Joel Comm is a New York Times bestselling author of thirteen books, social media marketing strategist, live video marketing expert, TEDx speaker and Internet innovator. Creating online businesses for over twenty years, Joel is a leader in utilizing the power of social media and Internet marketing to further your brands influence and participate in active relationship marketing. Consistently on the... read full bio
Andrea Vahl is a social media coach, speaker strategist, and is a co-author of Facebook Marketing All-in-One for Dummies. She uses her improv comedy skills to blog as an entertaining character named Grandma Mary, a social media educator. Vahl believes that social media is essential for any business and using it to promote is a must do to grow. She... read full bio
Andrew Hassen is the Founder and CEO of Angel Dough Ventures, the Co-founder of LaunchPad Long Island, and Founder of LI Startups. He has been optimizing websites for several years before Google was up and running. Since starting his business, Hassen was the founder of Prime Visibility and has worked with huge companies such as FOXnews.com, The Trump Organization, CIT,... read full bio
Brian Clark is first and foremost an entrepreneursome even call him a serial entrepreneur, due to the variety and quantity of businesses he has founded. He is the founder and CEO of Copyblogger Media, an online content curator or content marketer. After launching Copyblogger Media, Clark created the Rainmaker Platform, StudioPress, Scribe, and Synthesis. He is also curator of the... read full bio
Britt Hysen is the creator of MiLLENiAL Magazine, a millennial-inspired magazine and blog that reflects a millennial mindset. Hysens blogs and articles are driven by globally-connected, entrepreneurial, socially conscious, and experience-driven individuals. Hysen set herself apart in the journalistic world by reporting on the youth of the world. Some of her reports cover Burning Man, Occupy, and Wall Street. When... read full bio
Britt Michaelian is well versed in many fields. She is an artist, art therapist, author, consultant, marketing strategist, keynote speaker, social media correspondent, podcaster, and more. One of her top duties, however, is as a mother (and wife). Michaelian uses her skills regularly to help a unique group of people implement strategy to improve their businesses. Most recently, Michaelian has... read full bio
As the Founder and President of POPSUGAR, a global media and technology company, Lisa Sugar built the #1 lifestyle brand for young women. Recently, POPSUGAR has launched their first makeup line, Beauty by POPSUGAR. She penned the book Power Your Happy, which details what she’s learned on her journey through building the company, which now sees a monthly audience of... read full bio
Named among Forbes' top 30 under 30, Blake Masters was a student at Stanford when his detailed notes on Peter Thiels (co-founder of PayPal) class Computer Science 183: Startup became an internet sensation. Masters and Thiel have transformed those class notes into a New York Times bestseller: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Before... read full bio
Jay is a hype-free social media and content strategist and speaker. Hes the author of Youtility, the innovative new book on content marketing, and his Convince & Convert blog is ranked as one of the worlds top marketing resources. As President of Convince & Convert and the founder of five companies, Baer has worked with over 700 brands including Nike,... read full bio
Ann Handley is a very busy woman. She is the author of the book Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content and the co-author of Content Rules, a best-selling novel. Forbes cited her as the most influential woman in social media and Forbes Woman named her one of the top two women bloggers. Handley is also a... read full bio
David Weinberger is an American technologist and commentator, best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto - originally a website, and eventually a book, which has been described as a primer on Internet marketing." Weinberger's work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, and society. He is a philosopher by training, serves as a fellow at the... read full bio
When Baker, the Lizard Wrangler" at the Mozilla Foundation, launched the Firefox browser four years ago, Microsoft's Internet Explorer was in her sights. Baker's overarching goal was to keep the Web open. Now, Firefox's market share has risen to nearly 20% while IE's has slipped from 95% to 72%, and most Web sites treat all browsers equally. These days, Mozilla... read full bio
Eric Koester is the VP of Operations and General Counsel at Appature Inc., a technology company providing relationship marketing software, and a former attorney at Cooley LLP with a practice focused on emerging technology companies, venture capital firms and investment banks, with particular emphases on venture capital and bank financings, corporate partnerships, commercial agreements, intellectual property licensing, public offerings,... read full bio
"Marc Goodman is a global strategist, author, and consultant focused on the disruptive impact of advancing technologies on security, business, and international affairs. Over the past twenty years, he has built his expertise in next generation security threats such as cyber crime, cyber terrorism, and information warfare, working with organizations such as Interpol, the United Nations, NATO, the Los Angeles... read full bio
Jerry Michalski is a pioneer in the evolving corporate, social, and cultural landscape being carved out by the technological revolution. The first Managing Editor of Esther Dysons groundbreaking publication, Release 1.0, he has shed light on everything from the birth of the Internet and the rise of Silicon Valley to the recent start-up venture frenzy and the latest innovations that... read full bio
Ben Casnocha is an award-winning entrepreneur and author from Silicon Valley. He is co-author with LinkedIn founder/chairman Reid Hoffman of the #1 New York Times bestselling book The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career. He is also co-author of The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age based on his article... read full bio
Christopher Penn is the Vice President of Markting at a public relations firm called Shift Communications. He is also the co-founder of PodCamp New Media Community Conference. AND he is the co-host of the marketing Over Coffee Podcast. This busy man is very skilled at internet marketing and he is the lead subject matter expert and professor of Advanced Social... read full bio
Franchesca Ramsey is known by her youtube followers as Chescaleigh. She gained mainstream media attention when her video S**t White Girls Say_.To Black Girls went viral over night. The video, a satirical peace in the vain of the popular S**t ____ People Say internet trend, has been featured on MSNBC, ABC, The Daily Mail, and Anderson Cooper. It was even... read full bio
In addition to co-founding the website Texts From Last Night (TFLN), Lauren Leto co-authored (with Ben Bator) the book Texts From Last Night: All the Texts No One Remembers Sending. She also wrote Judging a Book By Its Lover, her first solo project, and is creating another start up, Bnter (pronounced ""Banter"") which will center around how people communicate, will... read full bio
Arnie Kuenn is the CEO of Vertical Measures, a content marketing agency with an SEO foundation, focused on helping their clients get more traffic, more leads, and more business. Arnie has held executive positions in the world of new technologies and marketing for more than 25 years and has gone on to start 5 successful companies. He is a frequent... read full bio
