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Marina Barayeva is an international portrait photographer, speaker and a host of the Marketing for Creatives show.

Marina is a known authority in helping entrepreneurs become influencers in their niche. She has been featured on Art People, CCTV, China Radio International, and other media.

Always busy with creative projects, she organized and hosted an online conference called Lady-Photographer; a fashion show called 'New Year Queen' and was a part of the Art Project for Beijing Design Week.

Marina Barayeva is an international portrait photographer, speaker and a host of the Marketing for Creatives show.

Marina is a known authority in helping entrepreneurs become influencers in their niche. She has been featured on Art People, CCTV, China Radio International, and other media.

Always busy with creative projects, she organized and hosted an online conference called Lady-Photographer; a fashion show called ‘New Year Queen’ and was a part of the Art Project for Beijing Design Week.

Scott Wintrip is the author of High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant, named a must-read book by SHRM's HR Magazine. Over the past 19 years, Scott has led the Wintrip Consulting Group, a global consultancy that has helped more than 22,000 organizations build talent-rich companies that have eliminated their hiring delays forever. For five consecutive years, Staffing Industry Analysts, a Crain Communications company, awarded Scott a place on the "Staffing 100," a list of the world's 100 most influential leaders. He's also a member of the Million Dollar Consultant Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Staffing 100 Hall of Fame.

Nina Amir, the Inspiration to Creation Coach, is a 14X Amazon bestselling hybrid author of such books as How to Blog a Book, The Author Training Manual, and Creative Visualization for Writers. She also is a Blog, Book, and Author Coach, and one of 700 elite Certified High Performance Coaches world-wide—the only one working with writers. Additionally, she founded the Nonfiction Writers’ University, the Write Nonfiction in November Challenge and created a proprietary Author Training curriculum and Author Career Planning program. She helps writers fulfill their purpose and potential by showing them how to Achieve More Inspired Results.

Scott Wintrip is the author of High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant, named a must-read book by SHRM’s HR Magazine. Over the past 19 years, Scott has led the Wintrip Consulting Group, a global consultancy that has helped more than 22,000 organizations build talent-rich companies that have eliminated their hiring delays forever. For five consecutive years, Staffing Industry Analysts, a Crain Communications company, awarded Scott a place on the “Staffing 100,” a list of the world’s 100 most influential leaders. He’s also a member of the Million Dollar Consultant Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Staffing 100 Hall of Fame.

Matt Rzepka was born and raised in Houghton Lake, Michigan. He attended Saginaw Valley State University where he played football as an outside linebacker. There he met the love of his life, Amber. They eventually married. During this time, Matt and Amber spent several years working at a CPA firm, but they quickly noticed that the one thing business clients needed most seemed to be missing. Valley Oak was born out of their desire to solve the client's problems with long term planning and adapting to an ever evolving tax strategy.

Today, Valley Oak has a staff of nine team members and also partners with various local and national advisors to give clients the full service attention they deserve. While he has many admirable accomplishments, it is the combination of Matt's training and education alongside his practical real world experience that allows him to assist his clients in this forward thinking manner.