People — HMC INQ

Josh Jones is a successful tech entrepreneur, having built dozens of companies, from software start-ups to international airlines. He is best known for innovation, creativity and commitment to successful business and community outcomes.
In 1996, Josh founded DreamHost – a Los Angeles-based web hosting company that has grown to employ over 250 people. He also founded HMC INQ, a venture fund that supports, cultivates, and finances start-ups created by Harvey Mudd College alums. Most recently he assembled top executives in the airline sector to successfully relaunch Ravn Alaska (and coming soon, Northern Pacific Airways), the largest regional air carrier in Alaska. The bulk of Josh’s fortune is attributable to his investment in Bitcoin back in 2010. He invests into startup businesses and partnerships out of his family office, Kill Capital.
Josh’s entrepreneurial vision and strategic partnerships have positioned Gondola Ventures to be a leading force in advancing urban aerial and point of interest (POI) gondola systems in North America. This vision has led to securing financial interest and agreements for both aerial transit and POI systems planned to be built and operational over the next several years – including iconic large-scale projects in Los Angeles and Ontario as well as the Mighty Argo system in Colorado.

Scott Nocas has 25+ years’ experience investing in and building new businesses that sit at the intersection of new technologies, government and media. He has launched businesses reaching over 100M people worldwide. His expertise encompasses venture and private equity investment, product and business development, project management, marketing and content creation with entities such as the U.S. Army, Smithsonian Enterprises, Microsoft, Sony, Tyton Partners and NetDragon Websoft. Scott also works with Josh Jones’ Kill Capital family office supporting his business and investment efforts.
Specializing in structuring and negotiating deals, Scott also focuses on managing stakeholders to ensure a project moves forward smoothly. He is also helping GVC develop its overall portfolio strategy, identify and source new deals and look at unique ways to expand GVC’s revenue beyond ridership.

Harvey Mudd College Director of Entrepreneurship Initiatives / HMC INQ Advisor
Kash Gokli is the Inaugural Director of Entrepreneurship Initiatives and Oliver C. Field Professor of Manufacturing Practice and Engineering Economics and at Harvey Mudd College. He is the director of Riggs Fellowship in Engineering Management and previously held the position of engineering clinic director.
Kash has a strong background in developing innovative, breakthrough products and is a superb leader of people, including fostering a working environment that enables all employees to fully participate and flourish. He is also an Operations, Manufacturing, and Engineering Executive with an exemplary record of leading operations globally for small through Fortune 500 companies. He has extensive experience in durables and consumables in consumer, commercial, and industrial product industries and is a strategic visionary in transforming companies into best-in-class, global competitors. Kash has a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.

Gary Evans has long championed entrepreneurship at Harvey Mudd College, where, since 1981, he’s served as professor of economics in the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts. An expert in enterprise and entrepreneurship, financial institutions, and small business development, he’s taught courses in macroeconomics, entrepreneurship and finance. Evans has long championed online teaching and learning, and shares free online chapters in finance and macroeconomics as well as short instructional videos—what he calls targeted open online topics (TOOTs).
Employing a variety of strategies, Evans has strategically connected and inspired innovative students and alumni. In 1990, he founded the Harvey Mudd College Entrepreneurial Network, supported by a loyal cadre of alumni and friends. Its first meetings were held in Berkeley, Santa Clara, La Jolla and San Francisco and included Joe Costello ’74, electronic design automation pioneer (his companies include think3 and Electronic Speech Systems) and Dan Meacham ’95, analog subsystem designer (founder of innoCOMM and Staccato Communications). Evans encourages all entrepreneurial-minded students to attend Entrepreneurial Network meetings.
In 2017, Evans partnered with entrepreneur Josh Jones ’98, DreamHost co-founder, to start the Harvey Mudd incubator HMC INQ. Modeled after the successful and popular incubator Y Combinator, HMC INQ is open to anyone related to the College, and Evans says he will continue working with Jones and other alumni entrepreneurs.