Robby, the founder of Sana Sano Consulting, is a high-performing transformation leader with experience driving change initiatives from startups to Fortune 100 companies. He has shepherded clients through re-orgs, technology implementations, talent evaluation, strategic planning, and multiple acquisitions. He believes in the power of real teams and is passionate about bringing people together to achieve more. He is an engaging, off-the-charts presenter and teacher, sought after in both organizations and at the university level. Robby's first book, Counter Mentor Leadership, which he co-authored with his father, teaches leaders how to be effective in the chaotic, four-generation workplace.
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Robert Galop is SVP, Product and Marketing, for IntelePeer, where he oversees product strategy and delivery to market of IntelePeer’s leading-edge communications products. His career has been focused on the high-tech industry, including roles in application development, project management, and product and marketing leadership. He drives delivery of successful products by focusing on customer value and end-user experience.
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Jenny Kassan has been an attorney for social enterprises for 22 years, and is a certified transformational coach, social entrepreneur, investor, and finance innovator. She specializes in helping mission-driven women entrepreneurs raise capital from like-minded investors. Her formula for mission-aligned capital raising has helped diverse entrepreneurs raise millions of dollars on their own terms. She is the founder and president of Community Ventures, a nonprofit dedicated to community economic and social development. Her new book, Raise Capital on Your Own Terms: How to Fund Your Business Without Selling Your Soul, is a guide to finding investors aligned with your business goals and personal values.
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Geoffrey Colon, senior marketing communications designer at Microsoft, works at the intersection of tech, design, media, human behavior, popular culture, trends, and product innovation. He defines himself as a dreamer + doer + thinker. He is the author of the 2016 book DISRUPTIVE MARKETING: What Growth Hackers, Data Punks, And Other Hybrid Thinkers Can Teach Us About Navigating the New Normal. At Microsoft, Geoffrey explores and executes creative data-driven communication and design solutions in the emerging world of media. He is the producer of the weekly marketing podcast for eccentric minds, DISRUPTIVE FM, and has been featured on Cheddar TV, Success magazine, The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, “Marketplace” on NPR, Entrepreneur, Search Engine Journal, Fast Company, Adweek, and Business Insider.
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As a marketing veteran, Ashlee Colliver has worked with well over 70 organizations during her 15+ year career. In her career, Ashlee worked to move an entirely offline company to a nearly 100% digital operation increasing revenues with the move by 152%. She also drove a campaign that resulted in fully funding the build of a not-for-profit Hospice House in Harrison, Arkansas, the only one of its kind in the United States. In the past five years, she’s worked inside the e-Commerce space exclusively. Within Classy Llama, Ashlee launched and continues to lead the marketing services team providing marketing expertise to multiple merchants.
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Bill Graebel was appointed the chief executive officer of Graebel Companies, Inc. in 2007, and in 2018 was named as chairman of the board of directors. Under his leadership, Bill has evolved the family-owned company into a multi-national, global workforce and workplace mobility solutions provider for some of the world’s top companies. Today, the company manages nearly 80,000 annual mobility initiations across 165 countries, employs nearly 900 people worldwide, and has become synonymous with the highest quality relocation and workplace services. Bill has been awarded several honors including, “Global Mobility Professional of the Year,” “Maverick of the Year,” and was a finalist for “Corporate Responsibility CEO of the Year.”
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Sandro Roco is the director of strategic initiatives at Bombfell, a stylish subscription service that helps men keep their wardrobes updated and relevant. He was the second hire on the company’s business team back in a time where, as he says, “paper clips and chewing gum were our primary tools for keeping things together.” Over the years, he has served in various different roles throughout the company, including marketing, customer experience, operations, and data analytics. He deploys a variety of digital, offline, PR, and OOH strategies and helped lead the company’s 20X growth between 2014-2017.
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Annie Wissner runs marketing for Hexagon Mining, where she has helped transform the business into the first enterprise solution for mines. She has 20+ years in the B2B technology industry, and is a high-energy maximizer with certified project management skills. Both deadline and metric driven, Annie holds herself and her team accountable for delivering results that impact the bottom line. She proudly stands at the forefront as the lines between marketing, sales, and IT disappear and is guiding her team to take the lead in process and technology decisions for the business.
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Dean Lindsay is a top business keynote speaker that has been entertaining, educating, and engaging audiences worldwide for years. He has helped build engaged, progress-based sales leadership and customer service cultures at companies such as New York Life, Ericsson, Golds Gym, Aramark Canada, UCLA Anderson School of Management, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and Haggar Clothing. His books, How to Achieve Big PHAT Goals, Cracking the Networking Code, and The Progress Challenge, have sold over 100,000 copies.
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Morgan Browning is president of Emergenetics International. He is the driver of the company’s rapid growth and has built a recognizable and impactful global brand. Under his leadership, Emergenetics has been recognized as one of America’s fastest-growing companies by Inc. magazine for the past seven consecutive years. Morgan has spent his entire life understanding the science and application of Emergenetics, and co-authored the 2006 book, Emergenetics: Tap into the New Science of Success, as well as the recently published, Work That Works: Emergineering a Positive Corporate Climate.
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Hunter Lott is a human resources trainer dedicated to the rights of management and good business decision-making. He has presented to over 100,000 business owners and managers at all levels on topics such as hiring, motivation, leadership, firing, and staying out of court. Hunter is the author of Please Sue Me-The Guide to Safe Hiring and Firing Practices for the Frontline Manager with a Short Attention Span. He serves as HR support for small businesses and a resource for individual leaders in their situational decision-making through his website HunterLott.com. Hunter is an award-winning senior course leader for the American Management Association and is currently a top-rated speaker with the Society for Human Resource Management. Hunter was “Speaker of the Year” for Vistage in 2006 and received a lifetime achievement award from Vistage in 2012.
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Brandon Fuller is a software engineer with an entrepreneurial spirit. Prior to Docketly, Brandon worked in the communications and collaboration market on industry-first products like Latitude MeetingPlace, Cisco WebEx, Cisco TelePresence, and BlueJeans video conferencing. In his current role, he is responsible for defining the Docketly’s vision and for leading the team to continued growth and success. Docketly was recognized as the #204 fastest growing private company by Inc. magazine. Brandon’s daily objectives entail the technical leadership of Docketly’s service, building a great team and company culture, and providing Docketly’s customers with an amazing experience.
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Ben Petersen, marketing manager at Blade HQ, is a guerrilla storyteller with a passion for craftsmanship. Ben has spent the last seven years selling pocketknives on both the B2C and D2C sides of e-commerce, and now manages the in-house creative team at Blade HQ. Accolades include: consistent double-digit revenue growth at Blade HQ, receiving the Best Video Award from the American Marketing Association, and millions of views on YouTube.
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Matthew Clark leads Premier Farnell's global digital marketing and e-commerce team, delivering $700 million in yearly e-commerce sales through more than 40 websites serving the Americas (Newark.com), EMEA (Farnell.com) & APAC (element14.com). Matt has held e-commerce, sales, marketing, and customer service positions at Dell, PCM, Saturn, and EDS. In addition to strong commerce efforts, Premier Farnell also has an industry leading online community of more than 500,000 design engineers and tech hobbyists, and was nominated for Internet Retailer's B2B Player of the Year in 2015 and 2016.
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As AlloSource’s Chief Financial Officer, Raime Leeby Muhle oversees all of the finance, accounting, and information technology needs of the organization.
With over 18 years of experience, Raime’s background spans emerging high growth businesses to large and mature organizations. She has held various senior leadership positions with finance and operational responsibilities. Prior to AlloSource, Raime held key leadership positions at Galvanize, Arrow Electronics, and Level 3 Communications.
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Larissa Murillo is the marketing manager at MarketGoo, an SEO application for businesses looking to optimize their websites for search engines. Larissa is a marketer with a focus on research, growth, and resource optimization. At MarketGoo she is responsible for boosting company profile, profit, and for driving acquisition no matter the resources available. Her focus was previously on mission-critical software for the financial sector and is currently on the SEO SaaS market.
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Brian Massey is the founder and Conversion Scientist™ at Conversion Sciences, as well as the author of Your Customer Creation Equation. His rare combination of interests and experience were developed over almost 20 years as a computer programmer, entrepreneur, corporate marketer, international speaker, and writer. Conversion is the science of turning website visitors into leads and sales. As a Conversion Scientist, Brian has helped dozens of businesses redesign their online strategies and focus their budgets in the places that will deliver bottom-line results.
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Brandi Starr is the COO and managing consultant of the Tegrita Consulting Group, an Atlanta-based company focused on providing a Return on Marketing Investment (ROMI) and securing their clients’ success. Brandi is a true Modern Marketing Maven. She believes marketing magic happens at the intersection of strategy, creativity, and technology. Brandi's 15-year career has spanned a variety of industries and marketing disciplines. Her expertise includes demand generation and nurture strategy, business process transformation, controlling email frequency, and custom security, and she is the SME for the Higher Education vertical.
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Michelle Levitt has been the marketing and creative director for Heil Sound for over 13 years. Michelle’s background is as a musician, an artist, a marketer, and a creator. She knows from experience that personal development is professional development. At Heil Sound, Michelle is responsible for oversight of all advertising decision making, design, and execution; management and presentation of company social media; website layout and design; campaign design for special events and contests; and graphic design of large-scale trade show displays.
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Brad Smith is the COO of Jack Grace, a premier golf footwear company specializing in high-quality saddle golf shoes with unique saddles you can swap. Brad has a diverse background in marketing, customer service, strategy, politics, and international retail. Before joining Jack Grace, Brad was at Skullcandy, a hyper-growth consumer lifestyle brand, where he worked on numerous projects to move the company forward, including the company IPO, a strategic rebuild of the customer service department, and overseeing the $10M marketing budget through a major corporate restructuring. He has spent his career diving into problems to get them resolved with short-term and long-term solutions.
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Lori is the founder, president and CEO of Brilliance Business Solutions. Brilliance specializes in B2B eCommerce - setting up websites for manufacturers and distributors that allow their customers to order from them online. Last year the company won a Future 50 award, recognizing the 50 fastest growing companies, from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, and Lori was awarded a Woman of Influence award from the Milwaukee Business Journal. Before Lori started Brilliance, she was a flight controller at NASA-Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.
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Bri Seeley is an inspirational woman who supports women around the world to bring their visions to life. Through her signature six-month training outlined in her bestselling book, Permission to Leap (and her podcast by the same name!) she guides entrepreneurs through the process of leaping from the day you commit to your vision, all the way through each stage, up until the day you land softly on the other side of it all. A catalyst, speaker, and author, she is a regular contributor for The Huffington Post and Influencive and is known by many for her compassionate, yet tell-it-like-it-is guidance that creates massive and epic changes in every woman she encounters. Bri has been featured on NBC's The Today Show, Forbes, Inc., Medium, Free Enterprise, Kickstarter, and PBS. In 2016, she received the Outstanding Small Business award from the Los Angeles Mayor's Office.
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In his role as director of product marketing at Datorama, Jay Wilder supports more than 2,000 leading brands, agencies, publishers, and platforms worldwide, and brings a radically different approach to marketing analytics with an (AI) machine learning powered end-to-end platform that integrates, standardizes, and visualizes marketing data for deep analysis and insights. He is an expert on digital marketing, content marketing, customer stories and community building, sales enablement and readiness, market/competitive analysis, and all things data-driven marketing.
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David Sasson is the president of overstockArt.com. His strengths are business strategy, innovative solutions, marketing and sales, and general business management and leadership. His leadership focus is on building a team of individuals that are committed to their growth goals and the exciting environment that they are building.
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Lifelong entrepreneur Steve Weiss is founder of MuteSix, a performance marketing powerhouse and the most awarded Facebook social advertising agency in the U.S. In 2017, MuteSix was named one of Inc. magazine's “Best Workplaces” and ranked #341 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies. Steve is a highly regarded speaker on entrepreneurship, eCommerce, and Facebook advertising. He has been a featured speaker at Mumbrella, Affiliate World Europe, the Digital Growth Summit, the Seller Summit, and can be heard weekly on the “Spend $10K a Day” digital media podcast.
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