Maurizio de Franciscis is former General Electric (GE) executive and Internet entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in general management, corporate finance and business development in the US, the UK, and Brazil. He currently managing director at Braven Partners, a boutique corporate advisory firm based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Sarah Simmons
Named one of "America's Great New Cooks" by FOOD & WINE Magazine, Sarah Simmons is the founder and chef of Birds & Bubbles restaurant in the Lower East Side of New York City. Simmons is also founder and chef of City Grit, a New York City "culinary salon" that has grown from supper club roots to become a concert hall for indie rock star chefs visiting from around the world.
Ramsey Pryor
Ramsey Pryor is an international marketing executive with over 18 years of global product management and marketing experience. While at IBM, Pryor introduced IBM’s first web-based email offering into market and led IBM’s market-facing activities to build market awareness for IBM Connections social business platform, ranked first in market share by IDC for the past 5 years. Pryor earned a BA from Northwestern University, with concentrations in economics and Spanish, and an MBA from IESE Business School at the University of Navarra in Barcelona, Spain.
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Richard Moross
Richard Moross is founder and CEO of MOO, an award-winning online print business. Before founding MOO, Moross was a senior design strategist at Imagination, the world's largest independent design company.
Nina Godiwalla
Audrey Parker French
Audrey Parker French is an entrepreneur based in Austin, Texas currently on a sabbatical. Parker co-founded CLEAResult, an energy management consulting firm.
Dan Street
Dan Street was the founder and CEO of Loku, a local search engine powered by social data that was acquired by Groupon in 2013. Previously, Street worked in private equity at Kohlberg, Kravis, and Roberts (KKR) and management consulting at Bain & Co. He earned a BA in music and business from Rice University where he played baseball and basketball and sang opera.