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Carrie currently holds two executive-level roles consecutively as President of Ignite Funding and CEO of Preferred Trust Company. She has 17 years experience specializing in private lending and is a licensed Mortgage Broker with the Nevada Mortgage Lending Division and the Arizona Department of Financial Institutions.  

With over $1 billion funded since leading Ignite Funding, Cook is committed to continuing the growth of the company and the preservation of investor capital. She is determined to lead the most transparent private real estate investment firm in the United States.

Billy Goldberg is the founder of the Buckeye Group, a consultancy that delivers fractional C-Suite leadership to growing businesses. A hybrid of operations, finance, and business development Billy provides one to one consulting for founders, senior executives, and management teams. He is a hands-on advisor, bringing imagination, drive, and a heart-centered approach to every aspect of his work. In addition to working with clients, Billy is the COO of Living Popups, an EdTech and media company focusing on Augmented Reality to tell story and help shape the way we read, learn and are entertained.  

Much of Billy’s success comes from helping uncover where (and how) small changes can make a big impact, putting people front and center of the work. With strengths as both strategist and tactician, sounding board and bat phone, his knowledge in a variety of industries and business models makes his perspective continually relevant.  

Outside of his work with organizations and teams, Billy has served as an executive coach to high performers looking for ways to both achieve more – and – find more joy while doing it. He has also worked with large companies designing programming, delivering leadership and management programs, and facilitating meetings and retreats.

Kyle is an executive specializing in crafting outstanding advertising and branding for global brands. A former magazine editor, he also spent a bunch of his career with a focus on the fashion, outdoor and sports industries through the eCommerce and digital lens. Kyle's unique blend of advertising, branding, and digital best practices lends itself to creating and leading some of the foremost brands.   

Areas of focus for The Brand Leader: 

• Advertising 

• Branding 

• Websites 

• Digital Marketing 

• Content (Video/Photo) 

• Social Media       

Miles Lewis is the Chief Revenue Officer at Mirriad, the leading in-content advertising and established computer vision and AI-powered platform company, built on Academy-Award-winning entertainment tech, with 29 patents. Mirriad works with some of the most renowned advertisers, agencies and content providers in the key markets of the US, China, UK, France and Germany.  

Miles is a successful, award-winning international commercial leader. He previously held positions as Head of Agency Sales at AOL UK where he increased revenue from zero to tens of millions, and while subsequently Senior Vice President of sales at Last.fm he was responsible for a 145% upswing in revenue. He then moved to become Senior Vice President of International at Shazam Entertainment, and following a successful exit to Apple Inc, Miles joined Melody VR as Chief Commercial Officer, where he was responsible for creating, launching and scaling its commercial plans.         

Sharon Watkins is the CEO of RadiusPoint, a thirty-year-old telecom and utility expense management firm. After founding the company in January 1992, she became instrumental in working with the software development team to create ExpenseLogic, the telecom and utility expense management software that has less than ten competitors worldwide.

Ross Griffin is an experienced Senior Cost Specialist with a demonstrated history of working on large scale projects in the construction industry. He is the Founder of KOSMOS and The FIFTH DIMENSION, where he is also Chief Commercial Specialist and CEO respectively. At KOSMOS, they provide specialist commercial management services to the construction industry, while creating and implementing quality commercial standards and processes. The Fifth Dimension handles projects’ current and historical commercial activity, implementing analytical value-driven cost management.

Ted Clark is the author of Shipping Clerk to CEO - The Power of Curiosity, Will and Self-Directed Learning which chronicles his journey from an inexperienced shipping clerk at 19 to his rise to CEO at 42. He is also the author of Buy & Build CEO: Leveraging Private Equity to Build a Winning Global Business, his insiders guide to mergers and acquisitions using private equity capital. Buy & Build CEO will be released in September 2022.

Jenna Segal is a Tony award-winning producer and App Founder who heads Segal NYC, a development and production company focused on women for Broadway, Off-Broadway, film, television, streaming, and sports.  

She founded Get In Shape Grrrl, the viral Broadway workout created by COVID that has transitioned into a successful beta App.  

Segal began her career in political talk shows in Washington, DC including CNBC and CNN transitioning to entertainment development throughout VIACOM networks (MTV, VH1, Nicktoons, Nickelodeon) on live shows, animation, live events, reality competitions, variety shows, documentaries, live-action gaming, non-fiction programming, extreme sports and reality programming, escalating to the position of Director of Production Management Development.         

Ibrahim Albach is a global entrepreneur, supply chain expert, and powerful start-up CEO.  

He has spent over a decade in the Industrial Automation and Automated Warehousing sectors with a focus on developing customer-oriented solutions.   His expertise in engineering and customer solutions are the key to developing a revolutionary software platform as a new way to bring products from retailers to consumers.  

As Co-Founder and CEO of Xten, Ibrahim believes technology can reinvent the way E-commerce brands deliver their products to buyers.        

Kelly Saldana is the Vice President of Systems Strengthening & Resiliency, Abt Associates.  

Twenty years after serving in the Peace Corps, Kelly Saldana continues to be energized by working with local communities to strengthen systems. Her passion for improving systems now extends from communities to organizations and countries around the world. In her current role, Kelly partners with government, private sector, civil society, and multilateral agencies to address complex issues and achieve results, drawing on Abt Associates’ extensive expertise as a primary source for systems strengthening & resilience.  

Kelly figures out how things work so they can work more efficiently. Linking together colleagues’ strengths and expertise to formulate creative and practical solutions to problems, she’s committed to elevating local solutions developed by those most impacted and supporting those solutions to strengthen systems–locally and around the world. In her previous role, she used these approaches to develop USAID’s Vision for Health System Strengthening 2030 and a strategic approach to end preventable child and maternal deaths.