You probably know Willie Robertson for his role on A&Es hit reality TV show Duck Dynasty, but his biggest responsibility is being the CEO for both Duck Commander and Buck Commander. The Robertson family is the go-to for hunting apparel, gear, and (most famously) duck calls made by hand. Duck Commander was founded by the Robertson patriarch Phil back in... read full bio
Wy Mac is a well-known entrepreneur and influencer in the beauty industry. As the CEO of Wy Mac Beauty, she has made a name for herself by creating high-quality, inclusive beauty products that cater to all skin tones and types. Wy Mac was born and raised in New York City, where she developed a passion for makeup and beauty at a... read full bio
Xochi Birch is a San Francisco, California-based computer programmer and entrepreneur. Since 1999, she has co-founded various businesses, most notably the online social networking platform Bebo with her husband Michael Birch. She and Michael additionally established other domains with the help of Paul Birch and Morgan Sowden. Bebo was founded in 2005 by Xochi and Michael Birch. By 2007, the site... read full bio
Y-Vonne Hutchinson is a well-known proponent of social impact, inclusion, and diversity in the workplace. Hutchinson has made important contributions to developing equitable practices and fostering inclusive workplaces for enterprises across numerous industries as the CEO and founder of ReadySet, a diversity solutions company. Hutchinson has a career in law and has always been interested about utilizing her knowledge to promote... read full bio
Yancey Strickler is a writer, speaker, and former CEO of Kickstarter. In addition to his founding of Kickstarter, Strickler also founded a creative artist resource called The Creative Independent, which focuses on the insights of people like Bjork, Stevie Nicks, and Philip Glass. Prior to his work with Kickstarter and The Creative Independent, Strickler worked with Pitchfork, Spin, and the... read full bio
Yann Chilvers is a beauty industry expert and the founder of Covalo, a company that specializes in developing and bringing beauty products to market. With over a decade of experience in the beauty industry, Chilvers is a thought leader in the field, with a focus on developing strategies to bring the right beauty product to market faster than anyone else. Chilvers... read full bio
Yasheng Huang is a professor in international management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he founded and heads the China Lab and India Lab. His research areas include human capital formation in China and India. He had previous appointments at the University of Michigan and Harvard Business School. Huang is the author of Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, a... read full bio
Yoram was born in Tiberius, near the Lake of Galili, Israel, to Polish immigrants. He relocated to Kiryat Motzkin, close to Haifa, with his family when he was three years old. Shmuel, his father, constructed a theater that was exceptional in its day. Yoram was five years old when the movie theater first opened, and he was quite fascinated by... read full bio
The UN Future Forum, the Korean Node of the international future study group Millennium Project, is represented by Park Young-sook. She spent ten years as the director of public diplomacy at the Australian Embassy in Korea, where she was exposed to future vision, and more than twenty years as a senior diplomat at the British Embassy in Korea. She then... read full bio
Yuri Milner is a venture capitalist, physicist, and entrepreneur, and he is considered Russias most influential tech investors. Yuri founded Digital Sky Technologies (DST), now known as DST Global and Mail.ru Group. DST Global has invested in major companies such as Spotify, Facebook, AirBnB, WhatsApp, Groupon, Facebook, Twitter, and Zocdoc, among others. Yuri has been featured in Tim magazines Timm... read full bio
Yuval Tal is the founder, President, and former CEO of Payoneer, an Internet-based payment company that establishes viable solutions for payments in prepaid credit cards through the Internet via their own prepaid Payoneer credit card. Payoneer allows it’s members to sell products, but pay for their own supplies through an online service. Tal was born in Israel and earned his... read full bio
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With a vision for modern American beauty that combined couture technique with eye-catching innovation, Zac Posen debuted his self-titled collection. Assembled in his New York studio, Zac debuted a line that enhanced women's natural bodies and let them to be their most seductive, empowered selves by fusing famous Hollywood glitz with a downtown sensibility. He received one of fashion's highest accolades,... read full bio
Zach Perret is the co-founder and CEO of Plaid, a company that connects payment apps and personal finance apps to users bank accounts to transfer and track funds. Plaid has worked with companies such as Venmo, Robinhood, and Coinbase. Perret started his career working as a research fellow on the Duke Board of Trustees and was also a trustee. From... read full bio
In order to better understand today's and tomorrow's consumers, Zak Dychtwald, an emerging specialist in his industry, devotes a great deal of time and effort to studying the habits and lives of Chinese Millennials. Young China Group, a think tank and consultancy that focuses on China's developing global identity and the changing East and West millennial perspective, was founded and is... read full bio
Zanny Minton-Beddoes is The Economist's economic editor, overseeing all of the prestigious publication's American and global economic coverage. Before moving to Washington in April 1996, she was The Economist's emerging-markets correspondent based in London. She joined The Economist in 1994 after spending two years as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she worked on macroeconomic adjustment programs... read full bio
The Chief Executive Officer of Qualtrics is Zig Serafin. With the introduction of the Qualtrics Experience Management Platform, Zig assisted Qualtrics in establishing itself as the market leader in experience management and revolutionizing how businesses manage and enhance the four fundamental business experiences of the customer, employee, product and brand. He oversaw Qualtrics' quick expansion to over 16,750 clients and was... read full bio
