Catherine Bell is a successful entrepreneur, business leader, and best-selling business author. Catherine founded BluEra, a Profit 500 executive search and team transformation company. As a top 200 growing company in Canada, top 10 in Alberta, and best workplace, BluEra was a shining example of the Awakened Company System in action. With the sale o…

Cory O'Daniel is the CEO and Co-Founder at Massdriver, a company that helps to improve the developer experience of cloud operations, offering self-service capabilities along with governance and guardrails to developers. A seasoned expert in DevTools, SRE, and platform engineering, Cory has built startups and managed cloud operations for over 20 yea…

Chris "Mercer" Mercer is an esteemed measurement marketing expert and the co-founder of MeasurementMarketing.io. With an unwavering dedication to helping marketers, marketing teams, and agencies understand and leverage data, Mercer has become a trusted name in the industry. Mercer's approach to measurement marketing is comprehensive and actionable.…

Nick Jordan is the Founder of Narrative, a company dedicated to transforming data commerce and guiding businesses in systematically creating and selling data. Helping them use transformative technology to remove roadblocks has been Nick’s focus ever since. Before founding Narrative, Nick also served as the Senior Vice President of Product and Strat…

Jill Dow is the CEO at York and Chapel, a digital house which grew into a full-service marketing and branding agency in the past twenty years. In 2018, Jill became Executive Vice President at York & Chapel. She is in charge of developing brand strategies, running business operations, and growing the agency before becoming the CEO in 2019. York and …

Dan Cumberland is on a mission to help bootstrapped entrepreneurs avoid burnout. Having hit the bottom before, he's passionate about helping entrepreneurs get the insights they need to recalibrate their work/life balance so they have the energy and motivation to keep going. He is a 3x SaaS founder, serial entrepreneur, host of The Meaning Movement …

Parker Nash is a brand messaging and marketing expert and an 11-year veteran of Nike where he grew lines of business to more than half a billion in annual revenue. While at Nike, he realized the process they used to build their brand was something all businesses could do which inspired him to build his own copywriting and marketing agency that help…

Nelson Ho is the CMO at York & Chapel, a digital house that evolved into a full-service marketing and branding agency in the past twenty years. Y&C aims to provide strategically-oriented innovative solutions and ideas in the realms of branding and design, marketing communications, internet technology and strategy, integrated marketing communication…

Cheryl Tan believes everyone has a story to tell. Her mission is to help entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations and corporations tell those stories better on video and become known as experts in their space. She is a speaker, a media trainer, and the host of the STANDOUT podcast. Prior to starting her company in 2014, Cheryl was a longtime broadcas…

Chris Weiher is a video producer with over 20 years of experience in the industry. Chris’s company, CLEAVER Creative has created B2B animations, videos for events and sales presentations, and commercials seen by millions and now works with business owners to help them create their own videos and only cares about results. CLEAVER Creative: http://cl…

Nick Foy is the Founder, CEO, and Chief Evangelist of Silverdale Technology, which provides access to world-class processes, systems, and change management methods regardless of their size or budget. Going against the grain of the ERP industry, Nick and his team are 'democratizing ERP' with their unique perspectives, such as their standard business…

Jim is the Founder and CEO of Untapped Global, an investment company that finances high-growth businesses in emerging markets. Their technology-driven approach reduces risk and increases profitability. Smart Asset Financing has already financed 9,000 productive assets in 13 African countries with less than a 1% default rate. Jim also founded a soci…

Maria Popova is an Agora-trained copywriter turned brand equity builder. Seasoned in digital marketing and entrepreneurship, Maria is currently the Head Of Growth at WLG Agency, a global digital advertising agency. Maria and her team help overachievers create generational wealth with profitable branding strategies. Ishu Singh- https://ishusingh.com…

Lesley oversees Riverbend’s client services team. She has personally helped hundreds of third-party sellers get their suspended Amazon accounts and ASINs back up and running. Lesley leverages two decades as a small business consultant to solve the underlying business issues in online retail businesses, resulting in improved operations and profitabi…

Carly J. Cais started in Marketing before she even knew it was Marketing: building websites for businesses back in 2001 (her first website was a My Little Pony flipping shop). She later founded a niche blog and grew it over 12 years to a monthly readership of over 120K visits, partnering with advertising networks and brands such as L’OREAL, Martha …

Jennifer Spivak is the CEO of The AdGirls Agency, an all-female Facebook Ads agency. She has helped hundreds of businesses generate millions of dollars on Facebook & Instagram, with many seeing a 1000%+ return on their ad campaigns. Her all-female team enjoys crunching data, helping women-owned businesses make tons of money, and breaking the rules …

Craig Swanson is an entrepreneur, business coach, and co-founder of the online learning platform CreativeLive. Craig thrives being the secret weapon partnering with online businesses such as KaisaFit, Sue Bryce Education, and The Wedding School by helping them into the multi-million-dollar mark and even acquisition! Find more about Craig here: http…

Robert Kerbeck is the founder of the Malibu Writers Circle and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. His true crime memoir about his career as a corporate spy, RUSE: Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street, has received praise from Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can), ex-CIA Agent Valerie Plame (Fair Game), and Bradley Hope …

Tony is the Founder and Owner of Elevated Worldwide, which focuses on improving how executives, founders, and business owners see and think about life to create success on purpose. They have been enhancing their clients' knowledge base, providing them with processes that will build up their professional and personal structures, and develop an envir…

Jonathan Shroyer is the Chief Customer Experience Innovation Officer of Arise Virtual Solutions, a customer service outsourcing, and offshoring consulting firm. Arise acquired Officium Labs, a company he co-founded, last November 2021 and is now known as Arise Gaming. Jonathan has been involved with customer service as a professional and a leader f…

Colt Briner, as chief communications officer for Ensemble Health Partners, witnessed first-hand the power of purpose in business – helping that company to grow from a $60m valuation to $2B, in 2 years. Colt has deconstructed and streamlined the model he used at Ensemble and developed a clear and practical approach – the Purposify Framework - for en…

Ostojic comes to Infobip following a decade with leading global consulting company McKinsey & Co., where as a partner he co-founded and co-led McKinsey’s global Technology Council and its innovation and new business building (Leap) practices. He holds a doctorate in natural sciences from the University of Basel and a master’s degree in management, …

Oren Schauble is a serial entrepreneur and product builder. He most recently served as President of public cannabis CPG company Unrivaled. He is currently a partner at high-tech product development and contract engineering firm Guinn Partners, and runs the popular Product People newsletter about sourcing and bringing physical products to market. St…

"Boon Chew is the Founder of Tappollo Media, a leading mobile app studio, that creates apps that stand out from all the noise. The company has built apps for Discovery Channel, iHeartRadio, WeWork, Timehop, and Walmart. Tappollo Media also created the open-source framework Booster, which startup founders can use to accelerate mobile app development…

Beate Chelette is The Growth Architect and founder of The Women’s Code and designs processes, best practices, and systems for leaders who want to grow, build and scale their business, and achieve measurable results and profits they can count on. Recent clients include Chevron, Merck, the Women’s Legislative Caucus of California Cal State University…

Kevin Browett is the Chief Executive Officer of The Michigan Institute for Neurological Disorders. Browett has extensive operations and business development experience with a wide range of industry knowledge. He has led startups, and Fortune 500s, and has been a change agent when it comes to the healthcare model. Mind's website: https://mindonline.…

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Swire immigrated to Los Angeles in 1996. He is a proud Chinese American who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. He trained as a sound engineer, working at recording studios and entertainment agencies before starting his own firm, Hellman Production, Inc, in 2003 in Los Angeles. Swire and his team successfully prod…

Tarush Aggarwal is the Founder and CEO of 5x, which offers data reporting as a service, so users can make data-driven decisions faster, which are necessary to succeed. Tarush is also one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth in the world! Previously, as the Head of Data at WeWork, Tarush scaled the system to support 12k e…

Kison Patel is the Founder and CEO of M&A Science, with a passion to drive the M&A industry forward. He was an M&A advisor for ten years in which he sold larger companies such as commercial banks and hotel chains. In 2012, he noticed teams lacked efficient technology to manage deals and created DealRoom, an M&A lifecycle management platform. In 201…

Chris is the founder of KickStart Dental Marketing. While Chris specializes in dental marketing, other medical professionals, marketers, entrepreneurs, and businesses can learn from his digital marketing experience of over 15 years. Chris has worked with countless local business owners in all industries across multiple facets of marketing, consulti…

Derren is a serial entrepreneur with over 14+ years of experience working with hundreds of startups and businesses to help them thrive. He’s worn every hat in the closet with the exception of being a developer and has achieved mastery in the art of delegation. Under his leadership as CEO, he took Social Sensei to $1,000,000+ ARR in less than 10 mon…

Neel runs a fully remote local business and teaches others how to do the same. Five years ago Neel had an idea: local businesses don't need to be managed locally! He turned this idea into reality with MaidThis® & MaidThis® Franchise, which helps homeowners and short-term rental hosts (Airbnb, VRBO, etc) with their cleanings. They’ve generated milli…

Joseph is the CEO of Uvaro, a tech sales career accelerator, and of Kiite, a sales enablement platform purpose-built to provide sales teams with the information they need when they need it. Graduate of the University of Waterloo’s Computer Engineering program, Joseph’s a repeat Founder & CEO, and with multiple successful exits, and speaks frequentl…

Henry started his first biz in 1991 selling, installing, servicing, and financing computers to large corporations. Since then he has founded a succession of firms in the e-commerce, finance, real estate, and consumer products spaces. For much of the past decade, he has taken his experience as an entrepreneur and used it as a platform to coach other…

Edward J. Shehab is co-founder and managing partner of Birmingham, Michigan-based Memory Health. A serial entrepreneur, in 2019, Shehab invested in a new, groundbreaking product scientifically proven to treat neurodegenerative diseases, particularly in patients suffering from the onset of Alzheimer’s and Dementia, now known as Memory Health. His mo…

John Warrillow is the founder of The Value Builder System™, simple software for building the value of a company used by thousands of businesses worldwide. His best-selling book Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You was recognized by both Fortune and Inc. as one of the best business books of 2011 and has been translated into…

Alex is a 3X entrepreneur. He is the co-founder & CEO of NorthShore.ai, a knowledge network that enables companies to manage curated information. He was the co-founder of x.ai, an AI-powered personal assistant, and Visual Revenue, a real-time predictive analytics platform for editorial teams. Both companies were acquired. Earlier in his career, as …

Emily McGuire is the Owner and Chief Email Marketer at Flourish & Grit: an email marketing and automation studio. She helps businesses uncover hidden revenue in their email lists by pairing a business' unique customer journey and high-converting copywriting. With lessons learned over a decade in tech and e-commerce, sending thousands of email campa…

Wayne Mullins is the founder and CEO of Ugly Mug Marketing. Over the past 20 years, he has scaled multiple companies and helped hundreds of entrepreneurs do the same with their companies. Ugly Mug Marketing has won the praises of some of the leading influencers in the business world, such as Chris Voss (New York Times Best Selling Author of Never S…

Handy believes you should never let your fears keep you from fulfilling your purpose and living your dreams. That’s why he co-founded Bramework to help digital marketing agencies take back their time, make more money and grow their business. He is a husband, father, coder, blogger, and musician. He also loves solving problems and creating the coole…

Dennis Morrison is an entrepreneurial creative who originated as a filmmaker. He’s a business storyteller, marketing story strategist, and founder of Audience Magnet, which helps businesses and professionals to communicate authentically and effectively. He's helping business owners and digital creators find their unique voices. As Dennis says, “Eve…

Over a decade ago he beat a billion-dollar company by outranking their website on Google. Since then, he knew he was onto something and has gone on to build an international search engine marketing company that’s worked with NBA teams, and Inc 5000 & Shark Tank featured businesses. Having started his business right before the 2008 recession, Damon …

Matteo Cassese is a digital marketer, coach, and entrepreneur who provides training and coaching to individuals, established companies, and startups. His experience spans managing digital marketing for multinational companies (Warner Bros.), teaching at university (Link Campus), and consulting for digital unicorns (Netflix). He's collected the most…

McCoy spent 10 years running environmental education nonprofits in The Bahamas, islands that are full of single-use plastic. After her return to the United States, she and her sister co-founded Plaine Products in February 2017 in order to help minimize single-use plastic and reduce waste in bathrooms across the country. Plaine Products offers premi…

Jon is a serial entrepreneur and noted speaker about social, sales, and marketing. He has re-imagined CRM by building Nimble - The Simple CRM for Office 365 & G Suite. Ferrara is best known as the co-founder of GoldMine Software Corp, one of the early pioneers in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for Small to Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs). He…

Dr. Erika Gray is a UCSF trained pharmacist, educator, national speaker, and co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of ToolBox Genomics and MyToolBox Genomics, a digital platform that takes an individual’s genetic test results and offers a virtual toolbox of informative, user-friendly, lifestyle choices and action plans to live the healthiest possibl…

Noa Ronen is your out of the box coach. She is also an author, vlogger, disruptor, and coffee lover. She brings more than 20 years of experience in Change Management, Human Resources, Project Management, and coaching. She encourages progressive and social business leaders and their teams to challenge the norms so they can create the change they des…

Startuprad.io is an English only startup podcast and YouTube blog – internally only called IO. IO was founded in 2014 by Jörn Menninger, as a spin-off of a – now-defunct – German only audio podcast. Startuprad.io is a premier English source for exclusive coverage of early and later-stage startups and fintech from Germany, with many world premieres …

With over 20 years of experience in the international event industry, Sandy Hammer is the co-founder and CMO of Allseated, an award-winning event technology platform with the goal to revolutionize and digitize the event planning process. She began her career as a corporate planner for a high-tech company, running events globally. During that time, …

Dinesh Agarwal is a research scientist turned entrepreneur. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and as soon as he walked the stage to get his degree, he also started his journey to become an entrepreneur. He is the founder of RecurPost, a social media scheduler with repeating schedules. He has years of experience in the social media industry and has…