Maverick Wisdom Podcast

Alexander Asseily is the founder and Executive Chairman of State. State is a global opinion network that enables any publisher site to give its visitors a light-touch and expressive way to share opinions that can be instantly networked and aggregated for deeper social engagement and insights. Alexander is the co-founder of consumer technology company and industry-leading mobile lifestyle wearables company Jawbone, serving as Jawbone’s CEO through 2007 and as Executive Chairman until January 2015. In 2013 he co-founded Chiaro Technology, the women’s technology company behind the award-winning pelvic exercise tracker Elvie launched in 2015. Alexander grew up in Beirut and London before receiving his BSc in Product Design and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He is an investor and advisor to a number of startup companies and charities in the USA and Europe, and in 2015 was appointed to sit on the Council of Google’s Digital News Initiative Fund.

Igor Faletski is CEO and CoFounder of Mobify. He is passionate about making mobile commerce simpler, more effective and truly personal. Together with a fantastic team of engineers, designers, data scientists and marketers, I work on products and services Mobify customers rely on for all their mobile commerce needs. Today, Mobify is the #1 mobile commerce platform powering Beyond the Rack, Ann Taylor, Crocs, Thinkgeek, Starbucks, Petflow, British Telecom, Expedia, Garmin, Bosch, Siemens, Charles Tyrwhitt, Condé Nast and many more leading retailers around the world.

Pocket is the Founding Partner of SoGal Ventures. Her mission is to close the diversity gap in entrepreneurship within our generation. With that in mind, she founded SoGal, a global community influencing 50,000 diverse entrepreneurs and investors in 20+ countries. We empower, inspire and connect entrepreneurial minds with high-impact communities, digital media, funding resources, networking, and startup advisory. Pocket was Forbes 2016 30 Under 30 Asia in Venture Capital & Finance and LinkedIn 2015 Top Voices in VC & Entrepreneurship. She has been featured in Forbes, Harper's BAZAAR, BBC World News, The Huffington Post, Inc., The Straits Times, Channel News Asia, The Business Times, Next Shark, e27, DBS Treasures campaign, East West Bank, CLEO Magazine etc and is a Tedx and keynote speaker.

David's newest global venture is The Plastic Bank, the worlds only organization to monetize plastic waste. The Plastic Bank provides incentive to the worlds disadvantaged to collect and trade plastic waste as a currency. The Plastic Bank solves poverty and reduces plastic waste by revealing the value in Ocean Bound Plastic waste. David was recently named one of the world’s most compassionate entrepreneurs by Salt magazine. He is also Founder and Thought Leader at The Core Values Institute, a consulting and Global thought leadership platform. He has also been the President of the Vancouver Chapter of the Entrepreneurs' Organisation.

Mark is Owner of Multiply. He holds a recently awarded doctorate with research specialisms around branding, brand storytelling and organisational culture. His career spans advertising (WPP – Ogilvy Group), integrated marketing as MD of KLP Euro RSCG (part of the worldwide HAVAS Group) and founding partner of Multiply. He is also a fully fledged creative capability, planning and NPD facilitator and in his spare time a lover of the sweet science.

Tarry Giannakos is Co-Creator/Founder of Revolver Coffee. Revolver is about two things: Coffee, and the experience that should go with it. Their coffee program is simple, but precise. All drinks are made fresh to order - after you order it, never before - from a rotating menu of our favourite coffees from world class roasters around North America. It's quite simple: We order what we like, and we don't order what we don't. We like being consistent, so we measure and weigh every variable there is, until there isn't. And we like details, of which coffee is but one of many in a finely tuned life. But it's such an important one, isn't it?

Shubhendu Sharma is Founder and Director of Afforrest a service provider for creating natural, wild, maintenance free, native forests. At Afforestt, we work passionately on and off-site to provide the best solutions at the lowest possible cost.

Shed Simove is a performer, author, entrepreneur and motivational speaker on creativity and innovation. Harnessing a constant stream of ideas from his astonishingly active mind, Shed has learned to transform his unconventional concepts into lucrative new business ventures which form the basis of his completely unique stand-up routines, books and inspirational speeches. Following a degree in Experimental Psychology at Balliol College, Oxford, and two years working in DisneyWorld, Florida (as a Sixteenth Century Gentleman), Shed worked in TV Production, heading up programmes including ‘The Big Breakfast’, ‘Space Cadets’, and ‘Big Brother’. Shed soon became known industry-wide for making innovative, ground-breaking television shows. In 2003, Shed was appointed Commissioning Editor of Channel 4’s ‘Big Brother’ http://www.channel4.com and throughout his TV career was also involved in discovering and launching many stars including Kelly Brook, Tess Daly, and Russell Brand. As well as a successful career in television production, Shed has forged a highly innovative merchandising empire – selling one million novelty gifts, executive toys, best-selling adult sweets, books and greeting cards worldwide. He's even launched his own currency! Shed has won ‘Gift Of The Year’ twice for two of his creations – a range of birthday candles that spelt “You’re Old” and the hugely popular 'Sound Machine'. He also gained worldwide fame as the bestselling author of 'What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex', a 200 page book that is completely blank inside. This title reached the top fifty of the Amazon chart and was featured in the Guinness Book Of Records for ‘Most Blank Pages In A Published Book’ He also wrote Ideas Man, Success or your money back and Presents money can’t buy.

Robin is a practitioner of change and transformation who has been doing it, across Free Range, Fair Trade, Renewable Energy, Rainforest protection, poverty eradication and climate change, since 1991. He created the virtual agency HOST UNIVERSAL in 1997, SOHOST in 2013 and SOHO DAIRY in 2015. He continues to work with inspirational ideas and people to tackle serious challenges head on, believing that there is no issue that cannot be flipped to a positive outcome and that we do not have to screw the planet or its inhabitants to earn reward.

Rickie Josen is a Facilitator Business Consultant and Trainer supporting people into Business or into Work who operates with the Fun/Fun balance – fitting business around the life (rather than other way round) and on a mission to encourage everyone to do the same! She is also Business Skills trainer for Crisis the national charity for single homeless people and Learning Manager for The School for Social Entrepreneurs She is also Founder and CoHost for Jelly a co-working space Co Organiser of LikeMind and Founder of Birmingham Favourites.

Raj Singh has been involved in a variety of mobile products over the past 15 years beginning with WAP games in 1999! I’m presently at Salesforce via acquisition of my company Tempo AIfocused on mobile productivity. I’ve worked on a number of apps that have and retained top 100 in their respective App Stores across a range of categories (Utilities, Lifestyle, Photos, Productivity, Video etc). I have angel-invested in mobile, see my AngelList but now am an investor in a mobile Seed fund called ENIAC Ventures. I’m currently tracking mobile ad tech and social graphs. I grew up and live in sunny CA – I’m spending my free time getting better at riding my motorcycle and making time to hit the MMA gym!

Paul Tinari is Chief Technology Officer of Joom3D which researches new concepts in 3D printing and supporting technologies. He is also Director at E-Frac Industrial Services Inc., an organization developing a revolutionary waste water treatment system for the fracking industry and system for economically generating clean, fresh drinking water from salt and brackish water sources and Director for the Pacific Insitute for Advanced Study. Paul is a professional creative thinker and problem solver who has worked for the private sector, NGOs and government clients around the globe. He has been called a visionary and “Renaissance Man” for the 21st century. When asked by a U.S. Senator what his research would do to enhance the national security of the nation, he replied: “Nothing, except to help make it worth defending.” For many years he taught creative thinking skills to executives from Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of several books including Boxing Outside the Think on the art of creative thinking, The JOOM Destiny on the long-term impacts of 3D printing and supporting technologies, The Art & Science of Systems Thinking, and Relativity for the Reluctant, a book for those having difficulties understanding the complexities of Einstein’s famous theory. As Dr. Future, he is host to the long running show on CJSF Radio “Future Talk."

Mike Dickson is the Founder and CEO of Rainmaker Foundation, a collaborative charity launched in January 2012. Rainmaker's aims are to 'inspire generosity' - and 'to create a world where what matters most is what we do for others'. The Foundation connects philanthropists and change-makers - 'Rainmakers - to inspirational causes in the UK and globally. Rainmaker also advises companies on developing effective partnerships with charities, which inspire employees and help to create a more intelligent business. Clients include businesses in Private Equity, hedge funds, retail, banking and airlines. Mike is the author of the thought leadership book on generosity called Please Take One Step. Please Take One which was launched at Ted Global to inspired global movement to encourage generosity. Mike co-founded the successful children’s charity Whizz-Kidz, which provides mobility equipment for disabled children. Whizz-Kidz is now the largest UK supplier of paediatric mobility aids outside the NHS, and has raised over £75 million to provide equipment for more than 7,500 children and young people. Mike's main role is to inspire people, to help others. Specialties: Philanthropy, Corporate Social Responsibility, NGO's, writing.

Mike Abel is Chief Executive Partner and co-founder of the M&C SAATCHI ABEL Communications Group, South Africa/Africa.which handles some of the country and continents top blue-chip brands be it consulting on business, marketing & communication strategy - all the way through to conceptualization and fulfillment of creative ideas across every relevant customer touch-point. Their orientation as a global network is Brutal Simplicity of Thought and the benefit thereof should manifest in greater top line growth and increased market share for our clients http://www.mcsaatchiabel.co.za Previously Mike was CEO of M&C Saatchi Australia and COO of Oglivy South Africa.

CEO https://rebelhack.com Logan Hall is CEO and co-founder of a business called Rebel Hack Studios, a service led software businesses that aims to leverage data analysis to better help businesses make decisions on the fly and buck trends. Logan has always had a hard time going along with the status quo, and has found more solace in mischief and play than towing the line. From being expelled as a school kid when he was 17 to still being found skating with his homies on a Friday evening after work at 33. He understands business is merely socialising with a purpose, and so believes his leadership role is about finding and uniting people on a common path with a singular goal and in helping them achieve their own personal goals. A self-confessed learning addict he builds a culture that is geared toward personal and organisational learning, freedom to fail and take risks. In short, Logan likes trouble and will go find it where he can – both professionally and personally. He really does believe that life is a gradual release from ignorance and is happy so long as he less ignorant today than he was yesterday!

Juan Pablo Gaviria is Founder/CEO [Chief Entertainment Officer] of 360digital. He wanted to be a Doctor, he retired from the university. He wanted to be an anthropologist, he retired from the university. After acting in a couple of plays, and working for over 15 years in the TV industry as Creator, Director and Producer, Juan Pablo still looking for what he wants to do in life. Maybe he will do a little bit of everything. He’s already planted a tree, wrote a book, had 2 children, got married, divorced and remarried (with the same woman). He’s raced cars, on motorcycles, in a rally-raid, flown a helicopter, landed a plane, shot a gun, crashed a car, fell off the bike, broke a bone, invented TV programs, directed actors, produced big prime time reality shows (survivor, the X factor), soap operas, series, met celebrities, appeared in the newspaper, on magazines, and been interviewed on radio and TV. After years of work, he managed to have a super job with assistant, driver and an office with a view. He resigned from this job! He bought the mega car of my dreams, but after he resigned had to sell it to fulfill another dream ... it seems it's never enough.

Jonathan Trimble is CEO/Co-Founder of 18Feet and Rising the fastest growing creative independent in the UK. Jonathan was trained at DDB (Omnicom), where the awards he gleaned across his clients put him on the Board at 30. Creston PLC invested a minority stake in 2015 to help further its expansion cross-discipline and globally. In 2014, Jonathan was named a Debretts 500 People of Today in the Sunday Times, marking him as one of the UK’s most influential people in advertising today.

Jason Smith is CEO and Co Founder of Klue a curated intelligence platform providing companies with a lens into their competitors world. He is a 20-year Internet entrepreneur with experience building enterprise focused technology companies Previously, Jason served as President of Vision Critical, helping grow the customer intelligence SaaS company from start-up to 500+ person market leader with 600+ enterprise clients including Staples, HP, BBC, Nestle and Conde Nast. Prior to Vision Critical, Jason was an active investor in ecommerce custom apparel company GAIA Ultimate, served as Vice President at Electronic Arts, and co-founded Columbus Group, a 100-person digital agency pioneer acquired by TELUS (NYSE: TU). Jason graduated with Honours in Marketing from UBC’s Sauder School of Business, is the recipient of Ernst and Young's Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year, BDC's Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Business in Vancouver's Top 40 under 40, is a founding board member of NewMedia BC, a past board member of the Vancouver Enterprise Forum, and served as an advisor to Mobify (mobile retail commerce), ContentDJ (content marketing & curation), CrowdEmotion (visual market research), Strutta (social engagement platform acquired by LX Ventures), and Garabaldi Capital (growth equity advisors). In 2012, Jason bought four around-the-world plane tickets and travelled through 13 countries with his wife and two daughters.

Greg Malpass is CEO and Founder of Traction on Demand, a cloud technology consultancy and software development firm. He’s the first to admit that his intentions in starting Traction were very simple: to serve a small number of clients and help them better unite their sales and marketing teams. Contrary to his early intentions, and using his unconventional leadership style, Greg has grown Traction into a nationally recognized brand with 200+ Tractionites, and in 2014, Traction was named top 10 best place to work in Canada for the past three consecutive years. While Greg rarely admits to having a plan (or business guess), he is the first to share his hopes for Traction, which are to build a company that plays a positive and purposeful role in the lives of its team members, customers, partners and community.

Gregg Fraley is Co Founder of Kiln a training, consulting and strategic design company that ramps up your creativity and agility. http://kilnco.com He is a serial entrepreneur and international expert in creative problem solving providing consultancy to Fortune 500 corporations. A keynote speaker on company innovation and commercial creativity, Gregg’s business novel Jack’s Notebook features on reading lists from University of California Berkeley’s MBA to Judge Business School and City University in the UK. Always a pioneer, his Emmy-award winning team at Warner Cable’s QUBE earned a cable ACE Award for innovation. As a former board member and current leader for the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) in the USA from 1995 to 2015, Gregg has trained scores of professionals in Creative Problem Solving (CPS) using the Osborn-Parnes model. He continues this work through KILN, a firm he co-founded in 2010 to create IdeaKeg, a unique subscription service for company teams to generate breakthrough thinking. As a consultant to corporations, his projects span culture assessment, ideation and qualitative research, as well as training scores of professionals in Creative Problem Solving (CPS), idea generation, creative selling and team building.

Fern Adria Gastromic hero, pioneer and illustriously great chef. Ferran’s culinary empire stems around the world, blessing each location with boundary-pushing, gastronomic phenomena that leave its guests dumb-struck and in love. Most popular is the now defunct elBulli, which was voted The World’s Best Restaurant five times in a row from 2002 to 2009, with over 2 million reservation requests every year. Experimenting with ingredients, flavours and techniques, chef Adrià’s culinary career began in a renovated beach shack in Spain, pioneering Molecular Gastronomy. In 1984, upon joining the kitchen staff at ElBulli as a line cook, Ferran was nominated Head Chef only to make it one of the most sought after restaurants showcasing avant-garde cuisine. Today, chef Adrià writes cookbooks, teaches and lectures on cooking, stars in culinary programs and has launched LaBullipedia, a type of culinary Wikipedia and heads up the Elbulli Foundation.

Debbie Landa is CEO of Dealmaker Media a media company and a network of innovators who see the opportunities in building relationships and sharing information about trends and the future. From early-stage startups with an eye for disruption, to some of the most influential companies in the world. She is also an Investor in both Upside Partnership a true seed-stage investment firm building a portfolio of purpose-built founders creating high potential companies and Buddybuild world's first mobile iteration platform for iOS and Android. Debbie is also General Manager & Executive Producer of the Grow Conference – about the future of innovation, growth and entrepreneurship and General Manager and & Executive Producer of Under the Radar Conference, Silicon Valley’s most effective showcase and business development conference.

David Chan is Commercial Director of the Drucker Society London and Director, Information Leadership Network at Cass Business School As part of a team that created the DSL, I have assumed executive responsibility for commercial activities including revenue generation, sponsorships etc. The Drucker Society London is an affiliate of the Drucker Society Europe, dedicated to putting into action what we have learned from the work of Peter Drucker about management and leadership for the benefit of society as a whole.

Chris is Founder of a movement called The Art of Conformity He is a writer, entrepreneur, and world traveller. Over the past five years he has visited every country in the world (193/193), documenting the quest on his blog. His recent books, The Happiness of Pursuit and The $100 Startup, were New York Times bestsellers. His most recent book is Born for This. Chris produces and hosts the World Domination Summit (WDS), www. WorldDominationSummit.com.a gathering of thousands of remarkable people that takes place each summer in Portland.

Chris Barez Brown is Founder of Upping Your Elvis, an Author, Speaker, Capability Maker, Improving Business Folk's Creative Leadership Chris’s life mission is to re-awaken our minds, take people off auto-pilot and engage them in their everyday working lives. In high demand around the globe, he has spoken on every continent and to all types of audiences from intimate conferences to large scale events. The author of three books and therefore rich in content, Chris loves to shake things up with lots of interaction, energy and hard hitting messages that can easily be incorporated into business and life. Human, simple, entertaining yet provocative; guaranteed to leave audiences inspired and buzzing with creative.

Charles Day helps leaders and their organizations to unlock the economic power of creativity. He works with many of the world's most disruptive companies - from global brands to entrepreneurs - and he is an executive coach to some of the world's most celebrated creative leaders. Charles is an Adjunct Professor at New York’s Columbia University, where he teaches the art and science of building companies that unlock 'Profitable Creativity'.

Brendan Murray is Catalyst Opportunity Development Strategist, a senior member of the Catlysts Department at Shell Oil. In addition Dr Murray is often asked to work closely with joint venture partners and select global customers. In his 22 years at Shell he has been involved in a number of commercial developments in the petrochemical and refiniing fields. His most important contributions have been in zeolite catalysis, novel catalytic processes, surfactants and difficult separations.

Boris Mann is Managing Partner at Human which improves & creates products through prototypes, business design, and interaction research. Boris is also Founding Partner at Full Stack, an angel stage investing fimr. He is an advisor for Mobify and PROXXI Industrial Wearables Inc.

Amal Graafstra, Founder of Dangerous Things www.dangerousthings.com He is pioneer of the DIY RFID implantation movement, Amal has been helping hobbyists and biohackers explore RFID technology since implanting his first tag in 2005. Since then, he has authored the book RFID Toys, spoken at various venues including hacker clubs, TEDx, and a number of universities. He has also co-authored a peer reviewed research paper on the subject of DIY RFID implantee subculture for the ISTAS 2010 symposium on technology and society.

Alex is Co Founder of Intelligent Change Luxy Hair Five Minute Journal and Productivity Planner. He also runs Dreamers & Creators, a creative agency that allows me to pursue and work on new business ideas. He is fortunate enough to share all of my entrepreneurial and life activities with my lovely wife and business partner, Mimi Ikonn. They together are also angel investors and have invested in great companies like Calm, Shyp, Sprig, Tradesy, and others.

Tim Wilson is a Creative Action Man. Amongst his roles right now, he works as a regional coordinator for Code Club, a network of coding clubs for kids aged 9-11. The role is the marriage of many things he loves - as a community manager communicator, facilitator and project manager. He is passionate for working on things that stimulate creativity and helping folks of all ages to unleash their super powers on the universe. He is also a musician with a passion for drumming, singing and composing with my bands Under A Banner and Progoctopus. He wants to pack in as much joy into life as possible and to drink lots of fantastic coffee. Forget work/life balance! How about fun/fun and for working for the things that you truly believe in.

Victoria Sopik, CEO and Co-founder of Kids & Company, (and mother of 8), understands this delicate balancing act. Victoria’s experiences as a working mother and devoted parent have had a profound impact upon her, and they have made her determined to make a difference by helping working parents and concerned employers with work-life challenges. As CEO, Victoria oversees the company’s strategic direction and provides leadership to the company’s management team to deliver industry leading child care services. Victoria has a long and distinguished career in the child care industry. Kids & Company is the culmination of over 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and child care and parenting expert. Kids & Company has served over 30,000 children and created thousands of jobs across Canada. Victoria lends her time, skill and leadership to benefit the child care industry and community by presenting at a variety of events, workshops and conferences across Canada. Victoria’s professional accomplishments have been recognized with several honours and rewards, some of these include; 2013/14 Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies by Deloitte, 2013 RBC Women Entrepreneur Of The Year Award – Momentum Category, 2012 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year in the Business-to-Business Category, WXN Top100 Most Powerful Women, Passion Capitalist Award for Work Culture and Philosophy - 2012, 2008-2014 Profit Magazine’s – One of Canada’s fastest growing companies, Canadian Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs for the past 7 years, Member of the Young Presidents Organization, and the International Women’s Forum.

Stephen Greene is the CEO and a co-founder of RockCorps, a pro-social production company and global youth movement. RockCorps introduces people to a lifelong relationship with civic engagement by using the power of music to inspire volunteering. RockCorps produces large-scale pop, rock and hip-hop concerts, distributing tickets exclusively to volunteers, who commit four hours of their time at a RockCorps community project in their area. Through music, RockCorps is ‘Moving a Generation to Change the World’. With RockCorps, Stephen has delivered social engagement platforms in 10 countries around the world; including 50 volunteer-exclusive concerts, featuring music artists such as Pharrell, Lady Gaga, Maroon 5, Rihanna and over 100 more. His unique experience combined with a deep understanding of and passion for social action and youth engagement also enables him to provide strategic counsel to a wide range of organisations across the public, not-for-profit and private sectors. In November 2012, Stephen was appointed by UK Prime Minister, David Cameron to be the founding chair of the NCS Trust. NCS Trust is responsible for the management and delivery of National Citizen Service (to date over 130,000 graduates). Cameron said “I am delighted that Stephen Greene will be supporting this endeavour, as the founding Chairman of a new organisation to help deliver NCS. As the CEO of RockCorps, Stephen brings a wealth of experience in unlocking the power of young people and connecting them to opportunities to do good in their communities.” Stephen Greene is also a trustee of the Do-it Trust, Good Gym, The Fowler Center and has been an advisor to War Child UK.

Lee Feldman is founder and partner of the THNK School of Creative Leadership in Vancouver. Prior to this, he founded CycleSpace; co-founded and served as Chief Experience Officer of the digital agency Blast Radius (which went multinational 10 years after its beginnings in his apartment); mentored with Rockstart; was CMO of FITMO; and was a design sales consultant for IKEA Business. The ideas that give Lee the biggest charge are atypical—not solely about communication, but about the power of corporations to drive and benefit from positive social change: “I really do believe that brands, society, individuals, and the environment can all win. It’s possible. But to see and act on that possibility, you’ve got to do some unlearning, orchestrate a blank slate, and start from the beginning again. That’s the purpose of THNK.” Lee has been recognized with gold and silver Clios and mentions in Communication Arts Design Annuals and Marketing Magazine’s Top 100, and has contributed to numerous global design and awards panels. His mission: Think and do things different and better

Kirsten Dickerson is Founder and CEO of Raven and Lily.com a socially conscious lifestyle brand dedicated to empowering women through design. They currently work to empower at-risk women in Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Cambodia, and the US, creating exclusive, fair trade collections include up-cycled, handmade apparel and accessories that utilize materials such as melted bullet casings and textile remnants. In addition to providing employment for over a thousand women through fair trade standards, the company strives to empower consumers to make a difference in the world through their purchasing power. Prior to this Kirsten spent 15 years doing both styling work in the film industry and working alongside global non-profits. Kirsten has traveled extensively to over 30 countries, starting with her studies in Africa and then living in Estonia shortly after the Soviet Union dissolved. The day after graduating from Baylor University, she headed to India to volunteer with Mother Teresa and Compassion International. Creating this brand has allowed her to unify her passions and capitalize her experience in both the humanitarian and fashion worlds. Motivated by a belief that each person is valuable and uniquely created, Kirsten is dedicated to empowering women to discover their full potential. She is passionate about promoting social business models as a means of providing a dignified way to alleviate poverty, especially among at-risk women.

Kayli Levitan is Co Founder of The Street Store, the world’s first rent-free, premises free, free ‘pop up clothing store’ for the homeless, found entirely on the street and stocked by donations www.thestreetstore.org She is also Creative Group Head/Copywriter at M&C Saatchi Abel http://www.mcsaatchiabel.co.za and Co-owner and writer for The Food Blog Group.

Mark Brand is CEO of MB Inc a company that pushes the envelope and challenges perspectives by constantly striving to improve the lives of others while providing opportunities for growth and social change. Mark is also a member of the council at NationSwell www.nationswell.com Executive Board Member The Presidents Group Province of B.C. http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/about-the-bc-government/accessibility/accessibility-2024-leadership/presidents-group Member of the Board of Directors Ted X and the Board Chair for A Better Life Foundation & Charity http://abetterlifefoundation.ca

Pamela Grossman is Director of Visual Trends at Getty Image www.gettyimages.com She is also an independent curator, writer, and teacher of magical practice and history www.pamgrossman.come. She is the creator of Phantasmaphile, a blog that specializes in art with an esoteric or fantastical bent www.Phantasmaphile.com

Matt Friesen is Co-Founder and CEO of Wantering a better way to search, discover and shop online. www.wantering.com Matt is a part time entrepreneur. Full time dreamer. A Self taught engineer turned entrepreneur. 3 startups. 3 exits. Ready for the next adventure. Previously he was Board Member of the Enspire Foundation Compassionate Community Builders! We are a boutique charity focused on creating endless ENSPIRING moments for individuals to help those less fortunate locally and internationally. Our volunteers, supporters and partners know us personally and experience for themselves the immediate impact and results of their contributions. www.enspireme.org , Co-Founder of Just the bill the easiest way to manage your expenses www.justthebill.com and Founder of Thirdi Software and Volunteer Advisor to Junior Achievement of British Columbia is the world’s largest NGO dedicated to educating young people about business. We strive to inspire and prepare youth to succeed in a global economy www.jabc.ca

Natalia Talkowska is Founder, Director and Chief Visual Storyteller at Natalka Design Ltd, a creative production house where they draw your ideas and bring projects and events to life. Part of which is Doodledo, a movement to inspire everyone to draw. www.doodleledo.com

Bio Rattan Bagga is CEO of New World Natural Foods a natural foods manufacturing facility www.newworldfoods.ca , V.P Marketing at Everland Natural Foods Inc committed to producing the highest quality foods and contributing to local and global community efforts while doing our part to preserve and protect the planet. www.everland.ca General Manager at Jiva Organics a leading distributor of certified organic, kosher, vegetarian and healthy foods www.jivaorganics.ca and Co-Founder of Yell Canada which empowers the next general of Canadian problem solvers www.weyell.org Named one of the Top 30 under 30 entrepreneurs in B.C. by BC Business magazine in 2014 and one of the Top 20 under 30 entrepreneurs in Canada at Profit magazine's FuEl Awards in 2011, Rattan began his business education at age 16 in Sweet Cherubim. His father felt it was important for him to work as many different jobs as possible to learn the family business.

Catherine Ryan Hyde is author of 30+ book, the best known of which is Pay It Forward that was made into a Hollywood movie. She is President of the Pay It Forward Foundation, www.payitforwardfoundation.org their work focuses on providing copies of the Pay It Forward Young Readers Edition for use by teachers and other educators.

Danae Ringelmann is Co-Founder of Indiegogo www.indiegogo.com which empower peoples around the world to fund what matters to them. She left finance to change finance. Previously she was a consultant for Double Day her parents office and relocation business, Co Chair at the Lester Centre for Entrepreneurship & Innovation http://entrepreneurship.berkeley.edu , University of Berkeley and Volunteer for Wall Street Wizards https://www.facebook.com/Wall-Street-Wizards-132381853466306/

Yanik Silver is Founder and CEO Maverick1000, an invitation only global network of industry transforming entrepreneurs connecting in bold new ways to challenge and collectively support each other's biggest business goals, engage in reinvigorating experiences and co-create a worldwide multiplier impact.www.maverick1000com and author Evolved Enterprise which helps align the true soul of your business with more impact, meaning and happiness – that surprisingly delivers even greater profits.

Noam Kostucki is Founder of Redefine Us that advises senior leaders across a range of charitable, public and private sector industries on strategy and business development through training and coaching. Prior to this Noam was the Founder of Seededucation. Noam believes that everything can be elevated into an art form. He coaches people who create masterpieces and has engaged with over 25,000 people from 40 nationalities. One of his clients raised $500k in 8 weeks One of Noam's three books is required reading at the Fashion Institute of Technology. He has spoken at over 80 international conferences for institutions like Harvard University . His work has been selected to feature in the Coaching Movie .

Paul Helman is CEO/Founder/President of soulfirexp.com that educate, inspires, empowers and evolves humanity through the gift of growth. He is a location independent lifestyle entrepreneur who loves to travel, to connect with thought leaders, like-minded game changers, mavericks who think differently and take action every day to their success. Paul is also Jedi of Awesomeness for Mindvalley http://www.mindvalley.com playing a key role in business development. He is also an Ambassador for www.theincitement.com

Phil Noelting is Founder and President of Qwalify Inc. a SaaS-based HR technology company disrupting the talent engagement and recruitment space. Why? Unfortunately, hiring tends to be a reactive process, and the current benchmarks often leave employers settling for talent to meet deadlines. Proactive recruitment is here, and it's only going to grow. Previously he was Co-Founder of ImpactFULL and Founder of Skilter Phil loves travelling, and everything that it entails - new cultures, meeting new people, the photography, the food, the opportunities. Phil is devoted to see more of the world every year.

Kevin Lee Royes is Founder / Soulcial-Preneur The Soulcial-Preneurs Club because more passion driven, socially conscious entrepreneurs we have on the planet, the better everything will be. He is CoFounder/Creative Director All In a Day where you Scramble around Vancouver engaging in a series of iconic activities and food that put this town on the map. Founded in 2008 the first year had 4 events (snowboard, mountain bike, golf and dinner). By 2015 the event grew to 10 events in 24 hours (yoga, breakfast, kayak, hike, lunch, bike, beach party, dinner, dancing, sunrise beach bonfire). Kevin is a passionate, lifelong soulcial-preneur who started his first business in high school at the age of 16. Sometimes called an inventor-preneur, Kevin holds several patents and has brought over 200 products to market in the snowboard, toy and hand tool sectors. His designs have been distributed in over 35 countries with retail customers ranging from boutique shops in Japan to the Museum of Modern Art in NY as well as Costco, Canadian Tire and Home Depot. Other customers include powerhouse global brands such as Nike, Energizer, Toyota, The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Manchester United, and the list goes on. His inventions have been featured in major media such as Maxim, STUFF, The Today Show and the Oprah magazine. With his urban multi-tool invention, kelvin.23, he appeared on the reality TV show, Dragons' Den where he shook hands on one of the most historic episodes recorded and was called, "... the most successful business EVER...", on the show.

Founder/Executive Director - I TALK TO STRANGERS Foundation, Inc https://www.facebook.com/ITTSFoundation/ A registered United States 501(c)3 organization, ITTS Foundation has created international and multi-cultural imprints with over 5,000 global volunteers and over 20,000 hours of community service worldwide. Growing a larger community of social organisations will increase the volunteer: community hour ratio towards social peace, environmental protection, cultural preservation, and technological advancements starting in your home community! In 2012, Robbie decided to follow his dreams and founded "I Talk To Strangers® (ITTS) Foundation", a social corporation and movement whose philosophy encourages and challenges individuals to create genuine relationships through meeting new people. The motive is to push a new idea, that meeting new people increases personal and professional opportunities, experiences, and lessons learned. Since founding this movement, Robbie has travelled meeting over 3% of the global population while documenting his journey through a soon-to-be-released documentary and book, along with participating as a speaker in numerous engagements around the world. Robbie is also the Global Volunteer Coordinator Plenumigo a multinational organisation that provides individuals with opportunities to fulfil their potential and life purpose by following their passion. http://plenumigo.com Previously Robbie was Congressional Events CoOrdinator U.S. House of Representatives http://www.house.gov Robbie is a highly motivated, business savvy individual with sophisticated computer technology background. Sound, practical and analytical reasoning skills with the ability to manage, execute, and meet arduous deadlines under minimal supervision. Strong leadership and teamwork skills within the contexts of IT project management, organizational structures, and event coordination.

Louis Barnett is Managing Director Louis Barnett Chocolates Ltd www.louisbarnettchocolates.com and Louis Barnett Ltd. He started his business at 12 years old, now 21. Entrepreneur, dyslexic & dyspraxic. A world Chocolate ambassador, speaker & published author. He was awarded the Lord Carter award for his outstanding contribution to the food and drinks industry.

El Chico is a DJ and Musician http://dirtycheeks.com . ‘As long as I’m still here, it's very hard to write my own bio, if I'm 'creative' and/or 'open-minded' then I'll always learn, always grow, and thus 'what I do' or have done constantly changes. I am a son, a brother, an uncle, a friend, a lover, a neighbour, a DJ, an enthusiast yes just an enthusiast, if I like it and I feel aligned with the vibrational frequency, I too sing on that frequency. You can't define feelings with words, they were here before, you can't describe you 'being' it has to be experienced, that’s why we are all so wonderful, all powerful and unique’. He is a member of For Boarders By Boarders a non-profit skate, snow, music, art and media community.https://www.facebook.com/Forboardersbyboarders