Innovations and Breakthroughs

Austin Clark is the Owner and CEO of Moxie Pest Control of Arizona. The company offers customizable, premium service subscriptions for its customers' pest control needs. Their mission is to improve the quality of life for its customers, team, and community. In 2020, Austin's Phoenix branch grew by 119%, and they're looking to double in 2021. By increasing Moxie Pest Control and the other businesse...

Yoni Kozminski is the Founder and CEO of MultiplyMii and Escala. He has spent a decade in digital marketing and creative advertising globally, including Australia, Los Angeles, and Tel Aviv. He has developed digital strategies for companies like Mercedes-Benz, Mastercard, Sony, Medtronic, and many eight-figure e-commerce brands. Before starting Escala and MultiplyMii, Yoni expanded an Amazon busin...

Sam Zellner is the Lead of the Patent Quality through Artificial Intelligence Project (PQAI) and the Founder and the Co-founder and CEO of InspireIP, a platform enabling companies to harness their team's innovative spirit. He serves on the board of the US Intellectual Property Alliance, and is an IAM top 300 IP Strategist as well as an inventor on more than 200 patents. PQAI brings together the la...

Howard M. Shore is the Founder of Activate Group. He is a speaker and best-selling author who has worked with hundreds of executives and teams to help accelerate their growth and scale their organizations. During his career of over 35 years, Howard has helped create over $1 billion of value. He has authored two best-selling books, The Leader Launchpad and Your Business is a Leaky Bucket . Howard c...

Howard Tiersky is the Founder and CEO of FROM, The Digital Transformation Agency, a 75 employee digital agency that helps executives at large brands transform the customer experience to win in today's digital world. He is a successful entrepreneur who has been named by IDG as one of the "Top 10 Digital Transformation Influencers" and by Enterprise Management 360°as "One of the Top 10 Digital Trans...

Tom Hazzard is an inventor with 37 patents and an unprecedented 86% success rate for consumer product designs. He is the Co-host of the Forbes-featured, fast-growth WTFFF?! 3D Printing Podcast , as well as two other podcasts, Feed Your Brand and Product Launch Hazzards . They were born out of his core business for many years, Hazz Design, where he designed and developed over 250 products that gene...

Brenda Ruby is a Branding and Marketing Expert. She helped scale SNOW, a premium brand of oral care products from $0 to $100 million in revenue. She started with SNOW as the very first employee and eventually led the operations of the firm as Chief Operating Officer.  Along the way, Brenda helped launch products into major retailers like Target and Neiman Marcus. She has also created promotional p...

Vanessa Braxton is the Founder, CEO, and President at Black Momma Brands, which includes Black Momma Vodka, and Black Momma Tea & Cafe. She is the first African American woman master blender, distiller, owner, and operator of a nationally distributed vodka in the United States.  Before launching Black Momma Brands, Vanessa managed construction and engineering contracts worth over $2 billion for th...

Kevin Nations is the CEO and Sales Maximizer at Kevin Nations Training where he teaches people how to charge more for their time, services, and products so that they can live the life they envision and get what they are really worth. He is an expert in marketing, sales, and scaling businesses, and he is considered as the consulting industry's top expert. He is the go-to guy for helping people to s...

Caulen Foster is the Co-Founder and President of BrainPower, a rapidly growing, full-service digital marketing agency that specializes in multi-channel brand expansion from Amazon onto Shopify. They help Amazon brand owners leverage the power of paid media, email, direct response copywriting, conversion rate optimization, and digital infrastructure to create an effective omni-channel marketing str...

Monica Floyd is the Founder and CEO of True Vision Media Group, a full-service music, film, and video production company. Through her media company, Monica endeavors to inspire others through the arts and enhance the human experience through visual arts and entertainment.  In addition to being a media executive and producer, Monica is an accomplished leader throughout the entertainment industry. T...

David B. Goldstein is a management consultant, coach, speaker, and Rich Goldstein's brother! He is also the Originator of the "creative-type" concept and Co-Author of the best-selling book, Creative You: Using Your Personality Type to Thrive , which explores the ways your personality type impacts your creativity and how understanding your own personality can be the key to unlocking your expression...

Randy Levy is a Partner at Telleria, Telleria & Levy, a law firm serving Southern California for over 52 years in workers' compensation, immigration law, employment law, and personal injury matters. As a law clerk, he worked on the Menendez case as part of the prosecution team for the LA District Attorney's Office.  Randy then went on to build the first online stores for TV and film studios like C...

Joe De Sena is the Founder and CEO of Spartan, the world's largest obstacle race and endurance brand with over 200 events annually. Spartan is on a global mission to push you towards your personal best, with over 1.5 million people participating in races every year and more than 325 events held in over 45 countries.  Joe is a New York Times bestselling author of the books Spartan Up! , Spartan Fit...

Ben Leonard is the Founder of Beast Gear, a fitness brand that was born out of a desire to train with the equipment we all need to reach our potential and BEAST our goals. Ben started the company with just his laptop and his spare time, growing it to an international 7-figure business before successfully exiting after 3 years. After selling to Thrasio, he was among the investor's first acquisition...

Mario Nawfal is the Founder of the Athena Group of Companies, a synergistic ecosystem that operates a variety of businesses including e-commerce, events, and even a growth hacking agency, in more than 40 countries. He started his first business selling blenders door-to-door with $300 in the bank. In that first year, he brought his blender business to $1 million—and $10 million in the second.  Mari...

Mike Alden is the President and CEO of Blue Vase Marketing, a multimillion-dollar full-service direct response marketing agency. Under his leadership, Blue Vase Marketing grew from a small call center into a comprehensive marketing management company ranked by Inc. magazine for 3 years in a row as one of the nation's 5000 fastest-growing private companies. The agency was also named the 2015 Large...

Doug Patton is the Founder & CEO of Patton Design, a design company based out of California. Doug is a successful inventor, having created over 300 products in 20 international market categories and received over 150 patents and international design awards. He works with companies like Apple, Microsoft, Disney, IBM, and Mercedes-Benz, putting his mission of inspiring others to live more authentic...

Mitch Thrower is a financier, entrepreneur, author, and 22X Ironman triathlete. He is the Founder and Chairman of Events.com, an innovative cloud-based event management platform provider that provides a state-of-the-art mobile-first SaaS application that enables the full event life-cycle, connecting event organizers and event-goers. Mitch also serves as Chairman of The La Jolla Foundation, a 501c3...

Benjamin Harrison is a lifelong entrepreneur and product developer who has worked with some of the top musicians in the world. Through teaching the methods he created while pitching his own products, he has helped hundreds of innovators and entrepreneurs to successfully get their own ideas into companies of all sizes.  Benjamin has also created a system that uses LinkedIn to help inventors connect...

David Wilmot is the Founder and CEO of Tuli, a social shopping platform. He is a 4-time founder and CEO with 3 successful exits and Fortune 500 executive experience. He is a passionate and decisive leader with a track record of delivering results for founding teams and shareholders. Before Tuli, David was the Chief Operating Officer for UCode and Head of Operations & Sales at Pressed Juicery. He i...

Nilda Thomas is the Founder and CEO of Workforce eTraining Solutions, formally known as International Forensics eLearning Academy, a distributor of web and cloud-based learning technologies and curated content. Nilda established Workforce eTraining Solutions with a vision of providing access to online technology training to minorities: women, youth, displaced workers, veterans, and underserved com...

Mike Saunders is a speaker, bestselling author of four books and a successful business coach who holds an MBA in Marketing. He is also an adjunct marketing professor at several universities and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. He has interviewed hundreds of industry experts on his podcast and is always striving to learn from other thought leaders.  Mike is most passionate about seeing his f...

Noah McNeely is a creativity and innovation expert. He has spent much of his career helping to shape and guide a seemingly endless series of good ideas into successful product businesses. He has developed products for a wide variety of startups and major brands including Coca-Cola, Procter and Gamble, Black and Decker, Arm and Hammer, Plantronics, Biolab, C.R. Bard, Home Depot, and many others.  C...

Lisa Lloyd is the President and CEO of Lloyd Marketing Group. Her success began with her idea for a barrette while working for the CBS affiliate in Tucson, AZ. A short 13 months later, she had patented, manufactured, sold to stores, and ultimately licensed the patent to Scünci for 20 years of regular income. The product is now sold in stores around the world and has generated over $20M globally! ...