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ANNA FABREGA is Chief Executive Officer for Freshly, the $1.5B D2C fresh meal delivery service that was recently acquired by Nestlé USA.  Anna is a growth-oriented leader with over 22 years of business, operations and organizational leadership experience at high growth early-stage businesses as well as large, scaled organizations. Her experience spans across brand/marketing, distribution and suppl...

Markus Reinmund is the founder and CEO of Knocking, a content and commerce company for all media. Throughout his career, Markus has held senior executive positions within P&L management, corporate strategy, marketing and consumer analytics for several Fortune-500 companies.  Prior to founding Knocking, Markus worked for Aetna, a Fortune-100 healthcare company, as a full-time executive advisor repo...

Stanford Le is the CEO and president of Snoqualmie Casino. Le joined the casino as chief marketing officer in June 2018 and helped shape the marketing and acquisition strategy for the record-setting year and 2019. During his tenure as interim CEO, Le led the casino team through the pandemic while retaining the company’s entire team member workforce of 1,100. Le has more than 24 years of experience...

James Miller, II is a Board Director and CEO who works in partnership and collaboration across diverse groups of people to set strategic direction, foster cross-functional consensus, enable transformation, and attain mission success. Merging extensive C-level leadership experience with a broad and diverse Board Director background,  James guides companies and their leaders in achieving strategic g...

John W. Kett is CEO and President of IAA, Inc., the leading multi-channel vehicle marketplace (NYSE: IAA). John became CEO in May 2014, after serving in a variety of executive roles at IAA for more than fourteen years. In June 2019, he led IAA through the process of becoming an independent public company. In 2019, IAA generated $1.4 billion in revenue and sold more than 2.5 million vehicles throug...

Kent A. Kramer joined Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana in 2002 as Vice President of Retail Operations, later serving as Chief Operating Officer. In 2015, he was named President and CEO. Kramer leads 4,200 employees (two-thirds of whom have a significant employment barrier) who educate more than 4,400 students in 16 high schools and provide direct services to more than 2,000 low-income fami...

Stephanie Pugliese has been President of the Americas with Under Armour since June 2020. Prior to that, she served as President of North America from September 2019 to May 2020.  Prior to joining Under Armour, Ms. Pugliese served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Duluth Trading Company from February 2015 to August 2019, and as President from February 2012 to August 2019. Prior thereto, s...

Syed Barizuddin, Ph. D is a researcher, an academic, and an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience. Syed’s bachelor’s degree and subsequent work experience of 5 years gave him the expertise in Electronics Engineering, Power Systems, Telecommunication Engineering, and Control Systems. The Master’s degree research imbedded the expertise on Nanotechnology, Chemical Engineering and Energetics....

Donald Bloom is the President & CEO of Prime Retail Services, Inc., an international company with operations in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Prime provides construction services, equipment installation, technology deployment and multi-site electrical services to national and international, multi-site property owners and managers.  Since 2003, the team of professionals at Prime has offered excelle...

Leo Resig is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Atmosphere, the world's leading streaming TV service for businesses.  A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in Management, Leo tested a range of career paths -- everything from screenwriting to personal banking -- before discovering digital advertising in its nascent stages in 2002. He cut his teeth on the agency side as a digital m...

Rodolfo is a global consumer products executive with a consistent track record of improving operating performance and increasing shareholder value across multiple categories, in established and emerging markets, at a diverse set of FMCG companies. He has achieved above-market revenue and profit by successfully integrating organizational, strategic, operational, and financial dimensions of complex...

Deverl Maserang  President, Chief Executive Officer, & Director Deverl Maserang II is an innovative food & beverage industry leader with more than three decades of successful experience. He joined Farmer Brothers in 2019 as President,  Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and member of the Board of Directors,  shepherding the company successfully through the turbulence of the COVID-19  pandemic...

Jon Abbott is the president and CEO of GBH, America’s leading multiplatform creator for public media and the largest producer of content for PBS and partner to NPR and PRX. A nationally recognized public media leader, Abbott has transformed the way GBH creates and distributes diverse educational content to millions of Americans throughout New England and across the nation. Abbott has expanded GBH’...

Claudia A. Eisenmann is the current Chief Executive Officer of Deaconess Gibson Hospital in Princeton, IN and Deaconess Union County Hospital in Morganfield, KY.  She is also the System Vice President of Critical Access Hospitals for Deaconess Health, a Regional Health System based in Evansville, IN. Claudia has a long and diverse healthcare leadership background with C-suite appointments in organ...

Tim Bessell loves his job. He combines lifelong surfing experience with expert craftsmanship to create some of the best custom surfboards in the world. Surfboard shapers and surfers alike, from all over the world, know the name, Tim Bessell. From world-class professionals to weekend warriors, ask anyone who knows him and they'll tell you the same thing: Tim is more than a shaper, he's an artist. H...

Mirko Marich has a solid track record in business. He is devoted to his family and friends and committed to his community.  His history is a classic American success story. Born the son of a Yugoslavian immigrant who came to America with little more than the shirt on his back, he was taught to work hard. be a good family man and friend, and do right by all. President of CSG: Mirko is the co-foundi...

Lothar Krinke, Ph. D., is the CEO of Welcony, the global neurotechnology leader that supports thousands of research labs, clinics, hospitals, and universities that focus on mental health, brain disorders, cognitive neuroscience, and neuromonitoring. Welcony’s  Inspired Neurotechnology is changing lives worldwide, and Dr. Krinke’s passion is to help improve patient outcomes. Welcony brands include...

Thomas Gillespie is the President and CEO of Mendota Heights, MN-based Living Well Disability Services, a leader in providing exceptional services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  Gillespie has more than 15 years of senior management experience working across the spectrum of roles in the disability services industry including executive leadership, operations management...

Falguni Desai is an experienced marketing leader at Procter & Gamble who leads the North America Grooming  Direct-to-Consumer business & also serves as the Managing Director for The Art of Shaving.   She’s spent almost two decades working across more a dozen iconic brands from upstream innovation roles to managing P&Ls across established businesses and start-up models. Falguni has a consistent tra...

Sundu Rathinam was born in 'Madurai' the cultural capital of India in 1972. Sundu is a Mechanical Engineer from PSG College of Engineering, Coimbatore, India. He is currently based in Davis, CA. He is blessed with a great family, married, and has a lovely daughter and a son. He is a very positive result-oriented leader. He has over 25 plus years of experience with Data Management, Product Engineer...

Anne Beiler began twisting pretzels in 1987 to support her husband's vision of offering free counseling services in their community.  What started as a single farmer's market stand grew into Auntie Anne's®, the world's largest hand-rolled soft pretzel franchise.  Anne's journey towards success began many years before she rolled the first pretzel when she and her husband experienced any parent's wo...

Thomas Hill III is Chief Executive Officer of Kimray. As the grandson of Kimray’s founder, Garman Kimmell, Thomas grew up around Kimray. He has worked at the company in virtually every department, giving him an intimate knowledge of the processes and people involved from start to finish. Thomas manages the family-owned company with a sense of stewardship and heritage. Thomas is also the author of...

Fee Stubblefield is the CEO, Founder and President of The Springs Living with its home office in McMinnville, Oregon.  Fee started The Springs Living in 1996, with an idea to build a retirement community his grandmother would want to live in as she faced the challenges of aging. Today there are 12 communities in Oregon and 5 communities in Montana.  They offer senior living with options for indepe...

Ric Phillips is a Senior Executive with deep experience developing strategy, driving execution, negotiating mergers and positively impacting organizational culture. He brings a track record of strong leadership and positive impact across businesses in sectors ranging from industrial to distribution, e-commerce & digital, consumer and healthcare. Ric currently is the President and Chief Executive O...

Dr. Tianyi Jiang (TJ) co-founded AvePoint in 2001 and has served as the organization's Chief Executive Officer since 2005. A recipient of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award in New Jersey in 2010, TJ received both B.S. and Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University, and a Master of Philosophy and a Ph. D. in Data Mining from the Department of Information Syst...