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Entrepreneurial, highly organized entertainment and production executive with extensive live entertainment and event management experience within highly competitive markets. Creative professionals and businesses seek Dina’s guidance and knowledge because she can provide top-class event planning by utilizing her expert project management skills and employing her solid track record of success managing client satisfaction and training teams to achieve demanding goals.

Dina shares her career journey on this latest episode of Great Minds.

Jon Patricof is CEO and Co-Founder of Athletes Unlimited, a network of professional sports leagues. Launched in March 2020, Athletes Unlimited now operates leagues in pro women’s softball, volleyball, lacrosse, and basketball. In 2022, the company will conduct over 120 games that will be broadcast to over 150 countries.

Before founding Athletes Unlimited, Patricof served as president of Major League Soccer’s New York City Football Club, where he currently serves on the board of directors. Prior to NYCFC, Patricof spent 11 years as a member of the board, President and COO of Tribeca Enterprises, the owner and operator of the Tribeca Film Festival and related business ventures. Among his accomplishments was the creation of the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival as well as the company’s landmark branded content partnerships with Dick’s Sporting Goods and American Express.

Throughout his career, Jon has been involved in driving revenue and expanding operations. At Tribeca, he helped expand the company from film into branded entertainment and sports as well as the company’s JV with Lionsgate and international partnerships in the Middle East and Asia. Prior to Tribeca, he worked in media private equity prior to which he worked in Corporate Strategic Planning at Disney helping grow the Disney, ESPN and ABC brands across video, audio and digital platforms. His first job was at Forest City Ratner at the inception of the Atlantic Yards development (future site of Barclays Center); he worked on Dean Kamen’s Segway project and with Harvard Prof. Michael Porter’s Initiative for a Competitive Inner City.

Sheri Bachstein is a formative strategic thinker who diagnoses complex problems and rapidly creates solutions in a high-pressure environment. As a turnaround expert, she quickly assesses a situation, see multi-dimensional perspectives and make fast, targeted changes for immediate wins. Sheri joins Great Minds to discuss her career path.

John Gentry is CEO of OpenX, one of the world’s leading providers of digital and mobile advertising technology. John is responsible for operating the business and further accelerating OpenX’s rapid trajectory, delivering revenue growth through sales, technology, and product innovation globally.

At Maherster Ltd, Ben provides strategic consulting across all areas of digital including business planning, sales strategy development & marketing. Maherster have worked with businesses across many sectors and of many sizes from large publishers to small games start ups.

Dan Boever has been a full time corporate and charity golf entertainer since 2000 with 1800+ personal appearances around the world. His clients have included Bank of America, Microsoft, TD Ameritrade, McDonalds, Citgo, AT&T, Sprint, Pepsi, Yahoo!, Make A Wish, MGM Grand, Marriott Hotels, PGA Tour. Dan has made 18 consecutive trips to the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship including a World Title.

Tanya Woods is a dynamic, future-forward leader with entrepreneurial edge and successful track record advancing government and industry partnerships to deliver strategic results at scale. Sought out to provide executive-level strategic legal and policy counsel, visionary foresight, navigation on complex legal and systemic challenges, and to deliver success with triple bottom line benefits. Especially skilled at systems thinking, translating complex business, legal and economic risks into simple language, and executing fast-paced, high-impact projects that achieve desired outcomes for all sizes of companies and organizations. Passionate about advising on and implementing projects and technologies that will make a positive and innovative impact in the world.

Launched at the World Economic Forum in 2020, Project In-Kind is an inclusive global philanthropic and social impact movement leveraging in-kind giving, technology and partnerships to help communities and meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This is the world’s first-ever tech-supported global in-kind giving movement to enable and measure 1 billion in-kind donations from businesses, government, and citizens by 2030 and help non-profits and charities use contributions of skills, services and goods to help their communities.