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Monica Kang is a creative educator who is transforming today’s workforce through the power of creativity. She is driven by the belief that everyone is innately creative and that creativity can be used to catalyze personal and professional change. As the Founder and CEO of InnovatorsBox®, her deepest satisfaction comes from seeing individuals realize their full potential and talents through creativity. Through her innovative workshops, consulting, products, and curriculum, Monica teaches creativity in a tangible, practical, and relatable way regardless of industry or job title. Monica is a recognized thought leader in creative leadership and education. She has worked with clients worldwide including Fortune 500 companies, higher education, government, and nonprofits. Her work has been awarded across numerous platforms, including The White House, Ashoka Changemakers, Women Empowerment Expo, Timmy Award, National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC), and Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). Monica’s passion for positively impacting the world extends beyond InnovatorsBox®. She is an active leader in StartingBloc, DC Tech, Startup Weekend, and Coach Diversity Institute, and a Certified Professional Diversity Coach (CPDC). Driven by her lifelong love of knowledge, she is also an adjunct professor at BAU International University where she teaches entrepreneurship and leadership. Prior to InnovatorsBox®, Monica was a nuclear nonproliferation policy expert in international affairs. She holds an M.A. from SAIS Johns Hopkins University in Strategic Studies and International Economics and a B.A. from Boston University.
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Nabeeh is a biomedical researcher at National Jewish Health, specializing in genomics of infectious lung diseases. He has been trained in conflict resolution and is active in volunteering and interfaith efforts. He currently lives in Denver, CO and is the director of the Colorado Muslim Speakers Bureau (CMSB). Through CMSB, Nabeeh provides educational lectures and cultural competency trainings for organizations and institutions as an affiliate of the Islamic Networks Group.
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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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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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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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Gabriela is an engaging blend of likeability + competence, international recognized professional speaker with Swiss-Latin flavor catalyst triggers better results, specialized in diversity, 4th Industrial Revolution Skills. Her background as technology specialist allows her to connect to major IT / Telecom / Engineering / Pharma, Sports and business clients, her work has had impact in leaders in over 80 countries in all 5 continents, delivers in 3 languages Eng, Sp, German. She draws leadership experiences and lessons from elite sport into leadership, she's based in Switzerland active worldwide. Gabriela engaging humor, cross-cultural smart, unforgettable speaker, with boldness, unapologetic and professional, she teaches audiences various science-backed strategies with life-changing impact. Gabriela's spoken to executives at some of the world’s leading brands, her cutting edge approaches has created impact on leading companies including tams and C-suite teams at Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novartis, Roche, Google, UN, International Olympic Committee, Deloitte, Swiss Re. and top Engineering companies. She makes multi-cultural audiences feel inspired and engaged into action.
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With 20 years of experience in supporting PMG customers, Ben leads the product management of the PMG Digital Business Platform, working directly with customers to understand their needs and challenges, he sets the vision for the roadmap, and ensures the execution to deliver to a superior industry product to customers.
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As a Blockchain expert and advisor, Dean Rakic accompanies customers in their digital transformation processes. He looks back on many years of experience in architecture for the processing of large amounts of data, especially in the healthcare environment. His professional focus is on project management, lead with respect to the entire project life cycle including project initiation and project handling. Besides, his additional personal strength is in acting as a specialist in business liaison/stakeholder management. Overall previous experience is on top of Strategy and Innovation development during all development phases. More than 25 years of detailed knowledge of IT and software architecture, project monitoring and project controlling with the identification, analysis, measurement, and control of project risks as well as the regular analysis of the impacts makes his personal stamp. Particularly important is his contribution to the promotion of science and the implementation of innovative achievements through lectures, mentoring and counseling in different vertices, ranging from standard industrial to non-governmental and sustainable projects.
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