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As a new dad, David had a stressful beach vacation and dreamt up the idea for his current venture, Beachy.  Growing up in hospitality and being a ‘beach boy’ from the ages of 14-22, provided David with the insight and experience to modernize the beach vacation experience. 

Starting from the simple idea, “Why can’t I book my beach chairs, the same way I book an airline seat, at the same time I make my hotel reservation?” The company has now evolved into a fully integrated ordering platform empowering recreation and food and beverage staff to deliver a better guest experience while increasing topline revenue by over 40% at hard to service outlets such as the beach and pool. 

Beachy patented technology has won numerous awards for their innovative platform and have been published in articles around the world, including:

HiTech: Entrepreneur 20x winner 2021 
Phocuswright: People’s Choice, Emerging Company Tech Innovation of the Year in 2019
Phocuswright: Runner up Emerging Company Tech Innovation of the Year in 2019
VRMA: People’s Choice Tech Innovation of the Year 2019
VRMA: Tech Innovation of the Year 2019

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Killian Fjellbakk is a Norwegian serial entrepreneur living in Zurich Switzerland. He was selected as Forbes 30 under 30 in Switzerland, and is now working on a digital wellbeing app called Zario. The app helps people reduce unwanted screen time by using psychology and gamification and has been selected as honorary app for good by the google play store.  He belongs to a 3500 year old shamanic ethnic minority group above the arctic circle called the Sámi.  In his personal time, he likes to complete challenges on his bucket list which can be found on his personal website: killianfjellbakk.com.  This year he completed an Ironman race, famous for being one of the toughest endurance races in the world.

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Curtis Northcutt is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur focusing on machine learning and AI to empower people. He is the CEO and co-founder of Cleanlab, an AI software company that improves machine learning model performance by automatically fixing data and label issues in real-world, messy datasets. Curtis completed his PhD at MIT where he invented Cleanlab’s algorithms for automatically finding and fixing label issues in any dataset. He is the recipient of the MIT Morris Levin Thesis Award, the NSF Fellowship, and the Goldwater Scholarship and has worked at several leading AI research groups, including Google, Oculus, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA.

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Since reading The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman in 2011, Olivia Pedersen has been on an 11-year-long journey to figure out how she can contribute to solving the climate crisis. After working as a designer in the Athletic & Outdoor Industry for almost a decade, she became disheartened by the industry she loved so much and the ironic impact it has on people and the planet. During Olivia’s Master’s research in Sustainable Design, human-centered design, systems thinking, behavioral science, and circular economics grasped her curiosity. With her expertise in creativity and sustainability, she is on a mission to build an innovative solution for a sustainable future. Olivia founded Sustaio in January 2020 which was the brainchild of her M.A. thesis research. Sustaio empowers people to live climate-smarter by incentivizing emissions-reducing behavior. Sustaio provides real-time tracking and information for the everyday individual to take immediate action in reducing their footprint, like a FICO for sustainability. Imagine a world whereby having a healthier climate impact you can unlock better pricing in the world.

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Eli Rubel is the CEO of MatterMade.co and has served as a marketing advisor to companies like Dropbox, Loom, Productboard, Calm, and many others. Prior to Matter Made, Eli was the founding CEO where he led Glider through a successful acquisition to FPX.

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Andrew Headrick grew up in the Western suburbs of Minneapolis. He grew up in a large family with quadruplet younger siblings, which meant he spent ample time in primary care clinics and waiting rooms during his younger years. Andrew attended Middlebury College in Vermont, where he studied Economics and Chinese. He has held various roles professionally, at Medtronic, at a local hedge fund, and most recently at Piper Sandler, an investment bank, where he completed 13 healthcare transactions worth over $4.3B. It was during his time at Piper that he realized just how badly the healthcare system needed to change. Andrew founded Kavira Health in late 2020 in an effort to make everyday healthcare more convenient, more cost-effective, and more accessible to all. Kavira has been doing just that – since its inception, Kavira has had thousands of patient interactions with a 9/10 patient rating, their patients have never paid a copay, nor have their patients ever had to leave their homes to receive care. 

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Alex Rappaport is an award-winning leader with a passion for innovation and sustainability. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of ZwitterCo, Inc., a company that develops membranes that are immune to irreversible fouling and enable treatment and reuse of the world’s toughest wastewaters. At ZwitterCo, Alex drives strategic planning, organizational design, and the long-term vision for company growth.

Under his leadership, ZwitterCo has been recognized by the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center as a leader in clean water technologies. Alex has also led the company through multiple highly successful rounds of financing with both institutional and strategic partners.

Alex is a fierce supporter of his team. His strength is setting a culture of empowerment with a philosophy of “come as you are – love what you build.” He encourages the same entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, and resourcefulness in his team and has fostered a community that is dedicated to ZwitterCo’s mission to preserve and manage industrial and agricultural water and wastewater.  

Alex holds an M.S. in Innovation and Management and a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Tufts University.

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Chelsey Roney brings her business-building and strategy experience to Proxi, where she serves as COO and growing the business through sales and marketing. Chelsey is a serial founder who has exited two of her companies:  SaaS business in the University space, and a local services business. She has also worked in omni channel marketing at Microsoft and Finance at Boeing.  Month after month, Chelsey's persistence, attention to detail, and deep understanding of finance and marketing have helped Proxi grow.

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Eric Tang is a co-founder of Livepeer and Livepeer Studio. He has been working in the blockchain space since 2016, and in the software industry since 2006.  He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied Computer Engineering and Physics. Previously, Eric was co-founder and CTO of Wildcard.

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After spending years working in product at fast-growing startups, Dan co-founded Donut to help teams foster cultures of connectivity, collaboration, and belonging. When he’s not working on Donut, you can find him playing music for business with his band, Mobile Steam Unit, and teaching a lean startup course at Brown University.

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