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Doug Ludlow is CEO of MainStreet, a company that helps small businesses and startups claim tax credits most accountants never claim. Before MainStreet, he served as Chief of Staff for Google's SMB and NBU Ads, was the Founder of Hipster (acquired by AOL in 2012) and Happy Home (acquired by Google in 2016). Doug has a BA in History and Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and currently lives in San Jose with his wife Sara and two children Charlotte and William.
Shaun runs a small, niched safari business called Moriti Private Safaris. The safari business specialises in private safaris throughout Africa for couples, small groups of friends and families wanting a more intimate safari experience. The business has been running since 2011 and started out as a passion for the African bush and the animals that live in it.
Jerryll is a robotics scientist, worked for IHMC, NASA, and the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova Italy. He left all that behind to start his own house flipping company, and a SEO consulting company for Real Estate Investors. He now flips 5 houses at a time and is an expert on lead generation. Interests are to further his robotics research and development goals to provide value to humankind.
Founder and CEO of Hire Talent, Fletcher Wimbush, has interviewed over 10,000 applicants, assessed tens of thousands more and has presented to numerous business groups and HR leaders on best recruiting practices based on his published content such as “Hiring Talented Team Players: a Guide to Getting it Right,” The Power Interview Guide, various eBooks, and thousands of articles.
Maddie Watkins is the owner and founder of 202strong, a local fitness studio in the DMV that specializes in making strength training, specifically with the barbell accessible to those who might feel they "can't" lift or aren't strong enough to lift a barbell. Maddie left her background in genetics and microbiology to pursue a personal training certification after she graduated college in early 2010 after discovering the barbell herself and how feeling strong completely changed herself and her life. 202strong opened in 2015 and today there are 2 locations plus a newly added virtual program, StrongLine.
Daniel Snow is CEO and Founder of The Snow Agency, a performance and social media marketing agency that is disrupting the ecommerce landscape for DTC brands. Daniel is a proven expert having launched and scaled numerous viral ecommerce brands himself over the course of 3.5 years, generating over $50M in revenue.
Ryan Stewart is a marketing entrepreneur, with 4 successful business sales in the past 4 years. He currently owns and operates WEBRIS, a growth marketing firm specializing in helping service based businesses get more customers through organic and paid tactics.
Adam is the CEO of Web Deals Direct Amazon store. Web Deals Direct was founded in 2015. The company’s top brands included Spacesaver, Flexi Hose, Zap It! and Grillman, as well as two dozen smaller brands.. In 2020 Web Deals Direct had online sales of approximately 80 million dollars. Web Deals Direct was sold to Perch in May 2021. Prior to selling on Amazon, Amazon was CEO of a digital marketing agency and a senior manager at IT consulting firm Accenture. Adam graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland with a degree in economics.
Jeremy has run multiple eCommerce stores as a side hustle before he quit his job as a marketer in an FMCG company. Having realized the opportunity in eCommerce, he quit his job in 2015 to start Vape Club (https://vapeclubmy.com) and is currently generating $1m in revenue each year without paid advertising. His eCommerce business now runs autonomously with the help of software and his team of 7. Currently, his mission is to 1,000,000 people follow his footsteps in building online hustles with his blog and podcast - HUSTLR.com and The HUSTLR Podcast.
Bobbie Carlton is the founder of Innovation Women, an online self-service speaker bureau for women. Carlton talks about public speaking for women and how it can be the driving force behind career growth and business success. She gives more than 100 presentations a year, including hosting her own monthly event, Innovation Nights; speaking at the United Nations; and being on the main stage for some of the world’s best-known conferences for technical and professional women.
