Jake Kinsey is Senior Director at Illinois VENTURES, the public-private venture capital arm of the University of Illinois System. Kinsey spent over 10 years in industry working for an electronics manufacturing company before becoming a management consulting and technology mentor. In his role, Kinsey connects private industry with public institutions to provide experiential learning opportunities for college students. Kinsey mentors students in problem solving, project management, culture building, human-centered design, secondary and primary research, synthesis, and presentation skills in his role as Senior Director of Illinois Business Consulting, the largest student run consulting organization in the nation.
Most recently, Kinsey has also been involved in mentoring and leading student teams in building solutions for corporate clients with emerging technologies including blockchain, artificial intelligence/machine learning, cloud computing, data science, and quantum computing. Kinsey is especially interested in the way blockchain will transform how capital and data is exchanged in peer-to-peer networks.
Kinsey is a full stack developer using technologies such as; React.js, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Figma, Redux, Express, Node.js, Python, C#, Entity Framework, SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Web3.js, Solidity, AWS, Azure, GCP.