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Geo A. Ropert, APR is the founder and president of Ropert and Partners Public Relations. He is a nationally accredited, award-winning public relations and marketing communications professional with a diverse background and over 25 years’ experience in both the public and private sectors. Geo is the person businesses and organizations turn to for top-level public relations and marketing consultation and services, providing proven results that rise above the rest!
Hailing from Australia, Sammy is the co-founder and COO of Fitspot Wellness (Techstars '16), a certified Pilates instructor, and lifelong lover of fitness. After finding it frustrating to stay healthy in a typical 9-to-5 environment, she and her business partner, Jon, teamed up to create Fitspot, a leading provider of workplace wellness. Fitspot is a fully managed wellness partner that provides on-site fitness classes, workshops, massages, meditation, health screenings, and virtual services for employees around the country. Fitspot is on a mission is to help companies reap the benefits of a healthier, happier workforce.
Jeff Butler is a speaker, author and passionate millennial who helps organizations improve their relationships with millennial employees. You may have see on him on Forbes, USA Weekly, or on the TED stage. A native Californian and raised in Silicon Valley, he graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science. During his time in college, he was training for the Olympics under 3 time Olympian Tore Gustafsson, but left that pursuit because software engineering paid more. Unlike other experts on millennials, Jeff has been in the trenches of what it means to be a millennial and what it takes to retain and keep them engaged. With Jeff ‘s versatile background, he has addressed companies like Amazon and Google as well as thousands of professionals across the North America.
Jeff Badu is a serial entrepreneur and a wealth multiplier. He’s a Licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and the founder of Badu Enterprises, LLC, which is a multinational conglomerate that owns several key companies. His marquee company is Badu Tax Services, LLC, which is a CPA firm that specializes in tax preparation, tax planning, and tax representation for individuals and businesses. Another key company is Badu Investments, LLC which is primarily a real estate investment company that acquires residential and commercial real estate properties in areas such as the South Side of Chicago in efforts to restore traditionally underserved areas.
John Mansour, PharmD, RPh, is from Winter Park, Florida, and is the CEO and co-founder of B4, a precovery™ vitamin supplement designed to protect your body from the aftereffects of drinking alcohol before they happen. John is an owner of multiple businesses, ranging in a wide variety of areas. He is an accomplished Entrepreneur, Pharmacy and Healthcare executive, and Pharmacist with 9 years of experience. He has led both startups and large organizations and built business strategies within settings such as retail pharmacy, specialty pharmacy, property acquisition, and property management at an executive level.
Michelle Nipko is the Chief Marketing Officer for the Austin Theatre Alliance (ATA), the organization the runs the Paramount and Stateside Theatres in Austin, Texas. She brings over 20 years of experience to this role leveraging her deep knowledge in the science of marketing analytics. In her previous roles she has served as a Senior Economist for American Express, a Product Manager for Financial Optimization Solutions for SAP, and a Vice President for Marketing Analytics at Bank of America. In addition to this varied industry experience, Michelle is also an entrepreneur at heart. Shortly after moving to Austin, she leveraged her expertise in social media and digital marketing optimization to form a company focused on lead generation in real estate. Most recently, she founded the podcast she hosts: ‘That One Big Decision’.
Sandy and Albert are a married couple from Toronto, who are both authors and keynote speakers. In this podcast couples can learn how to support each other to help them achieve their dreams and goals. Sandy’s award-winning newly published book is called The Money Master: Inside Secrets On How To Make Your Money Grow and Stay Safe which focuses on helping female millennials create wealth through investing. Albert helps healthcare sales professionals generate $1 million in sales within one year.
Danielle Watson is a TEDx Speaker, Accidental Author, and The World’s Most Unlikely Anthropologist. Her uncommon mixture of infectious enthusiasm, unconventional ideas, and spectacular smile have made this pint-sized lady a popular inspiration to a global audience of lifestyle entrepreneurs. Her book: Dear Self, I Love You! Keep Going!, is available on Amazon.
As CEO of Online Optimism, Flynn Zaiger spends his day keeping his employees happy, his clients happier, and the office pups happiest. Flynn started the agency in 2012 by himself with only a laptop and lots of coffee. Over the last decade, he's grown the team to 20 employees across offices in Washington, DC, Atlanta, and New Orleans. They help businesses all over the world with creative digital marketing, including search, social and website design - essentially, anything that touches a screen.
James Carbary is the founder of Sweet Fish Media, a podcast-first company that guarantees new relationships between B2B companies and their ideal clients, and the co-host of B2B Growth, a daily podcast that has been downloaded over 3 million times. His latest book 'Content-Based Networking: How to Instantly Connect with Anyone You Want to Know' breaks down a 3-part framework that shows people how to create the exact relationships they need to grow their career or business.
