Innovations and Breakthroughs

Joe Polish is the Founder and President of Piranha Marketing Inc, the Founder of Genius Network® (also known as the 25K Group), and the Creator of the Genius Network® Interview Series. He's also the Co-Founder of 10XTalk.com and ILoveMarketing.com, two highly popular (and free!) podcasts on iTunes.  Everything Joe does has two components: service and connection. In the connection realm, Joe has cr...

Michael Lee is a creativity and innovation expert, and the Founder of the Innotivity Institute. The Innotivity Institute is an international creativity and innovation coaching and training organization for businesses, leaders, and creators. After spending more than 25 years in the film industry and co-founding the Academy of Television and Screen Arts in Johannesburg, South Africa, Michael now coa...

Kenneth Tyler is the Founder of Continuous Composites, an innovative company focused on a revolutionary technique for Continuous Fiber 3D printing. He invented continuous composite 3D printing, one of the core technologies involved in modern 3D printing. For Continuous Composites, he has helped develop a patent portfolio of over 250 patent applications, with over 50 patents already granted. Kennet...

Kian Golzari is the Founder and CEO of Veltra, a travel backpack company whose mission is to make your journey smarter. He is one of the world's leading manufacturing and sourcing experts and has personally sourced over 2,500 products for global brands like Bed, Bath, and Beyond, Tesco, and Aldi. In 2012, he was awarded the Olympic Games contract to design, produce, and supply the official merchan...

Stephen Key is the Co-Founder of inventRight and the world's leading expert on how to license a consumer product idea. He has licensed more than 20 products on his own and was a 2018-2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science-Lemelson Invention Ambassador. He has also published several best-selling books, including One Simple Idea and his latest, Become a Professional Inventor: The I...

Nathan Hirsch is a serial entrepreneur and a renowned expert in remote hiring and e-commerce. At one point, he had more than half a million products on Amazon that were selling for more than 1000 different dropshippers. Some of his other career milestones include co-founding FreeUp in 2015 with an initial investment of $5,000—which he scaled to $12 million in revenue before it was acquired in 2019...

Rich Goldstein is the Principal Patent Attorney at Goldstein Patent Law. He has been in practice for over 25 years and has become an authority in Intellectual Property Rights protection particularly those relating to patents and trademarks.. Rich is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), American Bar Association (ABA) Law Practice Division, New York Intellectual Pr...

Steve Waddell is the President and CEO of NASONI, where he guides the development and production of groundbreaking fountain faucets. His mission is to save one billion gallons of water annually by 2030, following the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations General Assembly.  Steve wasn't always in the faucets business. He is also a seasoned project management professional with o...

Andrew Stess is the CEO of StessCo Consulting Group LLC, providing sales, business development, strategy, and product consulting services in the music, automotive, digital media, consumer electronics, and technology industries. Before StessCo, Andrew was the CEO and Founder of AmpliFIND Music Services, where he drove the company's overall strategy, innovation, and growth—leading to their successfu...

Randy Hartnell is the Founder & CEO of Vital Choice Wild Seafood and Organics, a trusted source for the world's finest wild seafood. Before starting Vital Choice, Randy owned and operated four commercial fishing vessels for harvesting wild salmon and herring in west coast fisheries from California to Alaska. After spending more than 20 years as a commercial fisherman, he founded the company with a...

Louis Foreman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Enventys, an integrated product design and engineering firm. He is also the Founder of Edison Nation. Louis graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics. His interest in starting businesses and developing innovative products began while a sophomore with his first company founded in his fraternit...

David Jitendranath is a digital transformation specialist and the Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of MOBILE-DI. With his expertise, he helps small and mid-sized businesses scale using technology. He is known affectionately in the tech space as "The 30 Day App Guy".  David is a senior technical consultant in information technology and software development with over 18 years of experience. He h...

Steve Olsher is a 30+ year entrepreneur, Founder and Editor-In-Chief of Podcast Magazine , original Founder of Liquor.com, creator of The New Media Summit, and Host of the top-rated podcasts, Reinvention Radio and Beyond 8 Figures .  Steve is also an international keynote speaker and in-demand strategic coach who helps businesses of all sizes leverage the power of new media to generate visibility,...

Zach Benson is the Founder and CEO of Assistagram, an innovative Instagram management agency that has over 220 million Instagram followers. Zach is a full-time entrepreneur, a TEDx speaker, and social media trainer for international brands such as the Four Seasons, The Ritz-Carlton, and the emirate of Dubai. He speaks on big stages, while also getting interviewed by and working with people like Ro...

Brian Fried is a serial inventor, with many of his inventions reaching audiences through mass retail, infomercials, home shopping channels, catalogs, and online retailers through licensing and manufacturing. He is the author of Inventing Secrets Revealed and You & Your Big Ideas and has been featured in media outlets like The New York Times Magazine , Newsday, CBS News, Food Network, and WPIX-11....

Joe Fier and Matt Wolfe are the team behind the extremely popular, Hustle & Flowchart podcast. They feature some of the best marketers out there and have sat down with Roland Frasier, Stephen Esketzis, John Ruhlin, and Ryan Moran, just to name a few. They're all about marketing systems and what actually works with regards to traffic, podcasting, brand, mindset, and more.  Joe and Matt are the Co-F...

Danny McMillan is the host of Seller Sessions, the largest podcast for advanced Amazon sellers. A world-renowned public speaker and veteran Amazon seller, Danny is also the Co-Founder of DATAbrill. Working alongside respected algorithm expert Dr. Ellis Whitehead, DATAbrill manages PPC and advertising automation for 7 and 8 figure Amazon brands.  Danny also runs the yearly conference, Seller Sessio...

Bob Serling is the Founder of Profit Alchemy and a 30-year marketing and licensing veteran. His innovative take on marketing and licensing has helped thousands of businesses and entrepreneurs produce exceptional results. Bob has been the monthly marketing columnist for Success Magazine, invented a skateboard toy featuring Tony Hawk's branding that was sold in toy stores and department stores all o...

Yuri Choi is the CEO of Yuri Choi Coaching. She helps high performers and entrepreneurs move out of stress and bad habits to achieve powerful results by leveraging their emotional competitive advantage so they can live a life full of deep fulfillment and peace. This leads to more productivity, flow, and abundance.  Yuri is a speaker, writer, and connector, with a book that will be published this y...

Preston Schmidli is the Co-Founder of Good Vibe Squad and the Partnership Product Officer at Better Agency. Good Vibe Squad is a complete done-for-you marketing solution for mortgage brokers and Better Agency is the only omni relationship builder in the world.  Preston works on both companies building relationships, designing features, and optimizing processes. He spends his day building lead gene...

Justin Chen is the Co-Founder of PickFu. PickFu's online focus groups help sellers increase revenue by providing actionable data to inform their product and listing decisions. Using PickFu, sellers easily discover which product variants and color options consumers prefer, which photos and images grab attention, and which words and phrases enhance description copy. Justin earned his B.S. in Electri...

Zack Leonard is the President and Founder of Gembah, an Austin, Texas-based product design and sourcing company that helps bring product concepts to life. Through the company, Zack has helped e-commerce brands, Amazon sellers, and promotional product companies create new products that have sold for 7 figures in revenue.  Before founding Gembah, Zack worked for Instacart, helping build its Texas ma...

Howard Getsonis the Founder and CEO of Capitalogix, a data science company using advanced AI to maximize performance with real-time insights. He also runs an algorithmic hedge fund powered by the Capitalogix platform and speaks at industry events across the globe.  Howard's prior company, IntellAgent Control, was an Inc. 500 AI company and won an IBM/Lotus Beacon Award for best business applicatio...

Steve Rosen is a licensing expert and the Vice President of Product Development for CreateOn, a company that he co-founded. He's worked in product development in the entertainment industry for 17 years, collaborating with all the major film studios, licensing agencies, and toy companies to create high profile products using licensed intellectual property. Steve collaborates with licensors, coordin...

Josh Marsden is the Founder of CVO Acceleration, a marketing agency that helps e-Commerce businesses scale paid traffic effectively and profitably. Using his ARM5 Formula, Josh helps e-Commerce companies scale from 7 to 8 figures. He is also the host of The e-Commerce Performance Marketing Show and recently held the e-Commerce Unmasked Summit where he featured top-level speakers from the e-Commerc...