Claude Silver is an optimist, coach, manager, and mentor. She's the first ever Chief Heart Officer of VaynerMedia working for 800 humans. 

The CHO was created to scale Gary, and to make sure that VaynerMedia’s 800+ employees—and one day it will be 1,000+—have a place they can find a home. Claude's hope is that in her 15-30 minute meetings, people will feel a lot clearer and leave with a newfound path to a solution. That in turn, creates success for them and VaynerMedia.

Best selling author of FREE PR and one of the world's top experts in earned media and PR. He is a serial entrepreneur and former co-founder of CanvasPop. In his spare time he advises hundreds of companies through San Francisco based 500 Startups and Clarity.fm.

David Priemer is widely recognized as a thought leader in the area of sales and sales leadership and has been published in MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Barrons, and Inc. magazines. 

Previously David held several executive leadership positions at leading technology companies including Salesforce, where he was the Vice President of Commercial Sales and creator of the Sales Leadership Academy program. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Smith School of Business at Queen's University.

David holds a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Atmospheric Science from York University and a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto. When he's not thinking about Sales, David loves to cook, write, and spend some quality family time with his wife and three girls.

Greg Wells is a health and high performance expert who inspires better living through better nutrition and better fitness.  As a coach, scientist and physiologist Dr. Wells has amassed more than 20 years of world-class experience with the extremes of human health and performance.  As a result, he understands how it is possible for anyone to have better health, energy and fitness.  

He has coached, trained and inspired dozens of elite athletes to win medals at the Commonwealth Games, World Championships and the Olympics.  He makes regular appearances on national television and radio as a health and performance expert, contributes articles for numerous magazines, research papers for scientific journals and is a high-demand speaker for better health, fitness and performance around the world.

Dr. Paul Ekman is the co-discoverer of micro expressions, the originator of training tools such as Micro Facial Expressions Training Tool (METT), Subtle Facial Expressions Training Tool (SETT), PEG Interactive (Responding to Micro Facial Expressions), CAP (Capturing your Anger Profile), and is the author, co-author, or editor of 15 books.

Dr. Ekman is recognized as the pioneer in facial expression, deception, and emotion. He was the scientific consultant for the TV series, “Lie to Me,” and appeared in the 2009 TIME 100-- Time magazine's annual list of the "100 most influential people in the world".

Chris Gimmer is the co-founder of Snappa - a SaaS app that helps non-designers create online graphics in a snap. Snappa makes it super easy to create graphics for social media, ads, blogs, and more.  

Since launching on November 23, 2015 - the startup is now doing over $55K USD in monthly recurring revenue.

Dennis Mortensen is the CEO and co-founder of x.ai.  Dennis is an expert in leveraging data to solve enterprise use cases and a serial entrepreneur who’s successfully exited several companies on that theme.  His long-term vision of killing the inbox led to the formation of x.ai and the creation of Amy + Andrew, artificially intelligent assistants who schedule meetings. 

He speaks frequently to anyone who’ll listen, from the crowds of Web Summit to his building’s doorman, about an optimistic future for AI, productivity, and the future of work.  Dennis was also an accredited Associate Analytics Instructor at the University of British Columbia and the author of Data Driven Insights, on collecting and analyzing digital data.  

Originally from Denmark (and keeping his accent), Dennis is now a New Yorker for life.

Manny is the founder of New Avenue Capital (NAC), an investment firm that brings together financial, human and impact capital for high-growth companies. An entrepreneur and philanthropist, he’s “long on people,” with a knack for recognizing talent, cultivating relationships and connecting change makers.

Prior to founding NAC, Manny was a self-made entrepreneur, building his first multi-million dollar company, PM Search Partners, by age 26. Leveraging his powerful network, he made the leap from executive search to investment and currently manages a portfolio of 40+ companies in tech, mining, real estate and more. Manny is also the co-founder of Risetech Capital, a capital pool company established with some of Canada’s top business leaders that gives tech companies an alternative way to raise capital and go public. 

As a philanthropist, Manny is passionate about mentorship and education. He currently sits on multiple advisory boards in the not-for-profit sectors, including Room to Read, Science World and League of Innovators. His personal mission is to educate 1 million people worldwide through his initiatives and donations. 

Manny’s work in investment, philanthropy, and entrepreneurship has garnered awards including StartUp Canada’s 2017 National Entrepreneur Promotion Award, NACO’s 2016 Canadian Angel Investor of the Year, EO Global Citizen of the Year, and the 2017 Governor General Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers. 

Manny is a graduate of Harvard Business School's Private Equity & Venture Capital Program, He holds an MBA from Queen's University.

Drew Green is an award winning entrepreneur and expert in managing fast-paced, high-growth companies. A visionary leader, Green has created one of the world's fastest growing apparel brands. Since 2015, he has established up to $100M in strategic capital commitments for INDOCHINO. Previously recognized as top 40 under 40, as well as having been nominated for CEO of the year, Green has been recognized for his accomplishments throughout his career. In 2017 Green was awarded the Innovation in Retail award by the University of Alberta. In 2018 he was awarded Breakout Retailer of the Year by Chain Store Age, and in 2018 Green was selected as The Entrepreneur of the Year, by Ernst and Young.

Prior to INDOCHINO, Green founded and was Chief Executive Officer of SHOP.CA, Canada's first multi-merchant marketplace, which is now owned by EMERGE COMMERCE, which he leads as Chairman and major shareholder. In 2018, EMERGE is growing at 250% YOY, and is profitable. Throughout his career, Drew has played key roles at companies that have created billions in shareholder value through leadership roles at DoubleClick (acquired by Google), SHOP.COM (acquired by Market America) and Flonetwork (acquired by DoubleClick).

Connect with Drew:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewgreen/

Indochino: https://www.indochino.com/

 Jay Rosenzweig is the founding partner of Rosenzweig & Company - an expert in designing, building and attracting world class teams. He consults to public and private companies including large global corporations; emerging growth to mid-sized businesses; professional services firms; and private equity and venture capital firms. Prior to joining the search industry, Jay was in the field of law. Jay earned three degrees at McGill University: Philosophy, Civil Law , and Common Law.   

Jay is a champion of the cause of gender equality. He has been actively advocating on behalf of women for several decades, most prominently through his highly regarded Rosenzweig Report on the status of women.   Jay advises several leading edge businesses, most of them based in California, New York, or Ontario.  Jay is active in many social causes, holding board seats on Irwin Cotler's Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights; the Breast Cancer Cabinet of Mount Sinai Hospital; CJPAC; and Genesis Centre For Innovation.  

To learn more about Jay:  

Website: https://www.jayrosenzweig.com/ 

Instagram: rosenzweig_company 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarosenzw...