Gratitude Through Hard Times

Goddess Aviva is a lifestyle and professional Dominatrix based in NYC. She has over 5 years of professional experience in the NYC BDSM scene. Some of her many BDSM interests include power exchange, foot fetish, humiliation, objectification, and corporal punishment. Aviva also mentors aspiring female Dommes, teaches group workshops on beginner BDSM and kink, and trains male submissives in the art of surrender.

Check out what Aviva is up to at: http://www.goddessaviva.com/

Craig Elbert is Co-Founder and CEO of Care/of. Since launch, the company has made it easier and more gratifying for hundreds of thousands of customers to build healthy habits. Prior to Care/of, Craig led marketing at the men’s apparel brand Bonobos. He has an MBA from Wharton and a BA in English Literature from Dartmouth College. Currently, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Lauren, and kids, Whit and Bix.

Check out what Craig is up to at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-elbert-6978346/

Judy Zhu is a global operating tech executive and a long-time advocate for diversity in senior leadership. She is the Founder/CEO of a soon-to-launch venture-backed company called MoneyGirls – a simple direct-to-girl platform for young women to develop financial skills and build wealth, so they become confidently independent.

Judy has spent the last decade years building and leading various technology companies, with multi-disciplinary experience across consumer and enterprise companies. Most recently, she has served as the Chief Operating Officer of The Leadership Consortium, a company co-founded by Professor Frances Frei of Harvard Business School. Previously at Uber Technologies, she led US Business Development in financial services and other strategies initiatives, building multi-
years and multi-hundred million-dollar partnerships with firms such as Visa, American Express and Barclays. Judy also led international expansion at the Alibaba-backed company ShopRunner, where her mandate was to bring retailers like Neiman Marcus to Chinese consumers, via her partnerships with Alibaba and TMall. Judy previously was an early employee at Diapers.com and served in a range of leadership roles launching new business categories, both pre and post the company’s half a billion-dollar acquisition by Amazon.

Judy’s set of expertise spans geographies. She graduated from the University of Victoria(Canada) with international studies via the University of International Business and Economics(Beijing), and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Her early experiences include foreign diplomatic service at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, sales leadership at L’Oreal Canada.

She has spoken about the intersection of leadership and gender across industries. She can share her insights into embracing diversity and inclusion as a lever to improve individual and organizational performance. Her perspective is grounded in advising senior executives through The Leadership Consortium as well as direct experiences as a female executive at Uber as it navigated its very public crisis in leadership and culture.

Check out what Judy is up to at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/judyzlinkedin

Ms. Lisa Rosenthal is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Mayvin, a dynamic women-owned small business. In less than 4 years, her team doubled the firm’s revenues annually making the Inc 5000 list of fastest growing firms 3 years in a row. She is a seasoned leader and business developer with significant government and commercial experience managing a broad spectrum of tasks, functions, processes, and systems from concept to implementation. Ms. Rosenthal is recognized for strong leadership skills, facilitating organizational change, well as developing strategies for significant business decisions. She is a proven leader that achieves high levels of productivity and efficiency in very diverse and fluid environments. Lisa proudly served on the American University (AU) Alumni Board of Directors and the American Health Education Center Network Board of Directors. She further supports the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association Small Business and Education Subcommittee, the National Board of Directors for Women in Defense HORIZONS Scholarship, STEM, and Academia Director, the AU Entrepreneurship Council, and sits on the Quality Systems Management, Inc. Advisory Board. She also proudly serves as a judge for the Kogod Case Competition and the George Washington Business Plan Competition. She has a Master’s of Business Administration, International Finance as well as Management of Global Information Technology from The American University. She also has a Bachelor’s of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor’s of Arts in Environmental Policy from The American University.

Check out what Lisa's up to at: http://mayvin.com/

Tom Gerace is the Founder and CEO of Skyword, the leading content marketing platform and services provider. Prior to founding Skyword, Tom launched Gather.com, a demand-driven news and entertainment property reaching more than 6M people each month. Gerace also founded and served as President of Be Free, a publicly traded online marketing services company. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Social Studies, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, and served as a senior business analyst at the Harvard Business School.

Check out what Tom is up to at: https://www.skyword.com/

JD Busch serves as CEO of Busch Global LLC. He works closely with the leadership teams of our franchisor clients. He represents Busch Global with clients throughout the U.S. JD is focused on delivering excellence, and the highest level of improved performance and profitability for franchisor organizations.

Check out what JD is up to at: http://buschglobal.com/

Rees Vinsen is the CEO/Founder of Adduco, a customer data platform and COO of SportsCafe, a sports media network. He also consults to select brands across NZ and USA.

From 2012-17 Rees ran Adduco Media, a social agency that delivered entertainment, news and sponsored campaigns to Generation Z audiences. Rees founded the company when he was fifteen, growing and leading his 12-person team to partner with more than 130 brands and Fortune 500's across NZ, Asia and USA.

He also served a Partner in First Cut, a venture investment fund based in Auckland that invested in high-impact kiwi startups such as Sharesies, Halter and Spalk.

Rees is passionate about building winning teams, products that delight and all things social. He currently works between New Zealand and San Jose, California.

Check out what Rees is up to at: https://www.reesvinsen.com/

Jessica Brondo Davidoff is the CEO of STATE Bags, a one-for-one, Brooklyn-born brand whose mission goes beyond selling cool and classic bags. She is also the Founder and CEO of New York City-based Admittedly, an education technology startup that provides free online tools to help students find their ideal colleges, perfect their applications and understand their chances in the process. In 2005, she founded the Edge in College Prep, a test prep, and admissions counseling company.

Check out what Jessica is up to at: https://www.statebags.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessbrondo

Bess Chapman is the Operating Principal at JetBlue Technology Ventures, based in New York. She works with portfolio companies to create compelling value propositions for JetBlue, source new technology and identify emerging trends.

Prior to joining JTV, Bess worked in Product Development at JetBlue Airways, where she led the content, partnerships and entertainment technology team. In this role, she drove the product and monetization strategy for JetBlue’s high-speed Wi-Fi and seat-back technologies onboard.

Before joining JetBlue, Bess worked at several media organizations, for IBM’s business analytics consulting division and for a boutique media and entertainment consulting firm. Bess received her BA from Georgetown University.

Check out what Bess is up to at:
https://www.jetblueventures.com/people/team/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-bess-chapman-50487120/

As the CEO of Cognizant Softvision, Andres is responsible for both the day-to-day operations and the strategic vision of the firm. He most recently served as CEO of Softvision, prior to its acquisition by Cognizant in November, 2018.

Prior to Softvision, he served as the Chief Solutions Officer at Globant, responsible for the design and development of digital solutions while leading strategic customer engagements globally. His areas of expertise include product development, agile transformation, and gaming. Before becoming Chief Solutions Officer, Andres founded and served as the EVP and GM of Globant’s gaming studio, leading business on the West Coast, as well as VP of Engineering and Director of Global Presales Consulting from the U.K.

Andres has spoken at many leadership, strategy, and tech conferences and co-authored the book The Never-Ending Digital Journey: Creating New Consumer Experiences Through Technology. His most recent book, Transforming While Performing: How To Create A Culture Of Innovation With Partners, will be published in September, 2019.

Originally from Argentina, he speaks English, Spanish and Italian. Andres holds a Bachelors of Science in Business from University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, and enjoys cross-fit training, skiing with his four kids, running and playing classical piano.

Check out what Andres is up to at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andresangelani/

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