alliances with leading cloud platform providers – Microsoft, Amazon, and SAP. Madhup has experience working across North America, Asean, EMEA and India region.

Over the last 7 years, Madhup has run startups to steer business creation and momentum in uncharted territories with new spectrum of solutions offerings and services, ranging from Education Technology in Healthcare, Government, B2B corporates to Academia and build out of AI/ML based software product development focused on Transportation and logistics, manufacturing, and Aerospace.

Ed's (he/him) background in engineering and passion for the user experience guides his work to help teams design, build, and deliver world-changing products.

As Director of Engineering at WEConnect Health Management, he led the business-wide transformation from waterfall to agile product development, reducing cycle time from months to days and pivoting through a series of increasingly successful business models.

He has a Masters in Human Centered Design and Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle and a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Swatee Surve, Litesprite Founder & CEO, is a pioneer in the field of Health Entertainment and has led the development and launch of disruptive technology-based healthcare businesses for Microsoft, Nike, T-Mobile, Premera Blue Cross and Eastman Kodak. These commercialization projects led to several patents including Nike's first wearable technology patents.

She is one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s Innovators of the Year and is recognized as an international healthcare leader by organizations such as the U.S. State Department. She has contributed her insights in private roundtables that focused on the advancement of healthcare technologies with HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan, US Sen. Maria Cantwell, and FCC Commissioner Rosenworcel.

Her knowledge was incorporated into to the Consumer Technology Association’s Standard CTA-2106, Characteristics and Requirements for Chronic Stress Technology Solutions. Her essay on “Embracing the science of behavior change” is cited in HIMSS’s Medical Informatics 4th ed. 

Surve has an MBA from the University of Chicago, an MSME in Biomechanics from Pennsylvania State University, and a BS in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has been featured in international, national, and regional media outlets and has been a speaker at national conferences hosted by the American Psychiatric Association, Microsoft, Prevent Cancer Foundation, DICE, Medcity News, Stanford University Medicine X, University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business and College of Engineering, UW Foster School of Business, Seattle University, and others.

With 35+ years of commission sales, Joe is a top sales producer who developed proven systems through which 100's of top producers double or triple their business.

Gillian is the Managing Director of the Masters Fund, CEO of Outlines Venture Group, Co-founder of Moz, host of podcasts VC Confidential and CEO Coach.

William is a senior informatics student at the University of Washington, emphasizing expertise in web development, cloud services, and data science. He has fortified his skills through rigorous coursework and extensive experience, including Web Programming, Data Engineering and Product Management. His practical experience is evident in roles such as a Digitalization Intern at Airbus. He significantly streamlined processes with an aircraft manufacturing tracking dashboard and conducted comprehensive data preprocessing on extensive aircraft datasets. At Cledge, an AI-based college counseling startup, he made significant contributions by building landing pages and developing college search tools. Proficient in cloud services, he demonstrated his skills through projects like a real-time cryptocurrency data provider service on Amazon AWS. 

Demonstrating a fervent enthusiasm for bringing innovations with technology, William is ready to drive impactful contributions in the industry.

Thomas is a commercial drone pilot.