Zacari is an artist who got his big break in the music industry with his feature in the track “Love.” by Kendrick Lamar off his album DAMN. His angelic voice and stunning falsetto in the song had listeners intrigued as to who possessed this beautiful, Weeknd-like voice. Zacari met Kendrick through Kendrick’s manager, Moosa Tiffith, and Kendrick wanted to heart... read full bio
A designer and innovator, Manuel Lima is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has been nominated by Creativity magazine as “one of the 50 most creative and influential minds”. Lima is the founder of VisualComplexity.com, Design Lead of Codecademy, and a regular teacher of data visualization at Parsons School of Design. Lima wrote Visual Complexity: Mappings patterns... read full bio
Dr. Rene Muller is the Co-Founder and Chairman of GMC Software AG, where he was previously the CEO. He is also the President of the board at GMC Analytics AG. His impressive resume includes notable experience in research, including fuel cells research with ABB Brown-Boveri, Baden, Switzerland, and Low Temperature Physics with IBM. His management expertise includes many years as... read full bio
Syed Karim is founder and CEO of Outernet, expert on information access and satellite communication, and a global TED speaker. Karim earned his B.A. in Social Entrepreneurship from Lake Forest College and earned his Master’s Degree in Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After graduating, he started his career as a research assistant at University of Illinois... read full bio
Steven Spear is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and at the Engineering Systems Division at MIT. Spear is a leading expert on how certain organizations achieve complex development, design and delivery efforts to produce unparalleled rates of internally generated, broad-based advancement and innovation. His research focuses on how the resulting leadership on reliability, agility, cost,... read full bio
Juan Zarate was previously the Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism during the George W. Bush administration. He has been the Chairman and co-founder of the Financial Integrity Network, and a Senior Adviser at the think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, Transnational Threats Project. Previously Zarate has been the Assistant Secretary... read full bio
Russ Angold is the owner of Angold Engineering. Previously, Angold has been the CTO and Co-founder of Ekso Bionics. From the founding of Ekso Bionics up until 6 years after, Angold served as the Vice President of Engineering. Angold earned his B.S. in Engineering from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. He has also taken an Executive Short Course in... read full bio
Ramu Yalamanchi is Founder and CEO of hi5 Networks, Inc. After launching the company, Ramu brought the service to profitability within a year. He has since left the company and has gone on to become co-founder, CEO and a board member of Adlogica Inc. which is a customer acquisition marketing group with subsidiaries in the US and Europe. The company... read full bio
Damon Herriman is an Australian actor who is best known for playing Dewey Crowe in the television series “Justified”. He started his career acting in local television commercials at eight years old and made his television debut playing Frank Errol in the series “The Sullivans”. Since then, his television credits have gone on to include, “Elly & Jools”, “The Miraculous... read full bio
Timothy Olyphant is an American actor and producer who is best known for playing Seth in series “Deadwood”, Raylan Givens in series “Justified”, and Joel Hammond in Netflix series “Santa Clarita Diet”. Olyphant started his career performing stand-up comedy but decided after to pursue acting. He completed a two-year acting program at New York’s William Esper Studio and from there,... read full bio
Victor Cruz is a former American football wide receiver. He started his career playing football while in school and put up 47 catches for 883 yards and eight touchdowns in just one season at Bridgton Academy. He earned All-State honors as a senior in high school and caught 42 passes and scored 19 touchdowns the same year. Cruz went on... read full bio
Broadway’s Rock of Ages band stars rock stars from the original Broadway cast of ‘Rock of Ages’. Although this concert features original rock stars from the Broadway musical, this is not a musical, it is a concert that features the greatest hits of the 80’s and original songs from the musical. Broadway’s Rock of Ages takes out all of the... read full bio
Conner Smith is an up-and-coming country artist based in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been gaining popularity in the local Nashville area and has even opened up for artists such as Kane Brown, Kip Moore and Sam Hunt. He has most recently joined forces with Zach Crowell to work on his debut solo album. Smith has released songs such as “Curfew”... read full bio
Devin Druid is an American actor who is best known for playing Tyler Down in the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why”. Growing up, Druid had a love for the stage and he played as the front-man for a teen rock band. From there, Druid made his television debut in an episode of “Fatal Encounters”. Since then, his television credits include... read full bio
Paul Walter Hauser is an American actor and comedian from Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is best known for playing Shawn Eckhardt in the film “I, Tonya”, Keith in the television series “Kingdom”, Ivanhoe in the film “BlacKkKlansman” and Lonnie in the film “Super Troopers 2”. Hauser made his acting debut playing characters in the series “Too Late with Adam Carolla”.... read full bio
Josh Osborne is an American songwriter and artist from Virgie, Kentucky who is known for writing several number one singles. Growing up, Osborne had a love for country music and he was encouraged by his father to write songs which led him to become a songwriter. After graduating from high school, Osborne moved to Nashville and almost immediately was signed... read full bio
Ross Copperman is a Grammy-nominated producer, songwriter and artist from Roanoke, Virginia. The genres he works in include country, pop, and rock and he has written numerous number 1 singles including Luke Bryan’s “Strip It Down”, Keith Urban’s “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16”, and more. Other artists that Copperman has worked with include Brett Eldredge, Dierks Bentley, Eli Young... read full bio
Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg are the co-founders and co-CEOs of the Skimm, a membership company that is dedicated to helping female millennials live smarts lives. Along the way, the duo has gained readers such as Oprah and Sarah Jessica Parker. Weisberg and Zakin met while studying abroad in Rome and after graduating came back together while working at NBC... read full bio
Anthony J. Brown is an American gospel artist and musician who performs alongside his background singers who are known are group therAPy. Members of Brown’s group therapy include, Tamika Law, Mashica Winslow, Shirley Daley, Nicole Wilson, Ashia Bello, Michelle Thompson, Martellies Warren, Gabriel Hansborough, and Doretha Allen. Anthony Brown & Group Therapy have released three studio albums, “Anthony Brown &... read full bio
Brady Noon is a young up-and-coming actor who just made his film debut playing Thor in the comedy film “Good Boys”. Noon only has one other credit on his acting resume, playing Tommy Darmody in the HBO television series “Boardwalk Empire”. Noon has also been in commercials for Family Dollar, For the Child, and Captain D’s Seafood.... read full bio
