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David Karandish is Founder & CEO of Capacity – an enterprise artificial intelligence SaaS company headquartered in St. Louis, MO. Capacity’s secure, AI-native support automation platform helps teams do their best work. Prior to starting Capacity, David was the CEO of Answers Corp. He and his business partner Chris Sims started the parent company of Answers in 2006 and sold it to a private equity firm in 2014 for north of $900m. David sits on the boards of Varsity Tutors (an on-demand, real-time learning platform in the ed tech space), Create a Loop (a computer science education non-profit tackling the digital divide by teaching kids to code), and Prepare.ai (a non-profit providing educational resources and strategic guidance about Artificial Intelligence to individuals, communities, and companies). David lives in St. Louis with his wife, Erin and four kids. When not working, he enjoys spending time with his family and playing ukulele.
Inspired by Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Leonardo Da Vinci, Danny has succeeded in a variety of fields including software engineering, writing, photography, game designing, and more. He is continually improving his skillset by learning 3 skills every month.
Dee Dee Eberle is the Owner of Your Wild Pantry Meal Solutions. She works with the busiest people in the world to help them get an easy, stress-free and healthy meal on the table so they can spend time where it matters most!
Through her business offerings, she provides concierge level meal prep, pantry management, cooking classes, and guided meal prep to clients virtually and in-person. Dee Dee works with clients to find the best fit for specific diets, food allergies and grocery budgets, providing customized meal plans that help clients stay on track with healthy meal options with recipes, nutritional info, grocery lists and prep tips.
Through her business offerings, she provides concierge level meal prep, pantry management, cooking classes, and guided meal prep to clients virtually and in-person. Dee Dee works with clients to find the best fit for specific diets, food allergies and grocery budgets, providing customized meal plans that help clients stay on track with healthy meal options with recipes, nutritional info, grocery lists and prep tips.
Denise Casagrande is the President and COO of PCG Digital. Her days are spent leading and growing the digital agency while making advancements in digital marketing that her team can provide for their clients. She wrote her first book 'Can You See Me Now?' in 2017, is an international speaker, a 40 under 40 award recipient, and a thought leader in social media marketing and advertising. Denise resides at the Jersey Shore with her husband George, and can always be found at the local beach.
Don Schmincke is the author of the Best-Selling book The Code of Executive and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. He is an Award-Winning Speaker, Researcher, Founder of the SAGA Leadership Institute and delivered over 1,700 speeches.
Danielle Kunkle is a founding partner at Boomer Benefits, a national top producing agency that specializes in Medicare-related insurance products across 47 states. Her team helps baby boomers navigate Medicare and choose suitable supplemental coverage. She is a member of the Forbes Finance Council where she writes about Medicare, retirement and personal finance and is also a past president of the Fort Worth chapter of the National Association of Health Underwriters. Her agency was recently named the 2019 Health Insurance Advisory firm of the year by Finance Monthly.
Darius Mirshahzadeh is a dad, husband, twin, brother, and son who was born and raised in California and now lives in Austin Texas. He is a serial entrepreneur, author, conscious capitalist, speaker and entertainer. Darius’s passion is to make the world a better place using his talents and engagement. He is all about the P’s: Passion, Pizza, Puzzles and Pink Unicorns. Darius is a mad scientist CEO who has grown companies from start-up to just under 1,000 employees in three years. He is an expert on core values and author of the new book The Core Value Equation.
David Hamilton was a first generation college grad and started his career in Corporate Finance for Fortune 150 company. In his twenties, he became CFO for the company’s clinical trial organization and got his MBA from Harvard Business School. After his MBA he became CFO for his company’s two largest products and helped grow revenue by $1B in one year. This work helped ignite a passion for marketing and media and led to the founding of Oppilo, a digital marketing agency, focused on Small to Medium sized businesses and start-ups.
Deborah Myers, CEO of VirtuArte, is a specialist in assisting businesses and individuals cultivate a culture of genuine gratitude through meaningful and thoughtful gestures of appreciation. Among the suggested gestures of appreciation are the unique handcrafted items, Deborah finds during her travels in the developing world, that can be given as gifts. In doing so VirtuArte is assisting artisans generate a sustainable income, continue their traditional craftsmanship, and pass their skills on to the next generation.
Dr. Vicki Matthews is a naturopathic physician and relationship coach. In addition to her Naturopathy degree, Vicki also has a BA in Psychology and an MBA in Consumer Behavior from the University of Chicago. Vicki is passionate about helping people improve their relationships and has pioneered a system that makes it easier to get along with anybody, anytime, anyplace. This system also helps us better understand ourselves, which is arguably the most important relationship we will ever have!
