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By Carl Pierre / @Carlpierre

These guys have done incredible things for the DC startup community but are not the kind to hog the spotlight. Like a good Milford man, they are neither seen nor heard. Yes, I had to throw in an ArrestedDevelopment reference.

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·      Dan Berger – Dan is an entrepreneurial titan that stays fairly low-key. Working at a couple of startups as a developer at a young age, he eventually made his way back to entrepreneurship after working at a management-consulting firm and realizing the rat race was not for him. He founded Social Tables, a web-based software that takes seating organization to another level for event planning.

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·      Jamey Harvey – Another giant in the DC tech community that keeps it real, Jamey is known best as the man who runs Geekeasy, a DC workspace for VC’s and startups on Florida Avenue. Jamey is also the CEO and founder of Sponto, a mobile social networking platform that delivers real-world party detection and discovery to college students.

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·      Adam Zuckerman – Adam is an entrepreneurial attorney and a name everybody in the DC tech world should get to know. He prides himself on bringing people together in the startup community, and being an advocate for innovation in the District. He has worked with the best and brightest DC has to offer including companies like JESS3, as well as contributing to tech blogs like Lifehacker and Gizmodo.

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·      Jonathon Perelli – ·      Jonathon Perrelli – Jonathon is the founding partner at the newly launched VC fund Fortify.vc, which has a startup accelerator that has the DC Tech community buzzing called ‘The Fort’. Jonathon has lead and exited four different startups over the past 17 years, with positions that ranged from being a founder to CEO and from startup to IPO. Having been a founder, an angel, and now running an accelerator, Jonathon is the renaissance man of the DC startup community.

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·      Patrick Smith – Patrick has that undeniable zest for Tech and startups, as well as a love for DC. He founded Catalyst Meals, a site that curates meals specifically for Crossfitters that abide by the Paleo Diet. Patrick is also the co-organizer of the DC Lean Startup Meetup which collaborates with founders to create a great product in the most efficient way possible. Patrick has also helped organize the TEDxPotomac lectures.