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Shane Foss is the Founder and CEO of Hooray Health. Shane is also an expert in Business Development and Strategy, Sales Strategy, and Team Development. After over 20 years in the healthcare industry, Shane decided to use his passion for technology to improve healthcare operations and products. In 2018, he launched Hooray Health, an unconventional health insurance company that works hard to make healthcare coverage simple, accessible, and affordable.
Who says Accounting isn't sexy? Well, I'm sure nobody has ever thought that, but for business owners, it's a necessary evil. Chris Aborqui, a 24 year Navy veteran, chose to help small business owners navigate the accounting world by providing outsourced bookkeeping, payroll, and tax services. As a small business owner himself in the Virginia Beach area, he understands the struggles business owners face managing their business.
Jackie is a professional web developer and online marketer, specializing in WordPress development and SEO. He is the founder of Techjackie.com, an online marketing agency in Pattaya, Thailand, and a blog providing knowledge about digital marketing.
Karen Tenenbaum is a tax attorney for 39 years with an LL.M. in tax and is also a CPA. She founded Tenenbaum Law, P.C., in Melville, NY, 25 years ago. The firm helps individuals and businesses facing IRS and New York State tax problems. Karen is a frequent speaker on IRS and NYS tax issues for numerous professional organizations, including the NYS Society of CPAs, the NCCPAP Accounting and Tax Symposium, AAA-CPA, New York State Society of Enrolled Agents and more. Presently, she serves as the Chair of the Suffolk County Bar Association Tax Law Committee and the Vice Chair of the NYS Society of CPAs Relations with IRS Committee. Her firm has successfully helped many individuals and businesses resolve their tax problems.
Nicole is a Certified Holistic Health Coach, Wellness Influencer, and Entrepreneur. At the age of 25, she left her corporate job as an engineer and set out on a mission to create a life that set her soul on fire. She teaches others how to become their healthiest, happiest, most authentic selves through private and small group coaching. She also helps other wellness entrepreneurs grow profitable, passionate, authentic businesses that allow them to live more joy-filled lives.
Barrett Y. Bogue is president and founder of Evocati LLC, a marketing and consulting firm that helps businesses grow their investment in the military-connected community. Prior to founding Evocati, he served in executive leadership roles in the federal and non-profit sectors including the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He served six years in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II. Barrett is a 2009 Presidential Management Fellow and 2019 Scholar with the George W. Bush Institute's Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program. He lives with his wife and daughter in Fairfax, VA.
Kristen Harcourt is an Executive Coach and Professional Speaker. For more than a decade, she has helped executives and emerging leaders in hundreds of organizations worldwide achieve extraordinary and sustainable results through increased self-awareness, emotional intelligence and mindfulness. A big believer in compassion, authenticity and conscious leadership, Kristen’s mission to help leaders transform from the inside out, creating a meaningful career and purpose-driven life where they reach their full potential.
Dave Hanley is the CEO of Tomorrow, whose Tomorrow App provides wills and trusts that you make on your phone. Dave is a serial entrepreneur with successful exits to Amazon and Deloitte and has had a career spanning industries as diverse as microcredit banking, social media marketing, digital music and financial technology. Dave founded Banyan Branch (acquired by Deloitte, 2013), a leading social media marketing agency; led product development for the Rhapsody Music Service, and joined Rhapsody colleagues to build a social network for readers called Shelfari (acquired by Amazon in 2008). Dave is a Fulbright Scholar, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, and recognized entrepreneurial innovator at TechCrunch Disrupt, Money2020, and SXSW.
Winston Hofer is a marketing consultant and Founder & CEO at Madroit Marketing. After a failed semi-pro hockey career, and several jobs spent working for someone else, Winston decided that he needed more freedom and bootstrapped his company starting from nothing. The lessons and strategies he’s learned along the way are what have helped him grow his business into the success that it is today, along with relationship building and hiring smart. As an entrepreneur and business owner now since 2012, he has realized his passion which is to help small business owners get more sales & referrals and build & market their businesses. He enjoys taking on new challenges (if only to prove to himself that he can), and making himself better every single day by learning something new.
Odelle Bowman is an artist , award winning non profit Director and Entrpreneur . She is an affiliate with LifeVantage, a company that is a disruptor in the field of Neutrogenomics, developing all natural components that turn on our DNA. LifeVantage’s goal and hers is to make people better and by so doing making the world a better place.
