Uncaged Show

Janeesa Hollingshead is the Co-Founder of JJ Studio, a consulting boutique in Chicago that specializes in helping series A&B startups launch and grow their services. She spent the past decade working with companies, ranging in size from idea-stage startup to multi-billion-dollar post-IPO tech unicorns.  

Janeesa worked at Uber, where she was responsible for launching and developing their ride business in the United States and Brazil and Uber  Eats’ strategy and playbook in the Midwest in 2015 and 2016 respectively.  As the first Uber Works operations team manager and Head of Expansion and Local Operations, Janeesa oversaw the initial or design, strategy, successfully transitioning the ops team from a single-city focus to a centralized + local operations team model to grow to $20mm in annualized revenue and positive variable contribution margin within 7 months of  their public-facing launch.

Dominique is a real expert on digital transformation, having thoroughly understood the potential and opportunities of digitilization. He worked in a junior partner position and later as a Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company.   

Since 2019 he works in Dennemeyer IP Consulting, where he is a board member as well as the Managing Director. He is specialized in leading  transformation of the group for rapid company growth and internationalization; preparing strategic decisions on organizational set-up, as well as business areas to play; Leading and managing Intellectual Property and Innovation Consulting business; setting up Marketing campaign management for Consulting business; and bringing Patent and Trademark expertise to clients.

Gilda Scarfe is the CEO and Founder of Positive ED, a leading global education consultancy and people development training company founded in  2014.

After 35 years in the travel industry, having the good fortune to travel to many places and experience things he would have never imagined, a  personal fork-in-the-road led Justin Smith to believe there was a more productive way to approach travel, even luxury travel. It seemed to him that we were only looking at one side of the experience—our own. This thought and his personal journey at the time were what lead to the concept and creation of The Evolved Traveler.

Stephen Whiteley is the Co-Founder and CEO at Quicksilver Translate, a certified linguistic services company made up of highly qualified linguists, IT professionals and designers. The aim is to help their customers optimise and improve their multilingual documentation processes, offering linguistic services (translation, transcription, website localization, etc.) from and into any language.

With offices in Barcelona, Miami and Madrid, they provide translation (in all languages), editing and desktop publishing services for international corporations, managing and coordinating client projects so that their translation-related projects are totally "hassle-free".

Bryan Finnerty is a businessman who wears many hats: CEO of V1 Sports, Chief Giving Officer of the Opportunity Seed Foundation, CEO and  Managing Partner of Galway Bay Apparel, and founding partner of High Velocity Sports Center (HV). The common thread through all of his roles is a passion for sports and bringing people together and a strong commitment to giving back to the local community. 

Bryan brings to each of his roles a strong business acumen and a genuine desire to help others, which have been integral in quickly growing each of the organizations’ scopes and revenue streams.

Glen Day is the Founder and CEO of NVISNx, an innovative, smart data company that solves the challenges as to why breaches continue to happen  and what makes privacy compliance so difficult. Founded in 2018, NVISNx’s Platform is changing the game to shifting business, Cyber and IT  leaders by empowering them to better control their data (proactive) rather than the data controlling them (reactive).

Prior to NVISNx, he spent more than eight years at Ernst&Young LLP as a Cybersecurity & Privacy Partner with a strong emphasis on intellectual property (IP) protection and other high-value information assets.

As a retired US Navy Commander who specialized in Information Warfare, and as Los Angeles County’s first Chief Privacy Officer, Glen knows what it means to design and implement effective data controls in very large and complex organizations.

Leigh Morgan is a global executive and independent director whose mission is to build and scale high performing, purpose-based organizations that change the world for the better. 

Known for her ability to lead organizations in complex international and domestic environments, her experience spans the private & public sectors  including biopharma/healthcare, philanthropy, academia, and social enterprise. 

Leigh is currently the Chief Strategy & Operating Officer at Nia Tero Foundation, a US-based, global social enterprise.   

Prior to Nia Tero she was COO at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which had $37B in assets and annual revenue of $5B during her tenure.

As an investment professional with nearly two decades of experience, simplifying people’s financial lives is part of the job description. Leah starts by helping her clients develop a thorough understanding of where they currently are financially and she then asks them to think about where they want to be. To get them there, Leah begins by addressing and protecting their immediate financial needs and then focuses on building out intermediate and long-term financial plans all while creating the necessary accountability to achieve these goals.

Lorenzo developed his 23-year career within the financial industry in New York, London, and Madrid working for both institutional clients and  Global Family Offices in equity and derivatives transactions.