The Brain Surgeon's Take

Scott Galloway is a Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business where he teaches Brand Strategy and Digital Marketing to second-year MBA students and is the author of the Digital IQ Index ®, a global ranking of prestige brands' digital competence. In 2012, Professor Galloway was named "One of the World's 50 Best Business School Professors" (Poets & Quants). Professor Galloway is also the founder of several firms including: L2, subscription business intelligence firm serving prestige brands; Red Envelope, an e-commerce firm (2007, $100mm revs.); and Prophet, a global brand strategy consultancy with 250+ professionals.

Professor Galloway was elected to the World Economic Forum's "Global Leaders of Tomorrow," which recognizes 100 individuals under the age of 40 "whose accomplishments have had impact on a global level." Professor Galloway has served on the board of directors of Eddie Bauer (Nasdaq: EBHI), The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), Gateway Computer, and Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He received a BA from UCLA and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

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Scott Becker previously served on the McGuireWoods LLP Board of Partners and served for nearly 15 years as chairman of the firm’s national Healthcare department. McGuireWoods has one of the best regarded healthcare practices in the world.

Scott is the Founder, Publisher, and Chief Content Officer of Beckers Healthcare and Beckers Hospital Review and its related events and publications. Scott also produces the Becker Group Business News, the Becker Private Equity Podcast, and the Becker Business Podcast.

Mr Becker is a Harvard Law School Graduate and a University of Illinois undergraduate business school graduate in Finance and Accounting. He is also the author of four books and a CPA. He represents hospitals and health systems, healthcare companies, surgery center chains, large practices and private equity funds. He practices exclusively in the healthcare regulatory and transactional area. He provides counsel on healthcare transactional and regulatory matters to hospitals, health systems, hospital chains, ambulatory surgery centers, ambulatory surgery center chains, private equity funds and lenders, and healthcare industry entrepreneurs.

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There’s a reason why Mecole Hardman’s nickname is ‘The Jet’; blink once and you’ll miss him, blink twice and he’ll be celebrating in the end zone. Mecole was an All-American in High School and recruited to play at the University of Georgia. By his sophomore year, Mecole took off with full speed, racking up all-purpose yards at every turn. He finished 2017 with 1,255 AP yards and six total touchdowns, enroute to helping Georgia win the SEC Title and reach the National Championship Game. In the National Championship game, Mecole was responsible for two of Georgia’s touchdowns; an 80-yard catch and run and a one-yard run in. As a Junior, Mecole was named an ESPN First Team All-American, leading to his early entry into the NFL draft where the Kansas City Chiefs drafted him in the second round as the fifth overall wide receiver selected. 

As a rookie, Mecole ended up finishing the 2019 regular season with over 1,400 AP yards and seven total touchdowns leading to a Pro Bowl selection and spot on the Second Team All-Pro, the only rookie to have both honors. Mecole and the Chiefs capped off their glorious season by capturing the Lombardi Trophy in a win over the San Francisco 49ers, the second in franchise history and first in over 50 years. 

Going into his third season in the NFL, Mecole is a big part of the Chiefs offense while still leaving opposing defensive backs in his dust trail.

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Mabel Valdivia is Executive Director at Fonkoze USA, the entity that oversees fund development and donor education for the broader Fonkoze family. A dedicated fundraising professional, she has twenty years of international and domestic non-profit experience and a deep commitment to international development issues that specifically impact women including micro-finance, agriculture, and health. Mabel’s desire to make an impact in the world is fueled by her own experiences as a child refugee. Mabel has a Master’s in Public Policy from American University and is currently pursuing her PhD.

Fonkoze was created 27 years ago to bring financial inclusion and development services to Haiti's poor - providing them a viable way to lift themselves out of poverty. Today, we are a family of 3 organizations - Fonkoze Financial Services (SFF), Fonkoze Foundation and Fonkoze USA - that work together to empower Haitians, primarily women, to lift their families out of poverty. Fonkoze knows that poverty's many challenges are interconnected, and the solutions are as well. Our financial services and accompanying development programs are built to address the various levels and complexities of poverty in order to help our clients break the inter-generational cycle of poverty.

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Chip LaMarca serves the coastal communities in the Florida State House of Representatives representing District 93. He has earned a reputation for being a citizens’ advocate. He attended Boston University, Broward College, and FAU. In 2010, he became Broward County Mayor. Following that he served as the Chair of the Finance, Tax and Administration committee for the Florida Association of Counties. On a national level, LaMarca was selected to Chair the Finance, Pension and Intergovernmental Affairs committee for the National Association of Counties and serves as a member of the Board of Directors. In 2018 he was elected to the Florida State House of Representatives in District 93.

Recently the Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing NCAA athlete compensation, called the Name, Image, and Likeness policy. Chip Lamarca played a major roll in pushing this monumental legislation into effect. 

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Jaclyn is a concierge sports nutritionist who works with the active population through professional athletes to optimize performance, body composition and metabolic health. Her practice, Athleats Nutrition. is operated with the combined philosophy of both performance nutrition and functional medicine. She believes each individual requires their own tailored plan and approach.

Jaclyn has worked with over 375 NFL Draft Prep athletes and 80 NFL vets along with the top coaches. Her work with the NFL Players Association’s PAIR program educates NFL players about best nutrition practices for recovery. She also works with UFC, NBA, ATP, WBA, PGA golfers, cyclists, CrossFit athletes and NBA Draft prep.

As a competitive athlete herself, Jaclyn understands the nutritional and time demands that athletes face. She believes that choosing healthy nutrition is a lifestyle enhancement, and leads to longevity in everything we do.

Jaclyn is a Certified Nutrition Specialist, a Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist in both Florida and New York State, a NASM-certified personal trainer and a USAW-L1 weightlifting coach. Jaclyn holds a Masters of Science in Human Nutrition from The University of Bridgeport. She is a recipient of the 2020 Atlanta Women in Sports Trailblazer Award,  her work can be found in Muscle & Fitness, Men’s Fitness, Shape, Fitness Magazine and CBS Sports.

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Julio Morales is a nationally recognized personal trainer and founder of Strength Nation Miami. Through years of experience and various high caliber certifications, he has fine-tuned his ability to help clients with physical and mental strength, general conditioning, post injury rehabilitation and nutrition coaching. By offering a holistic approach to fitness, Julio focuses not only building exercise programs but on lifestyle and habit adjustment.

Certifications : ISSA, StrongFirst Elite instructor, Pn L1, USAW, ViPR, FMS L1, and Animal Flow.

Specialties include: Strength and conditioning, post rehab, boxing, PowerLifting, nutrition coaching and habit adjustment. Julio is an avid indoor and outdoor rock climber, BJJ competitor, Powerlifting competitor, wakeboarder, boxer, and snowboarder.

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Daniella Levine Cava was elected Miami-Dade County’s first-ever woman Mayor in November 2020. She enters the Mayor's office following a nearly 40-year career as a relentless advocate for South Florida families. As Miami-Dade County's Mayor, she oversees a metropolitan government with more than 28,000 employees serving nearly 3 million residents, managing an annual budget of approximately $9 billion. A social worker, lawyer, and community activist, she was first elected in 2014, and re-elected in August 2018, to serve as the Miami-Dade County Commissioner.

As Commissioner, she invested in Miami-Dade small businesses and expanded economic opportunity, protected the environment and our water, increased the County police force for underserved areas, advocated for an expanded, reliable public transportation system, worked to create affordable housing and revitalize neighborhoods, and helped make local government more accountable and transparent.

Since the coronavirus pandemic began, she has advocated for a more effective public health response. As the new Mayor, she is working to create a unified pandemic response strategy that protects Miami-Dade.

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Desert Horse-Grant is a world leader in facilitating the translation of discoveries from the lab to the clinical environment, being recently named by Modern Healthcare as one of the year's Top 25 Innovators. She launched the UCLA Health Innovation Challenge, a seed funding program that recognizes and scales innovative therapeutic, digital and device solutions as well as patient experience and performance excellence efforts. In 2019, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce announced Desert and colleagues recipients of a prestigious national i6 Challenge grant to support Regional Innovation Strategies. She and her team’s pioneering work to develop Oncoscope, a novel biotool on the analysis and visualization of linked molecular and clinical cancer data, was recognized with a social impact award by GitHub and published in Nature Genetics in 2018.

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Dr. Zee oversees an interdisciplinary program in sleep and circadian rhythm research, with findings that have paved the way for innovative approaches to improve sleep and circadian health. Zee is the founder of the first circadian medicine clinic in the USA, where innovative treatments are available for patients with circadian rhythm disorders.

A central theme of her research program is understand the role of circadian-sleep interactions on the expression and development of cardiometabolic and neurologic disorders. Zee's research has focused on the effects of age and neurodegeneration on sleep and circadian rhythms and pathophysiology of circadian sleep-wake disorders.

Zee also has authored more than 300 peer reviewed original articles, reviews and chapters on the topics of sleep, circadian rhythms, and sleep/wake disorders. She has also trained over 50 pre-doctoral and post-doctoral students and has mentored numerous faculty members. Zee is a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, and a member of the American Neurological Association. She is past president of the sleep research Society, past president of the Sleep Research Society Foundation, and past chair of the NIH Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board. She is the recipient of the American Academy of Neurology Sleep Science Award and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Achievement Award.

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