Claressa Shields is an American professional boxer who has held world championships in three weight classes and has been reigned as the undisputed female middleweight champion of the world for the unified WBC and WBO light middleweight titles. She has also previously held the unified WBC and IBF female super middleweight titles and has held the record for becoming a... read full bio
Chuck Zito is an American actor, boxer, celebrity bodyguard, martial artist, stuntman, former boxing trainer and former president of Hells Angels. Zito was born in New York and was the son of Charles Zito Sr., a professional welterweight boxer. Zito decided to pursue boxing as his father did and as an amateur boxer he fought in New York Golden Gloves.... read full bio
Christy Martin, also known as “The Coal Miner’s Daughter”, is a former American world champion boxer who is CEO of Christy Martin Promotions, a boxing promotion company. Martin was born in Mullens, West Virginia, and as a child she played in various sports before going on to earn a basketball scholarship from Concord College in Athens, West Virginia where she... read full bio
Chad Dawson is an American professional boxer from Hartsville, South Carolina. Over the years he has held multiple light heavyweight world championships and has also competed in super middleweight and middleweight divisions. Dawson rose to fame after defeating Tomasz Adamek to be the WBC light heavyweight champion and after that, he defeated Antonio Tarver to win the IBF and IBO... read full bio
James “Bonecrusher” Smith is an American former professional boxer from Magnolia, North Carolina who previously held the WBA heavyweight title. Smith has previously served in the U.S. military and worked as a prison guard before beginning his career as a boxer. During his amateur career, Smith held a record of 35-4 before turning professional. During his professional career, Smith competed... read full bio
Bobby Czyz, also known as “Matinee Idol” or “Chappie”, is a retired American boxer and commentator who competed in middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions. Czyz was born in Orange, New Jersey, and grew up in Wanaque, New Jersey. During his amateur career, he was one of the few boxers that survived the LOT Flight 7 crash by staying... read full bio
Barry McGuigan, also known as “The Clones Cyclone”, is an Irish retired professional boxer and current boxing promoter. He has previously been the WBA and lineal featherweight world champion and since retiring, he has been inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame as well as the World Boxing Hall of Fame. McGuigan is also the founder and current president... read full bio
Azumah Nelson is a Ghanaian former professional boxer who is known to be one of the greatest African boxers of all time and is the 31st greatest pound for pound boxer of all time in Boxrec. He has also held the WBC featherweight title once and has held the WBC super featherweight title twice. Nelson has also been called “The... read full bio
Audley Harrison is a British former professional boxer who competed in the heavyweight division. During his amateur career, Harrison represented England in the Commonwealth Games where he took home gold for the super-heavyweight division. He later represented Great Britain in the Olympics where he won a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division, making him the first-ever British boxer to win... read full bio
Arthur “Art” Jimmerson is a retired boxer and mixed martial artist from Los Angeles, California, who competed at super middleweight, light heavyweight and cruiserweight. During Jimmerson’s amateur career, he was the National Golden Gloves Middleweight champion. During his career, Jimmerson fought in his first match with one glove, which is when he earned the nickname One Glove. Later on, Jimmerson... read full bio
Bernard Hopkins also known as “The Executioner”, “B-Hop”, or “The Alien”, is an American former professional boxer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who is one of the most successful boxers of the past three decades. He has held multiple world championships in two weight classes including the undisputed middleweight title as well as the lineal light heavyweight title. Early in his life,... read full bio
Nella is an up-and-coming Venezuelan world music and jazz artist who has most recently been a Latin Grammy Award Winner for Best New Artist. Nella is from the Venezuelan Island of Margarita and she has recently graduated from Berklee College of Music where she shone as a soloist. Nella’s music stems from her country’s folklore roots and the music of... read full bio
Nathy Peluso is an Argentinian singer-songwriter from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her music is a mixture of soul, jazz, rap, salsa and swing. Peluso was born in Argentina and immigrated to Spain later in life where she currently resides in Madrid. She went on to study audiovisual communication but left to move to Madrid and study physical theater at the Rey... read full bio
Ezra Collective is a five-piece band based out of London, England, that performs a mixture of jazz, afrobeat, hip-hop, and London music. The band consists of members Femi Koleoso on drums, TJ Koleoso on bass, Joe Armon Jones on the keys, Dylan Jones on trumpet, and James Mollison on saxophone. Ezra Collective looks to pay tribute to classic jazz while... read full bio
Raveena Aurora, also known as just Raveena, is an American R&B and pop singer-songwriter from Queens, New York City. Raveena was born in Massachusetts but grew up in Queens, New York as well as Stamford, Connecticut. Her parents were immigrants from India and she was raised in a traditional Sikh household. During her time in middle school, she became infatuated... read full bio
Black Midi is an English rock band from London, England, that consists of member Geordie Greep, Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, Cameron Picton and Morgan Simpson. Their music has been said to be a mixture of experimental rock, math rock, noise rock and post-punk. Members of the band, Greep, Kwasniewski-Kelvin, and Simpson, all met and began performing together while studying at BRIT School.... read full bio
Laura Gassner Otting is the founder and Chief Catalyzing Officer of Limitless Possibility, is a motivating keynote speaker, executive coach, media personality, and a Washington Post Best Selling author. Otting earned her B.A. in Government from the University of Texas, Austin, and she went on to earn her M.A. in Graduate School of Political Management from George Washington University. Otting... read full bio
Deborah Shaw is the former Senior Vice President of Chief Global Diversity and Engagement at PepsiCo and is currently a consultant for PepsiCo and is Principal of Rosado Shaw Group, LLC., which is a consulting and advisory firm that specializes in diversity, culture, employee engagement, high performance teams and women’s leadership. For Rosado Shaw Group, Shaw delivers keynotes, seminars, insights,... read full bio
Hamish Taylor is the former CEO of Eurostar and Sainsbury’s Bank. He has been one of the world’s leading experts in brand management, innovation, and customer focus. As a speaker, he inspires his audience with his lessons from his several years leading major corporations. Taylor has earned his M.A. with honors in Economics from the University of St. Andrews. He... read full bio
Elena Corchero is the Director of Emerging Technology at NewsCorp and is an awarded Product Designer of her own company. She has been the founder and CEO of Room One – which is a Design & Technology Lab that merges AI, IoT, and VR. Corchero started her career as a fashion designer at Rena Lange before changing her career to... read full bio
