Liz Young is the founder, CEO & Creative Director of StudioLabs, a product design and development studio which focuses on creative technology. StudioLabs has helped create websites, mobile applications, software applications, and other digital products for clients such as Estee Lauder and ESPN, and they’ve partnered with some of the world’s most talented creative teams at agencies like Ogilvy & Mather, and RG/A. Essentially what StudioLabs does is build awesome software and digital products!

Liz is not only an entrepreneur, but a VC investor (predominantly in the SaaS (Software as a Service) industry, board member, RE investor & professor at Pace University.

Liz and her team have had a plethora of accomplishments, one in particular that we found extraordinary

was her design team’s involvement in helping design and build the world’s first-ever live webcast of an international sporting event - the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney, Australia.  

When Liz is not out dominating the creative world, you can find her hustling people pool, running the mean streets of Hoboken or out having fun with her amazing wife Jen. Liz and Jen are dog lovers and are often seen walking their rescued dog around town.

Today’s Subjects:

• How Liz became an entrepreneur & how StudioLabs was born

A father and husband first, Joe takes great pride in the common thread that all his successes share, relationship development, benevolence, communications skills, and taking initiative. Joe is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in marketing, owning his own firm before selling in 2015. He also launched and sold hMAG, a lifestyle magazine, within 5 years of launching. He subsequently launched 3 new ventures since using his marketing experience to grow for each eventual sale. In the meantime, he has launched The Connective to use his networking skills to refer business to disparate industries that can use help with their sales and marketing.