Preston Smith is co-founder and CEO of Rocketship Education, a leading blended charter school system in the United States, currently serving 3,800+ students in grades K-5 in seven schools and the highest performing low-income school system in California.

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. 

Ross Floate is a principal at Melbourne, Australia-based Floate Design Partners, working at the intersection of branding, design, and both print and online publishing.

Idan Cohen is co-founder and head of product at Boxee Inc, an online video software company in New York City.

Ken Biberaj is real estate development executive at Morgan Barrington Associates of New York. In 2013, Biberaj ran for public office as a Democratic Candidate for New York City Council for the West Side of Manhattan. He holds a JD from New York Law School, a Masters in Public Policy (MPP) from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and a BA in Political Science from American University. 

Julie Hession is cookbook author based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Previously, she founded Julie Anne's All Natural Granola Company. Hession has developed her career by food blogging, cooking contests, and starting fine food companies.

Anatole Faykin is currently a Foreign Service Officer at the United States Department of State. Previously, Faykin worked in leading digital product management roles and founded multiple companies, including Tuanpin, a Shanghai, China-based daily deals site he grew to 25 employees and sold in the fall of 2011. 

Ben Hallen is currently Assistant Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business. Previously, Hallen was Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. Hallen earned a PhD from Stanford University and its Stanford Technology Venture Program (STVP).  

Stacie Grossman Bloom is the Senior Executive Director for Education and Policy at the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. 

Jon Kolko is a designer and educator based in Austin, Texas. He is currently Vice President of Consumer Design at Blackboard, joining the company via its acquisition of myEdu, a startup focused on helping college students succeed and get jobs. Kolko is also the Founder and Director of the Austin Center for Design. 

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. 

Lauren Serota is an Associate Creative Director and interaction designer at frog design and a professor at the Austin Center for Design.

Randall Metting is a brand marketer working for Dulce Vida Spirits in Austin. Metting has built a career on helping companies and non-profits develop integrated marketing strategy and brand development programs. 

Fabian Pfortmüller is an entrepreneur and community builder based in New York City.  Pfortmüller is co-founder of both Sandbox Network and Holstee. 

Michael Margolis is an educator and storyteller based in New York City. Margolis is the founder and president of Get Storied, an education and publishing platform dedicated to teaching the world how to think in narrative. 

Doug Jaeger is a creative entrepreneur based in New York City and is co-founder of digital marketing, design and product marketing company, JaegerSloan. 

Alan McNab is a marketing executive working at Cisco in the Global Go To Market Small Cells and Services group.  He is based in Dublin, Ireland. McNab holds a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University and an MBA from Trinity College in Dublin. 

Garren Katz is an executive career coach and private life coach.  His business coaching focus includes entrepreneurship, sales strategy and social business dynamics while his personal coaching on finance and relationship development. 

Geoff Hamm is a business development executive and Vice President, Strategic Alliances at mobile marketing platform start-up Applovin in San Francisco, CA. Hamm graduated from the University of Illinois.

Gabrielle Lamourelle is a Senior international health analyst at the US Department of Health Office of Global Affairs in Washington, DC. She earned her MPH at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.

Clara Soh is a health economist and comparative effectiveness researcher working as a Senior Director at a pharmaceutical trade organization in Washington, DC.

Alayne Cotterill is a wildlife biologist based in the African Savanna. She is currently Research Director at Ewaso Lions, working with Kenyan lions and other large carnivores to produce co-existence between people and wildlife. In February 2014, Cotterill earned a PhD at Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford University, focusing her research on adaptations in the behavioral ecology in response to the risk of human-caused mortality.

Josep Oriol is an East African-based venture capitalist at the Ciel Group KIBO Fund.  Oriol is also a Partner at Conservation Capital, a financial investment and advisory firm specializing in conservation-related projects.

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.  

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 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.

Stephanie Redlener is a talent management executive. She is currently Managing Director, Talent Strategy at Discover Digital Group (DDG) and Founder at talent management consulting firm Agent Gold in New York City. Redlener studied business at California State University at Long Beach and advertising at Miami Ad School.