Kara Goldin is an American businesswoman and founder and CEO of Hint Water, a flavored water brand. She graduated from Arizona State University where she majored in communications and minored in finance. After graduating she moved to New York City and took her first job at Time Inc. where she started out as an executive assistant and worked her way... read full bio
Steve Robinson is the Former Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of Chick-fil-A. He graduated from Auburn University with a B.S. in Marketing and went on to earn his Masters in Journalism and Advertising from Northwestern University. Robinson started his career working as a Marketing Communications Manager at Texas Instruments and was then a Director of Marketing at Six... read full bio
Angie Bastian is the co-founder of Angie’s Boomchickapop. Angie alongside her husband Dan, started their popcorn company after deciding they wanted to feed their children a snack they felt good about feeding them. They began Angie’s Boomchickapop with their bright bags that radiate all the love and fun that goes into them. Their company is committed to bringing positive energy... read full bio
Brad Katsuyama is a Canadian business executive and CEO and co-founder of the IEX, the Investors Exchange. He graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University where he attended Lazaridis School of Business and Economics. He went on to start his carrer working for Royal Bank of Canada where he was formerly the Global Head of Electronic Sales and Trading. While working at... read full bio
Tom Gruber is an American inventor, author, entrepreneur and American computer scientist who is best known for co-founding Siri Inc. Gruber studied both psychology and computer science at Loyola University New Orleans where he earned a double major B.S. and graduated summa cum laude. He later went on to earn his M.S. in computer and information science from the University... read full bio
Jessica O. Matthews is a Nigerian-American inventor, CEO and venture capitalist who is the co-founder of Uncharted Power, a full-service power and data infrastructure company which created Soccket. Matthews studied psychology and economics at Harvard College and earned her MBA from Harvard Business School. While in college, Matthews alongside her classmate, Julia Silverman, invented Soccket, a soccer ball that can... read full bio
Charlotte Pearce is an entrepreneur who is the CEO and founder of Inkpact, an online platform that connects brands with customers through handwritten notes and gifts. Pearce states that people remember how you make them feel and thinks doing a little can go a long way in building a lasting business relationship, which is in the heart of her business,... read full bio
Seth Goldman is an American businessman who is the former CEO of Honest Tea, which he co-founded with Barry Nalebuff. He is also the executive chairman of Beyond Meat, a plant-based protein company. Goldman grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and went on to study government affairs at Harvard University where he was a student athlete. After graduating, he taught English... read full bio
Nick Friedman is an American entrepreneur who is best known for co-founding College Hunks Hauling Junk and College Hunks Moving alongside Omar Soliman. Friedman grew up in Washington D.C. and went on to study at Pomona College in California where he played basketball for four years. After graduating from college, Friedman worked as an economic research analyst for Marsh and... read full bio
Omar Soliman is an American entrepreneur who has been co-founder and CEO of College Hunks Hauling Junk, a national junk hauling and moving franchise, which is located in Tampa, Florida. Soliman was born and raised in Washington D.C. and started working in business at only 10 years old, helping his mother in her furniture store. He went on to study... read full bio
Doug Rauch is a businessman who was the former President of Trader Joe’s. During his time with Trader Joe’s, Rauch grew the company from a small local chain to a company who has stores nationwide. He was known for being an expert on marketing innovation and crafting corporate cultures. He has shared his leadership with the company to develop a... read full bio
Kate Ancketill is an expert in innovation and is founder and CEO of GDR Creative Intelligence. Over the course of her career she has consultanted companies such as Coca-Cola, Hilton, Macy’s, Tesco, Lego, Capital One, Microsoft and P&G on emerging trends and talks on power of transformative technology for industries such as hospitality and retail. Ancketill’s work with GDR Creative... read full bio
Marga Hoek is a global award-winning author, speaker, and thoughtleader of sustainable business and capital. She is a member of Thinkers50 for having a combination of being a true visionary and for understanding and applying the commercial realities of business. Hoek is also a voice for G7 Climate Change, Cop 23, and G20. She has been featured in Thinkers 50... read full bio
Stephanie Korey is an American businesswoman who is an executive chairman of the luggage retailer, Away, and the former CEO and current co-CEO of the company. Korey has earned her B.A. in International Relations from Brown University and has gone on to earn her M.B.A. from Columbia Universities’ Columbia Business School. Korey began her career working for the executive development... read full bio
Ioannis Ioannou is a Professor, advisor, keynote speaker, and influencer on topics which include corporate responsibility and sustainability leadership. Ioannou has previously earned his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics before going on to earn his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University/Harvard Business School. While finishing his Ph.D., Ioannou began working as an associate and Ph.D. intern at Analysis... read full bio
Gunter Pauli is a Belgian entrepreneur, author, and economist, who is best known for his book “The Blue Economy.” Pauli was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and he graduated from Loyola’s University before going on to earn his masters in business administration from INSEAD. He later went on to be founder and Chairman of PPA Holding, and founder and CEO of... read full bio
Paul Romer is an American economist who has worked for the NYU Stern School of Business and who has previously served as the Chief Economist of the World Bank. Romer was born in Denver, Colorado, and he earned his B.S. in mathematics and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. He then had his graduate studies at MIT as... read full bio
Goran Carstedt is best known for being the former CEO of IKEA. Carstedt is a specialist in leadership and sustainability and has been the leader of the Society for Organizational Learning global network. He is best known in Europe for being a leader of numerous world famous companies and has a focus on organizational learning. Through his work with IKEA,... read full bio
Geoff Mulgan has been the Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London and has also been the CEO of NESTA, which is an innovation charity. Mulgan has previously earned his degree from Balliol College, Oxford, before going on to earn his Ph.D. in telecommunications from the University of Westminster. Over the course of his... read full bio
Ben Legg is a keynote speaker and author who has previously been the COO of Google Europe. Legg has previously earned his Bachelor of Engineering from Cranfield University and began his career working as a Captain of the Royal Engineers for the British Army. From there, he went on to work as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company before... read full bio
