In a 45-year career as a chief executive, author, consultant, and visionary, he’s run rings around provocateurs who drop headline-ready predictions about incoming trends (and ignore the ones that go laughably wrong). How Because Ricardo doesn’t care about lighting up the speaking circuit or making friends in the C-suite. Since 1980, when he transformed his family business, Semco, into an unorthodox... read full bio
John C. Maxwell is an American New York Times best-selling author, coach, speaker, and pastor. As an author, he has sold over 25 million books, which are sold in 50 languages. He has published numerous books some of which include, “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” and “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader”. Maxwell earned his bachelor’s degree from... read full bio
Dana Brunetti is an American film producer, media executive, and Co-Founder and CCO of Cavalry Media. Some of his most notable work includes producing films “The Social Network”, “Captain Phillips”, which earned him two Academy Award nominations, and the Netflix series “House of Cards”, which earned him five Emmy Award nominations. Prior to starting his career in the entertainment industry,... read full bio
Chris Yeh is an entrepreneur, investor, mentor, and bestselling author. He is one of the co-author of the New York Times bestselling book, “The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age”, which is also written by Ben Casnocha and Reid Hoffman. They started writing the book after their article in Harvard Business Review entitled Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee... read full bio
Tom Rath is an American best-selling business author and consultant on employee engagement, strengths, health, and wellbeing. He is said to be one of the greatest thinkers and nonfiction writers of his generation. He has been the author and co-author of numerous books most of which have gone on to be bestselling books. Some of his books include, “How Full... read full bio
Sumaya Kazi is an American tech entrepreneur and health expert. By the age of 23 she had founded her first company, The CulturalConnect, which was an online media company for young professionals that showed success in different ethnic diasporas. Kazi then went on to become founder and CEO of Sumazi, which is a social intelligence platform for brands, celebrities, and... read full bio
Steve Gold is a luxury real estate broker and star of Bravo’s Emmy-nominated series “Million Dollar Listing New York”. Gold is one of Manhattan’s top real estate agents and focuses on luxury properties in downtown Manhattan. He’s also been a huge role in developments in locations such as SoHo, West Village, Flatiron, and Greenwich Village. Prior to working in real... read full bio
Sophia Chang is a music business matriarch who has managed artists such as Paul Simon, A Tribe Called Quest, RZA, ODB, Q Tip, D’Angelo, and more over the years. She has worked in marketing at Atlantic, A&R at Jive, A&R Administration at UMG, GM of Razor Sharp Records, GM of Cinematic Music Group, and more. Chang ended up leaving the... read full bio
James Harris is the co-founder of luxury real estate firm, Bond Street Partners, and is the star of the series “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles”. He was born and raised in London and started working as a residential investment agent in the U.K. before moving to Los Angeles to pursue more. Harris works with his business partner, David Parnes, and... read full bio
Katie Pavlich is an American journalist, political commentator, author, blogger, and podcaster. She earned her BA degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Arizona. She started her career as a news editor for Townhall.com and went on to be a contributing editor to Townhall Magazine and a Fox News contributor. She has also been a co-host for “The Five”... read full bio
Todd Hewlin is an author, speaker, and advisor. He is currently the managing director of TCG Advisors LLC where he advises leading hardware, software, and networking companies on business model innovation, growth strategy, and transformation. Hewlin earned his BMath in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and went on to earn his MBA at The University of Western Ontario.... read full bio
Robert Malley was the Special Assistant to President Obama, Senior Advisor to the President for the Counter-ISIL Campaign and White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and Gulf Region. Prior to that, he was Senior Director for the Gulf Region and Syria. As the most senior White House Official focused on the Middle East, he advised the President,... read full bio
As the previous Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration under President Barack Obama, Vice Admiral Peter Neffenger oversaw a workforce of nearly 60,000 employees, including the Federal Air Marshal Service. He led security operations at almost 450 airports across the United States, in addition to sharing security for highways, railroads, ports, mass transit systems and pipelines. Under Neffenger’s leadership, the... read full bio
Martin Varsavsky is an Argentine entrepreneur who is based in Madrid, Spain. He is founder of numerous companies some of which include, Urban Capital, FON, Eolia, Viatel, Medicorp Sciences, and EINSTEINet. Most recently, he has been executive chairman and founder of Prelude Fertility and CEO and founder of Overture Life. Varsavsky earned his BA at the New York University and... read full bio
Jason Calacanis is an American angel investor, author, entrepreneur and podcaster from Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Fordham University with a B.A. in psychology and started his career as a reporter for the internet industry in New York. He went on to co-found the blog Weblogs, Inc. with Brian Alvey which was supported from Mark Cuban. Weblogs was later... read full bio
Sophia is the creation of Dr. David Hanson, a modern-day Renaissance man known for engineering the most lifelike robots in the world, of Hanson Robotics, a company with headquarters in Hong Kong. Dr. Hanson, a former Disney Imagineer, is on a mission to build intelligent machines capable of learning creativity, empathy, and compassion. Sophia has performed live, spoken to audiences in... read full bio
Rhonda Byrne is an Australian writer and producer who is best known for her book ‘The Secret’, which is based on the belief in the law of attraction. Byrne was born in Melbourne, Australia, and she has previously worked as an executive producer for television series. It wasn’t until the death of her father that Byrne read the book of... read full bio
Ellen Latham M.S. is the creator and co-founder of Orangetheory Fitness Franchise, is an innovator, author, physiologist, and keynote speaker from Niagara Falls, New York. As a physiologist, Latham has had a lifelong passion for health and fitness which is what inspired her to design what is known as “The Ultimate Workout”, which was the foundation of Orangetheory fitness. While... read full bio
David Griffin is an American professional basketball executive who is currently the Executive Vice President of Basketball Operation for the New Orleans Pelicans of the NBA. Griffin is from Phoenix, Arizona, and he earned his bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Arizona State University. While studying at Arizona State, Griffin took an internship with the Phoenix Suns where he worked... read full bio
Keller Rinaudo is an American robotics and autonomous airplane entrepreneur, rock climber, and CEO and co-founder of Zipline. Rinaudo graduated from Harvard University where he became founder of the climbing wall. He graduated magna cum laude and was designated a Harvard College Scholar. While an undergrad, Rinaduo worked at Boston Consulting Group and after spending a few months working there... read full bio
