Keynote Speakers

Dave Charest Director of Small Business Success, Constant Contact
Dave Charest is Director of Small Business Success at Constant Contact, the online marketing leader trusted by millions of small businesses. In his role, Dave acts as an educator and an advocate for small business leaders, marketing professionals, and nonprofits by providing them with practical marketing advice that can help them achieve ...
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Max Chacon Program Manager, Amazon Seller Relations
Max Chacon is a Program Manager at Amazon where he develops and manages educational programing for entrepreneurs and small businesses to help them find success selling in our store. Since joining Amazon in November 2021, Max has dedicated himself to enabling the success of entrepreneurs, small businesses, and new brands in Amazon's sto...
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Workshop Speakers

Lee Harris Texas Capital Bank
Lee Harris, Head of Retail Banking for Texas Capital, is an accomplished financial services professional with 17 years in banking and 24 years of leadership experience. Lee currently leads the Retail banking network for ...
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Yusef Muhammad SCORE
Voted as The SBA Minority Small Business Champion of the Year, by The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), City of Houston, “Champion of Diversity” and recipient of the “Certificate of Special Congressional Re...
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Joe Moghaizel Aligned Speaker Academy
Joe 'Mr. AllwaysGood' Moghaizel is an award-winning international speaker, and bestselling author. His mission is to positively impact a billion lives by helping entrepreneurs overcome their fear of sales and public spea...
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Gini Trask Aligned Speaker Academy
Born into a family of entrepreneurs, business is simply second nature to Gini. She began her first business at the age of 16 and never stopped. She has owned and grown numerous small businesses from incubation into the m...
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Vanessa Jackson Verizon
Calvin and Vanessa Jackson, the heart and soul behind The Lemon Ad Stand, have woven their lives and careers into a vivid narrative of creativity, dedication, and entrepreneurial spirit. This duo, bound by mutual ambitio...
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Calvin Jackson Verizon
Calvin and Vanessa Jackson, the heart and soul behind The Lemon Ad Stand, have woven their lives and careers into a vivid narrative of creativity, dedication, and entrepreneurial spirit. This duo, bound by mutual ambitio...
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James W. Johnson Lifetime Navigators
James Johnson, CLTC, is the President and Owner of All Mark Insurance Services and has been a business owner, a mentor, and an entrepreneur for over 40 years. His core belief is only when we are learning, are we growing....
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Jeffrey Mohlman Lifetime Navigators
Jeffrey Mohlman is a Certified Tax Specialist and Certified Estate and Trust Specialist based in Bradenton, Florida. He graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville with a B.S. in Agricultural Busin...
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Michael Clanin O.N.C.E. Business Strategies
Michael has over two decades of experience in the financial and insurance industry, specializing in tax-free wealth creation, lifetime income strategies, strategic business structures, retirement and legacy planning. A p...
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Susan Wolrab O.N.C.E. Business Strategies
Whether it’s for your personal wealth or business assets, protecting what you’ve built requires the right knowledge, resources, and careful strategic planning. Regardless of if you're growing your family legacy, prep...
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Ritu A Thakur Smart Tech Inc
Ritu Thakur is a seasoned business and technology consultant with over 20 years of experience spanning multiple industries. In 2007, she founded Smart Tech Inc., a firm dedicated to helping small and medium-sized busines...
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Steve Merritt Transworld Business Advisors
Steve Merritt, President of Transworld Business Advisors of South and West Texas, New Mexico, and Wyoming, brings over 30 years of experience in finance, mergers and acquisitions, and business development. A seasoned M&a...
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Austin Zhao Transworld Business Advisors
Austin Zhao is Vice President of Transworld Business Advisors of South & West Texas, New Mexico, and Wyoming. A Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), Business Certified Appraiser (BCA), M&A Master Intermediary (M&am...
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Bobbi Coffey Transworld Business Advisors
Bobbi Coffey, Vice President of Transworld Business Advisors of South & West Texas, New Mexico, and Wyoming, is a strategic financial visionary with over 30 years of experience across a wide range of entrepreneurial ...
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Tony Keane Transworld Business Advisors
Tony Keane serves as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Transworld Business Advisors of South & West Texas, New Mexico, and Wyoming. A three-time small business owner and former Certified Public Accountant...
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Mark Young MyCHN
Mark Young has served in C-Suite roles since 1995 and as the Chief Executive Officer for MyCHN (Stephen F. Austin Community Health Center, Inc) since 2010. Mr. Young holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology, a Master’s in Or...
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Max Garcia MyCHN
Max Garcia has been a dedicated Business Development Manager with Community Health Network (MyCHN) since 2015, where he works passionately to expand patient access to high-quality care across Brazoria, Galveston, and Sou...
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Jody Collins A-Max Commercial
"Cowboy" Jody Collins – 23 years in the insurance industry, covering Non-Standard, Standard, and Preferred markets. As a producer, he has sold in 48 states and served as a Territory Manager/Wholesaler for Personal L...
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Sharlene Mercier SOHO Realty and Mortgage
SOHO Realty and Mortgage was founded with one powerful mission: to close the wealth gap by helping women own more real estate. We are a woman-led team combining mortgage expertise and real estate strategy into one seamle...
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Chess Woods Ambetter Health
Chess presently serves as Business Development Manager for Ambetter Health, a division of Centene Corporation, in the states of Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. Chess holds professional degrees from the Univer...
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Cory Kammerdiener RightAlly
With over two decades of experience in the real estate industry, Cory Kammerdiener is a visionary entrepreneur and the driving force behind multiple high-growth ventures in Texas’s housing sector. He is the Founder and...
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Isaiah Nolte Bloom Growth
For the past decade, Isaiah Nolte has served on the Bloom Growth leadership team, working with thousands of companies across multiple industries to unlock their growth potential. He is a member of YPO (Young Presidents...
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Dmytro Deduhov USUA
Certified cloud security engineer with more than 20 years of experience in networking DevOps, Cloud and Ccybersecurity....
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Preston Guthrie Zion HealthShare
Preston Guthrie is the Sales Director at Zion HealthShare, bringing deep experience from across the employee benefits industry. He began his career as a health insurance broker, later helping scale innovative benefit tec...
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Chas Sampson Forever Athlete Management
As an NFLPA Certified Contract Advisor (NFL Sports Agent) with Forever Athlete Management, Chas Sampson brings a rare blend of business acumen, military discipline, and player-first leadership to athlete representation. ...
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Devin Nath Talkfire
With a Bachelor's concentrating in Biology and an MBA, Devin's entrepreneurial direction has been to combine human psychology with business, harnessing the needs of everyday consumers to fulfill business goals. With the ...
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Aaron Perez Talkfire
With over 15 years of experience in e-commerce marketing, Aaron has joined the Talkfire team to leverage his expertise and help drive growth within the social media landscape. His goal is to bridge the gap between e-comm...
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