Reece Griffin the founder of MirrorTrip graduated from the University of Otago in New Zealand with a BCom in Economics and Management, as well as a BSc in Computer Science. Shortly after Reece moved to Vancouver, Canada to reunite with his wife. While based in Vancouver, Reece was involved in…
Brian is the founder of FirstLook, a subscription box full of emerging, high growth consumer brands for early-stage investors. Before starting FirstLook, he led BD & Strategic Partnerships at XRC Labs, International Operations at Victoria’s Secret, and founded a previous company through a technology startup accelerator in Cleveland. Brian believes…
Ryan Haynes is co-founder and CTO of Osmosis, a leading health education platform with an audience of millions of current & future clinicians as well as their patients and family members. Ryan started Osmosis with Shiv Gaglani when both were in medical school at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Ryan…
James Wu is the CEO and Founder of InnerSpace. InnerSpace is on a mission to become the world’s leading indoor location platform. Delivering the most accurate WiFi-based indoor location data, the company gives clients unparalleled value with its easy-to-use API, out-of-the-box analytics, and workflow initiation solutions. The company’s Fortune 500…
Meredith Gradle is the Founder and CEO of Iris Works. After nearly a decade as a photographer, it became clear that out of all the project management tools, and customer relationship platforms – there was nothing that was made for the creative mind. Meredith realized that there was a huge…
Sacha Nasan is a dating expert and the co-founder of blind dating app Blindlee – a new dating service blending the free-flowing style of Tinder with the video function of Zoom. Blindlee sets up strangers on blind dates using three minute blurred video calls. The two unfocused faces can instead…
Helene Berkowitz is a Retail Tech executive and startup founder with a background in finance and international payment systems. She is passionate about technology with a human component. In 2017, Helene founded ReceetMe to create a digital retail experience focused on the customer experience. Where did the idea for ReceetMe…
Ryan Scherf is the founder of Payment, a suite of mobile apps for processing credit cards via the Stripe payment gateway. Where did the idea for Payment come from? Back in 2014, Stripe was an up and coming startup out of YCombinator changing the way payment gateways were built online….
Peter Karpas is the founder of and CEO at Starsona, the platform that enables anyone who has fans or followers to have their own storefront for providing personalized experiences, content, and goods to individual fans. Previously he spent more than ten years in various roles at Intuit including CMO, CPMO,…
Dr. Chris Brummer is a professor of law and faculty director of Georgetown’s Institute of International Economic Law. Prior to joining Georgetown’s faculty in 2009, he was an assistant professor at Vanderbilt Law School. Brummer has also taught as a visiting professor at several leading universities, including the London School…
Liviu Tanase is a serial entrepreneur and telecommunications executive with more than 16 years of experience. He’s founded five companies and has participated in three exits creating quadruple-digit returns. Liviu currently runs ZeroBounce, an email validation and deliverability platform. He oversees the company’s Santa Barbara office and manages a team…