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Karishma Warr is the Co-Founder and Head of Training & Behavior at Calm Canine Academy, where she offers science-backed, positive reinforcement-based training and helps people communicate with their dogs, strengthen their bonds and facilitate learning.  

An industry leader, Karishma is a specialist in treating complex behaviors concerning fear, anxiety, and aggression, especially in an urban environment. She is skilled in Canine Behavior, Canine Behavior Modification, Canine Aggression Rehabilitation, Canine Separation Anxiety, Shelter & Rescue work, Canine Behavior Analysis, Client Education, and Educational Content Creation.        

Roger Clark is the EVP and Co-Owner of PS Furniture.  

Roger’s drive, experience, and adaptability have aided him in a long and successful career. With a strong sense of moral responsibility, Roger Clark focuses on driving results while balancing a successful leader's humane and thoughtful approach.   

His 22 years as a leader and joint owner of PS Furniture with his wife Beth has honed his exceptional skill in profit & loss management, cultivation of partnerships, budgeting/planning, business development, stakeholder facilitation, brand and product marketing, operations, and sales management.       

Steve was named Executive Vice President, Client Services of Divurgent in September 2021. 

Divurgent is a privately held, 200+ consultant solutions provider focused exclusively on healthcare. In his current role, Steve leads the consulting and business development teams to deliver innovative solutions to healthcare’s greatest challenges. Steve has a track record of listening to client needs and devising clever approaches to both thematic and specific problems.  

Suzy Whaley was recently elected as the President of Golf Nation, an online and connected TV/OTT channel that brings golf lifestyle and premium video together on a shoppable streaming content platform. As the first woman ever elected to serve as an officer of the PGA of America, Whaley is applying her expertise to create a more accessible, diverse, and engaging space not only in Golf but the entire sporting world.   

Whaley has dedicated her career to moving the Golf industry forward through a variety of roles, including Director of Instruction at the Country Club at Mirasol in Palm Beach Gardens, a PXG Ambassador, and a golf analyst and on-course commentator for ESPN, ESPN+, and SiriusXM.

Bharti Rai has an exceptional, results-driven career of 25 years in Life Sciences and Big 4 Management Consulting marked by a rapid rise to the C-Level. Proven ability to create new organizations from the ground up, spearheading change, and conceptualizing and executing innovative large-scale business digital transformation initiatives towards data-driven decision making, commercial effectiveness and customer-centricity. 

 Recognized as an industry thought leader and sought-after speaker; recipient of multiple industry awards and accolades including CDO Magazine Top Executives, Top 100 Data & Analytics innovators and Corporate Change Champion of the Year.

Rob Imbeault is the Chief Operating Officer of Adapt.Ag that is building the largest mushroom-focused vertical farming network in the world and Forage Hyperfoods, a Canadian mushroom-based wellness product company. As an investor as well as COO, Rob’s role is to help fulfill the vision and execute the strategy of the company.

Rami Al-Haddad, Group Chief Information Officer, heads all Information Technology functions at NAS. He joined NAS in 2013 as Director - IT, taking on strategic initiatives to transform the role of IT from a supporting function to a business enabler, and from a cost center to a profit center.  

Rami was instrumental in revolutionizing the impact of IT to give NAS a competitive advantage. This included expanding NAS' portfolio of services to offer technology solutions, deploying multi-million dollar revenue-generating services, and introducing innovative technologies to enable NAS growth at minimal cost and lead-time.  

Hannes Klöpper is the CEO and Co-founder of HelloBetter, a global category leader in the digital mental health care space that builds innovative solutions for the prevention and treatment of a broad range of mental health conditions.  

HelloBetter is transforming mental health care, by establishing a new treatment modality in the form of digital therapeutics (DTx) for a broad range of mental health conditions. 33 RCTs published in peer-reviewed journals and five prescription DTx with regulatory approval make HelloBetter a global category leader in the space. Hannes builds on a decade of experience as a VC-backed entrepreneur in the fields of online learning and digital health. 

Michael Perch is the Founder and Principal of Road Map Consulting (RMC), a privately held management consulting and professional training services firm based in Washington D.C. In his current role, Perch is dedicated to providing comprehensive business solutions to private firms and government agencies worldwide using his extensive experience and expertise.   

In addition to his role at RMC, he is a proud Mentor for SCORE DC and an Adjunct Instructor at George Mason University. Perch is a noted author, lecturer, and subject matter expert in the fields of federal and state public procurement, finance, technology innovation, accounting, and management.        

Deirdre Van Nest is the Founder of Crazy Good Talks. She is also a keynote speaker & a story strategist that uses financial, professional, and entrepreneur tools and strategies to help her clients to make emotional connections with their ideal clients. 

She's been an entrepreneur for over two decades. What Deirdre loves most about being an entrepreneur is helping OTHER entrepreneurs become engaging and inspiring communicators.