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Sam Starns is a TEDx speaker, elopement expert and movement leader in adventure elopement photography. With nearly a decade of wedding experience, Sam has traveled to numerous states and countries for elopements to jumpstart the transformation for real change to encourage anyone to become their authentic self. Sam Starns’ debut book, Elope Your Life is set to release in November 2020.
Mike Wittenstein is a serial entrepreneur and CEO is the professional services space. He started his first consultancy while still in grad school, launched GALILEO, one of the world's first digital agencies in 1992, joined IBM global services in the role of eVisionary, then founded StoryMiners, one of the world's first customer experience design consultancies in 2002. He's worked with global brands, regional leaders, and start-ups as an advisor, board member, consultant, and facilitator. Mike's businesses always support his clients' desired outcomes. He believes that building in agility has helped me succeed over time.
Adam Robinson was born in Houston, Texas, and graduated from Rice University in 2003 with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics.
In 2014, after a decade of working on Wall Street, Adam launched Robly Email Marketing. The business grew to $5 million in revenue in the first two years and by 2017 was awarded #1 in Customer Satisfaction across the entire email marketing space. After proving Robly’s viability, Adam worked to scale the business. After testing and scrapping a few ideas, he and his team launched GetEmails, a SaaS company in the identity space, in 2019.
Adam was recently given the title best-selling author with the release of his book Permission (Sh)marketing, which explains his controversial views on privacy and identity.
Jared Wolfe runs Portraits by Jared Wolfe a photography studio in Alexandria VA. He shoots headshots for professionals, actors and models and portraits for families, babies and maternity. He has been in business for five years.
Brian Quick is a drummer, public speaker and consultant. Brian started to play drums at the age of 6 years old and has now turned this passion into his purpose by inspiring others to find and use their purpose. Brian performs drum clinics at schools, festivals and churches. Brian has been traveling speaking at businesses, churches, conferences, and many other platforms to teach on growth, leadership, and marketing. Brian consultants businesses and worship teams on how to authentically grow and better in their craft.
Eleonora is a certified Integrative Nutrition Coach who has built her business around healthy living after overcoming 8 years of depression and eating disorders. Originally from Milan, Italy Eleonora has lived in Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles and is now based in London.
Alexandra Isenegger is the CEO and co-founder of Linkilaw – the legal platform for startups and SMEs. At 21, Alexandra left her corporate law firm job, with a clear focus on marking legal work transparent and accessible to startups. From 2015 to 2017, Linkilaw pivoted from solely a legal marketplace to also becoming a legal platform for startups and SMEs. In 2017, Linkilaw acquired UK leading legal marketplace LawyerFair. This last year Linkilaw experienced 500% growth. Alex is also featured in Forbes 30 under 30. Her core strengths lie in legal, business strategy, implementing vision and culture in a team.
Alexis has been in the video production industry for over 28 years which in this marketplace is a huge success. She started out in corporate television at Home Depot and Coca-Cola and now owns her own production company in Northern Virginia. She prides herself on her jack of all trades ability to direct/produce/shoot and edit all of her videos when necessary. Her passion project is Memory lane Productions which is dedicated to her father who passed in 2019 from Alzheimer's Disease. With that branch of her business she aims to record loved ones life stories/journey and capture a narrative of their life to pass down to friends, family and future generations.
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.
Josh Rovner is the author of the Amazon #1 best-selling business book Unbreak the System: Diagnosing and Curing the Ten Critical Flaws in Your Company. Josh has more than twenty years of experience as a leader and consultant, working with all levels of small to large corporations to grow their revenues and improve their performance. He leads change and transforms businesses by communicating clearly about complex subjects, designing effective processes, and developing and coaching people. Josh received his Bachelor of Science in Communications, summa cum laude, from Boston University, and his Masters of Management in Hospitality from Cornell University. He lives in Dallas, Texas.
