Leadership

Danielle Gore

accelerator Director

Danielle Gore joined ZeroTo510 in March 2019 as the program manager handling day-to-day operations of the accelerator, in addition to programming and curriculum development. Although Danielle is a Memphis native, she received her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA. As an undergraduate, she had exposure to the bustling, innovative biotech and medtech scene in Boston. She also had the opportunity to intern with Harvard Medical School’s InciteHealth – a program dedicated to transforming primary care through new ventures – and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. This, in addition to her coursework, ignited her passion and interest in healthcare and entrepreneurship.

Since obtaining her undergraduate degree, Danielle has worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator, managing stage 2 clinical trials at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and has had additional clinical exposure as a laboratory assistant and medical scribe. Danielle’s healthcare knowledge in conjunction with her experience working with accelerators makes her a great addition to the ZeroTo510 team!

Danielle is passionate about improving patient outcomes through innovation. She is equally passionate about contributing to the growing entrepreneurial ecosystem in Memphis – her hometown.

Jan Bouten

Investor/Co-Founder

Jan is an investment partner at Innova Memphis, an investment firm he joined in 2010 after working with the Innova team in an advisory capacity. He currently serves on the Board of Quire, iScreen Vision, Restore Medical, Compression Kinetics, Parental Health, BioNanovations, and Traklok International. He was a past board member or observer at Digitalsmiths (acquired by TiVo), Mobile-Mind (acquired by: WorldCell), Resolute Games (acquired by Lokion), Nextreme Thermal (acquired by Laird Technologies) and Covelight (acquired by Radware).

His professional experience includes founder and executive of two startups, 10+ years of high tech industry experience in engineering, marketing and sales, and more than 10 years as a seed and early-stage VC. This solid, diversified experience base allows him to provide advice and mentoring to companies and entrepreneurs.

Prior to Innova, Jan spent 7 years at Aurora Funds, a $235MM seed- and early-stage venture capital firm based in Research Triangle Park, NC. Here, he was involved in negotiating, structuring and monitoring 11 investments, and was involved in 3 IPOs and 3 acquisitions in the healthcare and technology fields.

Bouten serves on the board of the FedEx Institute of Technology, as well as the Greater Memphis Growth Alliance. He is a recognized expert in the field as a Wall Street Journal Startup Guru, as well as Master Mentor for LaunchTennessee.

Jan received his MBA from Duke University, and also holds a MS degree in Artificial Intelligence from the United Kingdom, and a BS in Computer Science from The Netherlands.