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Gary Vaynerchuk is the chairman of VaynerX, a modern-day media and communications holding company and the active CEO of VaynerMedia, a full-service advertising agency servicing Fortune 100 clients across the company’s 4 locations.

In addition to VaynerMedia, VaynerX also includes Gallery Media Group, which houses women’s lifestyle brand PureWow and men’s lifestyle brand ONE37pm. In addition to running VaynerMedia, Gary also serves as a partner in the athlete representation agency VaynerSports, cannabis-focused branding and marketing agency Green Street and restaurant reservations app Resy.

Gary is a board/advisory member of Ad Council and Pencils of Promise, and is a longtime Well Member of Charity:Water. Gary is a highly sought after public speaker, a 5-time New York Times bestselling author, as well as a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, and Uber.

Gary is currently the subject of DailyVee, an online documentary series highlighting what it’s like to be a CEO and public figure in today’s digital world, as well the host of The GaryVee Audio Experience, a top 100 global podcast, and host of #AskGaryVee, a business and advice Q&A show which can be found on both YouTube and Facebook.

Jim Cavale is a 3-Time INC. 5000 Entrepreneur, an annual award that INC. Magazine reserves for America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies. His passion for people is at the core of everything he does in business and life. People who know Jim well, know he is all about relationships and gives unconditionally to those around him.

Originally from Upstate New York, Jim accepted a baseball scholarship to the University of Montevallo (UM), an NCAA Division II school just outside of Birmingham, Alabama, where he not only played ball but also sewed his entrepreneurial roots in building a sports broadcasting network for the university.

He then built a sports recruiting tech marketplace in NextSpex, before exiting in 2010 to build Iron Tribe Fitness from one gym to more than 45 gyms across America.

After almost seven years of leadership at Iron Tribe, Jim stepped down as President of the company and sold his ownership to spend his time in building a new SaaS brand in Influencer (INFLCR).

More than 15,000 pro and college athlete INFLCR app users from over 500 NCAA Division I INFLCR college team SaaS clients, access their INFLCR app on a daily basis, to access their pictures and videos in real-time from games, practices and other team-related activities. These 15,000+ athletes engage and share this storytelling content from their INFLCR app to their personal social media channels more than four times per week on average, reaching an audience of over 30M people on Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and other social medias.

INFLCR recently merged with sports tech titan Teamworks, to grow this athlete user network beyond 100,000 over the next year and continue its growth into pro sports, where more than 500 athletes in the NBA and NFL are already active on the INFLCR platform.

Along with growing this new brand, Jim has Co-Founded a beauty on-demand app with his wife Yazmin (GLOW), serves as the Entrepreneur-In-Residence for Birmingham’s state-of-the-art Innovation Depot Velocity Accelerator program, serves on the board for the Birmingham Venture Club and chairs the board for The Aspire Movement, a mentoring movement for young fatherless children in Birmingham.

Yazmin Cavale’s genuine, direct-leadership style has had her in charge of multiple stores for brands like White House | Black Market and Cache, who's respective brands exude first-class style.

Her passion for fashion began in school, when she attended Johnson & Wales University to study Fashion Merchandising. It was in Providence at J & W, where she learned the foundations of the industry she would grow to love, and was able to parlay this experience into multiple jobs and opportunities that allowed her to see the industry from all sides (management, sales and buying).

In addition to her store management experience, Yazmin also has a great deal of experience with makeup artistry, leading a desk for Trish McEvoy from 2004 to 2005; a skill she still uses to this day.

Recently, after having her second (2011) and third (2013) children with her husband Jim, Yazmin began working from home, doing freelance makeup artistry for weddings and big events, along with spray tanning and body hair wax removal. She has served over 150 women over the past 3+ years, while having the flexibility to be with her children at all times of day.

This experience led to the creation of the Glow app, which connects beauty professionals like Yazmin, to women who desire to receive hair, makeup or spray tan services in an on demand fashion.

Shay Rowbottom is a LinkedIn influencer and digital marketing entrepreneur, specializing in creating social media video content to attract attention and bring more eyeballs to your business. Through her unique background working in video licensing, Shay cultivated a specific, but rare, expertise on how and why something is destined to go viral. Her first agency specialized in curating, licensing, editing, and distributing custom video clips, tailored to her client’s audience, and her clients were among the highest performing blogs on Facebook.

Throughout the three years Shay worked on Facebook, she had amassed billions of impressions, aka data, on video content. She forged relationships with over 5,000 content owners across the globe, distributed tens of thousands of video clips throughout the platform, and at her peak she was averaging over 1 Billion views per month on Facebook for her clients.

This led to doing marketing for product companies as well, and utilizing the blog owner’s followings to post more direct ads on consumer products. Her team would then take the data accumulated from organic video content, and run retargeting campaigns through Facebook ads manager, reaching the right buyers and increasing sales for the product companies.

In May of 2018, Shay decided to take everything she’d learned and apply it to her own personal brand, on LinkedIn, in an attempt to get more leads for her Facebook agency at the time. What she found was not only leads, but an insanely low competition rate on LinkedIn when it came to creating video content. She quickly realized the opportunity on LinkedIn for organic growth was incomparable to other platforms, and within 6 months of creating videos consistently for her page, had grown to over 25,000+ followers and generated over 2 Million video views on LinkedIn.

It was around that time she decided to call it quits at her first agency. She sold her shares and pivoted completely, to found a new video marketing agency, specializing in helping business owners attract their target market and close more deals through the use of organic video content, specifically on the LinkedIn platform.

As a serial entrepreneur, he has built businesses across marketing, e-commerce, and media industries.

Good Monster is a strategic marketing agency that helps growth-focused businesses develop and deploy smart, profitable marketing, and advertising strategies.

Over the years, one new service at a time, Good Monster has grown into a successful team of 30+ monsters servicing clients all over the world covering B2B, B2C, e-commerce, and manufacturing.

John’s global team of experts help with creative strategy and execution, paid media/PPC, website design, Amazon store, SEO, content strategy, social media marketing, and lead generation.

To solve the itch to get unfiltered, real business talk out to the masses, John Timmerman co-founded NoBullCON with Rob Shauger and Al Cutri. They’ve built a conference full of speakers who walk the walk and will deliver actionable, valuable advice for business starters, managers, and leaders no matter where they are in their business life cycle.

Alongside Good Monster and NoBullCON, John and his wife created an American-made denim brand named Jaxon Jovie to help men and women find higher quality, better fitting jeans for their everyday lives.

Karen Cahn is the Founder & CEO of IFundWomen, the go-to funding marketplace for women-owned businesses and the people who want to support them with access to capital, coaching, and connections to launch and grow sustainable businesses.

Named to Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Female Founders of 2020, Karen is a pioneer in tech and media, as she was an early Google Intrapreneur where she spent 10 years leading various monetization teams in search, display, and video.

Most notably, Karen started the Branded Entertainment business at YouTube, when, back in the olden times of YouTube 2006, she and a rogue group of sales and product managers, made the connection between big consumer brands and video creators, thus creating the first native video ad experiences monetized on YouTube.

Karen then went on to spend three years creating and monetizing Aol’s growing suite of video content and nabbed Aol its first-ever Emmy nod.

Karen holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, double majoring in African-American Studies and US History.

You can find Karen on all the socials @karencahn

John Stage, the founder and owner of Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, began his career in cooking out on the open road. In 1983, John and two partners started the business by cutting a 55 gallon drum in half to form a makeshift barbeque and hit the road—catering to motorcycle shows, fairs, and festivals up and down the east coast.

In 1988, tired of the gypsy lifestyle, Stage decided to settle in Syracuse, NY, where he opened his first Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant. In the following years, Stage has expanded with locations in Rochester, Manhattan, Troy, Newark, Brooklyn and Buffalo.

Dinosaur Bar-B-Que has gained a reputation far and wide for serving some of the best BBQ in the country with a vibrant and lively setting. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que’s menus are firmly rooted in the traditions of southern barbecue and influenced by flavors that give Dino BBQ’s dishes their own distinctive character. “That’s one of the secrets of great barbecue,” says Stage, “staying committed to tradition, but finding your own stamp and signature.”

John Stage has built Dinosaur Bar-B-Que into a nationally known brand that includes a catering division complete with mobile barbeque rigs. Dinosaur’s line of award-winning BBQ sauces and rubs is available in Whole Foods. Additionally, Stage is the author of a successful cookbook, Dinosaur Bar-B-Que: An American Roadhouse (Ten Speed Press; 2001) that has sold over 175,000 copies and was voted cookbook of the year by the National BBQ Association.

Kieran Mathew is a 24-year-old entrepreneur and leading youth marketer. He spent 5 years building a marketing services business that helped the likes of Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, Unilever, L’Oréal, Lyft, RBC, Starbucks, and Nestle grow in the Gen Z market. Kieran is currently building consumer packaged goods brands targeted to Gen Z. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and has been recognized as a ‘Gen Z expert’ by Adweek.

Nick Shaw is a best-selling author and the co-founder of Renaissance Periodization (RP), a multi-million dollar health and fitness company that has improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of clients around the world.

His story – and the story of RP—has appeared in a Forbes feature story, which chronicled Renaissance Periodization’s rise from a small business into an influential tech company with an industry-leading app available through Apple’s app store and Google Play.

Nick has also helped to coach numerous world-class athletes including CrossFit Games champions, international medalists in weightlifting, UFC fighters, Navy SEALs, and Olympians.

Margo Baines is an award-winning serial social entrepreneur. Baines was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. She relocated to Houston, TX in 2008. She attended Texas Southern University while serving in the United States Military, Army National Guard. She graduated in 2013 with a degree in Finance and worked as an Investment banker for a top financial firm but soon discovered that her passion was not in finance so she decided to take a leap of faith and become a social entrepreneur.

Margo Baines is a first-generation college graduate, MBA candidate, and first-generation successful entrepreneur. In 2015, she started her first award-winning business with a Finance degree and a strong passion for solving some of the youth’s greatest challenges.

Margo founded Social Enterprise Youth Enrichments, which operates Chicks With ClassTMfranchises, licenses Chicks With ClassTM and merchandise, and offers the curriculum Youth Enrichments via subscription services to select school districts, churches, and youth groups around the country.

Chicks With ClassTM LLC opened its first storefront in 2017 which is the first self-esteem based learning center built for girls. Chicks With Class Class has gone on to impact over 10,000 youth. After the global pandemic struck, Margo used her ability to strategically pivot and form Enrichly which is the first self-esteem based e-learning platform for children.

Margo is known as a thought leader in her space and a pitch master taking home over $50,000 in cash and in-kind gifts through pitch competition winnings. Margo has been recognized in media such as Voyage Houston, KPRC, Essence Magazine, and Houston Chronicle. Margo has received the Black Girl Excellence Award, was recently awarded a World Impact Award, and named top 100 startup of the year by Startup of the Year founded by Established.

In addition to the many awards Margo received, she was selected as one of 1000 women to receive the Sarah Blakley’s Red Back Pack Fund Grant and Facebook Grant for Black-Owned Businesses and is now a top running candidate to receive a six-figure federal grant. Possessing many unique skills and talents including the recent title of grant writer, Margo is an ambitious thought-leader initiating positive change in the lives of youth worldwide through social entrepreneurship.

Michael Oshetski leads Micatu, a leader in cutting-edge optical sensing technology, with extensive technical experience and a pragmatic approach to business development. His passion is to fundamentally change the way the world senses with light, creating solutions that transform operational awareness.

Under Michael’s leadership, Micatu has secured millions in investments, state and federal grants since being founded in 2011. Today Micatu works with several major utilities in New York state, as well as with utilities across the nation, helping them better regulate their operations and find more efficient ways to distribute energy.

As CEO, Michael is responsible for creating the company’s strategic vision, developing new business, and directing the commercialization of Micatu’s optical sensor technology, which measures voltage, current, vibration, and temperature with industry-revolutionizing accuracy and precision.

A natural innovator, Michael has been developing and implementing optical solutions for more than 20 years and is considered an expert in optics. He has experience in all aspects of product development, including end-to-end management, global sales, P&L accountability, and multi-international manufacturing operations. Thus far in his career, he has brought more than 40 optical products from conception to market. He has also authored numerous patents and white papers on applications within sensor and optical technologies. Additionally, he holds eight patents within the field of optics and optical sensing applications (to date).

And the list of achievements goes on. In 2016, Micatu was selected as the $1 million grand prize winner in New York’s first-ever 76West Clean Energy Business Competition. Michael is also an honorary inductee at the RIT School of Engineering, where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 2003 in electrical engineering, with a concentration in optical systems engineering.

Michael lives in Horseheads, New York, with his wife and two young children and is proud to bring high-tech jobs to his hometown.