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Dave Combs is a songwriter, photographer, and entrepreneur with four decades of experience writing over 120 songs, creating fourteen albums of soothing, relaxing instrumental piano music, and building a successful music business. His songwriting began with the now popular standard, Rachel’s Song. His soothing, relaxing music has been played millions of times worldwide on radio, satellite, and all internet streaming media and it continues to touch the lives of millions of people all over the world. He is also the author of the new book, Touched By The Music: How the Story and Music of Rachel’s Song Can Change Your Life.
Jaime is a brand strategist, creative director and educator for wellness & socially conscious businesses. She's been in the wellness industry for 13 years and in design for 20. Jaime has lived, worked, and studied in the US, Italy, and Japan.
Staci L. Redmon is the President and CEO of pioneering information technology organization, Strategy and Management Services, Inc. Staci brings her 20+ years of DOD experience to the forefront of the digital transformation by applying militarygrade processes solutions to the information technology innovations panorama. With an excellent understanding of information technologies role in the modern organization, Staci offers thought-leadership in the most complex and current problems of the digital era. With a dedication to serving and a passion for learning, Staci looks to the future with the goal of staying ahead of the curve and finding success for those organizations that need it most.
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.
Tara is Founder and Chairwoman of Impact Profit, which is a nonprofit dedicated to making entrepreneurship more accessible to Black Founders. Tara has been a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) for over a decade and founded Impact Profit to use her skillset to do some good in the world. She received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her Masters in Accounting and MBA from Northeastern University. She's a New Jersey native, but currently resides in Washington, DC.
Dylan Kendall is a designer of social ideas and social objects. She is the owner of and designer behind Dylan Kendall Home: a company that believes happy homes make happy people® and currently stepped in to lead Seva Foods, a vegan ice cream company. She was the Founder and Executive Director of Hollywood Arts, the only educational agency in the nation to use arts-based learning to mainstream homeless young adults. She is an environmental advocate, a foster mom, teaches entrepreneurialism to inmates and a rescuer of cats and kittens.
to embrace the fear holding him back."
Gareth is an award-winning Growth Marketer and over the last 14 years has helped businesses grow on an international scale. He has worked with Fortune 250 companies and bootstrapped startups. Gareth has a passion for the work he delivers and always puts himself in the customer's shoes. Gareth is the CEO and Founder of Got Legs Digital, the first Ethical Marketing Agency in the UK, helping both businesses and communities to Get Legs. "You can get everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want first".
Joel Poznansky was excited to come to business school in the USA from England, more excited to marry, have 3 wonderful children who make fun of his accent and pursue an entrepreneurial career, primarily in publishing, and finally, most excited - and most recently- to become a grandfather and, too late for his own children's direct benefit, help a friend bring his very successful British toy retailer, Wicked Uncle, to the USA.
John Taylor Chapman, a fourth generation Alexandrian is a member of Alexandria City Council, first elected in 2012. He is also the founder of Manumission Tour Company, LLC , which seeks to bring attention to the historical legacy of Africans and African Americans in Alexandria through curating guided cultural heritage tours.
