The following people have kindly offered to support the teams as mentors in 2012. If you’d like to become a mentor for Bethnal Green Ventures, let us know!

User research and service design

• Lydia Howland is head of human factors at IDEO in London.
• Jennie Winhall is senior strategist at Participle.

Engineering

• Matt Biddulph has worked as a software engineer at the BBC and Nokia. He was also co-founder and CTO of Dopplr.
• Blaine Cook was lead developer at Twitter and is principal co-author of OAuth. He’s also worked at BT’s Osmosoft.
• Greg Detre is CTO of Memrise.
• Patrick Sinclair is a principal software engineer at the BBC.
• Torsten Stauch is CTO of Appshed and Red C.
• Tom Taylor is CTO at Newspaper Club and a partner at the Really Interesting Group.

Product strategy and design

• Gavin Bell advises startups and large organisations on internet product strategy. He’s the author of the O’Reilly book Building Social Web Applications.
• Richard Pope is a product manager at the Government Digital Service (in the UK Cabinet Office). He’s designed services from PlanningAlerts through to ScraperWiki and has been a long term volunteer at mySociety. He was also lead interaction designer at Moo.com.
• Chris Sherwin is Head of Sustainable Design at Seymourpowell. He was previously head of design at Forum for the Future.
• Andrew Wanliss-Orlebar helps startups design new products and services. He was co-founder of echoecho and has worked with Do the Green Thing and ?WhatIf!.
• Colin Tate is founder of Nemawashi advises global clients from startups to corporates on how to improve website conversion and get the most value from their online presence.
• Matt Jones is a Principal at BERG

Partnerships

• Dominic Campbell and Carrie Bishop are directors of FutureGov.
• Hugh Knowles is principal sustainability adviser at Forum for the Future.
• Cassie Robinson is co-founder of The Point People.
• Gavin Sathianathan is Strategic Partnership Manager at Facebook and was previously head of new business development at Endemol.

Communications and branding

• The Pipeline Project – consisting of Dan Burgess, Tom Farrand and Tom Rowley – will be offering branding and communications advice to teams.
• Alison Harvie is head of communications at The Young Foundation
• Dan Mcquillan is a co-founder of Social Innovation Camp and a lecturer at Goldsmiths University on Social Computing.

Startup management

• Toby Hammond was founder and MD of Better Generation.
• Eleanor Ford was co-founder and CEO of LikeCube which was acquired by Time Out group in 2011 where she’s now an innovation associate.
• Gavin Starks is founder and CEO of AMEE.
• Jamie Wallace was founder and CEO of Walkit.com
• Eze Vidra is head of Google Campus
• Andy Hobsbawn is founder of Evrythng

Investment

• Melanie Hayes is investment manager at Octopus Investments. Previously she was investment manager at 4iP – Channel 4′s fund for digital projects.
• Casey Lord is senior investment manager at CAF Venturesome.
• Joe Ludlow is Director of Impact Investing at Nesta.