A University of Wisconsin-Madison Alum, Benjamin loves startups, having contributed to many already. He aims his entrepreneurial efforts towards changing the world for the better: Halo to the Moon!

A University of Missouri student, Nate aspires to live a life of meaning. To be someone that can look at the world every fay with grace and gratitude. He is a person that wakes ip with a fire in him to attack the tasks ahead.

Enthusiastic dietitian empowering healthier lives through approachable wellness information, nutritious, easy recipes, and healthy product discovery. My mission is to help women foster a healthy relationship with food and be the best version of themselves. A regular contributor to publications such as Real Simple, Well + Good, Shape, Women's Health, Clean Plates, and more.

About Maximum Impact and Jay CameronMaximum Impact Travel is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and was established to unite those who want to visit Africa and learn more about the African diaspora. When CEO Jay Cameron visited Africa for the first time in his 40s, he realized that what he witnessed in Africa was vastly different from what is portrayed in Western media. Jay began his exploration of the continent in Ghana and has since traveled to nearly 20 African nations. Founder Jay Cameron desires to introduce as many Americans as possible to the inspiring cultures, powerful histories, profound knowledge and wonderful people he has encountered on his journeys. Learn more at www.maximumimpacttravel.com

For the entirety of his career, Pierre has focused on building businesses that deliver meaningful consumer value and have a positive impact on our environment. As he sailed the Pacific, the prevalence of ocean debris sparked his vision to eliminate single-use plastics. As a pioneering CEO in the U.S. and abroad, Pierre has been working to eliminate single-use bags—one shopping trip at a time—via his reusable shopping bag business, KeepCool, established over 20 years ago, which serves major retailers including Costco, Trader Joe’s, and Whole Foods Market. At KeepCool, Pierre’s visionary and eco-conscious thinking quickly propelled him to the forefront of the market while simultaneously jumpstarting a social awareness that has forever changed consumer behavior.As a business leader, Pierre is recognized for his relentless commitment to innovation within an ever-changing marketplace. He introduced the Better Bag—the first reusable grocery bag made of recycled plastic bottles, supporting a circular economy of collecting plastic waste—and has continued to focus on improving the environmental profile of his bags’ materials. His transparent approach and willingness to go the extra mile, whether in solving structural conundrums or overcoming cost challenges, have earned him business partnerships that have lasted over decades. Having traveled the oceans and seen the devastating impact of plastics on marine life, Pierre is passionate about driving environmental progress in every venture he touches. KeepCool has been instrumental in transitioning reusable bags into the mainstream as well as driving ongoing innovations in sustainable materials to drive greater awareness of conscious habits and consumption. Out of the Woods® specializes in totes and insulated coolers made from Supernatural Paper™, a washable, durable, and more sustainable material option. Pierre’s newest venture, Out of the Ocean™ takes sustainability one step further, providing an alternative to single-use plastics that are made from Ocean Plastic®. Both Out of the Woods® and Out of the Ocean™ continue KeepCool’s mission, while introducing the world to the material innovation of Supernatural Paper™ and Ocean Plastic® which challenge the norms for the better.

Colombian-born Emilio Uribe is one of the most renowned and acclaimed hairstylists and makeup artists in the United States. His passion, talent, and commitment have earned him high recognition, such as "One of Hollywood's Top 10 Celebrity Stylists and Makeup Artist" by the beauty care emporium "Sexy Hair".His reputation is widely known in both the Hispanic and Anglo entertainment worlds. Emilio has worked with top artists such as Gloria Estefan, Shakira, Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, Charlize Theron, Yanni, Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada), Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean), to name a few. In addition, he has been a style director for editorials in several prestigious and exclusive magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Maxim, InStyle, People, and more. Furthermore, he has produced for 3 years in a row the covers for Playboy magazine.

Daniel Aharonoff - Seasoned investor and entrepreneur focused on creating real-world value leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, autonomous driving.

Depending on how you count them, Yiftee is Donna’s 3rd or 19th start-up. She started her tech career as a product manager at Sun Microsystems, progressed to CMO where she took a startup from inception through IPO, then went into Venture Capital. After 9 years in VC, she went back to her entrepreneurial roots and became CEO of another startup, which she sold 3 years later and founded her current company, Yiftee. She enjoys teaching entrepreneurship to engineers and entrepreneurs at Stanford University and is a frequent public speaker. She was named one of the 2014 Top 10 Women to Watch in Tech by Inc. Magazine. Donna holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering with Distinction from Stanford University and a Harvard MBA. 

Jaime Schwarz is the founder of Brand Therapy, a product-market fit discipline built on his expertise across his award-winning decade and half servicing over 100 brands in NYC advertising agencies and seven years co-founding seven startups. Working with founders and brand stewards, he empowers the brand voice to speak for itself, both as a voice in the head's of stakeholders and in their prompt-trained AI which serves as a go-between for internal organizational & product development and external strategy & marketing development. He consults mostly with technology, betterment, sustainability, wellness, and lifestyle brands. He is currently a 3x co-founder.MRKD.art is a new, autonomous art format that allows digital art to defend it's own authenticity, collect and share its own provenance, and promote and sell itself. Thanks to a new NFT standard and a granted patent for a system and method for identifying and commercializing virtual objects, MRKD.art is the only solution for a safe, secure, recurring revenue format for artists and a value-add, interoperable, self-promoting format for collectors. ParallelWorlds.us creates, deploys, manages, and monetizes digital products and immersive media across a persistent digital twin of the earth. This chain-agnostic, web2 - web3 bridge-building platform, allows anyone to co-create with the brands they love, building value for interoperable products. Consumers are evolving into into producer-consumers or prosumers who buy and upsell as part of an economy where creation never ends, parallel worlds is building the spaces for this weconomy to thrive. TeamFlow.Institute is an organizational design consultancy, research institute, and academy focused on maximizing momentum for decentralized teams. In this era to rush workers back to the office, The Team Flow Institute decided to go back to the drawing board for remote vs in-office work and humans vs automation. The institute is built on decades of research, including the work of Dr. Jef van den Haut, the founder of Team Flow science. Flow coaches consult with companies to reimagine what workers are capable of using a scientifically-tested Team Flow Assessment tool that discovers the hidden frictions of human work, optimizing them before applying AI tools that augment and add to what teams are capable of rather than replacing what they already do.Jaime is an advisor to XRSI.org, which works to formalize and certify safety and ethics in emerging technologies like XR and AI. He is also a board member of WayfindersontheHudson.com, a nonprofit, nature-focused SEL after-school development program, and an adjunct lecturer at City College's Branding and Integrated Communication School. He is a father of two talented boys and husband to an Emmy award-winning casting director. You can usually find him in his basement office in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

Yosef embraces the intersection of communication, technology, and luxury, three realms that have perhaps never been more intertwined than they are today. Raised in the cultural melting pot of Los Angeles, his identity as a mixed-race queer Jewish man informs his approach to brand management and storytelling, allowing him to navigate the complexities of modern consumer culture with both insight and empathy.As the Customer Experience and PR Manager for Cordova, Yosef serves as the architect of customer journeys, meticulously crafting experiences that aren't merely transactions, but rather tapestries woven from the threads of connection, emotion, and shared values. His role also involves sculpting the brand's public image, as he diligently works to cultivate a community of Cordova enthusiasts spread across the globe. In this luxury ski market, where expectations are high and competition is fierce, Yosef's strategic acumen and technological savvy are indispensable. Outside the comfy confines of his home office, you might encounter Yosef in the wild, perusing the racks of designer vintage stores, savoring the culinary delights of sushi spots along Ventura Boulevard, or basking in the companionship of his beloved chihuahua.

Hayley manages Jibby Coffee's social media, engaging with our community and driving brand awareness through creative content.