She had a dream …. really. One night (in her dream) her book clubbers were arguing over which book to read. She suggested (still in the dream) that they write a story instead of reading someone else’s. And that’s when Marcie Jacobs, a 20-plus year advertising pro, began chasing a…
Rikard Kjellberg has held several leading positions in the communications and Internet industries over the past 20 years. With a strong technical foundation in the wireless communication domain, he pioneered mobile app store solutions for large scale deployments as the co-founder and CTO of Ellipsus Systems. Sprint was the first…
Justin Gray is the CEO and Chief Marketing Evangelist of LeadMD. He founded the company in 2009, with the vision of transforming traditional grassroots marketing efforts through the use of cloud based marketing solutions. He sees grassroots marketing dollars shrinking and traditional branding efforts being strewn aside in favor of…
Meet Justin Gray – CEO and Chief Marketing Evangelist of LeadMD
Allan Szacher was born in 1977 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He attended fine arts, painting and acting classes between the ages of 9 and 18. His first professional jobs were logos and corporate identities, as well as party and celebration invitations. His first job was at Sisgraph. He later began his second job…
Sharon Rich wants to keep your organization from inadvertently sabotaging the change it needs. For the past five and a half years, Sharon has focused just about every waking hour on facilitating people and organizations going through major change. Her interest stems back over a decade to her experience as a member of the management…
James Smith Moore graduated from Cass Technical High School in the city of Detroit and has been entrepreneurial since birth. At a very young age he opened a lizard breeding facility that sold reptiles to local pet shops, online consumers and reptile shows. He started and ran the facility in…
Chris is the President of Human Business Works and started New Media Marketing Labs to work with large and mid-sized companies such as Pepsico, Comcast, Molson/Coors and The Henry Ford Museum to improve online business communications like marketing and PR through the use of social software, community platforms and other…
Andy Crestodina is the strategic director at Orbit Media Studios. He brings vision and Web marketing expertise to the Chicago business community. At his best, he is an idea machine, aligning client’s goals with effective Web marketing techniques. Ideas are tempered by 10 years of experience on a huge range…
Meet Andy Crestodina – Breakfast with a Chicago Web Strategist
To paraphrase a familiar old saw, when you’re handed lemons you make lemonade. No one knows that better than Orlando, Fla., entrepreneur and businessman Matt Durfee, who over the years has made enough lemonade to quench the thirst of a small city with a little left over to spare. Matt,…
Meet Matt Durfee – Founder and CEO of the Navigator Institute
Daniel Butt founded NoodleStorm.com because he wanted to help make the world more efficient. When he had the idea for this online student consulting marketplace, he dropped everything he was doing and started working on its development. He knew from his prior work experience and education that many organizations, especially…