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George Boutsalis is, a Greek-Canadian who lives to learn, create and explore. At the age of 10, he started his first three businesses; which we'll get into later. It's now 2021, his passion project has turned into a startup, he chose to step down from his role as VP of Ops from the family business. His sole focus now is bringing honesty, objectivity, and transparency to social media.

Patrick Boyaggi is the co-founder and CEO of Own Up, a Boston-based company changing how people seek out, secure, and compare mortgages. Propelled by Boyaggi's belief that everyone should understand their mortgage, Own Up provides a combination of intelligent software and personalized advice from mortgage experts.

Book Recommendation;

Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products. By Marty Cagan

Pieter Luitjens is the CTO and co-founder of Private AI, a business building privacy-preserving machine learning and natural language processing tools to make privacy and GDPR compliance reliable.

Scott Orlinsky is the Co-Founder & COO of Everyware, a leading contactless payments and communications solutions company.

Book Recommendation;

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business; By Gino Wickman

Miguel is the CEO and Co-founder of Arex, a company with a vision to Power the best real estate investments, leveraging data networking effects. Due to his work applying technology for the Real Estate sector, he has been awarded and featured by institutions like Forbes, Colliers, Techstars, CBRE, and the European Commission. He's also actively involved as a speaker and working closely with institutions like FIBREE (Foundation for International Blockchain) and Real Estate Expertise as Regional Co-chair.

Brandon's journey spans leadership development for non-profits, flipping houses, building a soft-skills education company for teens, team member #1 at YC startup Searchlight.ai, and Zone of Genius Institute CEO/founder. This proprietary personality assessment helps people feel more aligned.

Brandon has a deep passion for teaching, coaching, and empowering others to become their most whole selves. His content has garnered over 17 million views and featured on media outlets like Inc.com, TIME, BBC, and HuffingtonPost.

John Keister is the co-founder and CEO of MixMode, an AI-based cloud-native threat & anomaly detection platform for high-volume data feeds. He has also co-founded two search and analytics companies that grew to $100+ million in revenue and went public.

Book Recommendations.

The Art Of War. By Sun Tzu

Ricardo is the co-founder and CEO of SellersFunding, the all-in-one financial solution platform designed for growing e-commerce merchants.

Book Recommendations.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't. By Jim Collins

Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com. By Aaron Ross

Juan is the CEO of Humantelligence, where he leads the Miami-based culture and talent intelligence start-up. They were recently named a top start-up to Watch by the Miami Herald, whose solution helps organizations accurately measure and manage culture at every level of an organization, from individuals and teams to overall corporate culture. He founded Gonza Executive Search and served as a client partner for Korn Ferry International and Heidrick & Struggles. All of this has teed up his work for Humantelligence. Named a 2021 Top 100 Influencer in our space by HR Executive magazine, Juan is an expert in using the BMW methodology (Behavior-Motivator-Work styles) to manage and hire for culture fit. A cultural analytics approach to building teams leads to increased engagement and productivity.