Derrick Favors is an American professional basketball player who plays power forward / center for the New Orleans Pelicans of the NBA. Favors was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and he began his career playing high school basketball at South Atlanta High School, where he was rated one of the best players in the country by Scout.com, ESPNU100, and Rivals.com. In... read full bio
Ariadne Grant is the editorial director at Marie Claire magazine in Latin America and is one of the biggest fashion experts in Latin America. Grant began her career with Marie Claire as an editor of Marie Claire Mexico and Latin America and within months of starting, she was assumed the role of editorial director. Since being the editorial director, Grant... read full bio
Diego Bolson Ruzzarin is the founder and CEO of Foodlosofia, a food design center focused on innovation of the food industry, and Casa Nomo. He is an industrial designer who specializes in food design and has worked for several large companies over the years such as PepsiCo where he was a brand manager and R&D manager. Ruzzarin began his career... read full bio
Iskwe, also known as Waseskwan Iskewew, or her birth name, Meghan Meisters, is an Indigenous singer-songwriter and activist of Cree, Dene and Irish heritage. Iskwe was born in Winnipeg, Manitopa, Canada, and over the years has lived in various cities such as Toronto, Los Angeles, Hamilton, and New York City. Iskwe rose to fame with the release of her self-titled... read full bio
Meghan Patrick is a Canadian country singer-songwriter from Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada. Prior to being a solo artist, Patrick was lead singer of the Stone Sparrows. After going solo, Patrick signed with Warner Music Canada and released her debut studio album, “Grace & Grit” which peaked at number 26 on the Canadian charts. With it came Patrick’s debut single release “Bow... read full bio
Neon Dreams is a Canadian alternative-pop duo that consists of Frank Kadillac and Adrian Morris. The duo is from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and they met in high school and originally had two more members in the group. Neon Dreams gained attention after releasing a remix of Waka Flocka Flame’s “Hard In the Paint” when he mentioned them for it.... read full bio
Patrice Bergeron is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and alternate captain for the Boston Bruins of the NHL. Bergeron was born in L’Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec, Canada, and he began his career playing as an A and AA player before going on to play for the Acadie-Bathurst Titan of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. From there, Bergeron was drafted by... read full bio
Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez, sometimes known as K-Dope, is an American DJ and producer based out of Brooklyn, New York. His music is a mixture of house, electronic, and big beat and he is also one half of the duo Masters at Work. Kenny began his electronic career in the 80’s when he would organize block parties in Brooklyn. He began... read full bio
Josh Butler is a house and techno DJ and producer from Manchester, England. Butler rose to fame after the release of his debut single “Got a Feeling” which earned him awards from Beatport and DJ Mag. Butler has since released remixes for artists such as Fatboy Slim, Carl Cox, and Joris Voorn. He has performed at festivals such as Glastonbury,... read full bio
Huxley is a DJ from Tring, United Kingdom. He has been performing for several years and has performed different styles of music. He works in drums, bass, main room house, and more. Huxley has released music through labels such as 20:20 Vision, Hypercolour, and Tsuba. Huxley has released several club hits and has released an album through Aus Music. Huxley... read full bio
Sidney Charles is a producer and DJ from Germany. Charles began his career when he was only 15 years old and began mixing up genres such as funk, soul, and hip-hop. This led him to finding a love of house and techno music and he began producing his own music from there. Charles has released music through labels such as... read full bio
Darius Syrossian is a house and techno DJ, producer, label boss, and radio host, from Leeds, United Kingdom. Syrossian has been in the music business for almost all of his life and began his career working in a record shop for nearly 15 years. As a musician, Syrossian has played in clubs and festivals all over the world and has... read full bio
Ilario Alicante is an Italian DJ from Livorno, Italy. Ever since he was young, Alicante had a passion for music and he began his career producing music in his bedroom with equipment he made himself. Alicante went on to begin performing at clubs in Europe, which were mainly in Germany and Ibiza, Spain. After gaining experience in performing, Alicante went... read full bio
Dennis Ferrer is a New York-based DJ, producer, and remixer, who is also known by several other names such as Aurasfere, Jax, Lost Tribes Of Ibadan, and Son of Raw. He is the founder of the Objektivity record label and has been working in house music production for years. Artists that Ferrer has worked with include Masters at Work, Little... read full bio
Tyler Braden is a talented country singer-songwriter from Montgomery, Alabama, who is breaking through the music scene with his moving songs and mesmerizing live performances. Braden's career as a musician got its start when he was a firefighter, using his free time to get completely engrossed in songwriting and local concerts. These early encounters were when he first realized how... read full bio
Steve Fredette is the President and co-founder of Toast, which is an all-in-one restaurant technology platform that was built specifically for restaurants in mind. Fredette woks to build restaurant software, hardware, services and support, and changing the restaurant technology landscape. Fredette began his career as an engineering intern at Precision Optics Corporation. From there, he became co-founder of Klick Mobile... read full bio
Aman Narang is the co-founder and President of Toast, Inc., which is an all-in-one restaurant technology platform that was built specifically for restaurants in mind. Toast works in integrated online ordering, gift cards, loyalty programs, labor and sales reporting on a mobile, cloud-based POS system. Narang began his career as a software engineer in Special Operations and then worked as... read full bio
Eliot Buchanan is the co-founder and CEO of Plastiq which is a company that lets small businesses use a credit card to pay for expenses such as rent, contractors, and inventory for 2.5% fee. Plastiq is currently being used by more than 50,000 small business customers and processes nearly 4 billion dollars in transactions a year. During his time with... read full bio
William Hockey is the co-founder, President and CTO of Plaid. Plaid is a company that connects payments apps as well as personal finance apps to users bank accounts to transfer and track funds. Some companies that Plaid has worked with over the years include Robinhood, Coinbase, and Venmo. Hockey has studied at Emory University – Goizueta Business School in systems... 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
