Elevate Your Brand

Nat Brown is the Head of Brand Marketing for the small business app Invoice2go and the Host of The Female Founders Network. Her global team of creatives, designers, writers and marketeers are the brains and muscle behind several entrepreneurship communities, including The Female Founders Network, the Freelance Forum, and the Self-Made Toolkit. Nat's team focuses on visioning and producing too...

Dr. Pamela Williamson, President & CEO,  is an exemplary, dedicated individual, and has extensive experience as a senior leader for over twenty years. She has served as the CEO of SABA 7 a consulting firm, overseen quality control at a Psychiatric urgent care facility of a National Behavioral Health Care Organization where she served as Vice President and Deputy Director, and has served as the...

Brian Mac Mahon is the founder of Expert DOJO, the most active international early-stage startup accelerator in Santa Monica. Between 2018 & 2020, Brian has made successful investments into 80 technology startups from all over the world and from different industries. During COVID-19 and after, Brian intends to help more entrepreneurs from all over the world secure investment and have a launchp...

Simran is a 10-year, 6x woman founder. She’s the Founder & President at Fintech Meetup, a digital-first events company that helps catalyze the modernization of payments, banking and related financial services through community and collaboration with facilitated meetings, discussions and other interactions. She’s also the Founder and former President of industry leading events Shoptalk, Grocery...

Sophia Yen, MD, MPH is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pandia Health, birth control delivery. She has a passion for making women’s lives easier, preventing unplanned pregnancies, and educating women about #PeriodsOptional. With more than 20 years of experience in medicine, she is board-certified in Adolescent Medicine. She graduated with a B.S. from MIT, M.D. from UCSF Medical School, and M.P.H. from UC...

Akshay Sateesh is the Founder and President of Ziksana Consulting,  a Leadership Development firm that Activates the World of Work Through Play.  His combined experience in leading teams at a medical device unit of DuPont and being a Founding Member of an Improvisation Theater, led him to believe that there are more engaging and playful ways adults can learn and perform in the workplace.  Over the...

Jason Rogers launched Yabai, America's first domestic "chuhai" in 2020. Chuhai is a shochu-based alcoholic beverage that is extremely popular in Japan. As a professional skateboarder in his teens and twenties Jason traveled extensively, including multiple trips to Japan. After running skateboard companies into adult life, he looked to pivot to another industry. While chatting with a...

Sarah Kiefer is Director of Enterprise Marketing at Spotify, the world’s most popular audio streaming service. Sarah and her team are responsible for promoting Spotify’s advertising business globally and deepening Spotify’s engagement with the world’s biggest brands and advertisers. Based in London, her role spans thought leadership, content marketing, paid and organic media, sales materials, clie...

A 20 year veteran of the entertainment and digital industries, Karyn kicked off the early years as Ashton Kutcher’s VP of Production, Tyra Banks’ Director of Communications, and VP of brands for the first-ever influencer agency, theAudience. She  connected directly with digital creators as the Head of Creators at Vine, and upon Vine’s closure became VP of AT&T Hello Lab, a diversity-driven mil...

Sarah Zapp is an entrepreneur, award winning journalist and relationship curator. She is the CEO and Founder of Beyond Board. Beyond Board is nationwide community of today’s best board members and board eligible executives with live events, virtual offerings, board placement opportunities and a mission to place more women and diversity on boards. In 2019, Brown Brothers Harriman named her one of t...

Morgan Chemij serves as Senior Director of Global UX & North American e-commerce marketing at HP.com, where he oversees demand gen and CRM programs inclusive of email, print, search, display and affiliates. Prior to that, he oversaw e-commerce marketing at FTD brands – before which he spent many years agency side at iCrossing and Wunderman creating best-in-class search and digital innovations...

Alexandra brings her passion, drive, and active pursuit for knowledge to her role as the North American B2B Marketing Manager at Gameloft for brands. Her passion for advertising for both its creativity and real-world impact on today’s culture has led her to the media industry, currently playing in the world of mobile gaming & gamification. She believes innovation and creativity will continue t...

Simone conceived Mammamia as a way to blend his Italian heritage with his new California home. He was trained at Alma, Italy’s most prestigious cooking school, founded by maestro Gualtiero Marchesi. He hones his craft at Sud, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Naples. And he earned his chocolatier’s degree at Accademia Cioccolatieri Italiana. Simone founded  Zibiru, an authentic Italian bistro in Ba...

Sashee Chandran is founder and CEO at Tea Drops. Tea Drops is an innovative tea company, manufacturing organic, bagless teas. Before founding Tea Drops, she worked in Silicon Valley leading digital marketing and market research campaigns for Fortune 100 brands but was frustrated by the cumbersome process of making tea at her work desk, and so she created Tea Drops.  Tea Drops can be found in over...

Dina Samson has had interesting careers as an investment banker, chief of staff to CEOs, a restaurant publicist, and a video game producer. With the knowledge gained from these experiences, she has seamlessly switched focus and built three successful restaurants with her husband, Chef Steve Samson - Sotto, Rossoblu, and Superfine Pizza. Along with her two partners, Dina now manages the finance and...

Kimberly Small has over twenty-five years of experience in education. She started her career as an elementary teacher for Compton Unified School District. Kimberly taught for Compton USD for two years before moving on to teach for Los Angeles Unified School District for eight more years. After which she moved to the private sector working as a School Director for a nonpublic school for students wi...

Nes is a passionate leader with a proven record of strategically building brands to achieve world-class status in key global markets. Nes prides himself in building and managing strong, long lasting relationships with top/luxury accounts, as well as thought and opinion leaders that he has collaborated with throughout many industries. He possesses well-founded experience in trade, trend, experienti...

Justin Trout co-founded Health-Ade Kombucha in 2012 with his wife Daina, and their friend Vanessa Dew. The trio formed an entrepreneurship club to explore ways they could combine their diverse backgrounds into a successful business venture; the result, Health-Ade Kombucha. Originally a musician with a music production and engineering degree from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, Trout began his p...

Former exec of e-commerce at Marc Jacobs, Ryan Fortwendel makes the jumps from one trend to the next. Leaving the fashion industry in 2016 to explore the health and wellness space, he saw an opening for innovation in the booming sparkling beverage sector. In 2019, he launched Minna , a lightly brewed sparkling tea, that brings the sparkling water velocity to the tea sector.  Minna sits at the inte...

Founder and CEO of Glory Skincare, Alisia Ford noticed a disconnect between the beauty industry and the representation of women of color. She soon set out to create a space where women, like herself, could receive expert advice and clean beauty products.  Glory, meaning beauty and splendor, is the meaning behind the name of Alisia’s beauty brand focusing on skin health and providing women of every...

Shona is an entrepreneur, a woman in tech, a mom, nature buff, community activist and the Founder of Maharindee skincare.  She recently launched "Maharindee"- Pure & Potent Skincare: Made with a combination of ancient Indian wisdom & CBD science. Laurel Mintz, founder and CEO of award-winning marketing agency Elevate My Brand, explores some of the most exciting new and growing br...

Leela joined SurveyMonkey in April 2018 and leads all marketing functions including brand strategy, growth marketing, product marketing, and communications. She also serves on the board of UpWork. Previously, Leela served as Chief Marketing Officer at Lever, and prior to that, she served as VP of marketing at OpenTable, where she built product marketing from scratch and established the foundations...

Julie Johnson is the winemaker and owner of Tres Sabores, a winery nestled into the western Rutherford bench land of the Napa Valley. Passionate about food, wine, and the land, for the last 30 years Julie has lived on a certified organic farm, growing wine grapes, pomegranates, lemons and olives, raising her children not to mention Golden Retrievers, Guinea Hens, and sheep. Laurel Mintz, founder a...

Joni Rogers-Kante is the visionary and driving force behind SeneGence International, a direct sales cosmetics and skincare company known for its products that really work, offering a career path for women that really works. Prior to founding SeneGence, Joni moved up through the ranks of the Sav-On® Drugs Corporation then became a top consultant for another Direct Sales Cosmetics Company before fou...

Estee Cross leads with her mind on the team, and eyes on the business. Her drive and curiosity are core to her success. Estee’s career evolved from traditional media planning to media sales and sales management. Presently she is VP Head of National Sales, USA TODAY® Network, focused on partnership, growth and innovation. Laurel Mintz, founder and CEO of award-winning marketing agency Elevate My Br...