Topsort CEO and Co-Founder Regina Ye is a GenZ entrepreneur and former small vendor. In college, she founded a brand and spent many tireless nights trying to understand Facebook and Amazon Ads. Today, she brings her on-the-ground retail experience to adtech startup Topsort, with her sights set on demystifying the advertising industry for all.

Topsort is a next-gen adtech company eradicating the native monetization black box for marketplaces, major retailers, and small vendors alike. Through its easy-to-integrate API, each player in the advertising ecosystem has full control over their ad spend and strategy - democratizing auction-based advertising for all. 

Toby Zhang is the CEO and founder of Shop LIT Live, the social media-powered shopping platform. Toby leads a talented management team focusing on driving growth and innovation. Previously, Toby was a partner at CRCM Ventures leading the firm’s investments in consumer and emerging technologies. During his tenure, his successful investments include Musical.ly (now TikTok), Ripple, Ginkgo Bioworks, Firework, Drone Racing League, and more. In 2016, Toby was voted Forbes VC 30 under 30. 

Joe has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (Cum Laude) from National University, an MBA from John F. Kennedy University, Certificate of Excellence from Rutgers Business School (Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development), and three years of formal Electronic Theory and Education from the US Navy and Tektronix. He has been a professional in the High Technology Industry since 1981 from when he took over a $3M service operation with 40 (engineers, technician, and operations) employees and transformed from the worst in the country to the most profitable and responsive business unit for Tektronix for the next 9 years.
Joe has been married to his wife Odessa for over 30 years and has two adult children (Qiley Lewis and Joseph Lewis III) who have both graduated from college with bachelor’s degree. Qiley has assumed the position of Digital Marketing System Manager for FlenTek Solutions and Joseph (JC) is a Project Manager for Oracle. Odessa has a BS in management from Golden Gate University and assumes the position of Chief Financial Officer for the company. She maintains the company’s financials and continues to have only written off $50 in bad debt for the company while making sure capital was available to fund our growth. This is an amazing accomplishment.

Tom McGrath is the Principal Architect for Vision33’s Innovation Team. In this capacity, he oversees the strategic technical direction of the company’s exclusive products, including The Saltbox Platform. Saltbox is a cloud-native integration platform as a service (iPaaS) solution that seamlessly integrates hundreds of business applications.

Tom joined Vision33 in 2002 and has been focusing on Vision33’s product initiatives for 13 years. He also has 15 years of experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, including comprehensive knowledge of SAP Business One.

Tom holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland.

He has created a unique and different sales approach based on trust and integrity called Unlock The Sales Game -- designed so the dreaded act of “chasing” and the painful experience of rejection is eliminated forever - a feat never thought possible, until now.

As trust becomes the most important currency in the new economy, the act of selling as a dehumanizing experience, with endless “chasing” and multiple steps, has been completely re-invented and anchored in the timeless values of integrity and trust through Trust-Based Selling.

In his best-selling book, “Unlock The Sales Game”, Ari describes his revolutionary sales approach based on getting to the truth and why shifting to a mindset of deep trust, instead of “the sale” – is ironically, 10 times more profitable.

His new book launching soon, “The One Call Sale”, is set to completely disrupt the entire sales industry as we know it today. No more chasing, no pressure and no closing. Everything you learned about selling will be turned upside down.

Ari is also the author of “Lessons From Toby”, a special book about his son Toby who has Down Syndrome, who has made a major impact in Ari’s approach to teaching authenticity and trust in his Trust-Based Selling approach, more about the book here: www.TobysBook.com

Niels is an experienced and successful global hands-on Executive who has for 20 years led international companies, business units, turn-around and turnkey projects. Was Global VP and Head of SAP Business One Sales and Strategy until 2009, where he joined Boyum-IT Solutions as Chairman, where he still chair the BoD so have be close business partner to Vision33 for almost 15 years.  

Niels worked for several global enterprise software companies like OpenText and Stibo Systems but also in technology business like Danaher. Currently using these skills as industrial advisor for several global PE firms through my own VC and PE Management consultancy firm (Lanell.com). He is an advocate and practices a modern leadership style focusing on representing and leading the collective wisdom and experience of colleagues, customers and other stakeholders securing collaborative and accelerated transitions with results.

Professional styles include a relentless focus on identifying ways to improve and quickly getting to the core of problems using structured problem-solving technics. Trusts intuition to guide judgement and strongly inclined to develop strategies with a long-term view.

NetObjex CEO Mr. Raghu Bala was previously an executive with Yahoo, Infospace, PwC, and with 3 successful startup exits. He also the tutor for MIT Sloan School of Business’s online courses on the Implications of Artificial Intelligence on Business, as well as MIT’s Blockchain course.

Mr. Bala was winner of 2016 Best Abstract in Best Wearable Medical Device category at the AI in Medicine conference, and in 1993 winner of the Best Thesis Award on Temporal Databases at the Hartford Graduate Center Conference.

He holds an MBA in Finance from Wharton, an MS in Computer Science from RPI, has been a Columbia University Adjunct Lecturer, published author (Microsoft Press, Macmillan) and speaker at several major conferences including IoT Congress, Google IO, and more.

Lara Miller of Lara Miller PR has been an award-winning public relations (PR) consultant for more than 16 years. A bridge between companies and the media, Lara Miller PR specializes in media relations for enterprise technology, fintech, software as a service (SaaS), virtual reality, and artificial intelligence (AI) startups.