Dean Carter is currently apart of human resources, finance, legal, and shared services at Patagonia. Prior to working for Patagonia, Carter has been an account executive and sales manager for P&G, Manager at Pearle Vision, HR Business Partner and Staffing Manager at Pier 1 Imports, Director and Chief HR Officer for Fossil Group, Inc., and Chief HR Officer at Sears... read full bio
Erin Bury is a marketer, technology expert, and entrepreneur. She has been named one of Marketing Magazine’s “Top 30 Under 30”, and she is the managing director at Eighty-Eight. Bury has worked with brands such as PayPal, Shopify Plus, Telus, Sony Pictures Television, and numerous start-up companies. She is an advisor and investor at Pressed News & Willful and is... read full bio
Stan Sthanunathan is currently the Executive Vice President of Consumer and Market Insights at Unilever. Previous jobs that Stan has had include working as a Manager of Insights for Coca-Cola, their Research Manager and Head of Business and Consumer Insights, Director of Knowledge and Insights, Vice President of Knowledge and Insights and Global Vice President of Marketing Strategy and Insights.... read full bio
Tami Reller is currently the CEO and Executive Chair of Duly Health and Care. Before that, she was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of UnitedHealth Group as well as the EVP and CMO and the Chair of the Board of Directors for SPS Commerce. Prior to her work with UnitedHealth Group, Reller has been the CFO of Great... read full bio
Fran Hauser is a best-selling author, media executive, and startup investor. As a startup investor and advisor, Hauser has helped to fund and advise companies such as HelloGiggles, Levo, Mogul, The Wing and Gem&Bolt. Hauser graduated summa cum laude with a BBA and MBA in Business Administration from Pace University. She went on to start her career in finance where... read full bio
Gopi Kallayil is currently the Chief Evangelist in Google Social for Brands at Google. He works on growing customer brands through digital marketing while working with Google’s sales teams and customers. Prior to working as the Chief Evangelist, Kallayil has been the Chief Evangelist in Brand Marketing for Google. He’s also been an engagement manager for Syntel, an associate for... read full bio
Jeanne Gang is an architect who is the founder and leader of Studio Gang, an architecture and urban design practice found in the United States. She is best known for her works on the Aqua Tower, Solstice on the Park, Writers Theatre, the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, the University of Chicago Campus North Residential and Dining Commons, City... read full bio
Ryo Zsun is the culture maestro for Zappos. Zsun travels the world sharing his passion for Zappos and it’s culture, values, and customer service for his job as culture maestro. He started his career working as a barista in the Z’café and his bright passion let him to a job with the Zappos Customer Loyalty Team where he worked on... read full bio
Julie Rice is a well-known businesswoman and investor best recognized for co-founding the well-liked indoor cycling firm SoulCycle. She has contributed her entrepreneurial zeal and investing skills to the alternative collaborative workspace concept as the former Chief Brand Officer of WeWork. Rice is well known for being a source of encouragement and inspiration for individuals all around the world thanks to... read full bio
Dr. Rene Muller is the Co-Founder and Chairman of GMC Software AG, where he was previously the CEO. He is also the President of the board at GMC Analytics AG. His impressive resume includes notable experience in research, including fuel cells research with ABB Brown-Boveri, Baden, Switzerland, and Low Temperature Physics with IBM. His management expertise includes many years as... read full bio
Syed Karim is founder and CEO of Outernet, expert on information access and satellite communication, and a global TED speaker. Karim earned his B.A. in Social Entrepreneurship from Lake Forest College and earned his Master’s Degree in Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After graduating, he started his career as a research assistant at University of Illinois... read full bio
Steven Spear is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and at the Engineering Systems Division at MIT. Spear is a leading expert on how certain organizations achieve complex development, design and delivery efforts to produce unparalleled rates of internally generated, broad-based advancement and innovation. His research focuses on how the resulting leadership on reliability, agility, cost,... read full bio
Ramu Yalamanchi is Founder and CEO of hi5 Networks, Inc. After launching the company, Ramu brought the service to profitability within a year. He has since left the company and has gone on to become co-founder, CEO and a board member of Adlogica Inc. which is a customer acquisition marketing group with subsidiaries in the US and Europe. The company... read full bio
Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg are the co-founders and co-CEOs of the Skimm, a membership company that is dedicated to helping female millennials live smarts lives. Along the way, the duo has gained readers such as Oprah and Sarah Jessica Parker. Weisberg and Zakin met while studying abroad in Rome and after graduating came back together while working at NBC... read full bio
Seth Mattison’s primary interest is in workforce trends and his generation—the Millennials. Seth’s presentations focus on creating a better understanding of the generation gaps between younger and older workers today, how to repair them, and how bridging them can lead to greater creativity, productivity, and worker satisfaction. As one of the millions of Millennials/Gen Years around the world trying to... read full bio
Chris Kelly is an entrepreneur, politician, lawyer and activist. Kelly graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory and earned his B.A. from Georgetown University. Since then he’s gone on to earn his master’s from Yale University and his law degree from Harvard Law School. Kelly’s earliest work includes being on the staff of Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign. He went on to... read full bio
Larry Broughton is an award-winning entrepreneur, CEO, keynote speaker, number 1 bestselling author and a former Green Beret. Larry has previously been a US Army Staff Sergeant and he served for eight years on Special Forces A-Teams. During his time served, Larry took the lessons he learned from his time serving to apply them to the business arena attaining extraordinary... read full bio
Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a Thai landscape architect and CEO of Porous City Network, an enterprise that increases urban resilience in Southeast Asia. Voraakhom is also a TED fellow and founder of the Koungkuey Design Initiative which rebuilds public spaces with communities. Voraakhom earned her bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from Chulalongkorn University and she went on to complete her graduate... read full bio
Mei Mei Hu is the Chief Executive Officer, co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors of United Neuroscience. As CEO of United Neuroscience, Hu works on finding new ways to fight brain diseases like Alzheimer’s. She urges her directors of United Neuroscience to pioneer a new class of endobody vaccines to train the immune system to produce specific... read full bio
Tristan Walker is the founder and CEO of Walker & Company Brands. Walker graduated from State University of New York at Stony Brook with a B.A. in Economics. From there, he went on to earn his MBA in Business Administration and Management from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. During his last year in school, Walker started his career as... read full bio
