Ethan Sturm

Ethan Sturm is Sr. Manager of Marketing at Cirque Corporation, a subsidiary of Alps Alpine. Cirque is a human interface solutions company specializing in capacitive touch and is the original inventor of the trackpad. Cirque technology can be found in millions of devices around the globe.

Ethan has been with Cirque for 13 years and has extensive experience in markets and strategy, particularly in personal computers, virtual reality, secure payment terminals and human-machine interfaces. Prior to Cirque, Ethan worked as a technology consultant for 7 years.

Ethan did his undergraduate work at the University of Utah and has a Certificate of Professional Development from the Wharton School. When not playing with the latest and greatest tech, Ethan can be found exploring the great Utah outdoors on skis or a mountain bike.

Stuart Nixdorff

Over 20 years of success as a skilled market maker building global organizations in highly differentiated, fast growth markets. Through my career, I've helped create over $3B in shareholder value; founded or co-founded four companies; generated over $200M in first generation "tough-tech” revenue with strategic customers including Google, Apple, Amazon, Tyco and Qualcomm; raised over $100M in Venture/Angel funding and secured over $75M in non-dilutive strategic partner funding that contributed to one IPO, one merger and two acquisitions. (while completing 9 Ironman triathlons in the downtime)

My background includes successful early-stage CEO and new division management, global senior sales, marketing and business development experience in fast growing public and start-up companies. In addition to my main job, I continue to look for new disruptive technologies both professionally and personally with active involvement in early stage companies both investing with LaunchPad Ventures or mentoring new startups at MassChallenge and the CleanTech Open.

Outside of my business drive, I'm a passionate executive athlete who likes to start and complete hard things. Over the past 15 years in endurance events, I've completed 9 Ironman Triathlon races, multiple marathons and in the winter spend most weekends skiing in Vermont. I live in Weston, MA with my wonderful and successful wife Christine and our two children, Ana (20) and Spencer (17) and our ski dog, Mogul. I strive to live life with the spirit of the Ironman tagline, Anything is Possible.

Dany Minier

Dany Minier is part of the business development team in Boreas Technologies. He is responsible for customer interfacing and partnership with many key players in the haptics ecosystem. Passionate about new technologies, he focuses on customer solutions.

Before joining Boréas, Dany worked 31 years for IBM in the microelectronics division and acquired experience in semi-conductors, from design to qualification and going through production and supply chain support.

Mr. Minier hold a B.Eng from École de technologie supérieure, University of Quebec.