Jill Goebel is a Principal and Design Director with Gensler, the architecture and design firm behind incubators including Chicago's 1871, Houston's TMCx and NEW INC, the first museum-led incubator (which Gensler co-designed with SO-IL). Stitching together progressive ideas from her experience designing education and workplace environments, Jill partners with clients to curate incubators that enable people to make creative leaps, discover new ideas, and re-imagine possibilities.

Jill teaches, too. She's served as a lecturer at Virginia Tech, been a visiting critic at Marymount University and frequently speaks on the topic of facilitating creative connections in the workplace. Her work has received awards from NAIOP, the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Mike McGee is the co-founder of The Starter League, an in-person school in Chicago that teaches beginners how to build web applications.  Before The Starter League, Mike's greatest claim to fame was that his High School mascot was a pretzel. He went to Northwestern for four years where he spent two years being a student and two years in student government - miraculously becoming Student Body President his senior year. In Spring 2011, Mike decided to turn down Obama for America (his first real job offer) to co-found The Starter League. Mike's latest "dent in the universe" project is Starter School, an immersive, full-time program that will take people from zero to entrepreneur in 9 months.