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We are excited to introduce Chase Curtiss as this year’s entrepreneur keynote speaker for the Shocker New Venture Competition! Discover his remarkable entrepreneurial journey and browse through our previous entrepreneur key note speakers who have inspired us over the years.

2024 Entrepreneur Key Note Speaker

Chase Curtiss  |  Sway Medical Founder

Chase Curtiss is an innovative product designer, entrepreneur and start-up executive with expertise in growing startups and commercializing medical technology in Tulsa and San Francisco. He has taken on active management roles throughout the start-up lifecycle in building his own companies and taking on executive level management of product development at more mature companies. Chase has extensive experience in user experience, user-testing and behavioral analysis that he regularly uses to help start-ups design better products. Chase is the founder of Sway Medical, Inc. the world’s leader in mobile concussion management for athletes.  

Chase has been recognized as a pioneer in the mobile health space with the first ever FDA clearance for a software only mobile medical device. He has extensive experience with HIPAA compliance, research validation for regulatory approval and the development of quality systems. Chase has been highlighted in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg TV, Forbes, Pando Daily, Mobihealthnews, the Grey Sheet and many other mainstream and medically focused publications for his work in medical technology development. 

Chase has significant experience in marketing and social media management having built an online basketball community with over two million followers and national sponsors that include Wilson Sporting Goods, Verizon, Atlantic Records, Disney, Buick and more. YouTube selected Chase as a NextUP recipient in 2011 for promising creative work in online video content and Google named him a Brand Innovator in 2014 for building a sports social media platform with over 300 Million video views.

 Chase Curtiss sitting on a chair in front of a plain background.

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