Starting to Know

Robert Kerbeck is the founder of the Malibu Writers Circle and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. His true crime memoir about his career as a corporate spy,  RUSE: Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street, has received praise from Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can), ex-CIA Agent Valerie Plame (Fair Game), and Bradley Hope (Billion Dollar Whale). Foreword Reviews said "Ke...

Tony is the Founder and Owner of Elevated Worldwide, which focuses on improving how executives, founders, and business owners see and think about life to create success on purpose. They have been enhancing their clients' knowledge base, providing them with processes that will build up their professional and personal structures, and develop an environment where  passion, purpose, and profit  combin...

Jonathan Shroyer is the Chief Customer Experience Innovation Officer of Arise Virtual Solutions, a customer service outsourcing, and offshoring consulting firm. Arise acquired Officium Labs, a company he co-founded, last November 2021 and is now known as Arise Gaming. Jonathan has been involved with customer service as a professional and a leader for more than two decades, leading large teams at e...

Colt Briner, as chief communications officer for Ensemble Health Partners, witnessed first-hand the power of purpose in business – helping that company to grow from a $60m valuation to $2B, in 2 years.  Colt has deconstructed and streamlined the model he used at Ensemble and developed a clear and practical approach – the Purposify Framework - for engaging every level of an organization as a purpos...

Ostojic comes to Infobip following a decade with leading global consulting company McKinsey & Co., where as a partner he co-founded and co-led McKinsey's global Technology Council and its innovation and new business building (Leap) practices. He holds a doctorate in natural sciences from the University of Basel and a master's degree in management, technology, and economics from the Swiss Federal I...

Oren Schauble is a serial entrepreneur and product builder. He most recently served as President of public cannabis CPG company Unrivaled.    He is currently a partner at high-tech product development and contract engineering firm Guinn Partners , and runs the popular Product People newsletter about sourcing and bringing physical products to market. Startingtoknow- Startingtoknow.com Ishu Singh- 

"Boon Chew is the Founder of  Tappollo Media , a leading mobile app studio, that creates apps that stand out from all the noise. The company has built apps for Discovery Channel, iHeartRadio, WeWork, Timehop, and Walmart.  Tappollo Media also created the open-source framework  Booster , which startup founders can use to accelerate mobile app development for their businesses. Before starting Tappol...

Beate Chelette is The Growth Architect and founder of The Women's Code and designs processes, best practices, and systems for leaders who want to grow, build and scale their business, and achieve measurable results and profits they can count on. Recent clients include Chevron, Merck, the Women's Legislative Caucus of California Cal State University Dominguez Hills, the Greater Los Angeles Realtor...

Kevin Browett  is the  Chief Executive Officer  of The Michigan Institute for Neurological   Disorders.     Browett has extensive operations and business development experience with a wide   range of industry knowledge. He has led startups, and Fortune 500s, and has been a   change agent when it comes to the healthcare model.   Mind's website: https://mindonline.com/   Ishu Singh's website: https:...

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Swire immigrated to Los Angeles in 1996. He is a proud Chinese American who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. He trained as a sound engineer, working at recording studios and entertainment agencies before starting his own firm, Hellman Production, Inc, in 2003 in Los Angeles. Swire and his team successfully produced attractive, personalized DVD and CD cases and...

Tarush Aggarwal is the Founder and CEO of  5x , which offers data reporting as a service, so users can make data-driven decisions faster, which are necessary to succeed.  Tarush is also one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth in the world! Previously, as the Head of Data at WeWork, Tarush scaled the system to support 12k employees, as well as 100 data team members. Tar...

Kison Patel is the Founder and CEO of M&A Science, with a passion to drive the M&A industry forward. He was an M&A advisor for ten years in which he sold larger companies such as commercial banks and hotel chains. In 2012, he noticed teams lacked efficient technology to manage deals and created DealRoom, an M&A lifecycle management platform. In 2016, he started the M&A Science podcast devoting his...

Chris is the founder of KickStart Dental Marketing. While Chris specializes in dental marketing, other medical professionals, marketers, entrepreneurs, and businesses can learn from his digital marketing experience of over 15 years.  Chris has worked with countless local business owners in all industries across multiple facets of marketing, consulting, and coaching. Chris has been able to build hi...

Derren is a serial entrepreneur with over 14+ years of experience working with hundreds of startups and businesses to help them thrive. He's worn every hat in the closet with the exception of being a developer and has achieved mastery in the art of delegation. Under his leadership as CEO, he took Social Sensei to $1,000,000+ ARR in less than 10 months from launch.   The backbone of his skillset re...

Neel runs a fully remote local business and teaches others how to do the same. Five years ago Neel had an idea: local businesses don't need to be managed locally! He turned this idea into reality with MaidThis® & MaidThis® Franchise, which helps homeowners and short-term rental hosts (Airbnb, VRBO, etc) with their cleanings. They've generated millions in revenue while having a fully remote team, a...

Joseph is the CEO of Uvaro, a tech sales career accelerator, and of Kiite, a sales enablement platform purpose-built to provide sales teams with the information they need when they need it. Graduate of the University of Waterloo's Computer Engineering program, Joseph's a repeat Founder & CEO, and with multiple successful exits, and speaks frequently on the topics of sales leadership, diversity, an...

Henry started his first biz in 1991 selling, installing, servicing, and financing computers to large corporations. Since then he has founded a succession of firms in the e-commerce, finance, real estate, and consumer products spaces. For much of the past decade, he has taken his experience as an entrepreneur and used it as a platform to coach other business owners and founders.   In addition, in 2...

Edward J. Shehab is co-founder and managing partner of Birmingham, Michigan-based Memory  Health.     A serial entrepreneur, in 2019, Shehab invested in a new, groundbreaking product scientifically  proven to treat neurodegenerative diseases, particularly in patients suffering from the onset of Alzheimer's and Dementia, now known as Memory Health. His mother was living with advanced  Alzheimer's a...

John Warrillow is the founder of The Value Builder System™, simple software for building the value of a company used by thousands of businesses worldwide. His best-selling book Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You was recognized by both Fortune and Inc. as one of the best business books of 2011 and has been translated into 12 languages.  John wrote another best-selling bo...

Alex is a 3X entrepreneur. He is the co-founder & CEO of NorthShore.ai, a knowledge network that enables companies to manage curated information. He was the co-founder of  x.ai , an AI-powered personal assistant, and Visual Revenue, a real-time predictive analytics platform for editorial teams. Both companies were acquired. Earlier in his career, as an engineer at Lockheed Martin, he built softwar...

Emily McGuire is the Owner and Chief Email Marketer at Flourish & Grit: an email marketing and automation studio. She helps businesses uncover hidden revenue in their email lists by pairing a business' unique customer journey and high-converting copywriting. With lessons learned over a decade in tech and e-commerce, sending thousands of email campaigns, and earning clients over $80 million in emai...

Wayne Mullins is the founder and CEO of Ugly Mug Marketing. Over the past 20 years, he has scaled multiple companies and helped hundreds of entrepreneurs do the same with their companies. Ugly Mug Marketing has won the praises of some of the leading influencers in the business world, such as Chris Voss (New York Times Best Selling Author of Never Split the Difference), Neil Patel (Founder of Quick...

Handy believes you should never let your fears keep you from fulfilling your purpose and living your dreams. That's why he co-founded Bramework to help digital marketing agencies take back their time, make more money and grow their business. He is a husband, father, coder, blogger, and musician. He also loves solving problems and creating the coolest things imaginable! Bramework website: www.brame...

Dennis Morrison is an entrepreneurial creative who originated as a filmmaker. He's a business storyteller, marketing story strategist, and founder of Audience Magnet, which helps businesses and professionals to communicate authentically and effectively. He's helping business owners and digital creators find their unique voices. As Dennis says, "Everyone's talking about storytelling, but no one's g...

Over a decade ago he beat a billion-dollar company by outranking their website on Google. Since then, he knew he was onto something and has gone on to build an international search engine marketing company that's worked with NBA teams, and Inc 5000 & Shark Tank featured businesses. Having started his business right before the 2008 recession, Damon is familiar with navigating and growing a business...