Founders Series: Featuring MongoDB Co-Founder & CTO, Eliot Horowitz

September 17, 2020 @ 6:00pm EST

The Founders Series is a set of virtual events highlighting some of the most prominent Brown alumni founders in the University’s recent history. Events are split between the founding story of a seasoned entrepreneur, a panel discussion with early-stage founders, and virtual community networking.

The first event of the Founders Series features Eliot Horowitz, Co-Founder & CTO of MongoDB, the most popular database for modern apps, valued at upwards of $10 billion, Allen Kramer, Co-Founder of Mobilize, an events management and volunteer recruitment platform and Ashwin Cheriyan, Co-Founder & CEO of Thistle, a modern, tech-enabled, organic food and nutrition company. The event is hosted by Brown University Entrepreneur in Residence, Arnell Milhouse.

Virtual Networking

The event will provide a venue for individuals in the Brown Alumni community to meet their next co-founder, advisor, partner, customer or employee. Via our virtual one-on-one networking, participants will engage with aspiring or established entrepreneurs, investors and both young and seasoned professionals alike.

Speakers

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Eliot Horowitz, Co-Founder & CTO, MongoDB

Prior to co-founding MongoDB, Eliot co-founded ShopWiki, where he developed the crawling and data extraction algorithm at the core of its technology, and was a software developer in the R&D group at DoubleClick (acquired by Google). He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Brown.

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Allen Kramer, Co-Founder, Mobilize 

Prior to co-founding Mobilize, Allen worked on Hillary Clinton's 2016 Presidential campaign, served as an associate consultant at Bain & Company, and worked at a startup named Assured Labor. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Brown.

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Host

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Ashwin Cheriyan, Co-Founder & CEO, Thistle

Prior to co-founding Thistle, Ahswin spent 4 years in New York as a practicing attorney at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, where he worked on public and private M&A transactions. He received his B.A. in Economics from Brown.

Arnell Milhouse, Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR), Brown University

In addition to his role as an EIR at Brown, Arnell is the Founder of the CareerDevs Computer Science Institute, a leading supplier of software engineering talent in Rhode Island, and IntraCity Geeks, a K-12 STEM education organization. He received a degree in Business Management and Computer Science from Johnson & Wales University.