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“Meet & Eats” are irregularly occurring Skandalaris Center events intended to help expose students to a variety of creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs. The topic and/or industry changes every time, but one thing remains consistent: we buy you food!

Shaun Arora

Come meet WashU alumnus, Shaun Arora. He is the Managing Director at Southern California’s only hardware accelerator (Make in LA), an angel investor for startups, and a board member on the contracting manufacturing company he helped build.

At Make in LA, Shaun is cultivating a hardware community to support fantastic founders scale and avoid both common and uncommon pitfalls with bringing hardware to market. Make in LA targets 8-18 investments per year into early stage hardware startups. Prior to working with early stage companies, Shaun spent more than a decade helping larger companies with their manufacturing through NEO Tech. He also scaled NEO Tech through exponential growth into a Tier 2 electronics contract manufacturing company working across industries such as aerospace, medical device, and enterprise. And prior to that, he worked as a cultural anthropologist for alcohol brands and CPG companies.

As Shaun is located in LA, he will join by video conference. Shaun will share about a topic of his choice and answer questions.

Open to: WashU students, faculty, staff & alumni

To ensure the best video conference experience for attendees, seating will be limited. RSVP below by 12/8:

 

Registration is now closed.