Stacey Ruth / Truth & Dare: Inside Out Marketing Marketing Author and Speaker Stacey Ruth is a highly acclaimed entrepreneur and marketer. Over the past 25 years she has accumulated numerous awards and certifications, including Certified ROI Professional, Top 50 Entrepreneurs by Catalyst Magazine, Top 100 Event Agencies by Event Marketer Magazine, Top Meeting Planners …

Josh Bernstein / Josh Bernstein Media Owner and Principal Consultant   Josh Bernstein is one of Atlanta’s leading independent digital media consultants and a seasoned expert when it comes to paid search marketing and Google AdWords. He has a successful history working with businesses, startups & agencies who want to get their website ranked …

Rick Garlick / JD Power Global Practice Lead for Travel and Hospitality   Rick Garlick is the Global Travel and Hospitality Practice Lead at J.D. Power. He is responsible for providing industry thought leadership to the company’s clients in the hotel, destination, rental car, airline, and cruise line industries, as well as for creating …

Patrick Lynch / The Frontier Group President Pat leads The Frontier Group on strategy, client service, innovation, and business development. He is responsible for driving growth and strategic partnerships. He also is directly involved in many of the outplacement, talent development, assessment tool implementation and executive coaching programs. Before his leadership role at The …

Vicki Escarra / Opportunity International Ms. Escarra has an accredited background in microfinance-driven philanthropy, and has played a longstanding role as a dynamic operator in Chicago business. Under her leadership at Opportunity International, she achieved recent successes in forging strategic international partnerships such as the Cisco grant allocation and participation at the GEC 2017 …

Sam Agarwal / AppZoro Technologies, Inc. Founder and CEO Sam Agarwal is an Innovative Applications Developer. Sam is the founder and CEO of AppZoro Technologies, Inc. – an experienced team of full-stack mobile app developers and web designers. He holds a BS in Computer Science and is working on his Master’s at Georgia Tech. …

Mike Morris / Broadgreen Solutions CEO  and Co-Founder Mike co-founded Broadgreen Solutions in 2015. His consulting career has allowed him to work with CIOs on strategic technology programs, help executives refine their strategies and drive successful execution of large-scale change initiatives. Mike had a 15-year chapter of his career at North Highland. While at …

Karen Ross / Sharp Decisions President and CEO Karen Ross founded Sharp Decisions in 1990 under the premise that “anything is possible with teamwork and integrity.” As a visionary entrepreneur, she has honed her skills through years of success, starting and growing solutions oriented strategic and technology consulting firms, both domestically and abroad. With …

Jeff LoCastro / Neener Analytics CEO and Founder Jeff LoCastro was a member of the initial executive team of the inventors of the online social network Classmates.com, and was extracting insights from social media long before it became fashionable. He pioneered the CPA model based on creating affinity networks through social media. His current …

Larry Steffan / RIoT Founder Larry’s career spans 35 years deeply entrenched in technology. Mr. Steffann held several roles with a number of startups, from advisor, angel investor and as executive/founder. He served in senior executive roles at two publicly traded companies, CEO of NSO/AMEX and COO BOCI/Nasdaq. As a serial entrepreneur, Mr. Steffann’s …