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Tim Williams is the founder and CEO of Index Engines, a data integrity solution provider based in New Jersey. Index Engines builds enterprise-class software for the Information Governance, Data Management, Compliance, eDiscovery, and cybersecurity markets. The company's software allows companies to manage petabytes of data across primary, backup, and archival storage classes.

Book Recommendation;

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future By Peter Thiel

Alexa is the co-founder and COO of Moeco, an IoT platform helping customers manage and monitor their physical assets’ efficiency in logistics throughout the supply chain.

Gerald is the CTO and co-founder of Brainome, and he teaches as an adjunct professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department of UC Berkeley. Before that, he was a principal data scientist with Lawrence Livermore National Lab after being with the International Computer Science Institute for ten years.

Ivan is the CEO and the co-founder of MuukTest. He is a Computer Systems Engineer and holds an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler, where his specialization was Strategy and Entrepreneurship. Ivan is passionate about startups, strategy, and solving problems. He has advised and participated in a handful of startups and is the Co-Founder of MuukTest, a no-code Test Automation Acceleration Platform.

Book Recommendations.

What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture. By Ben Horowitz

The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you. By Rob Fitzpatrick

Alice is the founder of Flock Marketing Collective. An entrepreneur at heart and a firm believer in the multi-hustle. She’s founded and run businesses and worked inside early and late-stage startups. She started her career in London in the early 90s and arrived in Silicon Valley just in time for the dot-com boom. She has a passion for marketing and communications and starting fires.

Mike and Adam are the co-founders of Pay Tgthr. Mike is a recovering lawyer turned entrepreneur with a passion for all things fintech. After graduating from the UC Berkeley School of Law and spending a decade advising startups throughout Silicon Valley, his best friend of 25 years, Adam Juhasz, recruited him to leap recommending to build. Together, They're setting out to revolutionize the way couples spend, save and invest together.

James Wagoner is the CEO & Co-Founder of Joule Case, a startup aiming to make advanced power systems simple. He built his first battery startup out of college and that resulted in a $1.2B contract with Spain, but unfortunately was canceled due to austerity from the Financial Crisis. James enjoys attending music festivals, long-distance cycling, backpacking, and skiing when not building battery systems.

Nikola is the co-founder and CEO of PolyAI, a leading supplier of Conversational AI for automated customer service. Before starting PolyAI, Nikola worked with the Apple Siri team in Cambridge and was the first engineer at VocalIQ, a dialogue systems startup acquired by Apple. Nikola did his Ph.D. at Cambridge, working with Professor Steve Young.

Book Recommendations:

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. By Chris Voss The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. By Max Weber

Rory is the founder and CEO of VERB Technology. He began his career as an attorney at a major NYC law firm, representing world-renowned entrepreneurs. Since then, Rory changed the telecom industry landscape through a tech company start-up called Telx, he became a partner and 'Entrepreneur-in-Residence' in an NYC-based private equity fund, and he and his team created VERB and have re-invented what sales software applications should be in today’s video-centric business and social environment.

VERB is the market leader in interactive video-based sales enablement applications. The Company’s Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, platform is based on its proprietary interactive video technology. It is comprised of a suite of sales enablement business software products offered on a subscription basis. Its software applications are available in over 60 countries and more than 48 languages to both large enterprise and small business sales teams that need affordable, easy-to-use, and quick-to-get-results sales tools.

Available in both mobile and desktop versions, VERB's applications are offered as a fully integrated suite and on a standalone basis. They include verbLIVE (Interactive Livestream eCommerce and Shoppable Video and Webinar applications), verbCRM (White-labelled Interactive Video-based Customer Relationship Management application), verbTEAMS (a Self Onboarding version of verbCRM with built-in verbLIVE and Salesforce synchronization for small businesses and solo entrepreneurs), verbLEARN (Interactive video and gamified Learning Management System application), and verbMAIL (an interactive video mail solution integrated seamlessly into Microsoft Outlook). With 200 employees, the Company maintains offices in Newport Beach, California, and American Fork, Utah.

Rory has been actively involved in many charitable endeavors. He founded the US Chapter of Innocence in Danger, a global organization dedicated to protecting and rehabilitating children who have been victims of trafficking. He is also a former member of the Board of Trustees of The New York Institute of Technology and a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Shakespeare Center.

Brendan is co-founder and CEO of Fig (fig.io). Fig makes engineers more productive in the terminal. Brendan is originally from Australia and studied economics and computer science at Harvard.