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D’Rita Robinson

With a fearless approach to change, D’Rita Robinson embraces the unknown and has held the role of chemist, event planner, stay-at-home mom and most recently: social impact entrepreneur. Today, she is the Founder of Chatty Guest, an educational tool. The free app allows educators and non-profit organizations to create monitored networking opportunities for participants. It […]

Kelly Renz

Kelly has never been one to conform to conventional business practices.  Her innate desire to challenge the status quo and a relentless drive for better results influences how she approaches clients.  One of her former CEO’s would say she could see around corners.  And she believes that is possible – there is an art and […]

Matt Coughlin

Matthew B. Coughlin is the Founder & CEO of XSELL Technologies a built for purpose company with laser focus on digital commerce that maximizes customer experience and sales performance while increasing client profitability and customer retention. Matt brings to XSELL a wealth of knowledge and experience with an extensive background in strategic branding, customer experience, […]

Alison Ranney

Alison Ranney specializes in leading CEO, President, Executive Director and other senior executive searches for mission-driven clients across the country and around the world. Alison is also the Partner in Charge, Chicago leading the Chicago office of Koya Leadership Partners and Diversified Search. Alison partners with a broad range of clients including foundations, cultural institutions, […]

Greg Fenton

From a college startup founder to a rising edutech executive, 28-year-old Greg Fenton is connecting people to digital learning. Greg, CEO and Co-founder of RedShelf, started the eTextbook company to solve a problem: costly and inconvenient course materials for students. As a college student, Greg and roommate and high school friend, Tim Haitaian, devised a […]

Matthew Cleaver

Matt Cleaver is the CEO and Managing Partner of The SMB Help Desk, Inc. Since the inception of The SMB Help Desk in 2012, Matt’s leadership has enabled the IT consulting company to become a premier Salesforce Silver partner and a Top 100 Microsoft certified partner in the nation, be named to The Nation’s Best […]

Zain Raj

Zain is the President & CEO of Shapiro + Raj, a top-ten independent research and insights company in North America with offices in Chicago, New York, London and Sydney. Zain is also the founder and CEO of zednext, an ideas incubator that takes an objective and disruptive look at issues and trends to help marketers […]

Zack Johnson

Zachary Johnson is the CEO and co-founder of Syndio, an enterprise people analytics company based in Chicago. Syndio helps large organizations use network science to systematically measure intangible aspects of employee-to-employee communication like trust, information sharing, and collaboration and to use this knowledge to dramatically improve talent management, innovation, and change initiatives. As CEO, Zack […]

Steve Melchiorre

Steve Melchiorre is the co-founder and CEO of Stratosphere Networks and Converged Communication Systems (CCS). A serial entrepreneur, Steve founded his first company while he was in high school, and his second company, which he established in college, grew to have more than 200 repeat clients. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and business […]

Dan Roberts

Dan Roberts is the CEO and co-founder of Scout Alarm.  Scout is a self-installed, wireless home security system.  Dan lives at the intersection of design and business. He leads the design team on all things Scout, but spends an equal amount of time working with the sales and marketing teams. Previously, Dan was a Founder-in-Residence […]