Michael Murakami is currently the Research Manager for Airbnb. Prior to his work with Airbnb, Murakami has been the Market Research and Statistics Consultant for Passenger.com, he was a Quantitative Research Manager for Google, Inc., and was also a Senior Director of Research and Insights at Latinum Network. Murakami graduated from Harvard University with a BA and then graduated from... read full bio
Peter Aceto up until recently, has been the President and CEO of Tangerine for several years which is Canadas leading direct bank. Tangerine was originally named ING Direct and from there, they changed their name. Prior to serving as Tangerines President and CEO, Aceto was apart of their General Counsel and was also Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Chief Risk... read full bio
Ryan Smith is the CEO and co-founder of Qualtrics, which is an online survey company. He went to school at Brigham Young University at the Marriott School of Business and went on to work in Brand Management at Ford Motor Company while building his company. Smith has also been co-founder and Board Member of the 5 For The Fight Foundation,... read full bio
Tim Draper is an American Silicon Valley venture capital investor, founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and founder of Draper Associates and Draper University. Draper is also known for pushing the ball to divide California into three states. Draper is also a spokesperson for Bitcoin, ICOs, Blockchain, and cryptocurrencies. He has invested in over 50 crypto companies and has won the... read full bio
Tracy Oliver is an American film and television writer, producer, and actor. She studied at Stanford University and USC Film School and started her career playing Nina in the web-series “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl” which she also served as a writer and producer on. From there, she became a writer for series “The Neighbors” and for “Survivor’s Remorse”.... read full bio
Chella Man is a deaf, genderqueer artist, model, and activist. Chella has gained significant attention after his personal documentation of Chella’s experience in gender transition. Chella has gained over 225 thousand subscribers and has gained over 2.5 million views on the documentation of his one year mark. Growing up deaf, genderqueer, Chinese and Jewish, Chella found that he didn’t have... read full bio
Anthony D. Romero is the 6th Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union. Over the course of his career with the ACLU, Romero has become the first Latino and openly gay man to hold the position. Romero graduated from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs with a B.A. degree and went on to earn his... read full bio
Jazz Jennings is an American television personality, spokesmodel, and LGBT rights activist. Jennings is a transgender woman and is known for being one of the youngest publicaly documented people that identifies as transgender. She gained attention after her interview with Barbara Walters, which aired on “20/20”. She is the co-founder of the TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation, which assists transgender youth.... read full bio
Ryan Murphy is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He graduated from Indiana University Bloomington where he majored in journalism and went on to start his career as a journalist. Murphy worked for outlets such as, The Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, Knoxville News Sentinel, and Entertainment Weekly. From there, he started scriptwriting and Steven Spielberg... read full bio
Christine Blasey Ford is an American professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She earned her undergraduate degree in experimental psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and went on to earn her master’s in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University before earning her PhD in education... read full bio
Clare Waight Keller is a British stylist and fashion designer who is currently the artist director of Givenchy. She was born in Birmingham, England, and graduated from Ravensbourne College of Art with a bachelor’s degree in Fashion. She then went on to graduate from Royal College of Art with a master’s degree. Keller started her career as a stylist at... read full bio
Luchita Hurtado is a painter. She was married to artist and collector Wolfgang Paalen and together they lived and traveled through Mexico meeting famous artists along the way. She started her career as a fashion illustrator for Conde Nast and as a muralist for Lord & Taylor. Along the way she became friends with artists such as, Isamu Noguchi, Gordon... read full bio
He Jiankui is a Chinese biophysics researcher who has been an associate professor in the Department of Biology of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. He is best known for claiming he created the first human genetically edited babies, the twin girls known as Lulu and Nana. Jiankui was born in Xinhua County, Loudi, Hunan and... read full bio
Barbara Rae-Venter is an American genetic genealogist and retired patent attorney who is best known for helping find the Golden State Killer. Barbara was born in Auckland, New Zealand and earned both her BA and doctorate from University of California at San Diego. She also studied law at University of Texas at Austin where she earned her J.D. Barbara gained... read full bio
Ricardo Semler is a Brazilian businessman who is the former CEO and majority owner of Semco Partners, which is a Brazilian company who is best known for it’s radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering. During his time working for Semco, Semler transformed the company to practice advanced leadership and organizational effectiveness. Apart from his work with Semco, Semler... 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
