DeMar DeRozan is an American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA who plays small forward / shooting guard. DeRozan was born in Compton, California, and he began his career playing high school basketball at Compton High School where he was award the Moore League Most Valuable Player and was a member of the McDonald’s All-American... read full bio
Daniel Gibson is a former American professional basketball player who played all seven seasons in the NBA for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Gibson was born in Houston, Texas and began playing basketball at Jones High School where he helped the school win their first state championship in several years. Gibson went on to play college basketball at the University of Texas... 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
Tessa Lau was the founder and CTO of Savioke and she has been nicknamed the “Chief Robot Whisperer”. During her time with Savioke, Lau led the software team that developed the first generation Relay system. She also created the company’s Field Operations organization and quantified Relay’s performance over time. Since then, Lau has gone on to be founder and CEO... read full bio
Jana Eggers is the CEO of Nara Logics, Inc., an AI company that turns data into actions and help other companies personalize their options to their customers. Prior to being the CEO of Nara Logics, Eggers has worked in leadership and technology roles at companies such as American Airlines, Intuit, Lycos, Spreadshirt, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and more. She has... read full bio
Ben Milne is the founder and CEO of Dwolla, a payments startup that builds the ideal way to move money as quickly and as safely as possible for free over the ACH network. Dwolla has since raised over 22 million dollars from investors and has been featured in Fast Company as one of the world’s 50 Most Innovative Companies. Dwolla... read full bio
Pep Gomez is an entrepreneur and investor who is the founder of Fever and Reby. Fever is the largest event discovery platform in the world while Reby is a climate change prevention company who works on making cities cleaner and more sustainable over time. Gomez has always had a passion for business as well as music and founded his first... read full bio
Jeff Wallace is an expert in Enterprise Mobility oriented to Business and is founder and CEO of Global Kinetics, which is a corporate advisor and market partner that helps clients that are looking to accelerate time to value and establish operations or expand within the U.S. marketplace. Wallace has been an advisor to several companies over the years including Berkeley... read full bio
Toni Watson, better known as her stage name, Tones and I, is an Australian indie-pop singer-songwriter from Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. While growing up, Watson began learning how to play the keyboards and drum pads. From there, she began posting a cappelle cover songs through YouTube and would perform locally. For a short time she was one-half of a duo... read full bio
Alexander Gumuchian, better known as bbno$, is a Canadian rapper and singer-songwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is best known for his single “Lalala” with Y2K, which peaked at number 10 on the Canadian charts and reached RIAA certified gold, ARIA certified platinum and RMNZ certified platinum. While growing up, Alexander enjoyed playing the drums and learned how to... read full bio
Shea Weber is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who serves as captain of the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL. He was born in Sicamous, British Columbia, Canada, and he began playing ice hockey at only six years old. He began playing with the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League and the Western Hockey League and won the British Columbian Cyclone... read full bio
Mike O’Malley is an American actor and writer from Boston, Massachusetts who was raised in New Hampshire. He studied theater at the University of New Hampshire and began his career as a host of the Nickelodeon children’s game show “Get the Picture”. Since then, O’Malley’s television credits have gone on to include “Life with Roger”, “Baby Blues”, “Yes, Dear”, “My... read full bio
Headstones are a Canadian punk-influenced rock band that consists of members Hugh Dillon, Trent Carr, Tim White, Steve Carr, Rickferd Van Dyk, and Jesse Labovitz. The band is from Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and after signing to MCA Records they released their debut studio album, “Picture of Health”, which has since earned certified platinum in Canada. Since the release of their... read full bio
Daniel P. Simon is the CEO and co-founder of Vested, which is a new communications agency for the financial industry. He is also a writer, entrepreneur and financial communications expert who is set to publish the book “The Money Hackers: How a Group of Misfits Took on Wall Street and Changed Finance Forever”. Simon has earned his Bachelor’s degree in... read full bio
Freckled Sky is a mixture of multimedia creators, technology experts, artists, directors, designers and engineers who design and produce interactive shows and events. Freckled Sky was started by three partners; Val Syganevich, Natasha Syganevich, and Katya Korobko. The group began working in Ukraine and then went on to start their own event agency. Most recently, Freckled Sky produced their own... read full bio
Jennifer Rubio is an American businesswoman who is best known for being the co-founder, President and Chief Brand Officer for Away, a global lifestyle brand that creates travel products such as luggage, to help make traveling more easier. Rubio was born in the Philippines and moved to New Jersey at seven years old. At a young age, Rubio began traveling... read full bio
Tamia Carter, better known as her stage name, Flo Milli, is an American rapper from Mobile, Alabama. Milli found her love for rapping when she was only 11 years old and former a rap group in middle school, Real & Beautiful, which later changed it’s name to Pink Mafia. Milli was inspired by Nicki Minaj’s rapping and from there, she... read full bio
Conor Maynard is an English singer-songwriter, record producer, and YouTuber from Brighton, England. Maynard rose to fame after winning MTV’s Brand New award. That same year, Maynard released his debut studio album, “Contrast”, which peaked in the charts of 10 different countries and earned him BPI certified silver. Maynard began his career releasing videos of him singing through YouTube. From... read full bio
Carles Puyol is a Spanish retired professional footballer who has player defender over the years. Puyol was born in La Pobla de Segur, Spain, and he began his career playing football for his hometown club as a goalkeeper, but after some injuries he switched to forward. After playing with his hometown club for a few years, Puyol went on to... read full bio
