Maria is the Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer at Utility Junction, a company specializing in managing all utilities under the proprietary utility management hub, thereby saving her clients time to concentrate on what matters most to them.  

Utility Junction was born out of the passion for simplifying life and saving time for real estate investors, companies, property managers, landlords, and homeowners. They streamline the most draining monthly task: utility management.  

Maria Estela Duarte centers her life around being her most authentic self: free from fear and facing everything with resilient confidence.   

She inspires others to live authentically. She believes that when she is being true to herself and never allowing life's adversities to win, she encourages others to be more confident in their own experiences.

Monty Hudson is the Founder & CEO of Ads For The Planet. A dynamic, senior business executive with extensive experience bringing transformative products to market. Entrepreneurial-minded and focused on organizational empowerment, Monty offers specialized knowledge in making markets for disruptive solutions and a proven track record driving scalable solutions and sustainable revenue. Today, Monty is focused on creating a better tomorrow by activating three pillars of conscientious capitalism: equity, economic empowerment, and environmentalism.

Constantin (Tino) Dietrich is the Founder & Member of the Board of Ella Paradis.  

Tino was co-founder and Chairman of Lakefield Media Holding AG, an innovative Swiss digital media group. From 2013 to 2015, Tino was CEO of QUINT Media Inc, a company based in West Palm Beach, FL, USA. He is also managing partner of INDUSTA LLC. INDUSTA focuses on technology related projects and partners with companies in various fields such as digital media and entertainment, e-commerce, information technology and communications. The company is entering a new era and has made it its mission to accompany the process of digitalization with its partners - a step change that is even bigger than the Internet itself.

Gerard Guiu is the Chief Executive Officer at Andema. Andema is an "Asociación para la Defensa de la Marca and RCE Commissioner at Cercle d´Economia".  

As the Director of Institutional Relations and Communication at Cercle d'Economia, a civic association that seeks to foster debate on economic policies and social progress, Gerard's role is to connect the dots. 

As a communications expert, he creates powerful messages for our audience and makes sure it resonates. As a public affairs official, Gerard ensures that policy and business strategies are aligned. As a journalist, he looks for the threads that tie one piece of a story to the other. As a lawyer, he seeks to find a common ground where disagreement happens

Bryson Reaume is the Founder & CEO of Reaume Richardson. Reaume Richardson is a Los Angeles-based general contractor with 20 years of experience revitalizing cityscapes throughout California. 

Their guiding focus is simple and clear: To realize a project’s creative vision while maintaining expectations on budget and timing.  

When initially forming the company in 2003, they saw an opportunity to assist our community in bringing LA’s most iconic buildings back to life, one project at a time.  Since then, their expertise and capabilities have grown exponentially.

Dr Rampal is a Consultant Anaesthetist with a keen interest in Peri-Operative care and Population Health. She is also a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christchurch University.   

She is the Founder of Phase-B, a social enterprise that she set up with the aim to improve healthcare outcomes and improve quality of life for patients in need of major medical intervention.    

In addition to founding Phase-B, she developed the award-winning Kent & Medway Prehab Project, a pan-county multi-organization collaborative supporting Cancer patients to get fitter through physical and psychological. It is supported by Public Health and Cancer Alliance.         

Vijay Pravin is the Founder & CEO of bitsCrunch GmbH, a Blockchain Analytics company that is focusing on securing the NFT ecosystem.  

👨🏼‍💻 Previous Work Experience: Siemens Mobility, Volkswagen AG, Telefónica GmbH in Germany   

👨🏼‍🎓 Education : Masters-Graduate in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of Technische Universität Munchen (TUM), Germany

Shalini Swaroop is the Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Marin Clean Energy (MCE), California's first Community Choice Aggregator (CCA). Swaroop leads MCE's legal and policy teams, overseeing litigation, compliance, municipal law, and policy advocacy at state regulatory agencies, the California Legislature, and Congress.  

Swaroop has advocated on issues related to equity, CCA ratepayers, and local governance in over 100 cases before California regulatory agencies. She has testified in the State Capitol building before a joint panel of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and California Energy Commission (CEC) on the future of California's energy market. She has also advocated on dozens of bills for MCE, including AB 2145 (2014), SB 350 (2015), and SB 100 (2018). Swaroop previously practiced before the CPUC as a consumer advocate on behalf of low-income constituents and communities of color. Swaroop was profiled in the LA Times for her work at MCE and leadership in the community choice energy movement.     

Rob Davis is President and Chief Marketing Officer of Novus Media, Inc. He is responsible for driving the success of NOVUS' local multimedia planning and buying unit, as well as marketing the NOVUS brand. He brings over 25 years of experience in marketing and media into this role and oversees such iconic brands as Walgreens, Dell and Staples. He has also worked extensively with other iconic brands, including Airbnb, Kellogg, McDonald’s, and LEGO, as well as local and hyper-local retail clients, such as regional grocers and beer distributors.  Rob’s approach points to a key belief that in advertising, geography is destiny -- building local plans based on concrete business metrics is the way forward in the industry. He is a proven driver of revenue and growth, a passionate developer of talent, and a vocal and visionary leader and innovator. All of this is done in an easygoing style, instilled with Midwestern values.        

Dr. Rachel Schreiber currently serves as the Executive Dean of Parsons School of Design at The New School. As an experienced administrator, creating cross-institutional partnerships, faculty leadership, board development, and fundraising, Rachel is passionately committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education. She is a visual artist, designer, and publishing historian with an extensive record of exhibitions, academic presses, peer-reviewed articles, and publications. Her most recent book, Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration was issued by Temple University Press in 2021.  

Dr. Rachel Schreiber joined The New School as Executive Dean of Parsons School of Design in July 2019, following more than 26 years in senior leadership and faculty roles at the San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art, and other institutions. Most recently, Rachel served as Provost and Senior Vice President, and as Interim President, at SFAI. An American gender historian, artist, and designer, Rachel has taught design, studio arts, and interdisciplinary humanities at all levels – from first year through graduate studies.