Our Team
At Liminal Group, we believe that bold ideas need more than strategic vision - they need the technical foundation to scale confidently and intelligently.
True innovation happens when bold vision meets expert execution.
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We are a coalition of like minded founders and industry leading experts bringing deep expertise and a wide range of experience to Liminal Groups charge.
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From Startup Success to Corporate Excellence, each of our Experts in Residence leverage a common vision to help aspiring entrepreneurs, existing startups, and the surrounding community connect, grow, and succeed.
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Want to learn how to join our team?
Email: contact@liminalgroupventures.com
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Alan Lugo
Circularity | Footwear | Soft Goods Development & Manf.
Alan’s expertise in product development and sustainability has driven impactful innovation across the footwear industry for nearly 20 years.
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From leading NFW’s expansion into next-gen materials to developing holistic material solutions at Merrell and Hush Puppies, Alan bridges market insights with technical execution to create impactful, future-focused products.
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At Liminal Group, Alan helps startups refine product strategies, optimize for sustainability, and align with market expectations.
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His insights into materials, supply chains, and commercialization provide businesses with the tools to develop innovative, scalable solutions.
Jasmin Childress
Brand Strategy | Identity Design | Design Systems
Jasmine is the visionary behind EIGHT THIRTY SEVEN, crafting brand identities that resonate deeply. Through Tiny Concepts, she’s building a dynamic community of innovators, educators, and thought leaders, redefining creative industries.
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Her expertise in design systems and strategic storytelling transforms businesses into memorable and impactful brands.
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At Liminal Group, Jasmine ensures that early-stage ventures build strong, cohesive brand identities that align with their mission.
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Her expertise in visual strategy and storytelling helps startups stand out, engage audiences, and establish long-term brand equity.
Tom Granzow
Consumer Research | Design Thinking | Design Strategy
A Founder with over three decades of experience in corporate and consulting environments, specializing in product, service, and business development. Tom has extensive experience aligning business teams, researchers, designers, and technologists to develop actionable strategies and deliver solutions addressing unmet user needs and complex business challenges.
Tom specializes in Human Centered Design, a proven problem-solving methodology that puts real people at the center of the research, innovation, and development process. Tom leverages design thinking methods and a broad R&D and business background to lead and coach teams to create great user experiences and develop innovative market-winning products, services, and business strategies.
Pravin Betala
Entrepreneurial Transition Coaching | Leader Development
Pravin is a transition coach and change leader with expertise in career growth, leadership development, and organizational change.
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With 16+ years at Stryker in quality systems and operational strategy, he has led enterprise-wide transformations. He is also a successful founder himself, helping a wide variety of professionals by offering guidance that bridges personal and career evolution to achieving transformational outcomes.
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At Liminal Group, Pravin provides aspiring entrepreneurs and founders the clarity, confidence, resilience, and strategic mindset needed to navigate career and business transitions successfully.
His coaching ensures leaders adapt, thrive, and achieve lasting impact.
Michael Seeley
Founder, Product & Brand Development | Bus. Strategy
An awarded and published 18 year, Design, Innovation, and Branding expert who has helped some of the world's most recognized brands Clarify, Navigate, and Deliver on their most ambitious innovative growth and brand experience initiatives. With wide and deep industry experience in both corporate and agile startup environments, Michael is known to thrive in early, upfront ambiguity.
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With a portfolio of nearly 100 patents to his name, he is no stranger to disruptive innovation and charting new territory in any environment.
As founder and managing partner of Liminal Group - Michael is dedicated to impactful outcomes and end to end excellence for clients and partners.
Alex Bodurka
IoT | Embedded Systems | New Product Development
Alex is an innovative engineering leader specialized in transforming complex technologies into scalable, market-winning products.
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With over 14 years of experience driving successful product development programs at Masonite, Stryker, Chamberlain Group, and others, Alex has launched two industry-first connected solutions, built an engineering organizations from scratch, and has contributed to over 100 patent filings to date.
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At Liminal Group, Alex equips early-stage ventures with technical due diligence for hardware-intensive and connected product initiatives, ensuring scalability and defensible intellectual property. He also ensures de-risked product roadmaps - that aligning technical strategies with market needs & investor expectations.
Devon Hudson
Entrepenuer in Residence - Tegriware LLC.
Devon is a resourceful entrepreneur, marketer, and product innovator with a passion for turning everyday challenges into scalable, shelf-ready consumer solutions.
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As the founder of Tegriware, Devon led the end-to-end development of SwivelServe®, a patented kitchen innovation that simplifies food preparation, serving, and storage. From ideation and prototyping to branding, manufacturing, and go-to-market strategies, Devon has been hands-on in every phase of the startup journey.
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At Liminal Group, Devon supports early-stage founders with real-world insights into bootstrapped product development, bringing a founder's perspective to product validation, helping ventures stay lean, focused, and market-ready.
