Bryan Law is a Senior Director of Strategic Projects at Rackspace, a managed cloud computing services company based in San Antonio, Texas. He is also a board member at Angola University. Previously, Law held a Principal role in the Global Business Strategy Group at Google and, prior to that, he was a manager at Monitor, management consulting firm. He earned an MBA from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business and a BA from Georgetown University.
Leslie Kerner
Leslie Kerner is Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Professional Services group at Amplify, an education technology software and services company innovating K-12 education. She is responsible for building and managing training, professional development and consulting services for schools.
Hammans Stallings
Hammans Stallings is an innovation strategist based in Shanghai, China, where he works as a Principal Strategist at frog design. He also teaches at the CEDIM Masters in Business Innovation program in Monterrey, Mexico. Stallings earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA from the University of Virginia.
Maurizio de Franciscis
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.
Michael Olsen
Michael Olsen is a management consultant working at Accenture. Previous to Accenture, Olsen pursued his passion to transition into a health care management career by earning dual MBA and MPH degrees at Emory University in Atlanta. Olsen earned a BA in symbolic systems from Stanford University.
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.
Andrew Hutson
Andrew Hutson is a Project Manager at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), where he advises corporate partners, including Wal-Mart, in the United States and China on corporate sustainability and green supply chain initiatives.