Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Management Consulting space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Nathan Sportsman
Founder and CEO of Praetorian
As the Founder and CEO of Praetorian, Nathan is responsible for championing the vision, maintaining the culture, and setting the direction of the company. He also holds the additional duties of CTO where he is responsible for overseeing the innovation and development engine of the company keeping the firm well positioned to defeat the ever evolving cybersecurity threat. Prior to bringing in professional management to help run the company, Nathan managed the day-to-day operations of the firm from its 2010 beginnings as a bootstrapped start-up to its current YoY hyper-growth. Since Praetorian’s founding, Nathan has successfully instilled a “customer first” mentality that has become part of the DNA of the company which has led to unprecedented customer satisfaction reviews as reflected in a historical net promoter score of 86%. This reputation for delivering value to the customer has resulted in a three year growth rate of 214%. Under Nathan’s leadership, the company has earned national recognition on the Inc. 5000 list multiple times, the Cybersecurity 500, CIO Top 20, and locally on Austin’s “Fastest 50” growing firms. Prior to founding Praetorian, Nathan worked in various technical roles at industry-leading companies such as Sun Microsystems, Symantec, and McAfee. His experience has cross cut most industry sectors, and customers have ranged from Wall Street and Silicon Valley to government intelligence agencies and renowned educational institutions. Nationally recognized as a leader in the cybersecurity field, Nathan is a frequent public speaker, is a contributing author to the world’s best-selling computer security book, Hacking Exposed, is a U.S. patent holder, and has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin (nationally ranked #5 for Computer Science and Engineering). Nathan holds a BS in electrical & computer engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
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About Praetorian: Praetorian is a cybersecurity company whose mission is to make the world safer and more secure.
Patrick Gallagher
President and Chief Executive Officer of Gallagher
J. Patrick Gallagher, Jr. began his career with Gallagher as an intern in 1972, started working for the company full time in 1974 as a Production Account Executive and was promoted to Vice President-Operations in 1985. He was elected to the Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Board of Directors in 1986. In 1990, he was named President and Chief Operating Officer and, in 1995, was appointed Chief Executive Officer by the Board of Directors. In 2006 he was appointed Chairman of the Board. Mr. Gallagher joined the Board of Trustees of the American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters in 2003, and serves on the Board of Founding Directors of the International Insurance Foundation and the Board of Directors of InnerWorkings, Inc. In addition, he serves on the Advisory Council of Boys Hope/Girls Hope and the Board of Advisors for Catholic Charities, and is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, the Executives Club of Chicago and the Commercial Club of Chicago.
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About Gallagher, Gallagher: Gallagher is an international insurance brokerage and risk management services firm.
Shawn Dougherty
Founder, CEO of EXOIO
Shawn co-founded mophie in June 2005, just prior to the release of the first iPhone. It grew to become the #1 selling battery case manufacturer for mobile devices in North America. Working as a founder, COO, President & Board Member, mophie created the first juice pack battery case for the first-generation iPhone in North America and built an exclusive partnership with Apple. I led a team which built a solid business structure at mophie, allowing the company to thrive and withstand rapid growth, both in the U.S. and internationally. Shawn became a skilled operator and raised millions of dollars in multiple rounds of capital and debt facilities. Under Shawn’s guidance and strategic vision, the company grew from 3 employees in her barn in Kalamazoo, Michigan to a multimillion dollar business, mophie sold products into 38,000 retailer partners in 130 countries with 300+ employees with facilities in California, Michigan, China, Hong Kong and Amsterdam. As a leader, I established longstanding relationships with national and global retail partnerships and collaborations with top industry icons including Apple, Amazon, Verizon, AT&T, Best Buy, Product Red, Valentino, and Supreme. I am passionate about developing products and growing a business from the ground up was one of the most challenging yet satisfying experience of my life. By 2015, mophie revenue has reached $250+ million, and resulted in company being sold in February of 2016 to a strategic acquirer. Shawn was also a seed investor, Board Member, and Co-founder of Paw Paw Brewing company in Paw Paw, Michigan. The company was originated in 2010 and Shawn exited in March 2017. Since the sale of mophie Shawn has catching her breath, tending to personal relationships, and has also started a new company called EXOIO that allows her to spend time networking, consulting, and acting as an advisor to company of all sizes.
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About EXOIO: We help accelerate growth.
Kewsong Lee
Co-Chief Executive Officer of The Carlyle Group
Kewsong Lee is based in New York, joined Warburg Pincus in 1992 and leads the firm’s investments in the consumer, industrial and services sectors. He also helps drive the firm’s financial services investments and capital markets activities. Mr. Lee is a member of the firm’s executive management group. Previously, Mr. Lee was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. He is currently a director of Aeolus Re, Aramark, Arch Capital Group, Consolidated Precision Products, MBIA, The Neiman Marcus Group and Total Safety. Mr. Lee serves on the board of Lincoln Center Theater, where he is a member of the executive committee, and also is a trustee of Choate Rosemary Hall. Mr. Lee received an A.B. in applied mathematics in economics from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About RenaissanceRe Holdings, The Carlyle Group, TradeCard: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Piyush Goel
Founder & CEO of Beyond Key Systems Pvt Ltd (Beyond Key)
Piyush brings more than 15 years of leadership, business development, and marketing experience to BeyondKey. As the CEO of the company, he makes sure that we deliver solution of high value and customer focus and adopting latest technology is his main focus area, he is responsible for driving BeyondKey’s global growth initiatives.
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About Beyond Key Systems Pvt Ltd (Beyond Key), uRead: World-class software development and IT consulting company
Tom Blaisdell
Founder & CEO of AlignPact
Tom Blaisdell is the Founder & CEO at AlignPact.
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About AlignPact, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College: AlignPact is a management consulting firm that advises and supports entrepreneurs in creating companies designed to make a positive impact.
Mike Sha
CEO, Co-Founder of SigFig
Mike Sha is co-founder and CEO at Wikinvest and at SigFig. Formerly, Mike was an advisor and consultant to many internet and mobile startups and held key positions at Amazon.com where he launched and ran the Amazon Visa Card business, headed up product development in the Global Payments team, led a technology team focused on building new strategic partnerships and initiatives, and built sophisticated fraud detection models. He received a BA in Applied Math and a MS in Computer Science, both from Harvard University.
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About SigFig: SigFig is financial services firm that dedicates in making high-quality investment advice to investors of all wealth levels.
Guy Marion
CEO & Founder of Brightback
Guy Marion is Chief Marketing Officer at Autopilot, where he spearheads Autopilot’s go-to-market strategy and operations. Guy has spent the past decade at the forefront of the shift towards all things Cloud & SaaS, having helped grow several enterprise companies into successful businesses. Prior to joining Autopilot, Guy served as Senior Director at Zendesk where he helped rapidly grow Zendesk’s core SaaS business. Prior to Zendesk, Guy grew and eventually sold his own company, Codesion, to CollabNet Inc., where he served as VP/GM of Cloud Services. Guy holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Stanford and Ph.D in Paleoceanography from The University of Queensland.
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About Brightback: Brightback offers entreprenurial advice to subscription-based businesses on customer lifetime value.
John-Michael Scott
CEO of GreenData.IO
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About BloxNexus, Future Think Labs, GreenData.IO, MonstRpreneur, NoLoBlox, Sandalwood Ventures: Venture Builder bringing Corporations & Startups expertise in startup mindset & operational execution, creating the Data Driven Enterprise.
Rick Trainor
Chief Executive Officer, Business Services of LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Rick Trainor is Chief Executive Officer, Business Services and Content for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis®. Named to this position in July of 2009, Trainor directs the unit’s strategy, market and product direction, and manages the sales and vertical marketing teams for the business unit’s banking, receivables management and corporate/emerging markets. In addition he manages the company’s content acquisition, bulk content fabrication, sales and licensing, along with managing our two specialty businesses: VitalChek and Signature Information Solutions. Previously, Trainor served as Senior Vice President of Content and Data Services. In that capacity, Trainor was responsible for all content acquisition, along with bulk content fabrication, sales and licensing. Prior to joining LexisNexis, Trainor was Vice President of Content for Seisint, a privately owned Boca based company, which was acquired by LexisNexis in 2004. In this position, he was responsible for all content acquisition. Prior to 2001, Trainor served as Vice President of Contracts and Program Management for Diveo Broadband Networks, where he managed significant vendor financing agreements and the contract management aspects of building out world-class data centers and fixed wireless networks across Latin America. Trainor serves on the Board of Directors for Zoo Atlanta. He earned his BS in Accounting and MS in Finance from Boston College.
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About LexisNexis Risk Solutions: LexisNexis Risk Solutions provides information to assist customers in industry and government in assessing, predicting, and managing risk.
Bill Madison
CEO – Insurance Solutions of LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Bill Madison is Chief Executive Officer, Insurance, for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis, a position he has held since October 2006. Madison is currently responsible for all insurance transactional business including solutions for underwriting, claims, analytics, and international markets; as well as pursuing new market initiatives in life, telematics, auto rental. Madison has played a key role in the integration of data services into multiple channels, and in transforming Insurance Data Solutions from being a data provider to providing a holistic approach to risk analysis, underwriting, and claims processing that includes process enhancement. These innovative solutions have helped insurance carriers achieve significant improvements in performance. Madison joined the organization in 1989 as part Equifax’s acquisition of Innovative Research, Inc., where he was a member of the leadership team that developed several products that revolutionized auto insurance underwriting. When the Insurance Services team was spun off from Equifax to create ChoicePoint, he was instrumental in transitioning the organization into a standalone unit. During his tenure, Madison has served in a variety of roles including customer sales representative in the Personal Lines (Auto and Home) market, then later as Vice President of Sales for the Insurance Data Services division where he was responsible for the National Accounts Program, in addition to all ChoicePoint data sales activity. Madison earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Economics from Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Virginia. He lives in the Atlanta area with his family.
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About LexisNexis Risk Solutions: LexisNexis Risk Solutions provides information to assist customers in industry and government in assessing, predicting, and managing risk.
Mark Osmanski
President & Chief Executive Officer of ATEK Companies
Mark Osmanski joined ATEK Companies as President & CEO in 2011.
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About ATEK Companies: ATEK Access Technologies, LLC designs and manufactures automatic door and industrial safety systems.
Rahul Sahgal
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of Annik
Rahul is the founder and CEO of Annik, one of the leading Data Analytics outsourcing companies in India. Having spent 10 years in the US working with some of the Global Leaders in Market Research, he started the company upon his return to India. Initially providing software development services, he started offering data services in 2002 after which the company quickly grew from less than 20 to over 200 in a couple of years. Today, with over 1000+ employees, Annik is recognized as a pioneer in the KPO space. Having grown up in different countries and having attended various international schools, he has an appreciation for different cultures. He is fluent in English, Hindi and French. Rahul holds a Master’s Degree in Physics from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA and a Bachelor’s Degree in the same subject from Hindu College, University of Delhi.
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About Annik, LiquidHub, QoreNext: Annik, now LiquidHub Analytics, is the global data management and analytics solutions wing of the customer engagement solutions firm.
Pam Kostka
CEO of All Raise
Pam Kostka is the CEO of All Raise, a startup nonprofit on a mission to accelerate the success of female founders and funders to build a more prosperous, equitable future. Pam is a seasoned CEO with over 25 years of experience as a startup operator. Her specialties are defining go-to-market strategies and implementing operational processes that allow startups to effectively scale to successful exits. Most recently, she was CEO of Loop, a local community mobile app. Previously, she served as CEO of Bluebox Security, interim CEO and CMO at VirtuOz, SVP of Marketing and Sales for Sabrix, and CEO and Co-founder of Visiline, Inc. She has also held executive and senior marketing roles at software companies such as Arena Solutions, Connect, and Extensity. Pam earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, summa cum laude, from College of the Holy Cross, and her MBA from Harvard Business School. A lifelong cyclist, runner, and outdoor adventure seeker, she enjoys Bay Area trails with her husband, Yuri, and daughter, Rae.
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About All Raise: All Raise is a nonprofit on a mission to accelerate the success of female founders and funders to build a more prosperous equitable future.
Rich Lesser
President and Chief Executive Officer , New York of The Boston Consulting Group
Rich became the sixth president and chief executive officer of BCG in January 2013. Based in New York and Beijing, he has been on the firm’s Executive Committee since 2006. Before becoming CEO, Rich was BCG’s chairman for North and South America since 2009 and head of the New York Metro office system starting in 2000. His client work has focused on innovation, strategy, and large-scale transformation in the health care and consumer sectors. In 2009, Consulting magazine named him one of the industry’s most influential consultants. Prior to joining BCG in 1988, Rich worked as a process development engineer and group leader at Procter & Gamble. He holds an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. Read Rich’s recent “Boss Talk” interview with The Wall Street Journal.
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Dhaval Jadav
CEO of alliantgroup
Dhaval Jadav is the co-founder and chief executive officer of alliantgroup, a Houston-based tax consulting firm that helps small and mid-sized businesses earn state and federal tax credits. Jadav founded the firm in 2002 with current chief operating officer Shane Frank. Prior to founding the firm, Jadav held positions in both the public and private sectors. He worked for several companies in Silicon Valley, as well as for Deloitte & Touche and the Internal Revenue Service’s Houston District Counsel. Philanthropy is an important part of Jadav’s work. He has helped establish alliantgroup’s Blue Heart Fund, a charitable fund created to aid the firm’s employees, clients and their CPAs, and the local community in rebuilding after Hurricane Harvey left many displaced. Additionally, Jadav helped create a STEM scholarship fund for Houston-area high school students wishing to pursue a career in a STEM-related field. Jadav has contributed to a number of publications, including Harvard Business Review, Industry Week and Reuters Breakingviews, where he discussed the need for tax reform in order to reinvest money back into the U.S. economy. Jadav is a member of alliantgroup’s strategic advisory board. He earned an LL.M. degree in taxation from the Georgetown University Law Center, and is licensed to practice law in Texas where he lives with his family.
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About alliantgroup: alliantgroup is the nation’s leading tax specialty services provider. alliantgroup helps businesses stay competitive and grow!
Nancy Albertini
Office of the CEO of Kingsley Gate Partners
Nancy Albertini is Chairman of the executive search firm, Albertini Group Inc. (AGI), which she founded in 2006. Recognized as a search industry innovator and thought leader, Nancy has connected the most sought after talent with industry leading companies for over 25 years. Throughout her career, Nancy has been instrumental in building winning companies. From finding key executives to locating funding at strategic points in their development, Nancy’s ability to propel companies to the next level has been a key to both her clients’ and her own success. Nancy founded Taylor Winfield Inc. in 1986, partnering with private equity firms and focusing on executive search for emerging growth companies. In 1993, she began an innovative investment model, investing alongside her clients, in their portfolio companies, in addition to placing the executive teams. Her largest return came in 1994 when she introduced BEA Systems to Warburg Pincus, resulting in BEA becoming the fastest growing software company in Silicon Valley in the 1990’s and leading to a $32 billion market cap by October 2000. Nancy’s other exits include Rhapsody Networks which was sold to Brocade and AFC which was sold to Telllabs where she executed both CEO searches. In 2003, she co-founded Pagemill Partners, which provides financial advisory services, including M&A advisory, private placement advisory and specialized financial studies to emerging and middle-market technology companies. There, she was instrumental in the funding of Shop.com and the placement of technology luminary Bob Kavner to its board. Nancy’s completed board searches include Audit Chair for LivingSocial and two board members for F5 Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV), three board members for Ruffalo Cody, three board members for Contact Solutions, two board members for Inmar, a board member for Evidon, and two board members for SmartPak International including a board member from Google and Netflix. Recently, Nancy completed the President at Boingo Wireless (NASDAQ: WIFI), the CEO Arespike, CEO Kaazing, CMO Inmar; CRO, VP Sales and Chief Product Officer for Metamarkets, CIO Western Dental, SVP Operations and CFO Joyent and Yodlee, General Counsel and SVP HR of vRide, CHRO Trinet (NASDAQ: TNET), and CMO Vendavo. Nancy also completed the President of Merchant Funded offers for JPMorgan Chase. (NYSE: JPM) The Albertini Group, Inc. has just been named the U.S. Partner for Intel Capital. She is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the Committee of 200 which is an invitation only international organization of the world’s most successful women entrepreneurs and corporate leaders, Silicon Valley Executive Network (SVEN), and Forum for Women Entrepreneurs. Nancy was named one of the Influential Women of Silicon Valley for 2010 and is a distinguished Junior Achievement 2012 Hall of Fame Laureate. Nancy serves on the board of Apollo Enterprise Solutions, the board of BUILD which is an organization for high risk high school students, and the Advisory Board of the Big Live and Monitise (MONI) listed on the AIM. Nancy holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University (SMU) with international training from the London Business School (LBS). Nancy has attended Stanford University’s Director’s College focused on the role of governance for public companies and has completed the Stanford program for Mergers & Acquisitions.
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About Kingsley Gate Partners: Kingsley Gate Partners is a management consulting and information technology company located in Dallas.
Alex Soltani
Founder & CEO of Skyview Capital
Alex Soltani is the chairman, CEO and founder of Skyview Capital.
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About Skyview Capital: Skyview Ventures is an internally managed pool of partners’ capital that will invest in high growth companies in Southern California.
Nick Shapiro
Founder and CEO of 10th Avenue
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About 10th Avenue: 10th Avenue builds lasting partnerships with partners and offers life-giving results for business development.
Carl Buhler
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Lead Consultant of Buhler Consulting, LLC
Carl Buhler is the CEO of Buhler Consulting, LLC, which specializes in providing consulting services to the aerospace and defense industries focused on logistics, maintenance, sustainment, modernization, and supply. Carl Buhler is also the CEO of Bionic Lift, LLC which focuses on the exoskeleton market and is a US representative and distributor of Skelex 360 Exoskeletons. Carl is a retired Air Force Brigadier General (Brig Gen). Carl Buhler’s Air Force General Officer biography is at http://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1569466/Brigadier-General-Carl-A-Buhler Carl began his extensive military career in 1989 after earning a BS in applied mathematics from Valdosta State College (now University), where he participated in the Air Force ROTC program. After completing Squadron Officer School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, he graduated with his master’s degree in human relations from the College of Continuing Education at the University of Oklahoma. Carl Buhler has since earned a master’s degree in national security and strategic studies from the College of Naval Command and Staff and a master’s degree in national resource strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Capitalizing on his formal education, during his time in the Air Force, Carl Buhler rose to the rank of brigadier general (brig gen) after completing logistics, aircraft maintenance, and munitions-related assignments at bases throughout South Korea, Germany, and the United States. While a squadron commander, he led his squadron to earn the Air Combat Command (ACC) Maintenance Effectiveness Award and the U.S. Air Force Maintenance Effectiveness Award. Additionally, he served as the director of logistics, engineering, and force protection at Headquarters, ACC at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia. Carl Buhler also earned the U.S. Air Force Lt. General Leo Marquez Outstanding CGO Munitions Maintenance Officer of the Year Award winner for 1994. Watch Carl Buhler’s interview on “The Aviation Talk Show” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRKPFw3KSok&feature=youtu.be https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/390620 https://buhlerconsulting.com
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About Bionic Lift, LLC, Buhler Consulting, LLC, Grey Beard Associates: Buhler Consulting, LLC provides aerospace/defense consulting focused on logistics, aircraft maintenance, sustainment, modernization & supply
John Cabell
Founder, Owner & CEO of Cue Ball, LLC
John Cabell is Founder & CEO at Cueball.
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About Cue Ball, LLC: Cue Ball, a management consultancy/brokerage firm, provides services to global publishing, media, technology, and entertainment industries.
Germain Chastel
CEO, co-founder of NewtonX
Formerly Associate Partner with McKinsey & Company Acquisition Finance at Societe Generale Investment Banking Co-founder RasoirClub.com
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About NewtonX: NewtonX is the world’s leading B2B research company.
Patrick Sullivan
President and CEO of Oceanit
Patrick K. Sullivan founded Oceanit in 1985, a self-funded research and development technology incubator that today employs over 160 scientists, engineers and professionals, providing innovative solutions in the fields of aerospace, engineering, information technology and life sciences. Oceanit’s more than $250M in funding has created cutting-edge innovations in the fields of aerospace, bio-photonics, neurotoxin detection and optics, as well as technology for missile defense, managing space debris and environmental applications that are the subject of numerous reports, patents and research programs. Patrick Sullivan has extensive experience on boards and commissions, including former board seats on the Ocean Research Advisory Panel (appointed by the Secretary of the Navy), Parker Ranch and the High Technology Development Corporation. Current directorships include Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific, Nanopoint, Inc., and Hoana Medical, Inc. He is also a member of the Military Affairs Council. Patrick Sullivan has extensive experience developing nationally focused research programs, such as the National Defense Center of Excellence for Research in Ocean Sciences (CEROS), and the National Electric Vehicle Demonstration program, both collaborations with DARPA. Patrick Sullivan serves as the honorary consul of Indonesia and received his BS in Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his PhD in Engineering from the University of Hawaii.
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About Hoana Medical, Oceanit: Oceanit operates as a science and engineering company.
Nicci Levy
Founder/CEO of Alchemy 43
Nicci Levy is the Founder of Alchemy 43. As a cosmetics and skincare expert, and a forever lover of the beauty space, some of her earliest childhood memories are watching mom get ready for date nights with dad, and being the go-to makeup artist of her social circle. When it came time to find a part-time job in college, Nicci took her passion to Benefit Cosmetics where she gained formal training, and even had the opportunity to work abroad. It was at Benefit Cosmetics that she realized she could have fun, experience professional success, and have a meaningful impact on the confidence and lives of others—all through a career in the beauty industry. Nicci enjoyed a 10-year career in corporate cosmetics at companies including MAC Cosmetics and Nordstrom—where she piloted a personal shopping program for cosmetics and skincare—and ck Calvin Klein Beauty, where she launched their cosmetics line as the Director of Global Sales and Education. With an insatiable appetite for growth and a pure fascination with the ever evolving trends and techniques of the industry, Nicci was excited to learn about the medical aspects of microtreatments, and saw the shift as a natural next step in her career.
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About Alchemy 43: Alchemy 43 is a brand of cosmetic injectable clinics that delivers the highest quality cosmetic injectable treatments
Deepali Khadakban
Founder & CEO of Precision Technologies Corp.
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About CDRP Technologies, ITServe Alliance, Precision Technologies Corp., YPO: Precision Technologies Leveraging on years of staffing & consulting experience, It has pioneered in the field of IT & outsourcing services.
Chris Hart
Co-Founder and CEO of Levvel
Chris Hart is a co-founder and CEO of Levvel. He has more than 15 years of technology leadership experience and has led software development, infrastructure, and QA organizations at multiple Fortune 100 companies. In addition to his enterprise experience, Chris has helped start or grow multiple early-stage technology companies. In the five years before starting Levvel, Chris was focused on financial technology solutions in the consumer, commercial and wealth management space. His technical expertise and enterprise-scale, global program management background helps Levvel’s clients transform their businesses.
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About Levvel, Reward Summit: Levvel is an IT consulting firm that offers technical implementation services and strategic advisory services.
Mike Rogers
President & Chief Executive Officer / Founder of Valued Pharmacy Services
Mike founded the company in July 2007 with a mission to provide innovative pharmacy and health benefit solutions that maximize dollars saved on prescription medications. Mike works daily with all the Account Teams at VPS to ensure the appropriate solutions and resources are put to work while addressing client opportunities. Prior to VPS, Mike spent 15 years working for Fortune 500 Benefit Companies like Express Scripts, Med Impact and Schering Plough. His expertise includes benefit plan design, self-funding, life and disability planning, pharmacy benefit management, as well as executive benefit planning. Mike graduated from Southwest Missouri State with a BA in Business Management in 1992.
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About Valued Pharmacy Services: Valued Pharmacy Services is a PBM Consulting Company, is an innovator in tackling skyrocketing healthcare and pharmacy costs.
Gerard J. Hall
Founder, President & CEO of SMT (SportsMEDIA Technology)
Gerard J. Hall is the founder, president and chief executive officer of SMT. SMT (SportsMEDIA Technology Corporation) is the pioneer in real-time graphics, tickers, clock-and-score, virtual insertions and social media integration for live televised sporting and entertainment events. Gerard’s career in sports television began in 1988 when, as a graduate student, he developed a wireless, real-time electronic scoring system for PGA events, replacing the standard walkie-talkie communication that was previously used to update leaderboards. He provided this interface from 1988 to 1991 for NBC Sports. Upon graduation from Harvard University in 1981, Gerard won the prestigious St. Andrew’s Scholarship to attend Scotland’s University of Edinburgh where he pursued a Master of Science in computer science. Gerard continued his graduate studies while teaching computer science at the University of Central Florida before leaving in 1986 to work with the Epson Computer Corporation. SportsMEDIA Technology Corporation was formally incorporated in June 1990 with an eye toward offering TV interface technology to other sports television broadcasters. Shortly thereafter, SportsMEDIA signed an exclusive four-year agreement with ESPN to provide interface TV graphics services for NASCAR/IndyCar, NFL, NHL, MLB, NCAA football and NCAA basketball. During the formative years of SportsMEDIA, Gerard was the architect of electronic scoring systems for the PGA Tour, IndyCar and the X Games.
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About SMT (SportsMEDIA Technology): SportsMEDIA Technology is a provider of graphics, statistics and video enhancement software for live television sports broadcast networks.
Mark Briggs
Chairman and CEO of Premier BPO, Inc.
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About dinCloud, Premier BPO, Inc.: Premier BPO is providing BPO and BPM services to global businesses with Call Centers, IT Support and Back Office Support Services
Jeff Epstein
Co-CEO, CFO of Apex Technology
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About Apex Technology, Bessemer Venture Partners, Stanford University: Apex Technology is a special purpose acquisition corporation.
Margaret Graziano
CEO of KeenAlignment
Recognized as one of Silicon Valley’s Top 100 Women Leaders, Magi’s groundbreaking work is driven by her power to uncover and catalyze human potential. Pioneering the leading edge of Leadership Training, Organizational Culture and Strategic People Operations, she brings: • Proven success transforming organizational culture with more than 25,000 lives impacted • Over 25 years of experience in unlocking the wealth of talent, human spirit and capacity in organizations • Methods that increase employee performance, ignite passion in teams and deliver up to 10x return on program investment
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About KeenAlignment: KeenAlignment helps organizations break through organizational barriers and constraints to excellence by transforming culture.
Vikas Kamran
Chief Executive Officer of Revel Consulting
Vikas understands that in an increasingly digital world, executives today are challenged to adapt to new market realities in order to survive and thrive. For more than a decade, Vikas has led Revel to develop strategic initiatives and business opportunities to position the company as a leader in digital transformation. From cloud innovation to infrastructure to customer experience, Vikas continually anticipates and executes new and better ways to accelerate business. As CEO, Vikas goes beyond establishing the company’s strategic vision. He also sets the standard for skill and expertise among Revel associates, which has only deepened over the years, to ensure that every engagement is driven with collaboration, empathy, proficiency and passion for client success. Prior to founding Revel Consulting, Vikas was a Senior Manager in Accenture’s New York office where he partnered with Fortune 500 leaders to rapidly ideate on forward-looking concepts and develop innovative and effective go-to-market strategies. He was able to engage all parts of the organization to successfully deliver on these keystone products and services.
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About Revel Consulting: Revel Consulting is a consulting firm that partners with clients to create substantial value.
Chad Halvorson
Co-Founder & CEO of When I Work
Chad Halvorson is the CEO of thisCLICKS , makers of When I Work, a cloud-based mobile employee scheduling software. When I Work simplifies staff scheduling and communication for restaurants, retailers, healthcare providers and countless SMBs in more than 50 countries around the world. Before thisCLICKS, Chad led the development team at Meditech Communications, a digital marketing agency that provides app development, animation and video production services to the medical device industry. For over a decade, he led the development and architecture of interactive tools, apps and web software for Fortune 500 giants like Boston Scientific, UnitedHealthcare and St. Jude Medical — plus countless small and mid-sized companies.
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About When I Work: When I Work is an employee scheduling and time tracking platform designed for shift-based teams.
Vincent Liu
CEO & Co-Founder of Bishop Fox
Vincent Liu (CISSP) is the co-founder and CEO of Bishop Fox. He is an expert in security strategy, red teaming, and product security; and at Bishop Fox, he oversees firm strategy and client relationships.
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About Bishop Fox: The leader in offensive security, providing continuous pen testing, red teaming, attack surface management, & security assessments.
Sammy Singh
Chief Executive Officer of CFO Base
Sammy Singh (also known as Sam Singh Mehta) has founded many entrepreneurial ventures and possesses a strong professional, as well as education background focused in financial technology, global taxation, and economics. Sammy’s aptitude came into the spotlight when he took over as the global Chief Financial Officer for the firm CXOsync- a global technology events and collaboration firm connecting the brightest of leaders for events niche specific and tailored toward their niche department seeking actionable insights through networking with other like-minded professionals in industry. When Sammy took over- the firm was in the small business phase, suffering in growth and a lack of direction with having a massive transition and restructure within the firm with how things were previous done. In the short span of 1 year (2016-2017), through his innovation and analysis of each individual department and product divisions- was able to have a history year of a 1089% increase in revenue. This was unheard of and remarkable in industry and made Sammy distinguished amongst his peers as a mover and shaker in industry through the offices of Chief Financial Officer. As CFO, Sammy instituted state of the art blockchain based solutions and cash flow algorithmic function that combined 20 different formulas to yield 4 simplified metrics that he was able to distributed across the offices of CMO, CIO, CISO, CTO, CSO, and CEO- as well as ops and sales for increased data alignment and never before seen synergy amongst departments. He is the chief architect of closed loop reporting data alignment functionality utilizing a simplified approx. across an array of data streams for a fully aligned end point solution taking complex data lakes and creating one unified data stream to provide actionable solutions standardized across the entire organization. Sammy also was the Chief System Architecure and Advisor with CVS Health and worked instrumentally in creating the data functionalities and capture currently seen across every CVS Pharmacy globally with his data analytics passion from the onset of his professional prowess. Sammy possesses an extensive educational background ranging from The Wharton School of Business to The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in the scope of public administration, economics and computer science (DevOps UI/UX); and through this- founded the financial disruptive firm that globally impacted many firms in how financial data was simplified for sales and CMO success with his founding firm- Atmosify Inc. Sammy has currently founded over 15 firms globally and has been involved in advising numerous firms- while currently focusing on his two largest US based enterprises- The Accountant Inc. and CFO Base Inc. An overview of Sammy Singh’s skill set would be described as follows: -Detail-oriented professional with an expertise in accounting, business intelligence, digital analytics, cryptocurrency, international taxation, business formation, and marketing analytics. – Experienced C-suite professional with exposure to roles of CMO, CDO, CISO, and CTO – strong leadership skills. – Expert in revenue recognition policies, strategic marketing, domain registration and management, trademark and copyright registration, and cryptocurrency formulation. Proficiency and Educational Background: •Masters of Science in Accountancy (Concentration in Revenue Recognition) •Masters of Business Administration (Concentration in Financial Accounting/ Economics) •Masters in Digital Analytics and Masters of Information Systems (MIS) (Concentration in Big Data Analytics) •Experience with Corporate Tax, International Tax, VAT, Corporate Financial Statements, Corporate Quarterly and Annual filings, F.A.S.B. codifications, G.A.A.P., I.F.R.S., and Public / Private Accounting. •Skilled in Digital Analytics, Closed Loop Analytics, S.E.O. , S.E.M. , C.R.M., and Cloud Based Data Security •Proficient in QuickBooks, Oracle, AS400, and SAP, Salesforce, Adobe, Azure, GitHub, iOS, Android, Ruby on the Rails. •Credentialed in Human Resource Administration, Department of Employment Securities, Vendor/Contractor/ F.T.E./ P.T.E. documentation and payroll taxation. •Dexterous in segmented marketing, strategic marketing, social selling, ROI measurement. •Fixed asset depreciation, sales tax jurisdiction analysis/ V.A.T. insight and disposal expertise • Accomplished in preparation of annual financial statements
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About Atmosify, CFO Base, CMO Market, Cryptonite, Hooper Tube, Shakespeareo, The Accountant: Digital CFO and CPA services providing solutions for business and individuals in accounting, tax, payroll, finance and business management
Barry Perkins
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Tesseract Group, LLC
Investor, Corporate Development, Strategy, Entrepreneur, Idealist, and Positive Deviant “A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd Barry is a driven entrepreneur with exceptional business acumen and leadership skills who loves to develop strategy, guide transformation, lead growth, and deliver exceptional outcomes, leveraging his passion for projects where business and society will benefit from his unique talents, experiences, perspective, thought processes and methodology. For example, strategic social impact healthcare projects at Sutter Health – Institute for Health and Healing, Kaiser Permanente, and the Government of British Columbia. Barry leverages his gift for multi-dimensional thought and passion to help others, balancing theory and research with practical knowledge and extensive project execution experience, to turn vision into reality. He thrives on solving complex challenges, making the impossible possible, through creative & innovative thought, learning, understanding, education, diligent & thoughtful work, and tenacity. Barry has extensive international business, technology (including Artificial Intelligence), and project management experience in startup and enterprise tech, healthcare, addiction, and mental health, incorporating partnerships, social enterprise, and corporate sponsorship, to deliver innovative, end-to-end solutions that exceed expectations and requirements. At MarkLogic, Barry delivered triple-digit revenue growth in MarkLogic’s North American Commercial West Sales Region, drove worldwide revenue growth, and double-digit growth of high-quality leads in MarkLogic’s strategic accounts worldwide. Barry joined Oracle Corporation as a startup, where he quickly established himself as a creative, high impact business leader who identified and exploited market trends and opportunities. During his 28 years at Oracle, he turned vision into results, growing Oracle’s top line revenue in new markets with new technologies, with business solutions that helped companies achieve their goals through strategic, creative and innovative thinking, and thoughtful application of technology. Over a 5-year period, Barry’s team delivered $1B+ with a $350M+ ARR (year 5) in Oracle Software License Revenue. He then created and led the Global PMO for Engineered Systems, a business that reported to Oracle’s President, with an annual sales target in excess of $1B, driving +254% YoY Engineered Systems revenue growth to exceed $1B. While at Oracle, Barry was part of large and complex (Peoplesoft, BEA, Sun) as well as smaller acquisitions (including integration).
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About Global Mental Wellness Foundation, TerraNovo, Tesseract Group, Tesseract Group, LLC, Traction Health, Veed: Management Consulting: Vision – Strategy – Execution
Dan Helfrich
Chairman and CEO of Deloitte Consulting
Dan is Chairman and CEO of Deloitte Consulting LLP. As CEO, he leads a $10B business comprised of more than 50,000 professionals who help clients solve their most complex business issues and shape their future with confidence. Prior to this role, Dan led the Government & Public Services practice, with more than 13,000 professionals helping to solve our nation’s biggest challenges across all levels of government, including all 15 US cabinet-level agencies, 44 states, and more than 60 of the top 100 universities. Dan advised government leaders in transforming into more efficient and effective organizations across areas of technology modernization and innovation, human capital, strategy and analytics, customer experience, and enterprise operations. In Helfrich’s more than 20 years with Deloitte, he has led large customer-centric transformations for both public and private sector clients. He also played roles as Deloitte’s chief strategy officer for Human Capital and led the Civilian Government sector. In addition, he writes and speaks regularly on topics such as purpose-driven leadership, elevating citizen and customer experience, and the future of work. Dan holds a BS in international economics and an MBA from Georgetown University. He remains an active Georgetown alum, including serving as the play-by-play announcer for the Georgetown men’s soccer team (where he served as captain during his time at the school). Dan and his wife live in the Washington metropolitan area with their four children.
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About Deloitte Consulting: Deloitte Consulting offers consulting services to technology-based companies.
Paul Hurlocker
CEO and co-Founder of Notch
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About Notch: Notch is a consulting firm that applies it’s experience in machine learning and software implementation to deliver unique solutions
Herbert Uhl
Co-Founder & CEO of MobiChord
Herbert Uhl is the Co-Founder & CEO at MobiChord.
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About Herbert Uhl Consulting & Advisor, MobiChord, StoreWorkflows: MobiChord is a revolutionary, subscription-based software provider of Technology Expense Management solutions on the ServiceNow Platform.
Samer Khouli
Founder & President/CEO of TargetCW
Before the internet was commonplace, Samer started his business career selling snacks he bought from Price Club to his friends in high school. He then had a small business selling POGS and putting on POG tournaments. For Samer, there is no limit to the amount of knowledge one can achieve and the variety of experiences one can try. When he became frustrated with workers compensation, he went out and got his insurance brokers license, so he could speak directly with carriers, MGA’s, claims reps, etc. With a passion for innovation, desire for efficiency and with over 20 years of experience in the HR, staffing, and technology, Samer has built TargetCW into a state-of-the-art home for the biggest contingent workforce geeks. He loves leadership and wants TargetCW to be an example for other companies in terms of ethics, passion for the task and love for the people.
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About TargetCW: TargetCW provides employment services.
Suresh Mathai
CEO of ContinuumGlobal
Suresh Mathai is the CEO of Continuum Global, Inc, a Silicon Valley based digital marketing services firm that helps leading brands improve and scale their marketing using data, analytics and technology. With 600 professionals and a client list that includes Google, YouTube, Fry’s, Bank of the West, VMware, etc., Continuum is a rapidly growing company that is focused on helping its clients drive revenue and improve returns on marketing investment. Suresh has a unique background and experience across the spectrum of Marketing Services as well as Technology/Data businesses in Silicon Valley as well in the Asia Pacific region. He has co-founded, built and sold two successful technology companies. Previously, he worked with J Walter Thompson & Rapp Collins based in Hong Kong, with responsibility for the Asia Pacific region. He served on the Board of Directors of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and is an investor and advisor to technology and data companies.
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About ContinuumGlobal: Digital Marketing ▪ Data & Technology Solutions ▪ Strategic & Outsourcing Services
Alain Sylvain
CEO of SYLVAIN
Alain is the Founder and CEO of SYLVAIN, a strategy and design consultancy that provokes progress for companies, people and society at large. Clients include Google, American Express, Airbnb, Spotify, BlackRock, Samsung, Pepsico, Diageo, Hilton, AB InBev, IKEA, GM, Sonos, the NBA and others. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in NYC, with offices in Amsterdam and Richmond, VA, and is a Certified B-Corporation. Alain is a partner and investor in several ventures, including Master + Dynamic, a design-driven, premium audio brand, Free Rain, and others. He is on the board of Plus Pool, an ambitious project to build the world’s first floating, filtering swimming pool in NYC harbor, and a member of the New York City Mayor’s Creative Council. Alain is also an active contributor to various non-profit initiatives around the world including the Lower East Side Girls Club, The Bowery Mission and Anseye Pou Haiti.
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About Kindred, Master & Dynamic, SYLVAIN: SYLVAIN is a strategy and design consultancy. Founded in 2010, wholly independent, and a Certified B Corporation.
Alex Moazed
Founder & CEO of Applico
Alex Moazed joined Applico as Founder & CEO in 2009.
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About Applico: Enterprise innovation is like climbing Mt. Everest. Applico is the digital sherpa for enterprise CEOs.
Chris Steven Villanueva
Founder & CEO of MB2 Dental Solutions
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About MB2 Dental Solutions: MB2 Dental Solutions offers an array of services to streamline dental office management while maintaining a high quality of patient care.
Joe Raver
President & CEO of Hillenbrand
Joe was named President and Chief Executive Officer in 2013. He previously served as president of Hillenbrand’s Process Equipment Group Platform. Prior to these roles, he spent 18-years in various key positions with Hillenbrand. He also served as president of Batesville for three years. Before that, Raver held the position of vice president and general manager of the Respiratory Care Division at Hill-Rom, a leading global provider of medical technologies. From 1994 until 2004, Raver held leadership roles with Batesville in the areas of merchandising, strategy, and logistics.
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About Hillenbrand: Hillenbrand, Inc. is a global diversified industrial company that makes and sells premium business-to-business products.
Mark Moses
Founding Partner and CEO of CEO Coaching International
Mark Moses is a founding partner at CEO Coaching International, where he and his team help businesses and individuals increase profitability, drive margin expansion and gain accountability in order to meet business objectives and reach new heights. Moses is a highly successful serial entrepreneur and top business coach who advises entrepreneurs and leaders toward extraordinary results. His firm CEO Coaching International coaches more than 100 CEOs and entrepreneurs in nine countries. He regularly facilitates annual planning sessions for companies, and is also a passionate and energized keynote speaker who covers topics that include what it takes to be a top performing CEO, building the life that you want, overcoming adversity in your business and your life and how to build a $100 million company. In his new book, Make Big Happen: How to Live, Work, and Give Big (Advantage Media Group, Feb. 9, 2016), Mark says if you ask better questions, you will get better results. The book revolves around four critical questions that every business leader should explore on their journey through business and life, and explains how these questions are the foundation of every fast-growing, profitable business and how answering them in the right way can lead to exceptional results. Moses started his first company when he was 19 years old and graduated with a business degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1987. Since then, he has successfully built and sold two companies: Student Painters and Platinum Capital Group. He has been president of both EO and YPO Orange County chapters and served on the Board of the Children’s Hospital of Orange County for six years. He has won Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award and the Blue Chip Enterprise award for overcoming adversity. The last company he sold was ranked No. one fastest-growing company in Los Angeles as well as No. 10 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies in the U.S. Aside from his practice, Moses is a devoted father and enjoys spending time with his wife and family in his free time. He has also completed 12 full-distance Ironman Triathlons including the Hawaii Ironman World Championship five times. In November of 2011, Moses won his division at Ironman Arizona, qualifying him for his 5th Hawaii Ironman. He also won the U.S. National Squash Championship in 1992. In 2015, he and his son Mason completed the White Continent Marathon in Antarctica.
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About CEO Coaching International: CEO Coaching International is an executive coaching company.
Christopher Grakal
Chief Executive Officer of ICP
Christopher brings to ICP almost 20 years of experience at Warner Bros. and Turner Broadcasting, where he was the executive in charge of developing Turner’s enterprise-wide Creative Production, Digital Asset Management, and Content Distribution systems, meeting senior management, creative, IT, digital, marketing, PR, and social media objectives.
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About ICP: ICP provides digital asset management consulting, advertising production and video services to global clients and brands
Roy Abrams
CEO of GPi
Chief Executive Officer at GPI Group (USA) LLC.
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About GPi, RealConnex: GPi Global Performance Improvement enable your sustainable growth from the inside out by providing a unique business diagnostic tool.
Jeremy Sanders
Founder & CEO of BenchmarkCFO
Jeremy Sanders is the CFO at Cannapreneur Partners.
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About BenchmarkCFO, Cannapreneur Partners, Northstar Financial Consulting Group, Watch Skins: BenchmarkCFO offers cloudbased CFO services for the next generation of growing businesses.
Mi-Ai Parrish
CEO, President and Founder of MAP Strategies Group
Backed by 25 years of industry experience, Mi-Ai provides strategic vision for Arizona’s largest media company as it evolves to meet needs, engage with consumers and fulfill its mission of providing quality journalism. How did she prepare for such a role? She once drove a stock car, went skydiving and bungee-jumped all in the same day.
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About Arizona State University, Arizona State University, MAP Strategies Group, Republic Media: MAP strategies group provides business consultancy, specializing in company transformation, integrated marketing and digital strategy.
Saul Tessler
Chief Executive Officer of Kings Crest Global
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About Kings Crest Global: King’s Crest Global is a digital strategy agency that provides digital marketing and strategic transformation to clients.
Aiyanna Greene
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Greene Street Innovation
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Prashant Agrawal
Founder & CEO of Impact Analytics
Prashant Agrawal is the CEO & Founder at Impact Analytics.
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About Impact Analytics: Impact Analytics builds 360-degree data science solutions to empower enterprises to turn their data into dollars.
Kathleen Sebelius
Founder, President, and CEO of Sebelius Resources
Kathleen Sebelius is one of America’s foremost experts on national and global health issues, human services, and executive leadership. As CEO of Sebelius Resources LLC, she provides strategic advice to companies, investors, and non-profit organizations. Sebelius serves on the Board of Directors of Dermira, Grand Rounds, Humacyte, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Myovant Sciences. She co-chairs the Aspen Institute Health Strategy Group and serves on advisory boards for the Dole Institute of Politics, Solera Health, Out Leadership, and the Estée Lauder Foundation. From April 2009 through June 2014, Sebelius served in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet as the 21st Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, where she worked to pass and implement the Affordable Care Act. At HHS, Sebelius managed 11 operating agencies, 90,000 employees in 50 countries around the world, and a $1 trillion budget. Forbes named Sebelius one of the 100 most powerful women in the world. Having served as Governor of Kansas from 2003 to 2009, Sebelius is the only daughter of a governor to be elected governor in American history; her late father, John Gilligan, was Governor of Ohio. Time magazine named her one of America’s Top Five Governors. Previous elected offices include two terms as the Kansas insurance commissioner and four terms in the Kansas Legislature. Sebelius earned a master of public administration degree from the University of Kansas and a bachelor of arts degree from Trinity Washington University. She is married to Gary Sebelius, a federal magistrate judge. They have two married sons, Ned and John, and two grandsons, George and Hugh.
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About Sebelius Resources: Sebelius Resources provides strategic advice to private companies, non-profit organizations, education sector, and financial investors.
Pamela Maynard
Chief Executive Officer of Avanade
As President, Europe, Africa and Latin America, Pamela Maynard is responsible for directing strategy and operations across 14 geographies. Pamela has more than 15 years of experience in IT consulting, with a strong emphasis on driving customer excellence. Before assuming the role of EALA President, she served as general manager of Avanade UK, driving the development of innovative solutions to help Avanade’s customers realise results. Pamela joined Avanade UK in 2008 as head of enterprise applications and infrastructure consulting. In that role, she was responsible for development, information management and collaboration, infrastructure consulting, project management and outsourcing. Pamela came to Avanade from Capgemini, where she spearheaded IT performance improvement for global clients. She has also held IT strategy and programme management positions at Ernst & Young and consultancy roles at Oracle.
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About Avanade: Avanade provides innovative digital and cloud services, business solutions and design-led experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem.
Travis Jarae
Founder & CEO of Liminal
Travis Jarae is the Founder and CEO of Liminal, a strategic advisory firm focused on identity, fintech, and cybersecurity. Travis founded One World Identity with the goal of facilitating the development of foundational identity, trust, and safety standards and practices, enabling accessibility and security for all. His career has centered on building identity products and solutions for ecommerce companies, financial services providers, and governments. Prior to One World Identity, Travis was responsible for identity verification strategy and operations at Google. Travis is a graduate of the University of South Florida with a degree in Finance.
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About Liminal: One World Identity (‘OWI’) is the home of the KNOW Identity Conference and media brand. OWI Advisory Services is now Liminal
Craig Powell
Director, President and CEO of Motus
Craig Powell is Director, President and CEO at Motus.
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About Motus: Motus is the most accurate vehicle management and reimbursement platform available.
William Alessi
CEO of Alpha Modus Research
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About Alpha Modus Research, Good Hemp Inc.: Alpha Modus Research, powered by MRET, is an investment technology venture that uses cognitive computing to find alpha in unstructured data.
Roland Siebelink
Founder and CEO of Midstage Institute
Silicon Valley based tech startup advisor & coach. Helping inventors of great products be leaders of great companies. Every tech founder needs a scale-up ally and guide through hyper growth and pre-post IPO cycles. I help turn builders of great products into leaders of great companies. •Learn to look ahead in fast-paced environments and stay ahead of competitors on the experience curve. •Empower your team with big hairy audacious goals broken down into series of stretching but achievable steps. •Focus and align technology, competences, go-to-market and differentiation. • Solidify the strategy: drive choices, customer value, ROI and execution discipline. With 26 years of tech experience in product management, product marketing, customer success and strategy, I’ve seen the movie before and can help you get to the place you want to be.
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About Midstage Institute: Helping midstage startup founders become brilliant tech CEOs
Abu Sadeq
Founder & CEO of Zartech, Inc.
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About Zartech, Inc.: Cybersecurity Products & Advisory Services Firm
Essel W. Bailey, Jr.
CEO of Omega Worldwide
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About Omega Worldwide: Omega Worldwide offers the healthcare industry with seed equity, debt capital, and investment advisory services.
Christopher J. Moyer
President & CEO of SME Solutions Group
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About SME Solutions Group: SME Solutions Group provides consulting, project management, and strategic development support to large organizations across the country.
Nancy Josephs
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Veritext
Nancy is focused on ensuring Veritext continues to deliver on its promise of outstanding client service and operational excellence nationally and in each of our regions. A pioneer in the court reporting industry, Nancy continues to focus on ways to improve the way we serve all our clients, while maintaining the unique and personalized offerings available in each location we serve. Nancy is a co-founder of Veritext. She has been an integral part of the management team that has helped Veritext grow into the industry leader. Prior to Veritext’s founding, she spent nearly 15 years as a management consultant, providing services to Fortune 500 clients across a variety of industries on strategic initiatives such as optimizing organizational structures, business processes, information technology, and human resources. Nancy has also held the positions of Vice President with Bronner Slosberg Humphrey, President and Founder of Brookshire Enterprises, and Senior Manager with Deloitte & Touche. She holds Master of Business Administration and Master of Public Health degrees from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan.
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About Veritext: Veritext provides deposition and litigation support services to the legal services industry.
Ruchika Tulshyan
Founder and CEO of Candour
Ruchika Tulshyan is author of The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality In The Workplace and the founder and CEO of Candour, an inclusion strategy practice. She is passionate about designing equitable workplaces and working with global organizations to create cultures that empower employees from diverse backgrounds to bring their best selves to work. She writes regularly on leadership and diversity for publications such as the Harvard Business Review and The Seattle Times. She is also the inaugural Distinguished Professional-in-Residence for the Communication Department at Seattle University. She teaches a highly-rated course on multimedia entrepreneurship, which draws upon lean principles. In 2019, Ruchika was named to the Thinkers50 Radar, a highly-selective global list of influential management thinkers to watch. She is a global citizen who has lived and worked on four continents.
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About Candour: Candour partners with organizations to develop strategies to address complex, topical issues of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Kevin Hamilton
Founder , President & CEO of NuEnergen
Kevin is a founder of NuEnergen. Kevin has over 25 years experience in the energy conservation and supply businesses, during which he has held business development and sales leadership roles. Starting in the energy performance contracting business with Honeywell Corporation, Kevin developed energy asset management programs with institutional clients throughout New England. Following Honeywell, Kevin became the Northeast and later North American Vice President of Sales, Institutional Markets, for the deregulated arm of Duke Energy, Duke Solutions. In this capacity, Kevin led a team of individuals who developed integrated energy asset management solutions for the marketplace. Kevin has a Bachelor of Science from Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, and a MBA in International Business Management and Entrepreneurship from Babson College, Wellesley, MA.
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About NuEnergen: NuEnergen is the leading expert in energy management, consulting and solutions.
Kamal Karmakar
CEO of CitiXsys
Kamal is the founder and promoter of CitiXsys. He has been responsible for the company’s evolution to be a specialist provider of software products in Retail segment. Kamal’s responsibilities include Business Strategy, Global Sales, Product Innovation and Growth. Under his leadership, CitiXsys grew to become the market leader in Retail Technology domain and known as an innovator in Retail sector. He has also guided the organization to receive several prestigious awards in tech industry. Beyond his work in CitiXsys, Kamal has considerable experience at counseling executives at high growth companies on strategy formulation, business model transformation, and implementation of balanced scorecard in their enterprise. He has worked with many companies in a counseling capacity with an exceptional track record of helping management teams achieve better strategy & bottom-line improvements. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Kamal is well recognized in the industry and is on board of various companies globally including being a member of SAP Advisory Council for Business One in Germany.
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About CitiXsys: CitiXsys is a leading provider of software solutions for Retail and Hospitality.
Charles Ojei
Chief Executive Officer of HYBR Group
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About HYBR Group: HYBR Group are a group of investors that discover and deploy efficient solutions for various sectors.
Jacco VanderKooij
Founder & Co-CEO of Winning by Design
Jacco is the founder of Winning By Design, a firm that designs, builds and scales modern sales organizations. Storm Ventures has contracted Jacco as Sales Mentor to accelerate the development of sales teams across their emerging SaaS and Mobile company portfolio. With unmatched energy and passion for sales, Jacco has helped over 50 SaaS companies since he founded Winning By Design mid 2012 He has gained a strong following among sales leaders and for many SaaS CEOs, is the first person they reach out. The best practices developed by Winning By Design are being regarded as the emerging gold standard for SaaS teams. The findings were recently published in the SaaS industry insider book Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization and Jacco’s LinkedIn blog is followed by thousands across the SaaS, Mobile and Media & Entertainment industries. In his personal life, Jacco loves to spend time with his family. He is a former triathlete who represented the Netherlands at 2 World Championships, a sailor who won the coveted Farallon Island race, and builder of a backyard pirate ship.
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About Storm Ventures, Winning by Design: Winning by Design is the premier Software as a Service (SaaS) sales strategy consulting and coaching firm.
Michael Pirron
Founder & CEO of Impact Makers
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About Impact Makers: Impact Makers is a management and technology consulting company.
Ned Ryun
Founder and CEO of Voter Gravity
Ned Ryun is the founder and CEO of American Majority, a non-partisan training institute whose mission is to identify and mold the next wave of liberty-minded new leaders, grassroots activists and community leaders. Under Ned’s leadership, American Majority has trained over 37,201 new leaders and activists since January 2008, conducting over 1,000 in-person trainings in 45 different states in an effort to recruit new community leaders. A former Presidential writer for President George W. Bush and the son of former Olympic medalist and U.S. Rep. Jim Ryun (R-KS), Ned has appeared on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” “Hannity,” “Special Report with Bret Baier,” “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” “Fox & Friends,” ABC’s “World News Tonight,” “Intelligence Report with Trish Regan”, and “OutFront with Erin Burnett,” and has been quoted in numerous print publications including Time, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Politico, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Reuters, and The Washington Times. Ned is also the CEO of Voter Gravity, a national political database technology company. In 2014, its first cycle as a new company, Voter Gravity had nearly 300 clients in 41 states, including the Iowa State House Caucus and multiple Congressional candidates. Prior to launching American Majority and Voter Gravity, Ned founded and directed Generation Joshua, a civics education program for middle and high school students that reached a membership of nearly 10,000 under his leadership. Ned graduated with Highest Distinction (summa cum laude) from the University of Kansas with degrees in English and History. Together with his father and twin brother, Drew, he authored Heroes Among Us and The Courage to Run. Ned Ryun resides in Purcellville, Virginia with his wife, Becca, and their four children; Nathaniel, James, Charlotte and Hudson.
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About American Majority, Voter Gravity: Voter Gravity is a voter data management system with an integrated map-based canvassing tool and virtual phone bank.
George Swisher
Founder & CEO of changeforce.ai
George Swisher is the Founder & CEO at LiiRN.
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About Big Communications, changeforce.ai, Havas Portugal: Enterprise, SaaS, Management Consulting, Change Management, Business Transformation
Mark Raheja
Founder & CEO of Plural
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About Plural: Plural is a change partner for visionary leaders who want to transform the way the world is organized, led, and worked.
Ryan Graves
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Saltwater Capital
Ryan is the Head of Global Operations for Uber Inc. (formerly UberCab.com). He’s helped build the company from 1 to 200+ employees by driving operations, strategy, expansion, and recruiting. Ryan’s business and technology experience ranges from organization scaling, business development, and product management (startups: Uber, foursquare, SocialDreamium) to large ERP implementations & corporate restructuring (corporate: General Electric, CNA Insurance). He consults out of the kindness of his own heart for internet related businesses and not-for-profit ventures. Contact: graves.ryan@gmail.com or @ryangraves Specialties: social web, mobile, business intelligence, product management, business development, publishing, fund-raising, recruiting, hustle
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About Saltwater Capital: Saltwater Capital provide experience-backed strategic and operational support.
Keenan .
CEO/President of A Sales Guy
Keenan is A Sales Guy Inc’s CEO/President and Chief Antagonist. He’s been selling something to someone for his entire life. He’s been teaching and coaching almost as long. With over 20 years of sales experience, which he’ll tell you he doesn’t give a shit about, Keenan has been influencing, learning from and shaping the world of sales for a long time. Finder of the elephant in the room, Keenan calls it as he sees it and lets nothing or no one go unnoticed.
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About A Sales Guy, Forbes, Vail Resorts: A Sales Guy is one of todays leading sales consulting and recruiting firms.
Tracy Wolstencroft
President , CEO & Chairman Of The Board of Heidrick & Struggles International
Tracy Wolstencroft is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Heidrick & Struggles. He was named to this position and joined our Board of Directors in February 2014. Previously, Tracy held senior leadership roles at Goldman, Sachs & Co, where he worked for 25 years. A partner at Goldman from 1994 to 2010, he led a wide range of businesses, including Investment Banking Services, Environmental Markets, Latin America, Public Sector and Infrastructure Banking, and Fixed Income Capital Markets. While living in Asia from 1998 to 2002, Tracy was President of GS Singapore, co-head of investment banking in Japan, head of Asia financial institutions, and a leader of the firm’s strategy in China. Tracy is a board member of the Brookings Institution, the National Geographic Society, and the International Rescue Committee. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Earlier in his career, Tracy worked at JP Morgan in the International Financial Management Group.
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About Heidrick & Struggles International: Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. provides executive search and leadership consulting services in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia.
Bonnie Gwin
Vice Chairman , Co-Managing Partner, Global CEO & Board Practice of Heidrick & Struggles International
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About Heidrick & Struggles International: Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. provides executive search and leadership consulting services in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia.
Thomas Brisbin
President & CEO of Willdan
Thomas Brisbin was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Willdan Group, Inc. in April 2007. Brisbin previously was vice president of and consultant for AECOM Technology Corporation, a company focused on infrastructure, environment and facilities engineering contracts, where he was responsible for developing the company’s environmental business for three years. Previously, Brisbin was chief operating officer and executive vice president of Tetra Tech, Inc., a leading provider of consulting, engineering and technical services, for five years. Prior to that, he was employed by Planning Research Corporation, or PRC, a systems analysis and management consulting company and wholly-owned subsidiary of The Black & Decker Corporation, from 1978 to 1995 and was co-founder and President of PRC Environmental Management, Inc. During his tenure at PRC, he was involved in all aspects of operations, marketing and finance. Before joining PRC, he was a research associate at Argonne National Laboratory. He has also served as an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Brisbin holds a B.S. degree from Northern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology. He also completed Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program in 1988.
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About Willdan: Willdan is a company selling professional technical and consulting services to public agencies at all levels.
Seshadri Krishnan
Founder and CEO of StreetOne
Seshadri Krishnan is a Founder and CEO at StreetOne.
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About StreetOne: A new disruptive and a fourth generation digital advisory platform.
Jill James
Founder & CEO of Sif Industries
Strategic operations, finance, and go-to-market coaching and consulting services for high-growth businesses, start-ups, and side hustles. We help women-founded companies navigate the choices, processes, and analytics needed to go from concept to revenue to self-reliance.
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About Sif Industries: We move your business from idea to invoice. Coaching & consulting in high growth operations, marketing, and finance.
Brandon Schwarz
Chief Executive Officer of Indeavor
Brandon Schwarz is the Chief Executive Officer at Indeavor. He has been with the company since 2010, focusing on enterprise workforce management solutions, implementation, and support. Solving complex workforce management challenges through leading-class technology and building a culture of innovation and teamwork continues to be his driving force. Brandon is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
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About Indeavor: Indeavor provides workforce management solutions.
Judah Levine
CEO of HIP Consult
Judah J. Levine, Chief Executive Officer, HIP Consult, is a business and technology strategist with two decades of experience in consulting, due diligence, turnaround, and infrastructure and services development for diverse operators, investors, multilaterals, and other players throughout the ICT and fintech ecosystems. With an extensive background in strategic planning, commercial development, and operations management for organizations in both developed and emerging markets, including ongoing involvement in Africa since 1999, Judah enjoys assisting clients to conceptualize, qualify, and pursue ambitious investment projects, and to analyze and solve complex operational problems. He is also active in the development of cutting-edge intellectual capital, with several papers and patents to his name. Alongside his duties at HIP Consult, Judah also serves as CEO of its sister company, Mondato. His previous roles included Vice President of International Business Development for Teligent, New Markets Manager of Arbinet, and Consultant with A.T. Kearney’s Communications and High-Tech Practice. Judah received his MBA from the Ross School of Business (University of Michigan), MA in Middle Eastern and North African Studies from the Rackham Graduate School (University of Michigan), and BA in Government and Certificate of Arab Studies from Georgetown University.
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About HIP Consult: HIP Consult is an independent management consulting firm.
Ray Milhem
Founder & CEO of Milhem
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About BlueTree Allied Angels, Milhem: Milhem is a strategic advisory firm that focuses on digital transformation, leadership development and M&A advisory services.
Scott Poniewaz
Founder & CEO of The Pony Group
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About HopTrip, MediaTech Ventures, Reflik, SCORE, The Pony Group: The Pony Group is a fractional CMO and business advisory services firm based in Austin, Texas.
Deepak Sharma
CEO of Anjay Venture Partners
Deepak has over two decades of well-rounded experience in corporate development, management consulting, mergers and acquisitions, fund creation, managing multi-million dollar private-equity investments, intellectual property, licensing and business development both at national and international level with World’s leading Fortune 100 companies and Private Equity funds. Mr. Sharma focuses on early-stage Technology and Hi-Tech investments, New Venture Creation, Corporate Strategy, Business, Technology, IP and Management Consulting. As a CEO of Anjay Venture Partners, he currently advises and serves on the board of several Silicon Valley Start-ups, Accelerators and Incubators.
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About Anjay Venture Partners: Anjay Venture Partners is a global management consulting and advisory firm.
Yamin Chalabi
Co-Founder & CEO of Planet Expat
Yamin acquired robust operations, finance and project management skills through his experiences at Alcatel, Deloitte and AXA. He successfully led numerous global technology and process improvement projects, generating significant savings and growth opportunities. He is also a serial entrepreneur and an expert in early start-up development. Fluent in French, English, Arabic and Spanish, Yamin studied or worked in 5 countries, building a strong personal network over the past 10 years. He firmly believes in PlanetExpat and in the benefit of a world full of opportunities for young students.
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About Planet Expat: 1) Expert coaching to maximize your professional profile & boost your career 2) Connects talent with innovative international companies
Roger Kay
Founder & CEO of Endpoint Technologies Associates
Roger Kay founded Endpoint Technologies Associates, Inc., an independent technology market intelligence company, in 2005. Previously, he was a vice president at IDC, covering desktop and mobile computers. Before that, he ran his own research and analysis firm, directed operations for a developer of multilingual text processing software, ran a technology analysis and publishing practice for a consulting company, managed international accounts for a data communications equipment manufacturer, and did new product development for a computerized trading network. He has published in a variety of forums and been quoted in a number of publications and other media outlets. Kay received a B.F.A. from Bennington College and an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is multilingual, world-traveled, and has bicycled over the Alps. He now lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two children.
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About Endpoint Technologies Associates: Endpoint Technologies Associates is provide research, consulting services.
Atsuko Jenks
Founder & CEO of Japan Accelerator
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About Japan Accelerator, OneValley, OneValley, Singularity University, U.S. – Japan Council: Japan Accelerator is a management consulting firm that provides business development and professional services to its clients.
Patrick Clawson
CEO & Founder of Skyline Growth Partners
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About Skyline Growth Partners: Skyline Growth Partners provides consulting services and solutions to improve business growth.
Sima Vasa
CEO/Founder of Infinity Squared Ventures
A seasoned entrepreneur and leading expert in mobile data collection and innovation, Paradigm Sample CEO Sima Vasa has deep and longstanding experience building and growing market-research businesses. In 2009 she co-founded Paradigm Sample. Prior to founding Paradigm Sample, Vasa was a Senior Partner at Momentum Market Intelligence, President of NPD Techworld at the NPD Group, and Vice President of the technology division at NPD. Before joining NPD, Vasa was the Program Manager of the IBM Market Intelligence Group who was responsible for all research related to PC servers. A former member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, Vasa holds an MBA in finance from the NYU Stern School of Business and a BS in marketing from Drexel University.
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About Infinity Squared Ventures, Paradigm: Infinity Squared Ventures helps in strategic planning, product positioning, competitive analysis, growth strategies and M&A activities.
Bill Van Wyck
President and Chief Executive Officer of Aldabra Ventures
Bill Van Wyck has spent over 20 years in e-commerce and the application of cloud technology to vertical markets. As a serial entrepreneur, he has built a successful track record in business development, corporate sales and conversion marketing in the Internet sector. In 1990, Bill Van Wyck founded CSI, his first technology company, and generated $13MM in annual revenue within four years. He then merged CSI with Elcom International in 1994 and over the next two years drove same-region sales to $110MM from $13MM. After Elcom went public in 1995, Bill Van Wyck took a multiyear sailing sabbatical and circumnavigated the globe. After returning to the U.S., Bill Van Wyck founded RedRoller, a cloud-based shipping platform that provided price transparency and transaction processing for its many small business customers. In 2007, RedRoller went public and completed a successful multimillion dollar PIPE transaction. Bill Van Wyck has been featured in several publications including Entrepreneur, Inc., Fortune, Forbes, Businessweek, the Wall Street Journal and Business 2.0.
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About Aldabra Ventures: Aldabra Ventures are especially focused on fintech and healthcare and using blockchain technology.
Mike Bidwell
President and CEO of Neighborly Brands
Mike Bidwell is the CEO of Neighborly (Dwyer Group), a services provider focused on repairing, maintaining, and enhancing customers’ homes and businesses.
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About Neighborly Brands: Neighborly is a services provider focused on repairing, maintaining, and enhancing customers’ homes and businesses.
Kundan Shekhawat
Founder & CEO of Ascent Technology Consulting
Kundan Shekhawat is Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Ascent Technology Consulting, a leading Software Product company. Kundan is best known for his dynamic leadership & steering Ascent towards its vision of becoming the best FinTech Software Organization. Kundan has extensive experience in financial services with hands-on expertise in Product Development Engineering, Strategy and P&L management. A career spanning over 17+ years in a blend of Technology & Business Solutions, Kundan has spearheaded the companyʻs growth since its inception and carries a strong vision to take Ascent to next stage of growth. Kundan is a Passionate Entrepreneur who is determined to build organizations with focus on constantly enhancing competitiveness, profitability, customer focus, people partnership, branding, corporate values and governance.
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About Ascent Technology Consulting: Ascent Technology Consulting is a niche platform company offering Enterprise Solutions ( SaaS & In Premise ) for Financial Control & BCM.
Joseph Martore
CEO and President of CALIBRE
Joe Martore serves as CALIBRE’s President & Chief Executive Officer and is a member of the Board of Directors. He has held these positions since March 2010, and is responsible for setting and overseeing CALIBRE’s strategic direction, establishing corporate policies, and managing the overall business and financial performance of the company. Under Mr. Martore’s leadership, CALIBRE was named Government Contractor of the Year ($75M – $300M category) in 2012 and 2015; recognized by the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce as the Outstanding Veteran and Military Advocate in 2016; named Impactful Government Contractor by RecognizeDC in 2017; recognized by the Washington Business Journal on its 2015 Corporate Philanthropy List; recognized by the American Society of Military Comptrollers as the Distinguished Corporate Member of the Year in 2015; selected by the Washington Post as one of the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area in 2014 and 2016; named by Virginia Business as one of the ten best large employers in Virginia in 2013 and 2014; and three times selected by Fortune Magazine as one of the 25 Best Medium Companies to Work for in America. Mr. Martore was named Greater Washington Government Contractor Executive of the Year ($75M – $300M category) in 2013 and 2017. Mr. Martore joined CALIBRE in March 2004 as part of its acquisition of Strategic Management Initiatives, Inc. (SMI), which he co-founded and served as President & CEO. SMI was twice included in the Inc. 500 list as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in America. Mr. Martore was also a Principal founder and President of Management Strategies, Inc., and was a Senior Vice President of the publicly traded Tenera Corporation, serving as the Chief Operating Officer of its Government Services subsidiary. Prior to these executive positions, he served at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Mr. Martore is a member of the MIT Corporation Development Committee and the External Advisory Board of the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, through which he has endowed a teaching award and a humanitarian logistics fund. He serves on the Boards of Directors for Easter Seals Serving DC | MD | VA; the Professional Services Council (PSC); the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce; the Northern Virginia Technology Council; and the Laurel Grove School Museum Association. Mr. Martore is also a member of the George Mason University School of Business Dean’s Advisory Council. In 2014, the Lido Civic Club of Washington, D.C., an Italian-American civic organization, named Mr. Martore its Man of the Year for his longstanding commitment to supporting children and adults with special needs. He is an invited guest lecturer at the George Mason Graduate School of Business and the Veteran Institute for Procurement. Mr. Martore received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. from the George Washington University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer. Mr. Martore and his wife, Gracia, have two children.
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About CALIBRE: CALIBRE is an employee-owned management consulting and information technology solutions company.
Hemant Thapar
CEO of OmniTier Storage
Hemant Thapar is the CEO and founder of Link_A_Media Devices, a fully-owned subsidiary of SK Hynix since August 2012. Previously, he was founder and CEO of DataPath Systems, and held the role of senior vice president after its acquisition by LSI Logic Corporation. During his early career, Dr. Thapar was at Bell Telephone Laboratories and IBM, where he made pioneering contributions in the areas of circuit-switched networking, data communications, and data storage. In addition to receiving three best paper awards for work on high-speed data transmission and high-density data storage, he is an IEEE Fellow and serves on the advisory board of the Ambala College of Engineering and Applied Sciences in India. Dr. Thapar holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.
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About OmniTier Storage: OmniTier Storage is a U.S.-based company that operates in the technology industry.
Kenny Baker
President and CEO of Professional Enrollment Concepts
Kenny Baker is the president and CEO of Professional Enrollment Concepts.
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About Professional Enrollment Concepts: Professional Enrollment Concepts is a provider customized Benefits Communication and Enrollment Services for U.S. corporations.
Milena Zilo
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zilo International Group
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About Zilo International Group: Management Consulting
Thomas O’Malley
CEO & Founder of Currnt
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About Currnt: Powered by top minds and AI, Convet.it provides online advisory boards that accelerate learning for companies, teams and individuals.
Niko Gianopoulos
CEO/President of Sparta Consulting Group
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About Sparta Consulting Group: Sparta Consulting Group is a leading marketing and sales firm in Hollywood, FL, contracted by Fortune 100 and 500 clients.
Michael Wong
Chief Executive Officer of DayBlink Consulting
Michael Wong serves as DayBlink’s CEO and Managing Director. Michael has over seventeen years of strategy and execution-based consulting experience. He founded DayBlink with the unwavering commitment to create an organization that attracts the best and brightest consultants and entrepreneurs. Michael is a proud graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where he served as a Trustee and President of the Alumni Association Board of Directors.
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Richard Albrecht
CEO and Managing Partner of Bridge Partners Consulting
Rich has driven world-class marketing, strategy, and management initiatives in the technology, manufacturing, retail, and entertainment sectors. If your organization needs an advisor with a broad outlook and holistic, entrepreneurial approach, he’ll open up new ways to analyze, plan, communicate, and execute. Rich holds an Honors MBA from the University of Washington and a summa cum laude management degree from Seattle University. In his spare time, you might find Rich pursuing his passion for off-the-grid wilderness adventures or coaching his sons’ basketball and soccer teams—and he keeps his Guitar Hero street cred fresh by playing with the legendary Seattle rock and roll band, Sweet Water.
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About Bridge Partners Consulting: Bridge Partners is a people-focused, customer-driven consulting firm that helps organizations growth, change & create enterprise value.
John Frazzini
President & CEO of Secure Systems Innovation
John Frazzini brings more than 20 years’ experience as a cyber-risk innovator to his role as president and CEO of SSIC. John combines his rich and varied risk experience—including cybercrime investigations, cyber threat intelligence, artificial intelligence-based security applications, and cyber-attack simulation technology—with his entrepreneurial drive to bring forward new concepts that address today’s ever-changing cyber challenges. Prior to embarking on his entrepreneurial journey, John served as a federal law enforcement officer. At the U.S. Secret Service, John was responsible for the agency’s Washington D.C. Electronic Crimes Task Force, as well as developing the Electronic Crimes Task Force under the USA Patriot Act. As an investigator for the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, John focused on emerging Internet-based crimes, systemic government program fraud, and criminal exploitation of technology. He is also a senior fellow alumnus of the GW Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
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About Secure Systems Innovation: Secure Systems Innovation Corporation is a cyber risk management firm that informs strategic decision making.
