Giants & Crowns

Jordan Menashy is a tech entrepreneur and revenue leader specialized in transforming service industries through automation. In 2012, he cofounded Bench Accounting, an automated bookkeeping service for small businesses. There he led marketing, helping grow the company to 300 people and raise $53m in capital. Bench is now the largest bookkeeping service in North America. In 2017, he joined AvenueHQ as Chief Revenue Officer, an automated marketing agency transforming the $10.5 billion Realtor marketing industry.

Vladimir Vukicevic is a Co-Founder & CEO of Meural. Meural combines the best of art, technology, and design to create a new platform for visual expression. We are making art universally accessible by turning it into dynamic, diverse, and personal content. Our first product is a connected digital canvas. Vladimir is also a Co-Founder (& former CTO) of RocketHub, the world's crowdfunding machine. Acquired by EFactor Group Corp. in April, 2015.

Levi King is the Co-founder and CEO of Nav.com, a venture-backed company that helps small business owners get more funding and lower their costs. Raised on a farm in rural Idaho, King is a self-taught, serial entrepreneur who has started businesses in the manufacturing, franchising and retail financing spaces (and invested in many more). During this time, he had to work to overcome the same issues faced by most small business owners – access to capital, financing, and marketplace credibility. After getting a handle on how business credit works, Levi was able to get business loans and financing more than 30 times. Levi’s columns appear regularly in publications such as Inc., Entrepreneur, and BizJournals, and he has been quoted in numerous news interviews.

James Jenkins oversees the global operations for B-Reel, a creative agency network that combines storytelling and technology to connect modern brands and audiences. James has been at the forefront of the digital media and technology revolution, working closely over the last 15 years with leading brands such as Bang & Olufsen, Spotify, Nike, Xbox, Red Bull, and many more.

Harry Ritter M.D., J.D. is founder and CEO of Alma, a co-practicing community for mental health care providers. Harry founded Alma to simplify and elevate the therapy experience. Alma is pioneering a new mental health care model that brings together top quality therapists into co-practicing communities powered by shared technology and services. Alma’s members hail from an array of disciplines and areas of clinical focus to offer a more holistic approach to mental health care.

Connor Folley is CEO and co-founder of Downstream, an ecommerce advertising technology company based in Seattle, WA. Co-founded by a pair of Amazon veterans, Downstream’s Amazon marketing platform applies machine learning to provide brands with an overwhelming competitive advantage on Amazon. And as someone who has lead teams internally at Amazon and on the agency side, his understanding of Amazon and its unique demands is truly one of a kind. The world’s largest consumer brands have sought Connor’s ability to decode the confounding black box that Amazon represents and hundreds more use Downstream's technology to drive share on the platform. Connor lives outside of Seattle with his wife and four children.

Jeff is a co-founder and CEO of Fig Loans. He previously worked at the Boston Consulting Group, specializing in strategy for consumer facing products. Jeff has an MBA from the Wharton School in Applied Data Analytics and holds a bachelors degree from MIT in Chemical Engineering.

Gemar Mills is an American author and speaker, and is the Chief Education Officer of the Future Project. He obtained a Bachelors of Science degree in Math Education from Montclair State University. In 2005, Gemar Mills began teaching math at East Side High School in Newark, New Jersey. While working fulltime, he began his graduate studies at American Intercontinental University where he earned a Master's of Educational Leadership. A true educational scientist at heart, Mills earned his doctorate degree in administration, policy, and curriculum from Seton Hall University.

Tyler Schrodt is the founder and CEO, of the Electronic Gaming Federation. Tyler started in esports in 2001 as a Counterstrike 1.6 player and tournament organizer and spent 6 years working in higher education before founding EGF in 2013 while studying finance at RIT. Today, EGF oversees a national league for some of the largest colleges in the United States and the first-state endorsed national high school esports league in the country.

Geospiza Co-Founder and CEO, Sarah Tuneberg is passionate about harnessing data, analytics, and technology to solve complex challenges. After more than a decade in emergency management and public health, Sarah founded Geospiza to transform the way emergency management decisions are made. Sarah leads our interdisciplinary team of problem solvers focused on developing data-driven, evidence-based solutions, models, and processes that reduce risk and enhance resilience, especially for the most vulnerable.  Sarah holds a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Georgia and a Master’s degree in Public Health from Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.