Jay Acunzo is obsessed with helping craft-driven creators build better projects, companies, careers, and lives, and he is a highly sought keynote speaker.

Jay launched his career as a reporter for The Hartford Courant and PR writer for ESPN before landing a job with Google as a digital media strategist. He went on to lead content creation and marketing strategies for brands like Breaktime Media (fka Dailybreak) and HubSpot. Today, Jay helps early-stage startups gain initial traction at NextView Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Boston and NYC. When he’s not helping one of the firm's 50+ tech companies, he’s hosting Unthinkable, the show for creators in business who bet it all on creativity, and traveling the world teaching and speaking about being more craft-driven in marketing and in business.

Mike Michalowicz is a former monthly columnist for The Wall Street Journal's small-business section, and wrote the Small Business Shortcuts series. He is a regular contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine and is also a columnist for American Express's "Open Forum" series. He was a recurring entrepreneurship expert for CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. He had over ten appearances, including the CES Roadshow series. Michalowicz has also appeared on NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, ABC News Now, CNBC's On the Money and Pat Croce's Down To Business. He is a lecturer on the subjects of entrepreneurship, sales, and behavioral marketing techniques at universities, corporations and organizations throughout the world.

Nikki Baird is Managing Partner at Retail Systems Research, an industry market intelligence firm specializing in the impact of technology on the extended retail industry. She focuses on trends impacting the consumer-retailer relationship, along with their supply chain and marketing implications. She has written research and articles on topics ranging from omni-channel strategies, in-store marketing and technology, store performance management, supply chain and multi-channel fulfillment, retailer-manufacturer collaboration, merchandising, and loyalty and promotions management. She has been quoted as a subject matter expert in The Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Huffington Post, and National Public Radio.

Flynn Zaiger is the founder and CEO of Online Optimism, a digital marketing agency named one of New Orleans' best places to work in 2015. Flynn started the company in 2012 after graduating from Tulane University with nothing more than a laptop and a lot of coffee. As manager of a Google Partner Agency, Flynn is dedicated to helping businesses with everything they do online, from creating their websites, to interacting with customers via social media, to calculating ROI on a multi-platform interactive ad campaign.

Désirée H. Young has over 15 years of professional experience in project management, marketing strategy and business development. She’s the founder and CEO of VentureWalk Business Partners, LLC; a forward-thinking business development company that takes a no-excuses approach to developing and marketing businesses and the leaders that operate them. The company targets businesses and organizations looking to establish a sustainable local presence and expand into global markets.

Ronald Thomas is Trainer|Teacher|Mentor to Sales Professionals. He is an unapologetic geek. Ronald loves to help to create customers for life. He is a part of the learning and development team at Sage. His group teaches and educates current and future sales colleagues to deliver an extraordinary customer experience to our customers, by matching all appropriate Sage solutions to meet their needs.

Gary Olynik is the senior accountant advocate at Sage Accountants Solutions and is a financial professional with proven track record in leading start up companies to profitable performance and managing mature operations to maximize profitability. A unique combination of experience in leading and managing operations, sales teams, marketing campaigns and I.T. processes in addition to general management roles in small to large enterprises throughout North America. Recognized as a hands-on results-oriented professional.

Justin

His session at Sage Summit 2016 is entitled Make the Invisible

Barry Moltz

This is Barry fifth appearance at Sage Summit. We welcome him

Rieva Lesonsky is a Columnist for Small Business

This is her third time speaking at Sage Summit, and we are