Heather Denniston is a founding partner leading strategy and operations for LUDEX. As founder and CEO of the human capital and consulting firm Grayson & Graham, she identified and placed executive leadership for PE-run firms and was a part of leadership focused on scaling growth companies. Heather uses her background…
Jason Hanold is the chief executive officer and managing partner of Hanold Associates. Since founding the company in 2010, he has helped it grow into one of the most in-demand retained executive search firms in the US. Under his leadership, Hanold Associates has built a client roster that includes The…
Devin Gough is a serial entrepreneur who has many skillsets across numerous industries. Devin has a decade of impressive experiences in business. He has a proven history of increasing productivity and profits, as well as a natural talent and passion for doing so. His additional areas of expertise include: digital…
Scott Kitun is a Chicago-based media entrepreneur and investor. Scott is a co-founder of personalized music marketplace Songfinch that allows anyone to discover and collaborate with thousands of professional musicians to create custom, one-of-a-kind songs. Prior to Songfinch, Scott co-founded Technori, a popular media platform featuring podcast interviews with startup…
Poonam Rahman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of two international 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations designed to provide free resources to historically marginalized communities. The first international nonprofit she founded, Virtue Mental, aims to provide free mental health resources to historically marginalized communities, while her second nonprofit, Shattering Bias In…
Amanda Gorter is the founder of Lēto Foods. After spending over a decade advising the world’s leading consumer packaged goods & healthcare companies at a boutique strategy consulting firm, she set out to make healthy eating easier during & after pregnancy. While there were many products focused on babies, she…
When he was young, Joseph Kunnel thought his future lay in medicine, or perhaps as a teacher. Soon after beginning his college education, however, he found himself drawn to the specialty of orthodontics. He now has five offices, providing care to a wide variety of people. He has helped countless…
Dr. Anosh Ahmed is an internal medicine physician and thriving entrepreneur. As a self-driven individual, he has contributed to the re-development of various healthcare facilities in both Chicago and Houston. Despite his passion for the medical field, Dr. Ahmed has always been interested in the business side of the healthcare…
Founded by tech entrepreneur Erica Bishaf, a 20+ year veteran in market intelligence, strategy, and trade shows, CampfireSocial is a white-labeled social network and e-commerce platform that provides organizations a new way to stay better connected to their industry, further extend their brand, and monetize interactions and real-time audience insights…
Kelly Page has a PhD in Psychology of Web (Hypermedia) Knowledge and an obsession with social storytelling and human development. Dr. Page is the Director of Bennett Labs at Bennett Day School, the creator of Bennett Live, and is the former Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) at the Illinois Mathematics and…