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Keynote Speakers

Irma Olguin Jr. CEO and Co-Founder, Bitwise Industries

In 2013, Irma L. Olguin Jr. decided to build a company focused on strengthening the tech industry in Fresno, Calif. and leveraging it as the economic driver to remake the city. In 2019, the company secured one of the largest series A rounds of funding ever for a female Latinx-led company. Bitwise Industries now operates with the goal of activating human potential for the technology industry in underdog cities across the United States....

Chantesia Hodges Managing Attorney, Hodges Law Office, PLLC

Chantesia Hodges is a business and intellectual property attorney at her law firm Hodges Law Office, PLLC. She helps creative entrepreneurs build and sustain successful businesses, and her mission is to help as many business owners as possible create the lives of their dreams through entrepreneurship. Outside of her law practice, Chantesia has a love for all things music that goes back to early childhood- she sings, dances, and plays piano....

Barry Moltz Small Business Expert, Speaker, Author, Getting Small Business Unstuck

As a small business expert, Barry Moltz gets owners growing again by unlocking their long-forgotten potential. With decades of entrepreneurial experience in his own business ventures as well as consulting countless other entrepreneurs, Barry has discovered the formula to get stuck business owners unstuck and marching forward. As a small business expert, Barry applies simple, strategic steps to facilitate change. After successfully selling his last operating business, Barry has branched out into a number of entrepreneurship-related ...

Chantesia Hodges Managing Attorney, Hodges Law Office, PLLC

Chantesia Hodges is a business and intellectual property attorney at her law firm Hodges Law Office, PLLC. She helps creative entrepreneurs build and sustain successful businesses, and her mission is to help as many business owners as possible create the lives of their dreams through entrepreneurship. Outside of her law practice, Chantesia has a love for all things music that goes back to early childhood- she sings, dances, and plays piano....

Sylvester “SLY” Phifer Vice President, Disney Advertising

Sylvester “Sly” Phifer has spent the past 20 years launching and scaling performance and general market sales teams at The Weather Channel, National Football League, ESPN, and now Disney/Hulu....

Barbara Corcoran Shark on ABC’s “Shark Tank"

Shark on ABC’s “Shark Tank" Barbara Corcoran’s credits include straight D’s in high school and college and 20 jobs by the time she turned 23. It was her next job that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country: She borrowed $1,000 and quit her job as a waitress to start a tiny real estate company in New York City. Over the next 25 years Barbara would parlay that $1,000 loan into a $5 billion real estate business, building the largest and best-known brand in the business. Corcoran is the author...

workshop Speakers

Mitch Levinson

Mitch Levinson, started his first marketing agency in 2001 and has never looked back. Over the past 30 years, he has helped businesses use technology to generate leads and drive sales. He works with clients to create a s...

Linda HollanderCEO, Sponsor Concierge

Linda Hollander has been featured by Inc. and Entrepreneur Magazines as the leading expert on corporate sponsorship. She is the author of book, Corporate Sponsorship in 3 Easy Steps. She is also the CEO of Sponsor Concie...

Tom DuForeCEO / Big Sky Franchise Team

Tom DuFore is the CEO of Big Sky Franchise Team, where he is responsible for the company strategy, vision, and growth. Tom’s depth and breadth of experience is expansive having personally consulted with and advised hun...

Adam T AllenLeaseMyMarketing

After working in corporate marketing for nearly 20 years with brands like Trane, Wells Fargo, Penn State, and more, Adam left his six-figure salary to run his digital marketing agency. Now, he applies what he's learned f...

Terry Brussel-RogersCertified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Owner of Success Center, Inc.

Terry Brussel-Rogers, Director of Success Center, Inc. is a clinical hypnotherapist certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists. Professional experience since 1969, pioneered telephone hypnosis in 1995. Terry developed...

Kevin L. JacksonCOO SourceConnecte

Kevin L. Jackson provides consulting and digital media services to AT&T, Intel, Ericsson and serves as an Adjunct Professor at Tulane University. Executive experience includes VP J.P. Morgan Chase, IBM Worldwide Sale...

Alexandre PomboWW Sales Lead Small and Medium Business

Alexandre Pombo responsibility is to set the sales strategy for Microsoft’s Business Applications business to the Small and Medium Business and Corporate Segments Worldwide. With more than 20 years of experience workin...

Timothy SeeleyLead Coach/TLS Legacy Coaching

Timothy Seeley is a Certified Coach, writer, and speaker. Tim has worked in both the for-profit and the not-for-profit realms. He ran a successful camp ministry in a foreign country growing it by over 10 percent each yea...

Liz WhiteheadCEO, 12PointFive

Liz Whitehead is an award-winning business development consultant that specializes in guiding diverse businesses to leverage their certification and benefit from corporate supplier diversity initiatives. Her clients incl...

Steve RenardFounder / Principal - Crowned Fox Adventures

Steve Renard founded Crowned Fox Adventures in 2019 to help business owners and leaders connect with their audiences on camera. During his 19 years as a video producer, director, and editor, he watched countless people s...

Patrick MurphyLeadership Coach / Project Murphy, LLC

Patrick Murphy is a leadership coach based in Washington, D.C., and owner of Project Murphy, LLC. He is known for his unwavering enthusiasm and spirit to help leaders succeed. With his unique, award-winning background in...

Tami WlochDirector, Social/Digital Media & Advisory Panelist, Facebook & LinkedIn

Tami Wloch is a dynamic, international speaker who makes the complex world of Social Media easy to understand. She serves on Advisory Panels for both Facebook & LinkedIn Corps. so she has insider knowledge that busin...

Michael BohnerBusiness Credit Expert & Consultant/Dun & Bradstreet

Michael Bohner brings 15 years of experience working with businesses of all sizes to help them grow and prosper.  He has coached thousands of business owners on establishing a business credit profile that will get them...

Mitch LevinsonPresident/ Creative Sizzle

Mitch Levinson, started his first marketing agency in 2001 and has never looked back. Over the past 30 years, he has helped businesses use technology to generate leads and drive sales. He works with clients to create a s...

Keith AicheleCEO NextGen REI & The Agile Group

Keith Aichele is a parallel entrepreneur and expert in innovation, marketing and real estate. He is the founder and CEO of NextGen REI, The Agile Group and Misaic; as well as the ambassador and principal architect of the...

Emiliano JöckerSenior Consultant, iFranchise Group

Mr. Jöcker has over 25 years of business experience across a range of industries and functions (retail business management, consumer service business operations, insurance law, franchising, and more).   A nat...

Keith MaynardAmbassador / FILT Pod

With over 20 years in the industry as a presenter, TV anchor, and actor, Keith is a veteran in marketing and advertising. This qualification makes him unique and perfect as the ambassador for FILT Pod. Keith’s unique r...

Ean Price MurphyFounder & Co-Owner Moxie Bookkeeping & Coaching Inc

Ean Price Murphy founded Moxie Bookkeeping & Coaching Inc to make small-business financial information accessible and actionable, even for those who don’t think of themselves as good with numbers. Ean is a certifie...

Rohit SawhneyProduct Leader/Cisco Umbrella

Product Management leader responsible for accelerating DNS Security business within Cisco's Cloud Security portfolio. 20+ yrs industry experience in Silicon Valley within Semiconductors (various leadership roles) SaaS (C...

Pamela Gakii RiunguOffSite CMO - PGR Marketing

She is the founder and offsite CMO -Chief Marketing Officer of PGR Marketing, experts in lead generation for B2B and B2C companies in the United States, Mexico, and Africa. She has been a passionate student of the scienc...

Dexter DethmersSenior Manager, Partnerships

Dexter Dethmers is Senior Manager, Partnerships at Honey. As a 10-year veteran in the affiliate industry, he has seen firsthand how technology can help retail brands, drive more engagement, reduce friction, and ultimatel...

Brian CristianoFounder & CEO/ BOLD Worldwide

Brian Cristiano is a self-made entrepreneur, business strategist, marketing expert, modern-day storyteller and Founder/ CEO of BOLD Worldwide. From startups to Fortune 500s, Brian and BOLD have helped transform with many...

Elliott BayevAuthor, Sales Jiu-Jitsu

ELLIOTT BAYEV has more than thirty years of martial arts experience with twenty-four in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

He’s a second degree black belt and Masters World silver medalist, Pan American silver medalist, an...

Angela AdamsDirector of Legal Services/ American Society for Asset Protection

Asset protection specialist Angela Adams is the director of legal services for American Society for Asset Protection (ASAP). Angela has extensive knowledge and experience helping clients implement the protection and plan...

Sylvester “SLY” PhiferVice President, Disney Advertising

Sylvester “Sly” Phifer has spent the past 20 years launching and scaling performance and general market sales teams at The Weather Channel, National Football League, ESPN, and now Disney/Hulu....

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