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Bob Miles is the Founder and CEO of Salad.com, the world's largest distributed computing platform. Before Salad, he pivoted careers from a pilot to an aerospace engineer, and finally into the startup world. He's an avid traveler and has been to North Korea twice!
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Adam Feldman is the CEO and Co-founder of Crispify, an automotive startup. Before founding Crispify, Adam was the VP of Innovation and Strategy of A.L. Group, a global automotive tier-1 company. Adam holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University and an Executive Education Diploma from Wharton Business School.
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Julie Kring is an artist, mountaineer, and founder of Khepra - a company with a mission to clean up the chemicals industry. As a biochemist with a lifelong vendetta against petroleum, she has created a novel electrified reactor for converting waste from farms, recycling centers, and forestry into valuable materials to replace traditional petroleum-based materials. Born and raised in Silicon Valley, she watched her father invent new technologies in the garage, and in the summers, they would backpack the Sierra Nevada together. Through these experiences, she learned the value of technology in solving climate change and has since devoted her life to restoring the Earth by creating circular economies for materials.
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Anders Lillevik is the CEO and Founder of Focal Point – a company providing an end-to-end enterprise procurement orchestration platform. For more than 20 years as a Chief Procurement Officer, Anders has helped organizations such as Fannie Mae, QBE Insurance, and Webster Bank optimize their procurement operations. In these roles, he has managed teams of 120+, including $8b annual spend and $5m annual procurement software expenditures.
As an industry veteran, Anders had a vision for procurement departments to shift from pure cost centers to strategic contributors to the top and bottom line. In 2020, he set this vision in motion and founded Focal Point to address the unmet need for a complete solution that connects the tools for every aspect of procurement orchestration across siloed data and processes. Focal Point empowers Chief Procurement Officers to move up the digital maturity curve across the entire procurement process.
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Cyrus Massoumi founded new telehealth platform Dr. B and can discuss what his regrets are with Zocdoc around not making healthcare more accessible. He's also the founder of startup VC firm humbition and has been recognized by both Fortune and Crains on their 40 under 40 lists and by Fast Company as one of the Most Creative People in Business.
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Ed Vincent is an entrepreneur with over 25 years of business, technology, and management experience including 6 years of banking and valuation experience. He founded an e-commerce business in 1999 which was sold to a competitor in 2001. Repeat Founder including SimplyEngage, myProducer, & Predict Ventures. Currently Founder & CEO of festivalPass.
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Dr. Katherine Grill is the CEO and co-founder of Neolth, a technology company that provides personalized mental health support to teens through a self-guided platform. Prior to founding Neolth, she worked at Children's National pediatric hospital conducting NIH research, co-founded a community health program for young adults, and was a university professor teaching courses in psychology and neuroscience at undergraduate and graduate levels.
Dr. Grill received a BS in Art Therapy, MA in Psychology, and a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. She has expertise in school-based mental health and using digital interventions with adolescents and young adults.
Dr. Grill was selected for the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the 2022 education category and was the recipient of the Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2022 from the Canterbury School.
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Ben Simon is the director of nft & crypto community giving at Crypto for Charity, and he's an avid participant in the space (especially generative art NFTs on Tezos and ETH). Ben's career before crypto was in organizational and strategy development for large, international nonprofits -- groups like Greenpeace, Amnesty International, and UNICEF, among others. Ben worked to build out an advocacy and fundraising program at Mozilla, helped launch the 2012 re-election campaign for President Obama, and has a failed food retail startup in there as well.
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Ilene Richardson brings extensive experience as an award-winning multi-platform producer with credits in television, advertising, and web content production. A Clio-award winner, she was an early adopter of web-based innovations in advertising, producing one of the first online viral campaigns. Her firm Imaginary Content specializes in expert content creation across various platforms – from global eCommerce to broadcast, commercial, and video. Imaginary Content is the AOR for Kraft Heinz, producing more than 50,000 digital assets across their CPG products including Heinz Ketchup, Planters Peanuts, Lunchables, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, and many more.
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Lori Shao is the CEO and Founder of Finli, a simple, secure, and cost-effective digital platform that financially lifts service-based small businesses. Finli is inspired by Lori’s unique perspective as an immigrant and her desire to create a premium, yet accessible solution that allows all entrepreneurs to easily receive, manage, and grow their finances. For over two decades, Lori has built financial tech for small businesses at Wells Fargo, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), MUFG, and JPMorgan. She resides in Los Angeles with her husband Derek, two human children and almost a dozen non-human children.
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