Austin Clements is Managing Director of OPV, an early stage venture capital firm created to address the unmet investment needs of small business owners and the technologies that support them. He was previously a Principal at TenOneTen Ventures and began his career in investment management with AllianceBernstein.  He also founded Pi Digital Media, an LA based firm which developed web and mobile applications for SMBs.

Austin serves as the Chair of PledgeLA, an initiative created by the Annenberg Foundation and the Mayor of Los Angeles to promote civic engagement and diversity within the tech community. He also serves on the board of HBCU.vc and the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. Austin received his MBA from NYU Stern and his BA from Morehouse College.

Stanley Frencher Jr., the son of a primary care physician and nurse practitioner, likes to say he “was born to practice medicine.” A board certified urologic surgeon, he grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan until his family moved to an all white suburb outside of the city. He credits his experience growing up in two very different neighborhoods with inspiring his passion for addressing health inequities.

Dr. Frencher attended Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, where he was awarded the first annual Jean L. Cook, MD Memorial Award for Medical Excellence. He went on to earn a Master of Public Health in health management and policy at Columbia University. While enrolled there, he conducted research with the Center for Health and Urban Minorities, helping to identify health disparities across racial groups.

Dr. Frencher completed his surgical residency at Yale New Haven Hospital. He interrupted his training to become a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCLA. Working with the American College of Surgeons, he sought to understand and eliminate inequities in the quality of surgical care through the ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.

Dr. Frencher is currently an assistant professor at UCLA, the medical director of surgical outcomes and quality at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, and the chief of urology at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Outpatient Center.

Almuhtada Smith is the principal attorney at ARS IP Law Firm, P.C. He focuses his practice on all aspects of intellectual property and capital raising in the technology and real estate industries. His practice encompasses advising early stage companies from formation to startup financing, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and private placements, and securities law.

Mr. Smith has extensive experience representing clients in connection with financing and related securities matters. He continually advises early-stage clients on capital raising transactions spanning friends and family rounds to Series A rounds and beyond. He also advises individuals and companies on how to structure a real estate syndicate and other real estate capital raising transactions.

In addition to his practice, Mr. Smith serves as Chairman of the Los Angeles Southwest College Foundation Board and as a Young Professionals Board member of the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools. He has served as an officer and board member of the John M. Langston Bar Association and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of West Los Angeles. Almuhtada received his JD from UCLA School of Law and his BA from Morehouse College.

As the CEO of KW3 Consulting, Kirk A. Williams brings over 20 years of consulting experience to any company. He has achieved impressive results with several Fortune 500 companies such as Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, VISA, Walt Disney Company and Sprint. His background in program and project management, organizational development and change management has allowed him to build the structure that provides clarity to executives and simplicity in accomplishing complex programs.

Williams has won clients, including Cisco Systems, University of California, Banc of California and The World Bank, for KW3 Consulting due to his unique ability to manage and deliver large-scale transformation programs, improve processes and provide visionary strategic planning.