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Elliott Parker - CEO at High Alpha Innovation Jul 30, 2024

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Elliott Parker is the CEO at High Alpha Innovation and the author of The Illusion of Innovation. High Alpha Innovation partners with corporations, universities, and entrepreneurs to build advantaged startups. They apply the venture studio model they developed at High Alpha and the principles of disruption theory to rapidly build and scale software companies and help their partners accelerate growth opportunities. Prior to his current role, he worked in strategy consulting, corporate ventures, and as an entrepreneur to bring new ideas to market. Most recently, he was a consultant at Innosight, the strategy firm founded by Clayton Christensen, where they helped companies develop innovation capabilities, design growth strategies, and launch new ventures. Early in his career, He became interested in the application of disruptive innovation while working with large corporations.

Bryan Terzi - Chief Marketing Officer - AutoCamp Jul 24, 2024

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Bryan is the CMO of Autocamp. He has over 10 years of Brand Management & Digital Marketing experience, he excels in the luxury lifestyle category and has a passion for travel. He offers outstanding results-based marketing expertise, collaborative leadership and partnership development on an International level.

Tripp Westbrook - President / Chief Creative Officer - Firehouse Jul 22, 2024

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Tripp Westbrook is an innovative, convention-breaking agency leader and President/Chief Creative Officer of Firehouse. His creativity and expertise in challenging category status quo has been recognized by virtually every major advertising award show and his work includes one of USA TODAY’s top 100 Super Bowl commercials of all time.

Jason Sperling - Chief Creative Officer - INNOCEAN Jun 04, 2024

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Jason has been a trusted leader on amazing global brands including Apple, @Meta (AR, VR and Metaverse), TikTok, Amazon, The Walt Disney Company Pixar Animation Studios, American Honda Motor Company, Inc. and UNICEF. He's helped build and empower departments fueled by pride and passion, which has inevitably led to some breakthrough creative work spanning digital, social, performance, influencer, partnerships, traditional channels and the metaverse. He's currently leading all marketing for Hyundai Motor Company (현대자동차), Genesis and several other global brands. Other points of interest: Developed and wrote Apple “Mac vs PC” campaign (Campaign of the Decade by ADWEEK and Top 15 Campaigns of the Century by AdAge). Adweek Top 30 Creative Director + Campaign UK 40 Over 40 Top Digital Creatives. Winner of Grand Effie, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Gold Lions in Film, Cyber, Design, Health and Branded Content & Entertainment. Emmy nom. Author of Creative Directions: Mastering the Transition

Ian Grody - Chief Creative Officer - Giant Spoon Jun 03, 2024

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Ian is a guy who uses his 15+ years of experience building ads, and writing shows for networks like MTV, SyFy and CMT, to help brands tell better stories. He's an ADWEEK Top 100 Creative and works across iconic cultural brands like HBO, Apple, Savage X Fenty, and Marvel Entertainment.

Erick Brownstein - Co President and Partner - Shareability May 09, 2024

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As a partner at Shareability, the social content studio and brand consultancy known for creating some of the most shared video campaigns of the last decade, Erick has been working with companies like Google, Intuit, Mars, Adobe, and others, to help them drive social campaign success, better understanding, engaging and activating target audiences. As the founding partner of Down Home with Tim McGraw, Shareability is translating its Gen Z expertise to help Down Home be the preeminent Marketing Machine for the heart of America, creating engaging content, brands, and experiences born out of Nashville. As an extension of his past work directing international environmental and human rights campaigns and volunteering with Mother Theresa at her Home for the Sick and Dying Destitute in Calcutta, he's passionate about Shareability's ongoing contribution to positive social impact.

Jim Jonassen - Founder - JIM JONASSEN AND ASSOCIATES May 09, 2024

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Jim Jonassen is a builder of teams, companies, products and communities. He’s founded five executive search firms over the past 30 years, including Riviera Partners Partners and JJA. Jim was co-founder, CEO and Chairman of venture-backed Peoplemover Inc., an enterprise software firm that merged with Opus360 prior to its 2000 IPO. He also founded and led Micro J Systems, a developer of software solutions for staffing and talent acquisition specialists. Known for creating teams that achieve both scale and investor returns, Jim has been instrumental in assembling leadership teams for clients like 2K Games (NASDAQ: TTWO), Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ:CSOD acquired by Clearlake Capital Group), CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), EVgo (NASDAQ:EVGO), FIGS (NYSE:FIGS), Green Dot Corporation (NYSE:GDOT), Jellysmack Juvo Mission Cloud, The Honest Company (NYSE:HNST) and VELOCIFY, INC. (acquired by Sallie Mae).

Casey Hill - Sr. Growth Manager - ActiveCampaign May 06, 2024

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Casey is a growth veteran, with over a decade of experience in helping software companies scale fast. Whether it's garnering millions of views on Quora and LinkedIn or pioneering new growth levers (like booking his team on hundreds of podcasts), Casey is always looking for creative and value-led ways to grab attention and break from the mold. In his current role leading growth at ActiveCampaign, he is building organic growth engines to propel the team to $1,000,000,000 in ARR. On the consulting side, Casey works with some of the world's biggest firms including places like McKinsey & Company BlackRock Colemans GLG, Guidepoint etc., where he provides institutional guidance to PE/VC teams around topics such as: SMB marketing vendor selection, SaaS pricing, SaaS marketing/CRM tool differentiation, market analysis, inbound marketing, and marketing automation.

Ted Fleming - Founder - Partake Brewing Apr 26, 2024

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Ted's entrepreneurship journey is all about solving problems that help people. He is focused on the health & wellness, clean-tech, environment and health-tech industries. In 2005 he was diagnosed with Crohn's disease which changed the direction of his life. As part of that change he decided to give up alcohol but still wanted to enjoy the taste and social experience that comes with beer. At that time, most non-alcoholic beer was underwhelming, and he felt ignored as a consumer. That was the problem he resolved to solve through Partake Brewing - now the leading non-alcoholic beer brand in Canada! He has created over $100M in economic value, positively impacted millions of people, and led teams of up to 50 employees, contractors, and consultants. Currently, he is Founder & Board Member at Partake Brewing (ex-CEO), and President at Agawa.

Cory Assink & Zeke Blattler - Co founders of Los Cuernos Wine Apr 22, 2024

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Cory Assink & Zeke Blattler are the Co founders of Los Cuernos Wine. After pouring wine to thousands of people and wine professionals, they realized wine had become too complicated. Los Cuernos Wine is a non-vintage, consistent house-style that's ready to be enjoyed with or without food. Don't overthink it, drink what you like.

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