Jake Thompson

Chief Encouragement Officer – Compete Every Day

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Jake is a speaker, entrepreneur, podcaster, and marketer. In reality, he does far more than those titles make it seem. At his speaking engagements, Jake draws from his experience as a competitor to help others find their own competitive edge. He uses stories and actionable tips, often referencing the traits of the most successful competitors. His primary message is that each person has the ability and the power to apply the Key Characteristics of a Competitor to their lives and be successful.

This message is evident in his company, Compete Every Day, which is a community of true competitors. CED is known for its successful line of athletic wear, though Jake prefers to focus on the community first. Like other entrepreneurs, he is a founder and businessman, but unlike most, he believes his most important title is Chief Encouragement Officer.

Jake studies great competitors, and his research helped him create a process that can help people achieve their goals and experience a purpose-driven life. He references that process when he speaks, with CED’s members, and in his podcast.

The Better Than Yesterday podcast is for a specific audience: people who want to fight for something better, and who believe life is worth competing for.

Rory Cutaia

CEO – nFusz Inc. – OTCQB:FUSZ

www.nfusz.com

Rory and his team have re-invented what a customer relationship management (CRM), lead-gen tool should be in today’s video-centric business and social environment. Their proprietary, next generation interactive video technology is the core of their cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products. Their flagship product, notifiCRM, places interactive video front and center in all customer and prospect communications, automating the sales process.

nFusz offers subscription-based CRM, sales lead generation, and social engagement software on mobile and desktop platforms for sales-based organizations, consumer brands, and artists seeking greater levels of engagement and higher conversion rates. Their platform can accommodate any size campaign or sales organization, and is enterprise-class scalable to meet the needs of today’s global organizations.

Harper Tucker

Vice-President of Authority Marketing – ForbesBooks

www.forbesbooks.com

Harper Tucker is the Chair of Financial and Legal Innovation Practice and Vice-President of Authority Marketing – leading the author acquisition process for ForbesBooks. During his career, Harper has worked with ForbesBooks by bringing top thought leaders in the financial and legal industries as authors, speakers and brand authorities.

Harper and his team have worked with over 150 financial and legal leaders build their authority and personal brand. This makes him one of the world most accomplished experts in this space. Harper is a published Author and has been featured on Market Watch.

Shane Foss

Founder and CEO – Hooray Health

www.hoorayhealthcare.com

Shane is a Sales & Business Development Executive having successful history of leading business restructuring, turnaround, and successive growth, while directing strategic sales & business development initiatives including planning & implementation, sales management, operations’ excellence, budget management, as well as cost optimization & control. He is a Strategic Visionary and Leader for Business Change, Growth, and Performance Improvement with 20+ years of demonstrated leadership experience, driving force for repeatedly taking companies to the next level of growth and success.

Hooray Health is an Urgent Care and Retail Clinic National Provider Network built for the Hooray Health individual and group limited medical insurance plans. Our goal is to offer a low-cost, practical healthcare plan that is supported by technology and a robust provider network to protect our members against predatory balanced bill billing practices while providing broad access to contracted providers.

Ginny Townsend

Founder, CEO – UnSabotage

http://unsabotage.com

With a background in strategic marketing, Ginny spent over a decade helping organizations of all shapes, sizes and industries draw out their gold, find their unique superpower, as well as, understand the areas in which they’d been holding themselves back from their full potential. Then, in her early 30s, when Ginny started to see that she was holding herself back from her full potential, she focused all her experience, tools and resources she had used to help organizations thrive and pointed them at herself. The result? A beautifully powerful, tested and yet approachable model that helps women Shatter the Glass Walls that have been holding them back, so they can build the business of their dreams!

Bernard Reisz

ReSure Financial

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Principal of ReSure LLC, a financial professional with credentials and experience across an array of disciplines. A licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Associate in Captive Insurance (ACI) designations, in additional to other financial licenses. Experienced in financial due diligence, agreed-upon procedures, forensic accounting, and extensive tax research.

At ReSure tax, investment, and risk management strategy are integrated to achieve optimal results. In an increasingly fragmented financial industry, ReSure provides unified approaches that put clients in control of their finances and positions them for success. We specialize in the advanced applications of tax-favored investment vehicles, including retirement plans, captive insurance, and installment sale structures

Colin Sprake

Author, Speaker – Make Your Mark

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4 Time Best-selling Author and mentor to over 47,000 entrepreneurs!

Colin has built several different million dollar businesses within 6 months. He has over 30 years of business experience having come from the mining industry to building his own multi-million dollar businesses from the ground up.

Colin is the master trainer at Make Your Mark Training and Consulting and is devoted to people achieving huge success in their businesses. His purpose is to assist business owners to dramatically improve the amount of businesses that succeed. After all, failing businesses affect us all in negative ways.

Peter Scott

Author & Futurist

www.humancusp.com

Peter J. Scott’s resume reads like a Monty Python punchline: half business coach, half information technology specialist, half teacher, three-quarters daddy. After receiving a master’s degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University, he has worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an employee and contractor for over thirty years, helping advance our exploration of the Solar System.

Over the years, he branched out into writing technical books and training and hosting a forthcoming TEDx talk.

Yet at the same time, he developed a parallel career in “soft” fields of human development, getting certifications in NeuroLinguistic Programming from founder John Grinder and in coaching from the International Coaching Federation. In 2007, he co-created a convention honoring the centennial of the birth of author Robert Heinlein, attended by over 700 science fiction fans and aerospace experts, a unique fusion of the visionary with the concrete. Bridging these disparate worlds positions him to envisage a delicate solution to the existential crises facing humanity.

Gaurav Chakravorty

CIO, co-founder – Qplum

www.qplum.co

Gaurav Chakravorty is the co-founder and CIO at qplum, an asset management firm that offers A.I.-based trading strategies. Gaurav was an early pioneer in machine learning based high-frequency trading, building one of the most profitable algorithmic trading groups at Tower Research from 2005-2010. Gaurav firmly believes that investing can be approached as a science utilizing the power of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning.

Sid Hasan

CEO – MeSpoke

www.mespoke.com

MeSpoke creates organic sales channels while decreasing the supply chain for Fashion-based brands. Through our free iOS app and backend CRM portal. MeSpoke is a fashion catalogue and shopping data analytics company. The patent-pending MeSpoke app allows users to rate and select for purchase (directly from the manufacturer) fashion items that they spot in their friends’ photos.

MeSpoke creates abounding social and visual engagement to accelerate the real-world fashion conversation: I love that! Who makes it? Where can I buy it? In this way, MeSpoke helps fashion brands shrink the find-buy cycle. This is a multi-billion-dollar market.

Pat Mackaronis

Director of Business Development / Founder – Brabble

www.brabble.com

Brabble is a unique social app that combines the worlds of e-commerce and social media where users can communicate with all forms of media – Audio, Video, Picture & Text while having the ability to buy and sell goods and services with our our patented technology called StarTags! A Star Tag lets you sell products on brabble and link the items to other social networks to maximize your sales reach!

Wendy Marie Wortham

Event Coordinator/Owner

Texas Twins Events

www.texastwinsevents.com

I created a low-cost wedding and Events business in order to address the needs of low to middle class consumers who were effectively “caught in a donut hole.” Years ago, my budget for a wedding was nonexistent so I was aware that a need for affordable options existed.

A few years after starting Texas Twins Events, my entire family joined me due to explosion of bookings and I expanded to add the option of bartering by merging Texas Twins Events and Texas Twins Treasures to create The Pawning Planners. Last year my business took another “twist” when a client asked me to officiate a Texas Prison Wedding. I again expanded to include TDCJ Prison Weddings after undergoing a background check.

Kim Heck

CEO – Sports Turf Managers Association

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STMA is the non-profit, professional association for the men and women who manage outdoor sports fields worldwide. Since 1981, we have been providing education and practical knowledge in the art and science of sports field management.

The single goal of our more than 2,600 members is to manage sports field playing surfaces to the safest level possible. Members and those involved in the sports industry rely on STMA for timely and relevant information on best management practices.

Rory Cutaia

CEO – nFusz Inc. – OTCQB:FUSZ

www.nfusz.com

nFusz offers subscription-based CRM, sales lead generation, and social engagement software on mobile and desktop platforms for sales-based organizations, consumer brands, and artists seeking greater levels of engagement and higher conversion rates. Their platform can accommodate any size campaign or sales organization, and is enterprise-class scalable to meet the needs of today’s global organizations.

Rebecca Walser

Tax Attroney, CFP, Author

http://walserwealth.com

Rebecca Walser truly brings a wealth of understanding to the personal finance book space. Leveraging her background as a tax attorney, a Certified Financial Planner® and an experienced wealth strategist, Rebecca Walser is uniquely qualified to assess, structure and implement the best income maximization, wealth maximization, tax mitigation/minimization and optimal legacy strategies for her clients. Now, she has expanded the reach of her unique message through the release of her first book, Wealth Unbroken: Growing Wealth Uninterrupted by Market Crashes, Taxes, and even Death.

She continues to practice law in the areas of federal taxation, wealth preservation, trusts and legacy planning, business succession and estate planning, and asset management and protection, while also serving her clients financial needs as a Certified Financial Planner®.

Rebecca spearheads a national practice with clients across the country and enjoys working with high income professionals, business owners, retirees and pre-retirees, and high net worth families, to implement advanced financial planning and wealth management strategies that maximize income and legacy distribution while minimizing taxes and managing risk. With over twenty years of financial and legal experience combined, Rebecca capitalizes on her distinctive skill set and years of knowledge to the best advantage of her clients.

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Erik Rothchild

Creator/Co-Founder at BFIT Brands.

www.drinkfitwhey.com

Erik Rothchild, born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. served in the U.S Army from 1986-1988 and was stationed at Ft. Ord, CA. After the Army Erik attended and graduated from the University of South Carolina and majored in sports business. As a lifelong fitness enthusiast Erik accidently created his first protein beverage in his kitchen while mixing whey protein with caffeine and not being able to find that combo in an existing drink he decided to create his own. After selling his first brand, WheyUP, Erik created and launched FitWhey Protein Energy in 2015. There aren’t many people who embody the “Live Life the FitWhey” brand more than Erik as at the age of 51 he competes in bodybuilding shows and runs track and field for USA masters track and is ranked in the Top 10 in the U.S. in his age group of 50-54. Erik brings his 30+ years experience of staying fit combined with the business acumen to launch two seperate ready to drink protein beverages to take FitWhey to the next level.

Roxroy Barrett-CEO

Firm Healthcare System

https://firmhcs.com/

Roxroy K. Barrett MSCE, MBA, CEO has over 25 years Healthcare management experience. His company now partners with the over 60,000 physician’s practices that have the same frustration and are looking for solutions, help and an exit. He helps these companies better position to take advantage of the changing healthcare industry. He tells it straight “CHANGE OR DIE”

Firm is a healthcare investment group that focuses on control investment opportunities in the lower middle market. We seek out investments in which we can establish true collaborative partnerships with business owners and management teams. We adopt, integrate, and scale tele-health technologies that will lead to a substantial creation of value over a long-term investment horizon.

Brian Wilson

COO – Brain Fruit LLC

www.drinkwhatsright.com

Brain Fruit is handcrafted fruit and vegetable smoothies with a coconut blend (coconut meat and water, hemp and pumpkin seeds blend with a hint of vanilla) (patent pending) as the base. This alone will set us apart from their competitors because currently over 85% of their smoothies are based with ice and/or a dairy product.

Your food is your medicine and Brain Fruit intends on shown the world how. Brain Fruit strongly believes that this will prove to be a lucrative investment not just financially but personally as well, determined to “change the world one BRAIN FRUIT at a time.”

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Kate Delaney

CEO – DelaneyMediaGroup

www.katedelaneyspeaker.com

Emmy-award winning journalist Kate Delaney has interviewed more than 12,000 people, including U.S. presidents, top CEOs and Hall of Fame athletes. As a woman hosting a popular sports radio talk show, she became a pioneer in broadcasting.

In addition to her popular speaking engagements around the nation, she currently hosts two nationally-syndicated radio shows each week. On NBC’s sports radio network, she hosts “The Kate Delaney Show” heard on 210 stations. She also hosts Forbes Books Radio. Travelling and speaking at top business conferences, conventions and seminars across the country to interview business professionals of all levels from CEOs and executive management to financial advisors, lawyers and entrepreneurs. Her media company, Delaney Media Group has leveraged the content of hundreds of businesses the team has worked with lifting them to the next level by making them buzz worthy.

She’s the author of two popular books. Level the Playing Field (2011) and coming out in March her Forbes book. Deal Your Own Destiny: Increase Your Odds, Win BIG and Become Extraordinary.

Norm Winski

Editor/Publisher – Astro-Trend Market Timing

http://www.astro-trend.com/

Norm Winski has over 45 years of

market experience including 12 years as a member and market maker. He has published his monthly market timing letter, Astro-Trend, for 39 years.

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Gerardo Munguia

Business Development – The Network Bar

www.networkbar.com

The Network Bar is a comfortable, speakeasy-like community where members meet, work, learn, eat, drink and socialize, in an exclusive VIP environment. TNB’s proprietary app facilitates member introductions and collaborations by taking networking to the next level.

Members engage with the most accomplished and well-connected business leaders and entrepreneurs in the city, from different walks of life with varied skill-sets and areas of expertise.

The Network Bar takes networking to the next level with cutting-edge technology – The Network Bar App doesn’t only get you into the bar with a swipe of a button, but it reimagines networking as we know it by enhancing face-to-face interactions.

Ryan Colby

Founder & CEO – Token Fest, LLC

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Ryan Colby is the Founder of Token Fest, LLC and the CEO of Outcome Brokerage, a premium domain name acquisition and divestment consultancy. He is an experienced Conference Producer who has managed award winning events in the past during his tenure with IDG World Expo including the BioITWorld Conference & Expo and the ProjectWorld Conference & Expo.

Ryan has collectively brokered over $60 million in domain transactions for clients and is now focused on creating the ultimate networking events for senior level executives in the blockchain industry. Token Fest, LLC is a media and events company on a mission to amplify the application of blockchain technology to aid humanity in solving large scale problems.

Allen Witters

Standard Harvest

www.standardharvest.com

Allen Witters is a highly accomplished and visionary innovator and CEO with more than 40 years of success across the technology, medical, energy, and manufacturing industries. He started his first company at age 17, has led several multinationals, has proven highly successful at turning around distressed businesses, and has negotiated over $20 billion in contracts and financings. He is a valuable asset for companies seeking to enable innovation and reinvention, going through analog to digital transitions, needing business and technical roadmaps for turnaround, or in need of expert guidance to achieve “impossible” projects.

His broad areas of expertise include innovation, global leadership, business development, finance, restructuring, patents, M&A, IPO, R&D, licensing, P&L, government contracts, cybersecurity, IT, B2B, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, M2M, IoT, cloud, and renewable energy.

Mr. Witters is currently a managing partner of iKuity/Nouvant, an IP platform that manages and markets $100 billion in IP for the top 20 research centers and universities in the U.S. He has founded and led seven prominent companies including Computer Aided Timeshare, then the largest distributor of PC-based CAD systems.

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Ryan G. Smith

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer – LeafLink

https://leaflink.com/

Serving over 400 brands and 1700 retailers across 6 states, LeafLink is the largest marketplace for wholesale cannabis. Retailers, who previously called, emailed, or texted 50+ sales reps to place orders, now save a day per week shopping all of their cannabis brands in one cart on LeafLink. Cannabis brands use the platform to streamline their orders as well as all elements of their wholesale activity, leveraging its CRM, reporting tools, and fulfillment and shipment queues.

The company launched in Colorado in March 2016 and is now also live in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and Arizona. It has offices in Los Angeles and New York with satellite offices in the states where it operates.

The company recently raised $10M in funding from Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Casa Verde and other VCs.

LeafLink is redefining B2B e-commerce in cannabis – they now run roughly 9% of the entire legal cannabis marketplace through their platform.

Rory Cutaia

CEO – nFusz Inc. (OTCQB:FUSZ)

www.nfusz.com

nFusz offers subscription-based CRM, sales lead generation, and social engagement software on mobile and desktop platforms for sales-based organizations, consumer brands, and artists seeking greater levels of engagement and higher conversion rates. Their platform can accommodate any size campaign or sales organization, and is enterprise-class scalable to meet the needs of today’s global organizations.

Brian Lukow-President

All For One Media Corp. (OTCQB:AFOM)

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All For One Media Corp. (OTCQB:AFOM) is an entertainment marketing company that creates projects that specifically target the tween demographic. It is estimated that the tween demographic is responsible for at least $260 billion annually in direct sales in the United States alone. Known as Generation for “Internet,” this generation’s tweens represent the first demographic to have had only known life with the Internet and social media.

AFOM is currently producing â Crazy For The Boys, a new movie musical that is scheduled to begin principal photography this summer. “Crazy For The Boys” tells the story of five high school girls from five very different cliques who must work together in order to run their schools anti-bullying organization. Perfectly capturing the nuances of high school, Crazy For The Boys features original and infectious pop songs about topics such as; peer pressure, unrequited love, and teen angst. It is anticipated that the film will generate revenues from multiple sources including; domestic and international distribution, video on demand, merchandising, soundtrack, live performances, as well as other ancillary sources.

Monty Monytoya

CEO – Sightlife Surgical

http://www.sightlifesurgical.com/

Monty Montoya has devoted his career to the worldwide elimination of corneal blindness by 2040. For those in the global arena of corneal transplantation and eye banking, he is considered a true social humanitarian for working tirelessly to achieve that mission for the past 20 years.

Monty started his career in eye banking in 1991 in Arizona as a part-time technician. He joined nonprofit SightLife in 1997, when he was hired to turn the organization around during a period of operational and financial struggle.

Today, Monty is the CEO of SightLife Surgical, a for-profit arm of SightLife created to accelerate the SightLife mission to eliminate corneal blindness worldwide by 2040 by driving innovations that lead to advancements in the corneal ecosystem.

Shane Foss

Founder and CEO – Hooray Health

www.hoorayhealthcare.com

Shane is a Sales & Business Development Executive having successful history of leading business restructuring, turnaround, and successive growth, while directing strategic sales & business development initiatives including planning & implementation, sales management, operations’ excellence, budget management, as well as cost optimization & control. He is a Strategic Visionary and Leader for Business Change, Growth, and Performance Improvement with 20+ years of demonstrated leadership experience, driving force for repeatedly taking companies to the next level of growth and success.

Hooray Health is an Urgent Care and Retail Clinic National Provider Network built for the Hooray Health individual and group limited medical insurance plans. Our goal is to offer a low-cost, practical healthcare plan that is supported by technology and a robust provider network to protect our members against predatory balanced bill billing practices while providing broad access to contracted providers.