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
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
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
Kerby Jean-Raymond is a Haitian-American fashion designer who is best known for being the founder of Pyer Moss. Kerby first gained attention after he presented his Pyer Moss Spring Menswear Collection during New York Fashion Week. His debut show highlighted police brutality and references Black Lives Matter through the video, street art and fashion. Kerby has also collaborated with Erykah... read full bio
Dan Crenshaw is an American politician and former U.S. Navy SEAL officer who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas’s 2nd congressional district as a member of the Republican Party. While growing up, Crenshaw spent a lot of time traveling growing up in the United Kingdom, Ecuador and Colombia. He graduated from Colegio Nueva Granada high school... read full bio
Lauren Underwood is an American politician and nurse who has been the U.S. Representative for Illinois’s 14th congressional district as a member of the Democratic Party. After graduating from high school, Underwood worked on the City of Naperville’s Fair Housing Advisory Commission. A few years down the road she earned her B.S. in Nursing from the University of Michigan and... read full bio
Josh Hawley is an American attorney and Republic politician who has been the 42nd Attorney General of Missouri and is now the United States Senator from Missouri. Hawley is currently the youngest member of the U.S. Senate at only 40 years old. Hawley has earned his B.A. degree in History from Stanford University and he has also earned his Juris... read full bio
Elise Stefanik is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative for New York’s 21st congressional district. When Stefanik was first elected at only 30 years old, she became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress at the time and has been the youngest Republican woman ever elected to Congress. Stefanik graduated from Harvard University with a degree in... read full bio
Kiran Bir Sethi is the founder of Design for Change and The Riverside School in India. Sethi founded her company after her son started school and she noticed the teachers being sticklers to stay to the textbook and punishing any children that wanted to learn more. This led her to founding The Riverside School in Ahmedabad, which provides an alternative... read full bio
Rana el Kaliouby is an Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur who is known for her work in emotion AI, Artificial Intelligence and for being the co-founder and CEO of Affective, an AI start-up that came from the MIT Media Lab. Rana has earned her Bachelors and Master of Science degrees from the American University in Cairo and then went on... read full bio
