Community & Guest List
Dave Hanley is the CEO of Tomorrow, whose Tomorrow App provides wills and trusts that you make on your phone. Dave is a serial entrepreneur with successful exits to Amazon and Deloitte and has had a career spanning industries as diverse as microcredit banking, social media marketing, digital music and financial technology. Dave founded Banyan Branch (acquired by Deloitte, 2013), a leading social media marketing agency; led product development for the Rhapsody Music Service, and joined Rhapsody colleagues to build a social network for readers called Shelfari (acquired by Amazon in 2008). Dave is a Fulbright Scholar, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, and recognized entrepreneurial innovator at TechCrunch Disrupt, Money2020, and SXSW.
Dmitriy Fomichenko is the founder and president of Sense Financial Services LLC, a boutique financial firm specializing in self-directed retirement accounts with checkbook control. He began his career in financial planning and real estate investing in 2000. He owns multiple investment properties in various states and is a licensed California Real Estate Broker. Over the years, he has taught hundreds of investment and financial planning seminars and has mentored thousands of investors.
Christina is a Life & Leadership Coach, a Fitness Industry Consultant, and a Group Fitness Instructor. She uses an ontological coaching method to help her client create the lives that they have always dreamed of having. Christina is also an advocate for those with alopecia and uses her platform to connect with and support others who are experiencing hair loss.
Bill Bice has always been an entrepreneur, starting his first company at age 14, putting on road races with corporate sponsors. At 18, he started ProLaw Software, which was so successful that it later sold to Thomson Reuters. Having built or invested in over 25 companies, he got so frustrated in trying to get great marketing for his companies that he decided to take on the problem himself. A programmer at heart, Bill founded Boomtime, tackling marketing as a technology problem. Bill can easily identify common business and marketing pitfalls, so his aim is to enable smaller businesses to more effectively compete with their larger competitors through effective marketing, primarily word of mouth.
Jacqueline Basulto started her company SeedX Inc. in her early 20s after a short stint at Google with $20 and a dream to help businesses grow online. Today, the company helps national brands create more revenue primarily through direct to consumer sales and strategy. Jacqueline is the daughter of immigrants from Cuba and Puerto Rico and is a proud New Angelean (New York - Los Angeles) resident.
Amy is an expert in content repurposing and the Founder of Content 10x – a niche creative agency. She helps content creators grow their audience by maximizing their return on the content they create. She works with businesses, entrepreneurs and thought leaders, and is the content repurposing powerhouse behind some of the most well-known podcasts and video shows. Amy is the host of The Content 10x Podcast, author of the book Content 10x: More Content, Less Time, Maximum Results, and she is a speaker having spoken on stages around the world about content repurposing.
Archan is an engineer turned marketing professional. Archan has led marketing teams on various B2B marketing projects and has experience in scaling product demands to many folds for start-ups and SME businesses.
Kapri Robinson is DC's 2017 Cocktail Queen and has been a part of the beverage community in DC for almost a decade now. While spending her time being a bartender at Reliable Tavern she founded Chocolate City's Best, a platform to connect people of color to opportunities in the hospitality industry for their own career growth. Kapri has gone on to win cocktail competitions and has been acknowledged on multiple platforms. Kapri has been welcomed onto Good Morning Washington as well as featured in a two-page article in the Washington Post Express. Kapri has also been welcomed onto many podcast magazines, such as Edible DC, about her dedication to growing Chocolate City's Best and educating herself and her community
Jamelle Sanders is an author, speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, radio host and respected thought leader. As one of the most respected voices of our time, Jamelle founded Jamelle Sanders International to provide solutions to global problems. Jamelle has been featured on NBC, CBS, The Huffington Post, The Best You Magazine and numerous other media outlets. Jamelle has devoted his life to empowering individuals to fulfill purpose and maximize their greatest potential.
Avishek has been heading product and growth teams for the last 3 years. He has driven significant growth for the last 2 products he has managed. He has experience in various industries like e-commerce, SAAS, BFSI, and more. He had co-founded 2 ventures a few years back, one was India's one of the first organic apparel brand called "Indophile" and later rebranded to "Organic Threadz" and the other was an incentive-based video advertising app called Earnbud. He also manages a content platform on ideation and leadership called Idea Toasters.
