Keith Ferrazzi, the world’s foremost expert on relationship development, is the author of “Who’s Got Your Back,” the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon bestseller. As CEO of the consulting, training and research firm Ferrazzi Greenlight, Ferrazzi counsels the world’s top enterprises on how to dramatically accelerate…
Meet Keith Ferrazzi – Business Relationship Development Expert
Entrepreneur, mediapreneur, entertainer, marketer, speaker and author David Siteman Garland is the Founder of The Rise To The Top, The #1 Non-Boring Resource For Building Your Business Smarter, Faster, Cheaper and author of Smarter, Faster, Cheaper: Non-Boring, Fluff-free Strategies for Marketing and Promoting Your Business (Wiley Publishing). He writes and…
Julie Nessen, Director & Co-Founder of the Young Entrepreneurs Alliance began the program with her father Robert L. Nessen to realize their joint vision for empowering at-risk youths through business ownership. This was natural extension of her prior experience teaching theater in adult prisons and troubled inner-city schools in New…
Meet Julie Nessen – Co-Founder of the Young Entrepreneurs Alliance
Aaron Hall is a natural born entrepreneur with an acute business sense, who has been involved in the creation of numerous successful businesses, including Weddzilla.com, where he currently serves as the founder and CEO. Aaron is always focused on staying on top of the next “big thing,” and he founded…
Meet Aaron Hall – Founder of DressRush.com and Weddzilla.com
Romain Gaillard was born in Paris, France. After obtaining a master’s degree at EDHEC Business School and at LSE, he started working between San Francisco and Toronto. Over the years in Silicon Valley, he participated in several ventures as adviser or co-founder. From Web advertising and social networks to security…
Kevin Goldfein started his hospitality career waiting tables in a Los Angeles restaurant in 2000. Since then, Kevin’s career has taken him from New York to Las Vegas and back to Los Angeles. Kevin is the founder of KBG Dining Group, which owns two Rosti Tuscan Kitchen restaurants (locations in…
Meet Kevin Goldfein – Owner of Rosti Tuscan Kitchen Restaurants
David Allen Ibsen is CEO and founder of business marketing consultancy 5 MEETINGS BEFORE LUNCH and curates the Webby Award-winning blog 5 BLOGS BEFORE LUNCH. David’s marketing career has spanned over 25 years, working with such iconic brands as Lexus, Microsoft, Hyundai, Xerox and Cristal Champagne. His consultancy has been…
Thrillist Co-founder and CEO, Ben Lerer graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. Immediately following, the native New Yorker returned to his home city to work with hotelier Andre Balazs in operations for his two Los Angeles Standard Hotels, The Raleigh Hotel in Miami and Hotel QT in New…
Karol Gajda quit his last day job 10 years ago and now inspires others to live extraordinary lives of freedom through his writing. He is currently living anywhere and everywhere (with just one small backpack in tow), moving to new cities/countries every few months to experience new places, people, and things. When not figuring…
Pat Ford was born in Nebraska in 1948 and grew up in Idaho. He attended Columbia University in New York City and fled just short of graduation into some years of hibernation. At some point the Idahoan by accident became one by choice. He went to work for the Idaho…
Meet Pat Ford – Executive Director of Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition