Andy Nulman is considered by many the father of Surprise Marketing; a genre he outlines and evangelizes in his new book "Pow! Right Between The Eyes." Andy is currently the President and CMO of Airborne Mobile, which he co-founded in 1999 with Garner Bornstein. Airborne Mobile strengthens brands through the creation of innovative mobile content and applications. To Andy, surprise is a powerful secret weapon of modern marketing. Throughout his career, he has used surprise to open eyes and make sales.

In establishing Just For Laughs, the world's largest humor event, Andy established policies that "guaranteed laughs or your money back," set up guerrilla entertainment for people waiting in long ticket lines, and conceived a series of epic press conferences where he attracted attention by launching a new religion, engaging journalists in Olympic-styled competitions, and being reeled onto a cruise ship like a giant deep-sea fish. At Airbone Mobile, he brought life to staid industry conferences with storms of branded dollar bills, used stealthily-placed wirecutters to attract and intrigue future clients like Disney and HBO, and planted dozens of timebombed golfballs, most still waiting to explode.

An acclaimed and thought-provoking public speaker/showman known for motivating and challenging Fortune 500 companies, Andy has also written two best-selling books, "How To Do The Impossible" and "I Almost Killed George Burns." He is the recipient of many awards, including being voted one of the Top 100 Montrealers of the 20th Century by the Montreal Gazette in 2000.

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Trista Engel is the CEO of Paragon Legal, a legal services firm focused on empowering the world's most forward-thinking companies with flexible in-house legal solutions. As Paragon's CEO, Trista focuses on client and attorney development and strategic growth initiatives. Her role fits perfectly with her love of problem-solving, building great teams, and helping people achieve success in their careers, and she thrives in the positive, supportive culture that is the key to Paragon's longtime success. Trista joined Paragon from Calyx Capital Partners, the entrepreneurial investment firm she co-founded with Paragon's Jessica Markowitz.

Previously, Trista worked in strategy consulting at Bain & Company. She began her career in finance at Credit Suisse and then communications consulting with The Dilenschneider Group. She earned her M.B.A. from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and her B.A. in Economics and History from Yale University, where she was a collegiate athlete for the Varsity Women's Soccer Team.

In addition to her lifelong love for soccer, she also enjoys spending time with her family, exploring the outdoors, hiking, wine tasting, and skiing.

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With more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Natalie Kaminski is a

dynamic and resourceful web and mobile technology entrepreneur. She is currently the CEO

and founder of JetRockets, which builds unique software solutions to help clients achieve

their business goals.

Natalie's journey to successful founder isn't a particularly common one. She was born in

Russia and grew up in Ukraine and then Israel. She arrived in Minneapolis at 18, working to

put herself through college and a programming certificate. Over the next decade, she gained experience across programming, project management, quality assurance, business analysis, and finally as the COO of a small software development company. She left that position because she'd always had an entrepreneurial streak, always planned to start her own business; now was the time. JetRockets was born of circumstance and gumption. When a connection asked for a

recommendation for a software development firm, Natalie didn't hesitate to volunteer her

own (as yet nonexistent) team. JetRockets now boasts a team of 65+ across the globe and

is growing rapidly, building staff and revenue 100% year over year.

Outside of JetRockets, Natalie builds both tech products and communities. She is the

Co-Founder of OneTribe.team, a leave management platform for hybrid and remote teams,

which will soon launch publicly. Natalie is also a member of Chief and of Entrepreneurs'

Organization, and she holds an Executive MBA from the Quantic School of Business and

Technology. Natalie lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.

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Tom Martin, often called by his affectionate nickname "Big Chef," has dedicated 30 years to developing sales & marketing strategies to drive client success in the sales & marketing industry. He founded Converse Digital (his second agency) over 10 years ago with the singular goal of helping well known brands like American Airlines, Hilton Hotels, Fireball Whisky, and others achieve and sustain sales growth, enhance brand perception and painlessly prospect for new customers.

Outside of Converse Digital, Tom delivers keynotes, breakout sessions, and workshops for conferences and companies around the globe. He's also written for numerous online and offline outlets, including Advertising Age Magazine, as well as his first book, "The Invisible Sale", which is a field guide to creating a successful Painless Prospecting system to find and win today's invisible sales opportunities.

Tom previously held tenures that include stints at Peter Mayer Advertising, Brandmarken Communications (his first agency), Zehnder Communications, and TM Advertising (formerly Temerlin McClain). Tom is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and a Longhorn for life.

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Nathalie Walton is the CEO and Co-Founder of Expectful, a holistic wellness app for hopeful, expecting, and new parents. In her first 90 days in this role, Nathalie pivoted the company and raised a $4.2M seed round. Expectful has supported over half a million women on the journey to motherhood through their mobile app, which has over 3K five-star ratings in the app store. Nathalie also led the Expectful team to cultivate an Instagram community of 175,000, as well as a cult-like following with over 65 press mentions in 2022, including features in Forbes, Techcrunch, Vogue, and Goop.

Prior to Expectful, Nathalie spent nearly a decade in various roles at Airbnb, Google, and eBay. She has led product partnerships, business operations, and strategy teams in the US and internationally. Nathalie has signed and negotiated over 50 first-in-kind deals and launched multiple new products within large organizations.

As an entrepreneur and executive, Nathalie thrives in start-ups and the corporate world. She is energized by advising other entrepreneurs on fundraising and growth strategies. Nathalie also enjoys speaking about entrepreneurship and tactics for growing early-stage companies.

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Scott Case is a Technologist, Entrepreneur, and Inventor known for his role as founding CTO of priceline.com, the "Name Your Own Price" Internet service. At the Walker Digital Invention Laboratory, Scott built a portfolio of intellectual property and is a named inventor on dozens of U.S. patents, including the underlying portfolio for priceline.com.

In 2006, Scott joined the Malaria No More team to inspire individuals and institutions to end deaths caused by malaria. In 2011, Scott became founding CEO of the Startup America Partnership, focused on building strong startup communities throughout the United States. In 2013, Scott co-founded Main Street Genome (acquired by Dining Alliance) to leverage data to make small businesses everywhere work smarter through data science and software technology tools.

In 2015, Scott rejoined Walker to transform the way we buy business travel at Upside, a company designed to provide value to people, businesses, and the planet. Scott also serves as the Chairman of Network for Good, a national nonprofit that has distributed more than $3 billion to 250,000 nonprofits.

Today, Scott is working on a new company called Zettawatts, a company whose goal is to make clean energy as affordable and available as the internet.

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Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg is a Harvard Business Press author, keynote speaker, and globally recognized expert on reframing, innovation, and problem solving. His most recent book, "What's Your Problem?", was recommended by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt with the words "If you want the superpower of solving better problems, read this book".

Thomas' research has been translated into 17 languages and was featured in The Economist, Harvard Business Review and the Financial Times. He has shared his reframing method with firms like Cisco, Microsoft, Citigroup, Union Pacific, the Wall Street Journal, and the United Nations.

Thomas has been recognized as a "Top 30 management thinker to watch" by Thinkers50 and a "Top 20 International Thinker" by HR Magazine. His first book, "Innovation as Usual", coauthored with Paddy Miller, explains how to drive innovation in an everyday work setting.

Thomas holds an MA in Media Science from the University of Copenhagen and an MBA from IESE Business School. Prior to his academic career, he served for four years as an officer with the Danish Royal Guards.

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Jill Stelfox is the Executive Chair and CEO of Panzura, the fabric that transforms cloud storage into a global file system, allowing enterprises to use the cloud as a high-performance, globally available data center. Prior to joining Panzura, Jill founded and acted as Co-CEO of marketing consulting firm EDGY, where she helped companies like McAfee, Adobe, and USAA transform their business and technology processes. Before this, Jill literally changed the game of football stats as Vice-President and General Manager of Location Solutions at Zebra Technologies, where she created the sports vertical that delivered player-tracking technology to capture the speed and acceleration of every player on every inch of the field.

Jill's background in tech started with creating three venture capital-backed enterprise software companies. As a technology leader, Jill has managed to create intersections between industries that once may have been considered unthinkable and spotted opportunities hidden underneath established, legacy solutions.

With more than 20 years of focused effort and creativity in the entrepreneurial tech space, Jill has lived – and overcome – all the struggles that growing businesses face. Whether it's creating a new category of wireless technology to protect teachers in schools or driving international expansion for one of the world's largest consulting companies, she refuses to accept mediocrity.

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Brock Weatherup is a consumer growth board member, advisor, and executive, as well as a 3x exit startup ceo/founder, multi-billion dollar c-suite leader, and active early stage investor. Brock currently serves as an Operating Partner on the Private Equity Investment Team at MidOcean Partners, a premier New York-based alternative asset manager specializing in middle-market private equity and alternative credit investments. He is a passionate advocate for leveraging technology to sell a product or service and believer that all great companies are built with great people. Previously, Brock held leadership roles at Petco, Petsmart, InterActiveCorp, and was the CEO and Co-Founder of Fathead and Great Pet.

Brock sits on the board of investors and/or advisors in Trade Coffee, PetShopBowl UK, and TrustedHousesitters. He is an active angel and seed stage investor in over 25 consumer focused startups including Magic Spoon, Epoxy.ai, SideCar, Icelandic, Roo Vet Staffing, and many others. Brock is a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder and father of two daughters and pet parent to his retriever, Boulder.

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Jennifer Maanavi is an accomplished growth-minded entrepreneur and thought leader with more than 20 years of success across the health & wellness, fitness, and financial services industries. Leveraging extensive hands-on experience building and managing a global organization from the ground up, her broad areas of expertise include strategic planning, business development, marketing, branding, team building, leadership, corporate culture development, and change management.

In 2006, Jennifer co-founded Physique 57, a boutique fitness and media company that she expanded to four countries with multiple digital platforms. Physique 57 continues to grow its community with clients in over 120 countries. Jennifer is also a Management and Marketing Consultant for FitGrid, a fit-tech SaaS platform, and board member of The Barre Fitness Alliance, a newly formed non-profit serving the US barre fitness industry. She is a Techstars mentor and advises early-stage founders in the female consumer space.

Jennifer is a frequent speaker on business and entrepreneurship and has been featured on media outlets including Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg TV, Fox Business, the New York Times, and Inc.com. In addition, she is a guest lecturer at Columbia Business School. In recognition of her professional successes, Jennifer was awarded the 2013 Columbia Women in Business Distinguished Alumna Award. Physique 57 was awarded Mindbody's 2020 Industry Icon Award and named 2022 Top 6 Beauty Brand in India by Vogue.

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