Speakers - Small Business Expo

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 ...

Precious Williams Shark Tank Success Story & CEO, The Perfect Pitch Group

Precious L. Williams, proud Founder and CEO of the Perfect Pitch Group, is a 13-time national elevator pitch champion, 5x #1 bestselling author, and international professional speaker. Besides training entrepreneurs, business leaders, and professionals, she is also a TOP Fortune 100 corporate sales trainer, teaching them how to take th...

Workshop Speakers

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...

Lucius C. Davis III Franchise Tax Board

Lucius C. Davis III is the Small Business Liaison in the Taxpayers’ Rights Advocate’s Office. He assists with the development of small business education and outreach programs in order to help business owners better ...

Jenna Fuentes Openclassrooms INC

Jenna is an innovative, creative, and international community partnerships builder and project manager who is passionate about developing people as well as developing interdisciplinary systems and solutions for social im...

Sharon Lee Thony Verizon

Sharon Lee Thony is a brand and marketing executive with nearly two decades of experience creating award-winning marketing campaigns for travel, beauty, and luxury lifestyle brands. She is the founder and CEO of SLT Cons...

Carol Xie Internal Revenue Service

Carol Xie has been a vital member of the IRS Tax Outreach Partnership & Education (TOPE) Branch for over three years. With a keen focus on effective communication and relationship-building, Carol serves as a liaison ...

John Armstrong Full Spectrum Coaching and Consulting

John Armstrong is a 25+ year entrepreneur, small business owner, and the founder of Full Spectrum Coaching & Consulting. With decades of hands-on experience launching, growing, and sustaining service-based businesses...

Lovely Marshall Lovely is YOUR Story

Lovely Marshall is an Eventbrite Millionaire & Forbes Influencer global speaker, and author empowering overlooked experts to break free from being undervalued to become highly paid powerhouses. As a top e-learning an...

Brent Ilgen Orchard Retail Group

Brent is a seasoned executive with over two decades of international experience in building and optimizing global supply chains. He excels at fostering strong partnerships with vendors and suppliers while driving operati...

Glenn Keast Orchard Retail Group

The Orchard Retail Group Founder with nearly 18 years at Cotton On Group. Glenn played a pivotal role in growing the brand from 178 local stores to over 1,500 stores worldwide, operating in 26 countries and still growing...

Kelly Cunningham Simpli.fi

For more than 25 years, Kelly Cunningham has been passionate about helping small and regional businesses win. As a former small business & advertising agency owner, he works passionately with local/regional brands...

Affan Usmani Cloud Consulting, Inc

Affan Usmani is the SVP of Professional Services at Cloud Consulting Inc., a technology-agnostic cloud CRM and ERP partner, specializing in delivering successful solutions and leading mass integrations and legacy system ...