Amber Gray is the founder and CEO of Trusty Oak, an Austin-based virtual assistant company providing administrative and marketing support to busy entrepreneurs, authors, and creative teams. A people-first approach to hiring, along with a scalable growth model have positioned Trusty Oak as a flexible, dependable, and affordable alternative to…
Felix Velarde is the author of ‘Scale at Speed’ and CEO of 2Y3X. In 1994 Felix Velarde started one of the first specialist digital creative agencies, Hyperinteractive. His next, Head New Media, became the world’s most awarded digital agency and was bought by MullenLowe Profero. Felix had a career which…
Dean Haynesworth is CEO and Executive Minority Founder of Black Progress Matters [BPM], an organization committed to effectuating change in existing businesses and organizations. Still, BPM is also providing an ambitious incubator program for the development and funding of minority start-ups. Dean encourages, along with the BPM founding partners, to…
Raymond (Ray) McKenzie is the Founder and CEO of StartingPoint and Founder and Managing Director of Red Beach Advisors. With more than 20 years of experience as a senior business executive and consultant leading global organizations ranging from small businesses, startups, and large enterprises. Ray has held various senior executive…
An experienced and passionate entrepreneur, Alain made his own the motto “No guts, no glory”, as he started his first management company at the age of 17 and now oversees business activities at Nutcache. Throughout the years, Mr. Nadeau received numerous awards and honours for his quality as a leader…
Jordan Kurland is a co-founder and partner at Brilliant Corners Artist Management, which has offices in San Francisco, New York, and Seattle. The company represents a diverse array of musical artists including Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, Toro Y Moi, Best Coast, Soccer Mommy, Real Estate, New Pornographers,…
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…
Shelly Wright, PMP, CISA, CSM, CITRMS, is a recognized thought leader in integrating IT & cybersecurity, complex program/project management, corporate governance, quality assurance, and business process engineering. For over 25 years, she has helped organizations from startups through Fortune 500 businesses improve their IT systems with dramatic and sustainable results….
Kine and Einy Paulsen are twinpreneurs originally from Norway. They currently head kinfizz, a management consulting company, that helps companies worldwide with marketing strategy for companies in chaos, typically for companies going through a leadership change, restructuring or post-M&A. Their marketing expertise has been featured in Vogue, The Wall Street…
Ablorde is the CEO of 4Degrees, a Chicago-based technology company, applying machine intelligence to help teams in relationship-driven industries manage their most important source of opportunity – their professional networks. When he’s not doing that, you can usually find him lifting weights, reading books or eating BBQ. Where did the…