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David Cavalcante is a professional tattooer in Washington DC. A 19 year veteran of the industry. The profession ha lead him all over the world creating friendship and bonds with other likeminded individuals. As well as fed his hunger for continued learning, whether it be for is profession of in life.

My name is David Cawley and I'm a CPA and partner at Fraim, Cawley & Company, CPAs located in Roanoke, Virginia. We're an entrepreneur-centric firm as most of our clients are small to medium size business owners. While we complete our clients tax returns, the returns themselves are almost an afterthought to the services we provide. Our background is in business and we ourselves are entrepreneurs, so our approach is not just saving money on taxes but helping our clients grow their own businesses.

David is a fitness entrepreneur that has adapted with the hybrid virtual training landscape throughout the past 2 years of the pandemic. Through David's experience as a clinical exercise physiologist and sports performance coach he has gained a vast amount of knowledge to help people of all ages achieve their fitness goals. He currently is connecting with the Ward 8 community of DC with a healthy lifestyle program called The Health Code to further educate the community on the three codes of living healthy which are finding your level of activity outside of work, a proper healthy nutrition, and the right type of mental and physical rejuvenation to prepare yourself for the upcoming day.

As an award-winning technical writer, authorpreneur, voice talent, speaker, life coach, and podcaster, Daree Allen enjoys inspiring people and using her voice for good.

Daree is the author of three books, including “What's Wrong With Me?,” in which she shares her stories about self-esteem, media influence, premarital sex, family and personal relationships, and gives advice to teens about it all. Her latest book, “Ending the Blame Game,” discusses relationship advice for Black couples based on interviews with numerous Black men, coaches and therapists.

When Daree is not reading, traveling, jumping into a line dance, or on social media, she enjoys spending time with her beautiful daughter, Kaia. Find out more about her work at KickinitwithDaree.com and DareeVoiceover.com.

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.