Stan Sthanunathan is currently the Executive Vice President of Consumer and Market Insights at Unilever. Previous jobs that Stan has had include working as a Manager of Insights for Coca-Cola, their Research Manager and Head of Business and Consumer Insights, Director of Knowledge and Insights, Vice President of Knowledge and Insights and Global Vice President of Marketing Strategy and Insights.... read full bio
Tami Reller is currently the CEO and Executive Chair of Duly Health and Care. Before that, she was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of UnitedHealth Group as well as the EVP and CMO and the Chair of the Board of Directors for SPS Commerce. Prior to her work with UnitedHealth Group, Reller has been the CFO of Great... read full bio
Kwame Onwuachi is an American-Nigerian chef based in Washington, D.C. He was recently featured in Food & Wine magazine as one of it’s Best New Chefs and he has been a contestant on the series “Top Chef”. Onwuachi started his career in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he became the head chef on a boat serving crews that were cleaning up... read full bio
Alex Stamos is a computer scientist, cybersecurity expert, business leader, entrepreneur, and the former chief security officer at Facebook. He is currently working to improve the security and safety of the Internet through his teaching and research at Stanford University. He is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s Freeman-Spogli Institute and a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution. Stamos graduated with... read full bio
Eliana Johnson is an American conservative journalist who has worked for National Review magazine. She had since been promoted from media editor to Washington Editor for National Review. Most recently, Johnson has become National Political Reporter at Politico where she is a White House Correspondent. Since becoming a White House Correspondent, Johnson has been first to break news several times.... read full bio
Brad Todd is the founding partner of OnMessage Inc., a Republican Media Strategist, and co-author of the Washington Post best-selling book, “The Great Revolt”. Todd combines front-line political campaign experience with authentic rural, blue-collar roots to explain how Donald Trump gained power and how Republicans gained charge of government. Todd and his partners are the only agency in America that... read full bio
Samra Zafar is a speaker, scholar, social entrepreneur, and writer who is best known for her best-selling memoir, “A Good Wife”, which tells the story of how she was a teen bride and survivor of domestic abuse. At only 16, Zafar was forced into an arranged marriage and had to leave her family and move to Canada where she immediately... read full bio
Bobby Berk is an American interior designer and television personality. He is best known for being the interior design expert on the Netflix series “Queer Eye”. Berk had a rough upbringing; he was adopted and left home at 15 because of the difficulties he faced with being gay. He sometimes lived on the street and ended up getting a job... read full bio
Fran Hauser is a best-selling author, media executive, and startup investor. As a startup investor and advisor, Hauser has helped to fund and advise companies such as HelloGiggles, Levo, Mogul, The Wing and Gem&Bolt. Hauser graduated summa cum laude with a BBA and MBA in Business Administration from Pace University. She went on to start her career in finance where... read full bio
Gopi Kallayil is currently the Chief Evangelist in Google Social for Brands at Google. He works on growing customer brands through digital marketing while working with Google’s sales teams and customers. Prior to working as the Chief Evangelist, Kallayil has been the Chief Evangelist in Brand Marketing for Google. He’s also been an engagement manager for Syntel, an associate for... read full bio
Jeremy Gutsche is a NY Times best-selling author, keynote speaker, CEO of Trend Hunter and Host of Future Festival. Trend Hunter is the world’s largest, most popular trend firm and an Innovation Accelerator. Future Festival is the “World’s Best Innovation Conference” and Gutsche is the keynote speaker on innovation and trends. He is also an Innovation Keynote Speaker and Management... read full bio
Helaina Hovitz Regal is a journalist, writer, editor, author, and content strategist. Regal enjoys writing stories about non-profits, social issues, mental health, animals, charities, recovery, food, wellness, and culture. Her work has been featured in outlets and publications such as, The New York Times, Glamour, BuzzFeed, VICE, Thrillist, Forbes, Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Fast Company, and more. She... read full bio
Jeanne Gang is an architect who is the founder and leader of Studio Gang, an architecture and urban design practice found in the United States. She is best known for her works on the Aqua Tower, Solstice on the Park, Writers Theatre, the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, the University of Chicago Campus North Residential and Dining Commons, City... read full bio
Ryo Zsun is the culture maestro for Zappos. Zsun travels the world sharing his passion for Zappos and it’s culture, values, and customer service for his job as culture maestro. He started his career working as a barista in the Z’café and his bright passion let him to a job with the Zappos Customer Loyalty Team where he worked on... read full bio
Julie Rice is a well-known businesswoman and investor best recognized for co-founding the well-liked indoor cycling firm SoulCycle. She has contributed her entrepreneurial zeal and investing skills to the alternative collaborative workspace concept as the former Chief Brand Officer of WeWork. Rice is well known for being a source of encouragement and inspiration for individuals all around the world thanks to... 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
