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
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
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
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
Television journalist Bob Garfield is currently a co-host of NPR’s weekly Peabody Award-winning magazine program “On the Media”. He previously wrote a weekly AdReview, a television commercial criticism feature in Advertising Age, for 25 years. For the past decade, he has also notably covered the digital revolution, leading up to the breakthrough book, The Chaos Scenario. Previously, he wrote a... read full bio
Dr. Shefali Tsabary is an award-winning author, clinical psychologist and international speaker. Her award-winning first book, “The Conscious Parent”, was endorsed by Oprah as one of the most profound books on parenting she ever read. She has since released two more book, “Out of Control” and “The Awakened Family”. When Dr. Shefali is not authoring exceptional literature, she presents at... read full bio
Dr. Partha Nandi is the creator and host of the worldwide broadcasted medical lifestyle show, Ask Dr. Nandi. The show is available in syndication in 85 million households in the US and 90 countries all over the world. Dr. Nandi is also the Chief Health Editor at WXYZ (ABC) Detroit, a practicing gastroenterologist for more than 20 years, a renowned... read full bio
