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Jessica Droste Yagan

Jessica Droste Yagan is CEO of Impact Engine, a venture fund that invests financial and human capital in early-stage, for-profit technology businesses that are improving education, health, economic empowerment, and resource efficiency. Prior to Impact Engine, Jessica led strategy and alignment of global sustainable sourcing at McDonald’s and consulted with city, non-profit, and corporate clients in […]

The Cambridge Group

Over the past 40 years, The Cambridge Group has applied its superior understanding of profitable demand to help its clients develop and execute targeted business strategies to dramatically improve their revenue. We apply our Demand Strategy™ across all industries, which helps our clients align their infrastructure, businesses and resources to meet marketplace demand in a […]

Jason Green

Jason Green, the CEO of The Cambridge Group, focuses on developing customer-driven strategies, new product development, positioning, and consumer segmentation for consumer goods, retail and services industries. In addition to working with clients, Jason also leads Nielsen’s global Growth and Demand Strategy practice. He has been published in the Harvard Business Review, among other publications, […]

Isabelli Media Relations

Isabelli Media Relations (IMR) provides expert marketing services for the travel, hospitality and lifestyle industries. Based in Chicago with clients nationwide, IMR’s approach to marketing relies on specialized strategies that creatively marry what we love about traditional efforts and what we know about digital media and its unyielding power to reach your audience. The result? […]

Janet Isabelli

Janet has served as a public relations, marketing and event consultant to dozens of the nation’s premier destinations for more than 17 years. Before founding IMR in 2011, she held the position of Vice President at Wagstaff Worldwide, where she led the company’s Midwest office for nearly a decade. Previously, Janet served as the Assistant […]

The Chopping Block

The Chopping Block, Chicago’s largest recreational cooking school and gourmet retail store, offers guests a large slate of demonstration and hands-on classes, as well as wine classes, private cooking parties and corporate team building events. Classes at the two locations cover cooking skills and techniques as well as seasonal, ethnic, healthy, vegetarian and weeknight cooking. […]

Chef Shelley Young

Growing up in Fort Dodge, Iowa may not be the setting that conjures up images of gastronomy, but the influence of that rural upbringing has shaped Shelley’s cooking philosophy and entrepreneurial style. Shelley spent her youth surrounded by the vivid colors and flavors of the freshest fruits, vegetables, poultry and fish. Memories of summers spent […]

Kamea Networks & Technology

Contracting for various clients; recently completed long term assignment with major Chicago University as their Senior Student Systems Application Coordinator. Highlights include: Motorola Solutions – IT Architecture consultant for Disaster Recovery project; promoted to Project Manager 5 months later. *Overseeing technical, administrative, operational and budgetary concerns for $6.5 million project to refresh hardware onto VMware […]

Chach DalSanto

Solutions-oriented IT Project Manager, Systems Designer & Architect with notable success directing a broad range of corporate IT initiatives. Drives and participates in planning and implementation of information-security solutions in direct support of business objectives. * Proven track record of increasing responsibility in secure network design, systems analysis and development, and full life-cycle project management. […]

Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes

Marc Baumann, President and Chief Executive Officer of SP+, loves being a part of a massive organization, especially one that is working on something nobody has done before. He shares his biggest business tip- nothing changes if nothing changes, meaning change your habits to see different results. Listen as he shares his thought leadership- it is no […]