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Erik Huberman – Founder & CEO, Hawke Media

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Erik Huberman is the founder and CEO of Hawke Media, the fastest-growing marketing consultancy in the United States. Launched in 2014, Hawke Media has been valued at $75 million and has grown from seven to over 150 employees. The company has serviced over 1,500 brands of all sizes, ranging from startups like Tamara Mellon, SiO Beauty, and Bottlekeeper to household names like Red Bull, Verizon Wireless, and Alibaba. Hawke Media has taken home numerous industry awards including being featured...

Mark Rothman – Founder & President, MYTA Technologies

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Until its sale in April of 2002, Mark Rothman owned and operated The MYTA Corporation, one of the largest IT staffing firms in the Washington, DC area. After graduating with an engineering degree from The Ohio State University in 1984, Mark moved to Washington, DC to pursue the area’s many technology opportunities. Over the next eight years, Mark worked as a software engineer for IBM and as a software contractor for MCI. While at IBM, he helped design and implement system upgrades for the FA...

Kirk Du Plessis – Founder & Head Trader, Option Alpha

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Option Alpha was originally founded by Kirk Du Plessis, a former M&A investment banker for Deutsche Bank in New York, REIT analyst for BB&T Capital Markets in Washington D.C., and consultant for multiple funds, family offices, and financial advisors. The Option Alpha community includes more than 173,000 investors from 48 countries and all 7 continents around the world. Option Alpha has been featured in Barron’s, Smart Money, Forbes, Nasdaq, MarketWatch, as was named to the #215 spot on the I...

Jamie Giovinazzo – Founder & President, Eat Clean Bro

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My name is Jamie Giovinazzo, and I am the president and founder of Eat Clean Bro. I have been in business since 2013 after multiple failures in building my business. I started Eat Clean Bro with $300 and a dream of giving my customers the best options for the best prices. One of my biggest accomplishments to-date is being a Forbes-featured entrepreneur. I am the proud husband to my wife, Kayla, and father of my amazing one-year-old son, Giorgio, with another beautiful baby on the way. I have...

Andrey Sokurec – Co-Founder & CEO, Homestead Road

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My name is Andrey Sokurec and I am the co-founder and CEO of Homestead Road, an innovative home buying company in Minnesota. Since 2009, we’ve helped over 700 customers sell their home “as is,” without paying for repairs or real estate commissions. Homestead Road has more than 30 employees, earned $32 million in revenue last year, and earned a spot on Inc. 5000’s list of fastest-growing companies in 2018 and 2019.

I am also a real estate investor, mentor, and the founder of the Midwest Real...

Terry Hedden – Co-Founder & CEO, Marketopia

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Terry Hedden is the co-founder and CEO of Marketopia, the premier full-service marketing and lead generation agency for the IT channel. Headquartered in Clearwater, Florida, Marketopia services clients ranging from technology service providers like MSPs, VARs, and CSPs to industry-leading software, hardware, and cloud vendors like SAP, Apple, Panasonic, LogicMonitor, and ConnectWise. The agency leverages enterprise-class technology, US-based outbound sales, real-world channel marketing exper...

Ian Jackson – CEO, Enshored

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Ian Jackson is the CEO of Enshored, an outsourcing firm purpose-built to solve the challenges related to scaling disruptive, high growth businesses, delivering proven results by employing our unique agile operating framework and the most highly skilled associates in the industry. Ian’s role at Enshored sees him drive client acquisition efforts as well as providing direction and oversight to Enshored’s operational leadership. He currently helps over 70 startups, scale-ups, and mid-market comp...

Meghan Freed – Founder & Managing Co-Partner, Freed Marcroft

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Together with her wife, Kristen Marcroft, Meghan is founder and managing co-partner of Freed Marcroft, a Connecticut law firm that devotes its practice exclusively to divorce and family law.

Freed Marcroft developed a goals-based approach to divorce rooted in the decision-making process. By helping clients discover their goals for their lives, their team takes its collective proficiency in family law and designs a divorce for the individual.

Meghan and Kristen live in Downtown Hartford, CT w...

Josh Watts – Co-Founder & CEO, MedTrust

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Josh Watts is the co-founder and CEO of MedTrust, “a South Carolina based mobile healthcare provider with a business model focused on serving hospital-systems throughout the southeast. We operate 24/7 365 for ambulance services driven to become the ‘provider of choice’ in each area we serve. To support our goal of ‘Improving Patient Outcomes’, we use data-driven, innovative methodologies to ensure our key performance metrics exceed industry standards and client expectations.”

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Carlton Andrew – Founder & CEO, Retail Service Systems

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After founding a college market newspaper and later graduating from North Carolina State University with a degree in economics and business management, Carlton went to work in corporate banking to get a high-level business finance education. He spent four years with NCNB (now BoA) in their corporate division handling mergers & acquisitions and corporate accounts, then left the world of finance to begin an adventure as a serial entrepreneur. Over the last twenty-five years, he has founded and...