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Cortney Heykoop focuses on financial planning for the families in Loudoun County Virginia with a passion for the special needs market. This passion grew after adopting a special needs child 14 years ago. With the arrival of her daughter she experienced, first hand, the isolation and lack of support parents felt as they struggled with daily challenges and complex issues- The importance of a trusted advisor, has never been more evident. Cortney works daily to be that trusted advisor and a resource for the families she works with in the community.
Brianna Socci is an emerging industry leader in digital healthcare. She co-founded UBERDOC as a direct-to-doctor platform for individuals to get immediate access to doctors without insurance obstacles. Brianna has led multi-million dollar investment rounds, making UBERDOC one of the few female-founded companies to receive venture capital funding. She has been featured in several business and technology publications, including Authority Magazine and ThriveGlobal and was a TiE NY Pitch finalist. Brianna has a bachelor’s degree in marketing and leadership from Binghamton University’s School of Management.
For 15 years, OptimumHQ founder and CEO Simon Chatfield owned a successful custom software development company that built custom software applications for global companies including Apple, ESPN, and American Express, plus hundreds of SMBs. He learned that big and small companies alike faced similar challenges. Business leaders just want software that truly solves their specific needs, and they don’t want all kinds of extra systems they don’t need. Pioneering the concept of dynamic data and company-specific workflows, Simon and his team created a new adaptive software platform to quickly build complex custom solutions without custom code, called OptimumHQ.
Chris Castanes is an award winning insurance agent, speaker and author of “You're Going To Be Great At This!”. As president of Surf Financial Brokers since 2011, he helps his clients with life and disability, and long term insurance. He is originally from Fayetteville, NC and began his career in sales and marketing after graduating from North Carolina State University in 1985. He resides in North Myrtle Beach, SC with his wife and daughter.
Ivy Slater is the CEO of Slater Success, a boutique training, consulting and coaching company focused on growth strategies and leadership development for high-level, service-based businesses. Ivy is a professionally certified business coach, speaker, internationally bestselling author and podcast host. She's scaled her own two businesses to multiple 6 & 7 figures and speaks nationwide on the topics of leadership, sustainable growth and the value of relationships. In 2020, she was a recipient of a Power Women of New York and of Long Island award, presented by Schneps Media.
Lisa Nicholls is a consummate networker and community builder who intuitively understands how to form genuine connections with people in real life and online. After a career holding customer-focused positions across a variety of industries, in 2009 Lisa founded Tira! Strategies, a consultancy dedicated to helping small business owners navigate the complex and dynamic world of social media. Lisa leverages her deep expertise in relationship building and communications to help her clients form meaningful relationships with customers online, building communities of loyal and devoted customers.
and Magazine he is also the founder of the Badass Business Summit. His companies help businesses grow through referrals and badass collaboration."
Tim Connon is the Founder & CEO of ParamountQuote. He grew up in Florida working with his father from a young age selling security systems. Tim quickly realized the ideas behind sales and marketing, he then grew up and got licensed to sell life insurance. After this, he started his company and began providing life insurance to seniors for final expenses.
My name is Rithvik Musuku and I am from Gilbert, AZ. I am still a student and intend to graduate with a degree in astronomy. There are many long-term problems the world faces and not many people around the world receive the same level of upbringing that I did in an American middle/upper-middle class family. Thus, I started Advancing Science Worldwide as I believe ensuring that everyone around the world has access to science education is key to finding solutions to our world's long-term problems, such as antibiotic resistance and climate change.
Kisha A. Brown, Esq. is a passionate civil rights attorney who has spoken at countless forums on police reform, civilian rights, anti-discrimination, ex-offenders and community empowerment. Currently she’s the Founder and CEO of Justis Connection, an online platform promoting lawyers of color and engaging communities with greater legal resources. She has worked for federal, state and local governments as well as the nonprofit and private sector. Now she focuses on bridging the gap between the legal community and people of color where she believes lives one of one of the most fundamental elements of democracy- Access to Justice.
