Sponsors and Judges
BEEP's Sponsors and Judges are the reason we are able to grow so many student businesses.
Meet Our Sponsors
Platinum - $10,000
Gold - $5,000
Silver - $1,500
Bronze - $500
7EDU provides personalized education services and courses for college-bound students, including college counseling and application assistance, test prep (SAT, ACT, AP), enrichment courses, independent study, and more. We are committed to providing effective, comprehensive services to ensure our students are happy, challenged, and successful. Visit our website at www.7edu.org.
The Cupertino Rotary Club is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world. The Rotary Club of Cupertino was chartered in 1955 and has over 200 men and women representing a wide cross-section of local businesses and professions. For more information visit our website at www.cupertinorotary.org
Upward path is a comprehensive program for college admissions prep and career selection. For more information, visit https://upwardpath.com/
Meet Our Mentors/Judges
Mark Zhang
Founder of Cloudstone Venture Fund with specialization in healthcare. Co- Founder of Echo lab, a biotech incubator in the Bay Area, and graduated from Peking University with a Ph.D. from Michigan State University.
Manisha Anarkat
Senior Director of Internal Audit and Compliance at Upwork. Diversely experienced Internal Audit and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance program leader with extensive experience in building and overseeing effective and efficient audit and risk functions that add value, achieve objectives, and meet regulatory guidelines.
Sanusi Tandun
Procurement Manager at Apple Inc. with expertise in procurement, planning and supply chain processes. Hands-on and result-oriented manager with experience in US and Asia. Fluent in Chinese., Board Member of the Fremont Union High School Foundation
Carol (Bing Jie) Bai
Vice President, Global Fraud Risk at PayPal. Strong professional skilled in Data Modeling, Decision Science, Business Analytics, Fraud Detection and Risk Management.
Srikant Sharma
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at ZeroCater, and board member of the Fremont Union High Schools Foundation. Expertise in SaaS Revenue operations, Sales and Customer Success. Deep domain knowledge in sales, revenue operations, sales strategies, customer retention, adoption, engagement and expansion, pipeline and demand marketing. Have led teams as large as 200 and owned over $300M in P&L.
Yifan Mao
Patent attorney registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, member of the State Bar Association of California, Co-President of the Fremont Union High Schools Foundation.
Gordon Lu
Chief Executive Officer at NEURON DROP inc,. Undergraduate of University of Oregon, and graduate of Carnagie Mellon University with a Ph D in Artificial Intelligence and robotics. Owner of multiple invention patents, and a serial entrepreneur. Successfully raised millions of dollars from venture capatalists, including for Anchiva Systems, SkySurfer, and other companies.
Liyan Zhao
Retired software engineer in government agency. Her community service involvement including serving on boards of Fremont Union High Schools Foundation, Asian American Parents Association, and Silicon Valley Community United. She is also an active writer with two books published by TsingHua University.
Jagdish Bansiya
Founder of Peak Engagement Technologies, former CEO of Purple Interactive Inc. Specializes in Enterprise mobility, product strategy, mobile technologies and architecture, mobile applications, internet technologies, evangelism, go-to-market and sales support
Jun Liu
Founder of 7EDU Impact Academy.
Wharton Alumni.