Catch Fire Careers with Simon Yost

Having served in leadership capacities for several profit and non-profit organizations, Leslie Gill has been deeply involved in a wide range of social welfare issues. Before joining Rung as the organization’s president, Leslie Gill served as the Chief Executive Officer of Annie Malone Children’s & Family Service Center.

Prior to her role at Annie Malone, Leslie served as Executive Director of College Summit, where she had multi-state responsibility for programs, fundraising, and business operations. Prior to that, she spent six years in executive leadership roles with the Girl Scouts in St. Louis and Atlanta. In those roles, she oversaw advocacy and governmental affairs, strategic planning, program development, membership recruitment, and cookie sales.

Leslie is a native of St. Louis and now resides in the Central West End neighborhood with her daughter, Marley. She is a distinguished alumnus of Hampton University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Hampton University, as well as a Master of International Business from St. Louis University. Coupled with years of experience in executive leadership positions, Leslie is well-equipped to lead Rung and help further its mission to empower women.

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David is a Software Developer in Residence, focusing on the alignment of innovation and human flourishing. He supports general initiatives and Hypothesis projects with an eye towards technology ethics, team formation, and expansion of product benefits across stakeholders.

Joining Preston-Werner Ventures in 2020, David has experience across industries as a multi-disciplinary entrepreneur. He has received medical device patents, acted as an Investment Bank CTO, and authored predictive models guiding $100s of millions in investment and R&D initiatives for the Fortune 50. He studied mechanical and biomedical engineering at the University of Colorado before his graduate study in philosophy at Oxford.

The ebullient, happy center of his life includes his beautiful wife, twin daughters, and son. They are often adventuring together amongst the playgrounds, trails, and gardens of Golden Gate Park. Otherwise, he can be found on a bicycle wandering the hills of the Marin Headlands.

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Candy Washington is an actress, blogger, on-camera host, social media influencer, and the founder, of Actress with Style, a popular lifestyle brand focused on fashion, beauty, entertainment, and travel that's geared toward the active millennial. 

She is also the founder of The Billionaire Blogger Society, a global community of creative professionals who seek to build profitable, purposeful, and successful blogs, brands, and businesses - all on their own terms.

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From his Casio 76 keyboard to acceptance to Berklee College of Music in Boston to contributing to the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” reboot’s musical score, Royce Martin has caught fire over the past several years.

Royce Martin is a pianist and composer currently attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Royce taught himself the piano at the age of 14 on a small keyboard. He has a rich musical background and an affinity for various genres, from classical to jazz to popular contemporary. Royce has a working knowledge of many musical traditions and their historical context and can compose and perform accordingly. Over the past three summers, Royce worked as a pianist and lecturer, speaking to the long and storied history of ragtime and American music at the Scott Joplin State Historic Site in St. Louis, where he received stellar reviews and attracted the attention of local news on multiple occasions. Fall 2020 brought Royce national attention when he was tapped to score “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion” show for HBO-MAX. While Royce has been the recipient of many nominations and awards, he remains humble to understand that he is but a novice to the masters who inspire him. Now he continues on his path of musicianship—always in pursuit of the sonic sweet spot where his artistic skills meet the kaleidoscope of his vision.

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Casey Nolen is an experienced reporter and anchor whose work has earned the Edward R. Murrow Award and six Mid-America Emmy Awards for visual journalism - ranging from in-depth reporting to craft editing. He is known for fairness and context. The nerve to hold the powerful accountable and the empathy to tell the stories of the voiceless. And, if there’s a ‘big story’ Casey is there - from scoops in statewide politics to overseas Olympic coverage.

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Theresa Link, RD, LMNT is an experienced registered dietitian and diabetes educator with a demonstrated history of working in hospital, clinic, and startup health tech industries. Data and science-driven, not driven by dogma. Passionate about the therapeutic use of ketogenic nutrition for metabolic disease, mental health, and inflammatory disorders. Clinical experience in metabolic disease reversal, disease prevention, mindful eating, diabetes education, gastrointestinal nutrition, health coaching, and behavior change. Strong healthcare services leader skilled in public speaking, training, recruiting, and people management as part of rapid-growth startup culture.

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Becky Gandillon is a Data & Analytics Consultant with an engineering background and extensive experience in the healthcare industry. Her aim to make essential impacts quickly. Becky excels at making technical, “boring,” or hard-to-grasp data exciting, engaging, relatable, and actionable.

Becky leads the Data & Analytics Practice at Centric Consulting. She and her family call St. Louis, Missouri home.

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Jeff Bartsch built his career in Hollywood as a television editor, producer, and voiceover artist. His editing background includes work for ABC, NBC, Universal, Disney, Apple, and many others. Jeff’s commentary on editing and the entertainment industry has been featured in Time Magazine, USA Today, the Associated Press, and multiple textbooks.

He is the author of “Edit Better: Hollywood-Tested Strategies for Powerful Video Editing” and is the founder StoryGreenlight, which teaches creative video editing and storytelling skills to online content creators.

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Kanika Sharma is the Tech Lead for the Modern Software Practice at 1904labs. Kanika puts her heart and soul into her work, as it has been her passion since high school.

Her proudest career achievement is designing, implementing, and maintaining the “Limits Management Platform” for Market Risk traders. She was a founding member of the team that migrated an ancient system & created a handcrafted workflow engine for the 200+ traders across the globe, a very high-impact project used by C Suite level executives to manage billions of pounds of market limits determining the bank’s risk appetite.

Kanika and her family live in St. Louis, Missouri.

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GeNella McCrary is a content creator, technologist, and cosmetologist. She has also made a recent career transition from radio to tech.

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