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Tameka Bazile is a Brooklyn-born social strategist and corporate creator who is shaping the conversation around work, identity, and brand power in the digital age. With a career spanning over eight years, Tameka has built a reputation as a sharp, creative industry leader who blends strategic thinking with real-world relatability. She is currently the Associate Director of B2B Social & Content...

Sandy Carter is a globally recognized technology executive, author, and thought leader at the intersection of AI and Identity. Currently CEO of an EQUS, an agentic AI company focused on privacy-based AI, identity, and trust infrastructure, she has run and scaled multi-billion-dollar businesses at AWS and IBM, and previously served as Chief Business Officer at Unstoppable, a unicorn startup. Sandy...

Dana Hork builds modern creative partnerships that help ambitious marketers deliver real brand and business results. Known for unlocking creativity under pressure, Dana brings clarity, creativity, and momentum to tensions caused by limited resources, competing priorities, and high expectations. She leads with a distinctly Minnesota-nice approach – grounded, low-ego, steady – creating the trust req...

Michelle Coulson is the CEO and Founder of Remote Rebellion (RR). She helps people to design their dream lives with more freedom and flexibility by getting a remote job that they can do from anywhere. Before RR, Michelle spent 7 years working in the corporate world as a recruiter in London, Singapore and Australia. She was so busy in her city life that she didn’t notice how unhappy and lonely she...

Ash Kumra is an AI ecosystem builder. He writes a column on AI and leadership for Inc.com, serves as SF Chapter Lead of The AI Collective, the world's largest AI community with 150,000 plus members across 175 plus global chapters, and produces AI programming for Step Conference, a global tech and entrepreneurship festival. A former business radio host, Ash has interviewed 500 plus founders and...

Aneena Elza Binod is a social media marketer, copywriter, graphic designer and all-round creative. She believes LinkedIn can be a lot more fun than being trapped in the shackles of "synergy". She is also the founder + creator of The Internet’s Favourite, a baby brand dedicated to discovering and celebrating cool people, brands and ideas from across the internet. It’s still finding its fe...

Whether you know him from his wildly popular tenure as the original host of HQ Trivia, his anchoring of the live, MLB whip-around show ChangeUp on DAZN, his own, critically-acclaimed late-night talk show Running Late with Scott Rogowsky (and the pandemic spin-off  IsoLate Night ), his two shows on Verizon’s Go90, Start Talkin’ (Complex Networks) and Weird World of Sports (Team Whistle), or his fir...

Nila Makhfi is the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Parkzy, the first peer-to-peer network for on-demand parking, which she built alongside her brother and a close friend. She studied psychology at UCLA, earned her master's in consumer psychology from USC, and has previously worked at Snap and AXS. Outside of Parkzy, she hosts community events under LinkedUp that bring LinkedIn creato...

Emmy Award-winner Scott Greenberg is Co-Founder of the audience simulation platform Chronicle Media. Founded in 2025 and backed by Patron, Point72 Ventures, Z Ventures, Sands Capital and other prominent investors, Chronicle automates social growth for top global content creators, brands, studios and network partners. The company’s AI platform leverages frontier audience simulation models to discov...

Rachel Lowenstein is a leading independent cultural strategist and content creator. For over a decade she has worked at the intersection of culture, brand, and girlhood, helping the world's most influential companies understand how culture is moving, especially for women/girls. Top brands including Nike, Google, Unilever, Dove, Essity, Meta, Chief, and UN Women trust her expertise to grow thei...

Tommy Lynch explains why so many brands underestimate the education gap around TikTok Shop, why bigger brands and agencies are finally paying attention, and why the real edge comes from products that are so visually interesting people want to watch them before they even buy them. Entrepreneurship rarely follows a straight path. For Tommy Lynch, it began at 14, building furniture from discarded shi...

Anastasia Leng is the founder & CEO of CreativeX, a technology company that powers creative-decision making for the world’s best brands. CreativeX technology is used globally by Fortune 500 brands like Unilever, Mondelez, Heineken, Google, and more to measure creative efficiency, consistency, representation, and impact across all creatives worldwide. Anastasia spent 5+ years at Google, where s...

Libby Amber Shayo is a social media creator, strategist, podcast host, and founder based in New York City. With a background in advertising and a BFA in Acting, Libby turned her passion for storytelling and comedy into a full-time career as a creator, building a growing community around Jewish lifestyle, dating, NYC life, humor, weddings, and the realities of being a modern Jewish woman online. Sh...

Sam Berlow , co-founder and Executive Chair of The Type Founders, is a respected industry leader, trusted advisor, and one of the most connected figures in the American type industry. For over three decades, Sam has helped build the businesses that shaped modern type design and distribution—co-founding and leading the Font Bureau, serving as a Senior Product Manager at Adobe, and co-founding Webty...

Aria Kim (@techwitharia) is a DC-based creator covering AI, careers, and tech for an audience of 150K+. Before going full-time on content, she spent years as a security program manager at Meta and Sony, and now helps people build careers that don't follow a straight line. She has partnered with some of the biggest tech companies in the world, including OpenAI, LinkedIn, and Coinbase, and her w...

Jason Keehn is the founder of Accompany Creative, the award-winning, impact-driven creative agency recently named Ad Age’s Purpose Agency of the Year. With their motto of “We make good, work” Accompany Creative focuses on transforming brands into change agents through inspiring, mission-led storytelling and design. The company is a collective of socially conscious branding, marketing, PR, product...

Maria Vorovich and Holland Martini are the co-founders of GoodQues, the “anti-research” research company built around the idea that rigor and creativity shouldn’t be opposites. Maria serves as Chief Strategy Officer and Holland as Chief Insights Officer, combining strategy, psychology, analytics and research to better understand what people actually think, feel and do. Maria spent much of her care...

Chris Abraham is a Senior CSM on beehiiv's Ad Network team, where he manages more than $2 million in monthly ad spend across 80-plus active advertiser campaigns and a publisher network of over 30,000. He spends his days matching brands with the right newsletter audiences and helping publishers turn trust into revenue. Before beehiiv, Chris grew revenue at The Peak, a Canadian business, finance...

Jonathan Chanti is the Founder and CEO of Reign Maker Group , a modern media, talent, and marketing company built at the intersection of culture, creators, sports, entertainment, and brand innovation. Through its portfolio of companies, Reign Maker Group represents top creators, athletes, entertainers, and brands while helping them build scalable businesses beyond traditional endorsement and conte...

Melissa Yinger is an editorial leader and storyteller who has enjoyed working with Theorist’s all-star team of writers and creative visionaries since May 2025. She holds a Ph. D. in Literature and brings 15+ years of experience shaping content that ranges from academic essays to No. 1 iTunes documentaries, viral shorts, and long-form shows. She loves blending deep research and cultural analysis wi...

Jamie Gutfreund is a leading authority on the creator economy, advising marketers, investors, and technology companies on how to  capitalize on the rapidly evolving creator media ecosystem. Drawing on senior leadership roles across brands, agencies, and platforms, she specializes in creator marketing technology, measurement strategy, and market positioning. Jamie currently serves as Co-Chair of th...

Charlie Ibarra is the Co-Founder and Head of Content at Creator TV®, the first creator-led streaming network and content studio dedicated to bringing the authenticity and energy of social media storytelling to television. Since co-founding the network under Sabio Holdings in 2024, he has built Creator TV's content operation from the ground up developing the studio's format strategy, leadin...

Eric Cheng (@ericsaymore) is a digital director, strategist, and political content creator . He leads digital and creator strategy for campaigns including the current LA mayoral race. With an audience of over 80K across socials, he blends comedy, culture, and commentary to make civic engagement accessible to a wider audience. 

Delaney Debinski is the Founder and Creative Director of Delavie Creative, a new media creative consultancy in Brussels. From writing at Warner Bros Discovery to directing content with over 3 billion views on YouTube channels like Average Rob, MrBeast, Hilton Hotels, and more, she founded Delavie Creative around the philosophy in its name: de la vie, meaning "of life." Today she develops...

Michael Curtis is the CEO and founder of Proud Management , a boutique talent management company representing creators who are highly conscious of their social following and character. In a world where new influencers are born overnight, they believe that it’s important, now more than ever, to be good role models, spread positivity, and fight for what you believe in— and they are committed to help...