Ryan deeply cares about creating a world that is more nurturing and connected. His passion for mental health first started as client grieving the sudden loss of his mom, but grew as he saw what therapy made possible for friends and family. Ryan has his mom’s determined spirit to fix…
Prior to founding RealKey in 2015, Christopher was the number one Mortgage Originator in the United States from 2010 to 2011 and personally funded over $2 billion in residential loans in all 50 states. A born entrepreneur, in 2013 Christopher also co-founded Sindeo, a San Francisco-based startup that raised $50…
Paul Esterhuizen, a South African entrepreneur and philanthropist, currently serves as CEO of School-Days. School-Days is a rewards and incentives program backed by Skybound Capital. It empowers parents to support education in South Africa through a network of partner businesses (School-Days Earn Partners) at no direct cost. Participating parents can…
Erdin Beshimov is an educator and entrepreneur. He is the Founder of MIT Bootcamps, an educational program for entrepreneurs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Erdin teaches subjects such as entrepreneurial creativity, a system of techniques for generating creative ideas; problem solving, a system of tools for evaluating and addressing…
Marja Verbon is the founder of Jump – a job recommendation platform that helps job-seekers navigate the confusing job market and get the right job recommendations based on their experience and ambitions, and in turn, helps businesses attract the right talent for them. Prior to setting up Jump, she worked…
Gurpeet Singh Rai, popularly known as Gurps Rai, is the co-founder and CEO of droppTV, an interactive media platform that enables viewers of video content to perform “on-screen shopping” with just a simple click. Rai started his career in financial services at the London-based specialist broker First Rate, where he…
Lizz Warner is the CEO and founder of Gleam, a video dating app that sets up users on 10-minute video dates before they can text, based on their schedules. Formerly, she’s a director, executive producer, and innovation lead at BuzzFeed and was a producer on the Biden for President Campaign….
Greg Price co-founded Shipwell in 2016 with Jason Traff to apply his engineering and machine learning background to the shipping and transportation market and bring automation, visibility, and artificial intelligence to the supply chain space. While a consultant at McKinsey & Co, Greg leveraged advanced analytics and machine learning to…
Tim Conn is the President and co-founder of Image One USA, a commercial cleaning franchise that trains franchisees in all facets of the business, including sales, operations and quality control. Conn has made a career in the cleaning industry, beginning as a sole proprietor at the age of 14. While…
Savitra Sharma, Founder and Managing Director of Third Wave Analytics, has over 20 years of leadership experience in life science, consulting, and digital marketing organizations. Sharma founded Third Wave Analytics, a San Francisco-based lab information management system (LIMS) that operates on the Salesforce platform, in response to a growing need…