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COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP . Nexus Global Youth Summit WRITING . Contributor - SF American Marketing Association . US Editor - GirlsNGadgets . Contributor - Women2.0 BACKGROUND HIGHLIGHTS • Results driven background in marketing, monetization, product management, sales, PR, social media, customer retention, customer acquisition and advertising strategic management - a dynamic, efficient, adaptable, enthusiastic, leader and team player that welcomes challenges with proven track record of growth. • Involvement in all levels of starting and establishing a successful business, demonstrating perseverance, hard work, self motivation, ingenuity, commitment, adaptability and follow through. CORE COMPETENCIES - Business Strategy & Operations - Market Strategy, Planning & Positioning - Product UX - Building Alliances & Partnerships - Monetization - Strategic Social Marketing - Key Account Relationship Management - Business Development & Expansion - Advanced Technology & Web Integration - Affiliate Program Analysis & Growth - Organizational Team Building & Leadership - Product Marketing - Event Marketing, Production, Sponsorships - Partnerships - Cross Promotional Opportunities Specialties: Conversational fluency in Cantonese and Japanese. Fluency in English and semi fluent in French. Working knowledge of software including MS Office, JD Edwards, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Quickbook Retail System set up and operation. Business licensing, branding and identity, purchasing. Contract negotiation, procurement navigation, lead evaluation, program execution and management, maintaining solid business relationships that translate into mutually beneficial ROI results.
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For over fifteen years, I have worked diligently to improve the quality of life for individuals of diverse backgrounds. I have worked with families affected by autism and special needs by supporting applied behavior analysis (ABA) training programs, led action sporting events for young people affected by spinal cord injuries and managed teams to meet the needs of international ESL students acclimating to life in America. I recently began a career with a major airline as a Boston based Flight Attendant before relocating to my native California. I enjoy using my knowledge and experience as a Team Leader to support LGB/LAX Airport operations and Crewmembers operating at 30,000 feet. I am a first-generation college student having earned my A.A. in Psychology and B.A. in English and Creative Writing (Fiction and Poetry) from the University of California, Irvine. I am currently pursuing a Dual M.S. in Organizational Leadership and Management with a specialization in Human Resources Performance. I enjoy writing and have worked with agencies in cause marketing to engage audiences for various socially responsible campaigns. I am always on the go, but enjoy mastering new recipes, making time to read a good book, and outdoor adventures in my down time. In 2011 I developed a love for running and have completed over 20 races, my most recent being Big Sur Marathon.
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Wen-Lee is the Co-Founder of BeBetter, a technology-based venture that will enhance the engagement between NGOs, brands, and communities through the design and launch of social impact challenges. You change the world; We prove it. Wen-Lee is a supporter of social impact ventures, and is also developing a cross-border platform appropriately dubbed IXI (Investment x Impact) that brings together global resources to both invest in and incubate social impact businesses. He has been a speaker at Asia's largest TEDx forum, has been a panelist for numerous cross border investment or immigration summits, and a curator of numerous conferences, forums, and panels that have targeted both industry professionals and students alike. Wen is a Venture Partner and Special Adviser to West 22nd Capital Partners, an Asia- based Multi-Family Office leveraging the influence of the respective listed companies of these families, which span the industries of real estate, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and technology and collectively have a market cap over $100 billion USD. He is particularly well-versed in China outbound investment activity and has been interviewed by and contributed for the BBC World News and SINA, along with publications like the Pinkwater Report. Previously, Mr. Ying ran a corporate-backed investment program in Asia-Pacific and grew the business from the ground up into an investment vehicle that financed approximately 4.5 billion USD of real estate assets in the US. Mr. Ying had attended the Juilliard School of Music Pre-College and Columbia Honors Program. He was co-founder of NextStep Shanghai, which was the leading entrepreneurship networking association in Shanghai at the time, and a co- founder of the Shanghai Chapter of the Urban Land Institute, a global institute with over 30,000 members worldwide. He also created the Entrepreneur Mentorship Program within the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC. Mr. Ying holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an Emphasis in Entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. He is a native English speaker and fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
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Innovative and highly motivated storytelling engineer who has spent the past decade creating, cultivating and working in developer communities globally. Leading User Experience Strategy (UX), Performance and Interaction Design initiatives. Proven leader providing thought leadership to build and drive user-centric teams and scaled programs from the ground up. She's founded multiple agencies, including HER Ideas in Motion, a girl-serving nonprofit for media and technology. Areas of Expertise: -User Experience: Research, Design, Development, Testing & Measurement -Search Engine Optimization -Program and Project Management -Collaborative Design -Cross-Functional Leadership -Change Management & Organizational Development -Community Building
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Thought leader and practitioner of better ways to organize and motivate people. Leading self-managed teams based on teal organization principles and a true believer in decentralized, distributed and autonomous organizations. Maintain non-profit organization that provides free services to various type of organizations looking to implement unconventional ways to motivate and organize people. Focused on business and harness different technologies to contribute to humanity continuously. Experienced with developing and executing IT strategy in the energy trading, energy operation, governmental utilities, financial services and automotive industries. Ability to translate strategic plans into executable real-world tactical initiatives.
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Afshin Pishevar (“AP”) is rated 'AV' (Preeminent) by Martindale Hubbell law directory. He is assigned a score of 10/10 by AVVO & "Top 100" Award by NTLA. He has advised corporations & individuals in a diverse array of nationally important matters. W/ legal & business experience spanning over two decades, AP's experience includes startups, IP, corporate, employment, contracts, transportation law, having represented numerous industry companies, inter alia. His practice has involved Corporate, Business, Transportation, Technology, IP, Criminal & Civil Litigation, Trial Practice, as well as Immigration Law, Commercial Landlord/Tenant & Torts. An active member of Bar/professional associations, in leadership roles such as Committee Chair and President. He has founded startups, advised them and served as founding CLO & General Counsel to Hyperloop One, GC to the non-profit, Define American and Chief Strategy Officer & GC of McLEAR. AP has been active politically as trustee & advisor to political leaders & prominent individuals in legal matters as well as local and national transportation infrastructure and High-Speed Rail. AP is a team-builder who’s depth and breadth of experience in legal & business matters enable him to skillfully solve the complex issues w/ an approach that is creative, efficient & productive. Prior to starting his law firm, he was an associate at a private law firm, summer Law Clerk to a Federal Judge, law clerk for the States Attorney's Office and the Legal Aid Society. AP has been dedicated to public service, having received awards for his efforts. AP is a Captain in the Reserves, JAG Unit–Maryland Military Defense Force (MDDF). Recently, he was listed in the top 25 (ranked #8 for DC, MD, and VA) in the year-end edition of the Washingtonian Magazine’s legal review of 2014. Mr. Pishevar is steadfastly devoted to ensuring the realization of transformative technologies and the tremendous benefits they will convey to the world.
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I admire talented people and see the untapped potential in most. I try to harness positivity and spread it. Witnessing beauty in nature and in my surroundings in any shape or form invigorates me. Don't be surprised if I hug you. I prefer to hug than shake hands or kiss. Proud to say my app appLOUD which we launched in Dec 2014 was called "Awesome...Terrific...Priceless" by Mac Observer and was named "Best App" by Culture Collide in 2015. In 2014, I was named by Inc. Magazine as one NYC’s Top 4 Content Innovators as a “Supermarketer” and “Intelligence Agent.” Previously I was recognized by Silicon Alley Reporter among the "Top 100 Internet Executives in NY" and named by NextWeb as one of “50 In New York’s Tech Scene You Need to Know.” My crowd-funding fashion site Styletrek was featured by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of “Top 100 Brilliant Companies” of 2011 and by Stanford GSB Community as “Top 10 Great Business Ideas.” In 2003, I lauched Burberry's e-commerce site and received the "Rising Star" award in 2006 from the executive management at Burberry. I have been featured in the NY Times, WSJ, Asia WSJ, VOGUE, Asiaweek, BusinessWeek, Fortune Small Business, Entrepreneur, Advertising Age and CNN. I have spoken at Columbia, NYU, Harvard, and MIT on entrepreneurship and digital marketing. In 2009 I gave a keynote at the Luxury Interactive Conference in London on "Luxury Marketing in a Recession" and at the Global Ecommerce Summit in Barcelona in 2010 on "The Global E-commerce Launch Checklist." In 2012 I was a judge in the hack2hatch competition in Cebu, Philippines along with executives from Facebook and Microsoft. In 2014 I had the privilege to keynote and share the stage with Yuri Van Geest of Singularity University and “The Business Romantic” Tim Leberecht at the mobile conference MLove in Berlin with my talk on “Love, Empathy and Gratitude in a Connected world.” I am working on launching BRWN - a media company that aims to fill the gap and tell stories that matter to those in between black and white. I love to travel and was formerly proficient in Filipino, Spanish, French and Italian. In my free time I can be found snowboarding, scuba diving, or surfing. I live for live music and can often be found dancing at festivals. I am on the entrepreneur board of Venture for America and on the advisory board of Music Unites and NextDayBetter and am super proud to be a soccer mom and a sometime tiger mom to my son Mateo.
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Dave Troy is a serial entrepreneur and community activist in Baltimore, Maryland. He is CEO and product architect at 410 Labs, maker of the popular e-mail management tool Mailstrom.co. He has been acknowledged by the founding team at Twitter as the first developer to utilize the Twitter API, with his project “Twittervision,” which was featured in the 2008 MoMA exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind.” His crowdsourced project Peoplemaps.org uses social network data to map cities. He is also organizer of TEDxMidAtlantic and is passionate about data, cities, and entrepreneurship. Background in telecommunications and computing, with an emphasis on databases, automation, web technology, user interface design and IP/PSTN interfaces. Established expertise in VoIP technology, object oriented design, and extensive experience in ISP business. Specialties: Telecommunications implementation, network design, database design, systems automation.
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After living in the walled information ecosystem of WeChat in China for 4 years, I fully appreciate the importance of open ecosystems. So now as part of Search at Google, I lead efforts whose mission is to promote the development of diverse, open Web ecosystems globally (e.g. not entirely stuck in Facebookistan) Since Oct 2015, I've led our Search Tools PM team, which provides diagnostic tools to Webmasters/developers. Starting Jan 2016, I'm now leading a newly formed Content Creation team comprised of product managers and engineers focusing on content creation projects including Blogger (Google's free blog platform committed to supporting free expression globally) and some other not-yet-fully launched projects. Prior to this role, I was based in Shanghai/Beijing where I banged my head against a (great) wall trying to get Google back into China as the "China Product Lead" (along with my comrade Boon-Lock Yeo) My long-term startup dream: to create an AI that would teach kids to read, to learn a foreign language, and to lead themselves on a Hero's Journey of personalized learning! Prior to joining Google, I was a startup co-founder! -- UpTake Networks (online travel, semantic search, SEO), sold to Groupon in 2012 -- Loyalty Matrix (retention/loyalty analytics consulting), sold to Responsys in 2006 -- Netcentives (loyalty programs and virtual currency), went public in 1999 (NASDAQ:NCNT) and was acquired (in a distress sale, unfortunately) in 2001 by Cendant Corporation (NYSE:CD) and InfoUSA (NASDAQ:IUSA)
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Nathan leads Hawaii’s most experienced public relations practice and is immersed in the local business community where he draws upon his media insights, marketplace knowledge and industry connections to counsel clients in various sectors to help them achieve their business goals. A 17-year veteran of the company, Nathan brings a fresh perspective to the ever-changing landscape of communications and how these methods of outreach can be used most effectively to advance the strategic direction and success of Anthology’s clients. He has a strong background in strategic planning, media relations and emerging media, as well as experience in all aspects of public relations — including tourism, corporate and public affairs, issues management, crisis communications, government and community relations. Nathan serves on the board of directors for the Honolulu Festival Foundation, JTB Goodwill Foundation, Junior Achievement of Hawaii, Friends of the Judiciary History Center of Hawai‘i, and Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Travel and Tourism Section. He also currently volunteers his time as a mentor in the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii's Young Professionals program, chairs the Pacific Club's NextGen Committee, and serves as vice president and fundraising chair of the Hui O Momilani Parent Teacher Student Organization. In 2014, Nathan was named to Pacific Business News' "Forty Under 40" list of honorees. In 2013, the PRSA Hawai‘i Chapter awarded him the President’s Leadership Award in recognition of his contributions to the profession’s success. He is also a past president of PRSA Hawaii. Raised on the island of Hawaii, Nathan graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, earning a B.A. in Journalism. He is also a graduate of Konawaena High School where he lettered in baseball.
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With a background in military and civil special operations, Guy Beveridge is an internationally known trainer, speaker, professional security consultant and licensed master peace officer in Texas. He has presented, developed programs and training on leadership, security management, and crisis response both national and international for businesses that top the Fortune 500 list. He specializes in leadership development, prediction, recognition, and evaluation of crime risk and consults with business owners, managers, insurance carriers, and police worldwide developing congruent plans to reduce crime risk through policy design and training. Guy worked on the FBI Joint Terrorism task force immediately following the events of 9/11 to develop first responder response protocols and capabilities for terrorist attacks. In his current role as CEO of Guy Beveridge & Associates, he assists corporations, schools, hospitals and churches with solutions and training for crisis mitigation. Additionally, he is an adjunct instructor for The Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas (LEMIT), the ALERRT Center (Texas State University), the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), and is a member of the board for Texas Justice of the Peace and Constables education and training development. Guy Beveridge believes in teaching executives and their security teams how to navigate risk and opportunity. Although he is a professional security consultant he first and foremost is focused on the mind of the leader and how they communicate a risk, resilience, and security mindset to their people.
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