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Title: Professor of Theatre, Williams College Date: December 5, 2017 At Williams since 1986, Eppel teaches acting, directing, dramatic literature, and directs departmental productions. He is a founding member of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg (South Africa’s first fully non-racial theatre which was started in 1972). His professional acting

Title: eCommerce Entrepreneur Date: March 17, 2015 Thomas Cornelius started his first internet business Addashop in 1997 which partnered with a European group that went public as one of the first European internet companies with a valuation north of $ 1 billion. The Addashop platform supported some of the early companies

Title: Entrepreneurial Senior Executive Date: October 20, 2015 Bev Seay is an Entrepreneurial Senior Executive with global experience and Fortune 500 track record. She is a recognized leader in innovative and creative technologies with strong university ties through personal commitment and industry collaboration. As a long time supporter of Flashpoint,

Title: Managing Director, Innovation Portfolio Partners Date: October 22, 2015 Karl Ronn is Managing Director of Innovation Portfolio Partners, a Silicon Valley based firm that helps CEOs and the Top Management of Fortune 500 companies find and develop new to the world products and services. He also co-founded VC-backed Butterfly

Title: General Counsel, Etsy Date: November 3, 2015 Jordan is Etsy's General Counsel, bringing over 30 years of legal experience to oversee the global legal team and lead all legal matters for the company. Before Etsy, Jordan served as the general counsel for New Island Capital Management, Silver Spring Networks,

Title: Managing Partner, iBusiness Partners Date: November 17, 2015 Mr. Langs has split his work life between operations and advisory for leading edge technology companies for over 20 years. He has operations experience as a senior executive and board member of private and public technology companies, and the other half

Title: Founding Partner, Marto Capital Date: December 1, 2015 Katina is a financial services veteran with 20 years of international experience in the financial and technology industries leading fast growth organizations. She is a founding partner of Marto Capital, and a Founder and Board Member of AcordIQ. From 2005 to

Title: Managing Partner, Global Operations Group at TGP Date: December 19, 2017 Steve Ellis is the Managing Partner of the Global Operations Group and Portfolio Business Building for TPG Growth and The Rise Fund. Steve has over ​three decades of leadership and global experience​.​ He was the former CEO of​

Title: Founder and former CEO, UpStart Communications Date: March 22, 2016 Toby Rubin is the Founder and former CEO of UpStart - an accelerator in the Bay Area. Her first career began as a civil rights attorney in Mississippi, advocating on behalf of students with disabilities in education matters. She

Title: CEO, ZAG Communications Date: March 15, 2016 Zenobia Godschalk is the CEO of ZAG Communications, a PR and marketing agency serving high-growth technology companies. She was previously a sell-side analyst with Morgan Keegan, where she was a member of The Wall Street Journal’s Top Ranked Software Analyst team.

Title: Private Equity Investor Date: March 8, 2016 Steve Chamberlain has been a private equity investor in mostly tech startups for the past 16 years. He has made 24 investments over the years that included successful exits with WebMD, N2 Broadband, ViTrue and Repay OnLine. He has 9 that are

Title: Vice President of Corporate Development, NCR Corporation Date: October 18, 2016 Linnea Geiss is the Vice President of Corporate Development for NCR Corporation, which includes Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategic Partnerships and Alliances, and New Market Development initiatives. Prior to joining NCR, Linnea was an investment principal at Arcapita Ventures,

Title: Managing Partner and Founder, Blue Mesa Partners Date: November 1, 2016 Marc is a serial entrepreneur, veteran dealmaker, senior advisor, happily recovering deal lawyer, and former Managing Partner of a full-service corporate law firm. Marc has held the title of Director for several public companies and numerous private companies,

Title: CTO and Co-Founder, Hired Date: November 29, 2016 He has been passionate about software development since writing his first game at age 7. Between ages 13 and 18, Allan earned his 10,000 hours coding online games (in C) with thousands of players. In college, Allan founded a web

Title: Chief Product Officer, Lytro Date: November 17, 2016 Ariel Braunstein is Chief Product Officer for Lytro, setting product direction and driving the company's end-to-end product management process. Ariel has a long track record of building successful consumer software and hardware businesses. Prior to joining Lytro, Ariel Founded and served

Title: Global Marketing Director in Innovation, Beam Suntory Date: November 14, 2017 Kevin Burke is the Global Marketing Director in Innovation at Beam Suntory, the world's third largest premium spirits company.  Previously, he was the Global Brand Director at the Coca-Cola company who led strategy, expansion, and innovation on the

Title: Former CEO, RhodeCode Date: October 10, 2017 Matt has over 25 years of successful leadership in high growth startups across diverse markets (cloud, data center, security software, semiconductor, enterprise). He’s been an early stage CEO seven times with five of those companies achieving successful exits. Most recently, Matt

Title: Serial entrepreneur and Investor Date: October 3, 2017 Dave is a serial entrepreneur and investor based in Atlanta. His investments, developments, and startups have generated value in excess of $500 Million over the past 20 years. In 1994, Dave co-founded a hotel company called Sun Suites, which became the

Title: Author, speaker, and comedian Date: September 19, 2017 Paul Ollinger is an author, speaker, and comedian whose material addresses the excitement, stress, and contradictions of the modern business world. Paul launched his career in the digital media industry in 1997 with LAUNCH.com, and went on to work at

Title: Founder and Executive Director, RefugePoint Date: September 12, 2017 Sasha Chanoff is the founder and executive director of RefugePoint, a humanitarian organization that finds lasting solutions for the world’s most at risk refugees. He co-authored a new book titled From Crisis to Calling: Finding Your Moral Center in

Title: Co-Founder and President, Nextel Date: September 5, 2017 Meade has spent the past 19 years as an angel investor in Atlanta. He formed a holding company for telecommunication interests and currently serves as President and CEO. Meade co-founded and was President of PowerFone, Inc. from 1992 through 1994, when

Title: Distinguished Fellow, Center For Startup Engineering Date: August 29, 2017 Eric Gold is a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Startup Engineering at Georgia Tech. He formerly served as the lead behavioral economist at Fidelity Investments, the largest mutual fund company in the U.S. - a role he

Title: Co-Founder and CTO, Springbot Date: August 22, 2017 A graduate of Georgia Tech, Joe is Springbot's resident office nerd and adrenaline junky, otherwise known as the co-founder and CTO. His passion is helping eCommerce stores grow, one data-driven marketing action at a time... while still making time to jump