Silley Circuits LLC is New York's network for start-ups and businesses in media, data, technology, finance, advertising, fashion, food, retail and more. We link founders, investors, technologists, designers, executives, service providers, teachers, students and others in Silicon Alley and beyond - hence Silley Circuits. Activities include events, providing business leads, business and technical advice and capital and executive introductions.

The goal is to collaborate and make the pie bigger.

At our events, for exchange of ideas and insights, we bring together those who share a passion for creating and growing businesses.

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contact: silleycircuits@gmail.com

January 17, 2014. Rubin Museum of Art. Photo by Ethan Lowenthal. ©

The Silley Circuits Crew

Spencer Cheng, co-founder, is now a volunteer. A software engineer at Rivian, his experience includes coding, design and branding for companies in San Francisco, New York, Shanghai and Hong Kong. He learned coding at the Holborn School in San Francisco and got a BA in Economics from Columbia University.

Niall Chithelen is a Ph.D. student at UC San Diego. He was a Princeton in Asia fellow and a contributor to 3 Quarks Daily. He graduated in Chinese Studies & History from Cornell.

Rhea Ruggiero, an inventor of gadgets, including SmartPhoneCradle, is an actor and a public speaking and acting coach. Her acting credits include films, Godfather II and The Good Wife, TV soap operas, One Life to Live, and All My Children, and Off Broadway plays. Rhea's TV commercial clients include Charles Shwab and PNC Bank.

Peter Roos advisor. Founder, inventor, and producer of digital content and tools since his days at the MIT Media Lab, Peter is developing Augmented/Mixed/Virtual Reality environments supported by patented 3-D UI design. He’s been a consultant to studios, owned and managed post-production rooms in NYC, produced network television, and developed original projects at his production company, Phase Four. An award-winning editor, he is a graduate of MIT and an MBA from Columbia University.

John Kim, advisor, is a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) product management team leader with experience in marketing and education technology. He worked at Responsys and Siebel, both acquired by Oracle, and Elsevier as well as startup companies. He has an MBA from Wharton and a BS in engineering from Harvey Mudd college.

Ignatius Chithelen, CFA, Founder, advisor, runs Banyan Tree Capital Management, a New York based value investor in public equities. From 1993 to 1999 Ignatius was an analyst and portfolio manager at SoGen, now First Eagle Funds. His essay on Indian Entrepreneurs in the U.S. was published in both editions of The Oxford University Press Companion to Economics in India. His books Passage from India to America and Six Degrees of Education are available on Amazon and other stores. He has written for The New York Times, Knowledge@Wharton, Barrons & other publications. A Chartered Financial Analyst, he earned an M Phil,Development Economics, CDS, India, 1982 & an MS, Journalism, Columbia Univ., 1986.