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Manning Field is CEO of Follow, a B2C retail investing marketplace that connects influencers with people who automatically want to follow their money moves. Prior to Follow, Manning was the Chief Operating Officer for Acorns, overseeing the business with direct accountability for growth, retention, experimentation, customer service, analytics, project management, and Acorns’ regulated entities. 

Manning launched market-leading products and programs at JPMorgan Chase like Chase Sapphire, Chase Freedom, and Chase Ultimate Rewards, and was named an Ad Age “40 Under 40.” He also spent four years in Beijing, China, as CMO of JPMorgan Chase’s consumer team and while there, founded a local credit card business. During his 18-year tenure at Chase, Manning oversaw many departments including Branding, Advertising, Product Development, Marketing, Corporate Development, Innovation, B2B Corporate Sales Strategy, and, lastly, as the Managing Director of Loyalty Innovation. He graduated from Indiana University and he and his wife have three future Acorns investors.

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Flo Crivello is the founder and CEO of Lindy, the personal AI assistant that can help with tasks, from calendar management and email drafting to contract sending and beyond.

Before founding Lindy, he was the founder and CEO of Teamflow, a cutting-edge virtual office platform designed to enable seamless collaboration among remote teams.

Prior to Teamflow, he was an engineer and product leader at Uber for 5 years. 

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Armand Paradis is the Co-Founder and CEO of ComboCurve, the fastest-growing technology platform in energy. He leads reservoir engineers, programmers, and data scientists in building breakthrough technologies to evaluate and improve well performance, economics, and emissions.

ComboCurve is one of the most successful energy startups with over 270 of the largest players in the industry adopting its workflows in just 2 years. The company raised the largest round of Series B financing ever seen in energy.

Armand holds a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Louisiana and the Sharif University of Technology. He serves as the sponsorship chairman for the SPE Gulf Coast Section Innovate Group. In 2022, he was honored as one of Hart Energy's Forty Under 40.

Thanks to his leadership, ComboCurve has won several awards, such as Disruptive Technology of the Year two years running, along with Innovation of the Year, Best & Brightest in Houston, and Best & Brightest in the Nation in 2022.

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Tom Kieley graduated from Texas A&M in 2004 and co-founded SourceDay in 2015 after launching his first tech startup, RG in 2008. Earlier in his career, he started as a manufacturing supervisor at Dell and later into enterprise selling with software companies like Boomi and Pervasive.

Tom and his co-founder, Clint, started SourceDay to transform how manufacturers, distributors, and retailers collaborate with their suppliers to solve supply chain challenges they experienced early in their careers.

At the time of publishing, SourceDay has helped over 250 customers and 16,000 suppliers globally improve visibility and collaboration in their supply chains.

Tom is a husband, father of three, and exercise fanatic who loves cars, boating, and anything outdoors.

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Raphael Ouzan is the founder and CEO of A.Team, a team formation platform that enables tech leaders to assemble, deploy, and manage cloud-based teams—high-performing, distributed product teams that build transformative new products. A.Team is powered by a members-only network of the world’s top engineers, product managers, designers, and marketers who come together to escape rigid structures to work on problems that matter to them alongside teammates they love. 

A.Team is on a mission to change how we work for the better—part of Raphael’s quest to unlock human potential through technology. He founded BillGuard, the antivirus for bills (acquired by Prosper), co-founded BlockNation with Apollo Mgmt CEO Marc Rowan to invest in web3, and founded ITC, a not-for-profit for global tech upskilling. A decorated officer of IDF’s tech unit, he was named 30 under 30 by Forbes, and Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum.

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Jeff Fernandez is dedicated to building businesses that help people.

He is the CEO and co-founder of Dandi, the analytics platform for advancing DEI. Launched in stealth mode in 2018, Dandi’s customers today include Oscar Health, Braze, Care/Of, Teachable, Rhino, and Blue Shield of California.

As an advisor, Jeff works with socially-conscious companies including Sealed. He is a seed investor in Hone and a limited partner at Combine, a design-led venture capital firm.

Prior to Dandi, Jeff led Grovo, the enterprise learning company that he co-founded in 2010. Built with a mission to remake employee training, Grovo was used in 190 countries around the world and named by Fortune the second-best workplace in the US. Grovo was acquired in 2018 by Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ: CSOD).

Originally from Dumont, NJ, Jeff graduated with the highest honors from Harvard, where he wrote his thesis on maximizing human performance. Jeff has spoken at events including TEDx, SXSW, Internet Week, and ASU+GSV, and has contributed to Inc., Fast Company, Forbes, and more. 

Jeff lives in New Jersey with his wife Cori and their two kids Remi and Rafael.

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Maik Taro Wehmeyer is the CEO and Co-Founder of Taktile, a global automated decisioning platform that is revolutionizing how fintechs harness data to steer their business. In a world increasingly run on automated decisions, Taktile’s low-code platform makes it easy for credit and data teams to build more accurate decision flows, adapt to change quickly, and, ultimately, improve outcomes. Prior to joining Taktile, Maik worked at QuantCo, McKinsey, and SAP. He has significant experience in the machine learning and financial services spaces, serving as a member of EU Commission’s AI Alliance and the German AI Alliance.

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Kelly Nyland is the CEO of Whym. As a long-standing technology executive, Kelly has launched 120 “next-gen” experiences in over 40 global markets. She’s partnered with the world's top online & offline retailers across 40,000 points of sale for more than 15 years. She’s a practiced technologist in “pulling the future forward” by leveraging technology in a way that adds value to the customer journey.

As the Head of GTM @ Snapchat, Kelly was recognized, globally, for her innovative GTM & Sales strategy around Snap’s camera glasses. She and her (now) co-founder, got an inside look at why social commerce experiences have been disappointing to influencers and brands that hoped to leverage their content on these platforms to drive acquisition and lifetime value. 

She’s now built a software suite for brands that leverages the ubiquity, access and convenience of social selling.

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Bryan Sapot is an entrepreneur, renowned speaker, and CEO with over 24 years of experience in manufacturing technology. He is the founder of Mingo, a smart factory platform that leverages technology to solve complex problems in the manufacturing industry. Bryan's deep insights into the manufacturing sector have made him a sought-after expert in the industry, and he is dedicated to building software that simplifies the lives of manufacturers.

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Sanjay Goel, who is a serial entrepreneur, is the CEO and founder of NachoNacho. He is deeply interested in tech innovation and disruption. Sanjay enjoys building highly scalable startups, especially marketplaces. 

Sanjay lived in 6 countries, and traveled in 88 countries, all 7 continents. He also speaks 6 languages to varying degrees.

Sanjay is also a helicopter and airplane pilot, skydiver, mountaineer, rock climber, ice-climber, skier, scuba diver, sailor, and windsurfer.

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