CEO | Marketing Interactions
@ardath421

Ardath helps B2B companies with complex sales create and use persona-driven content marketing strategies to turn prospects into buyers and convince customers to stay. Ardath is the author of Digital Relevance: Developing Marketing Content and Strategies that Drive Results and eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale. She has been one of the 50 Most Influential People in Sales and Marketing for the last five years and was selected as a 2014 Woman to Watch in B2B Marketing by FierceCMO.

Director B2B Influencer Relations and Content Co-Creation | Dell
@Konstanze

Konstanze leads B2B influencer relations & content co-creation at Dell. She is responsible for engaging with influential industry experts to provide informed and authentic reviews about the Dell brand, its products, and its services. Prior to Dell, Alex worked as a lead editor in educational publishing and taught full-time at the university level.

Associate Creative Director | Red Hat
@sosundays

David is a creative marketer with over 20 years experience leading campaigns for large tech brands including IBM, Ericsson, Siemens, and Red Hat. He excels in finding the human element in complex technical projects and telling stories that inspire people to action.

Senior Vice President, Chief Creative Officer | Godfrey
@michaeljbarber

Michael began his career at Mighty Interactive, the digital shop founded by Jay Baer. Mighty was one of the first agencies to leverage the future email behemoth ExactTarget, ultimately helping the organization develop its ad agency offering before it was acquired by Salesforce for $2.5 billion. Michael went on to lead strategy and planning at Sitewire, Nomadic Agency and COHN, before founding his own consultancy, barber&hewitt. In 2018, barber&hewitt joined Godfrey, one of the largest U.S based B2B agencies. He was named one of Marketo’s Fearless 50 which recognizes the top marketers around the globe driving bold, fearless marketing and digital transformation.

Vice President of Marketing | IMPACT
@workmommywork

Kathleen is the vice president of marketing at IMPACT, an award-winning content marketing agency and media company. As head of IMPACT’s marketing team, she is charting a new course for the agency as a brand publisher and events company. She is also the co-host of The Inbound Success Podcast, which features weekly interviews with leading marketers and CMOs. Prior to joining IMPACT, Kathleen spent 10 years as the owner of a digital marketing agency where she won numerous national marketing and entrepreneurship awards.

CEO | Marketing Insider Group
@BrennerMichael

Michael has been recognized as a Forbes top CMO influencer, a Top Business Keynote Speaker by the Huffington Post, and a Top Motivational Speaker by Entrepreneur Magazine. He is CEO of Marketing Insider Group, where he has worked with more nearly 100 brands in building effective content marketing and employee activation programs. Michael is also the co-author of 2 books including The Content Formula, and Digital Marketing Growth Hacks, and is currently working on his 3rd book on the power of Empathy in business, marketing, and life.

Senior Manager-Content Marketing | LinkedIn
@sean_f_callahan

Sean is senior manager-content marketing at LinkedIn. Prior to joining LinkedIn, he held a similar role at Bizo. He spent 20 years as a magazine and newspaper reporter and is the co-author of The Big Data-Driven Business. He has published six children's books, including Voting With a Porpoise.

CEO | markempa
@brianjcarroll

Brian is the CEO and founder of markempa, helping companies to convert more customers with empathy-based marketing. He is the author of the bestseller, Lead Generation for the Complex Sale, and the B2B Lead Blog which is read by thousands each week. He also founded the B2B Lead Roundtable LinkedIn Group with 20,301+ members.

Chief Content Officer | Riverside Marketing Strategies
@HeidiCohen

Top global digital, content, and social media marketing influencer, Heidi runs the award winning Actionable Marketing Guide. As a consultant and a professor, Heidi helps executives and students understand and apply actionable tactics to execute their marketing strategy. She has worked with top global companies including Citibank, The Economist, and Bertelsmann, as well as startups and private equity firms. Fun fact: Heidi trekked across the Andes from Argentina to Chile.

Co-Founder, Strategic Director | Orbit Media Studios, Inc.
@crestodina

Andy is a co-founder and CMO of Orbit Media, an award-winning 38-person digital agency in Chicago. Over the past 18 years, Andy’s provided guidance to 1000+ businesses. He speaks at national marketing conferences, writes for big marketing blogs, and hosts a little podcast. Andy has written hundreds of articles on content strategy, SEO, influencer marketing, conversion, and analytics. He is also the author of Content Chemistry: The Illustrated Handbook for Content Marketing.

B2B Tech Marketing Consultant, Author | Relentless Pursuit
@pamdidner

Pam is a marketing consultant, writer, speaker, and author of 2 books: Global Content Marketing and Effective Sales Enablement. Her forte is to create successful global marketing plans that meet local marketing and sales team’s needs. She also specializes in sales, marketing, and internal/external communications consulting, keynote presentations, corporate training, and workshops. She contributes articles to the Guardian, Content Marketing Institute, and other publications.

President and CEO | Marketing Mojo
@janetdmiller

With over twenty years of search engine optimization experience, Janet is considered a leading expert in her field. She serves as the president and CEO of Marketing Mojo, an award-winning digital marketing firm specializing in SEO and digital advertising. Janet is a regular speaker at search engine and marketing conferences and writes for several marketing publications. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at colleges and universities including the University of Virginia and James Madison University.

VP of Product Marketing | Unbounce
@Ryan_Engley

For the past eight years, Ryan has helped marketers and agencies grow their businesses with super relevant, high converting landing pages, website popups, and sticky bars. As the 2nd employee at Unbounce, Ryan has played a pivotal role in growing the company's revenue by over 864% over the past five years, building the team to over 180 employees, and serving more than 15,000 customers from brands including Vimeo, Hootsuite, and The New York Times.

Millennial Keynote Speaker | iSocialFanz
@iSocialFanz

Brian inspires, motivates, and educates businesses on how to leverage emerging technologies and digital marketing to stand out from the noise and how to connect, empower, and engage today's digital natives!. He has a diverse background working for the Department of Defense in cyber security, then as a technology evangelist at a booming cloud computing startup and is currently the CEO of iSocialFanz which has helped launch digital and influencer strategies with the world’s most iconic brands like Dell EMC, Adobe, IBM, UFC, Applebees, and SAP.

Author of F#ck Content Marketing, Keynote Speaker
Co-Founder & CMO | Uberflip
@randyfrisch

Randy is CMO and co-founder at Uberflip, a content experience platform that empowers marketers to create content experiences at every stage of the buyer’s journey. He has defined and led this movement, prompting marketers to think beyond content creation and focus on the experience. This movement has fueled an annual conference, Conex: The Content Experience, that brings together 750+ passionate marketers, and a North American-wide Conex Tour. Randy is also host of the Conex: The Content Experience Show podcast, was named one of the Top 50 Fearless Marketers in the world by Marketo, and is the author of the upcoming book, F#ck Content Marketing (yeah, he swears sometimes).

Vice President, Influencer Marketing | SAP Ariba
@AmishaGandhi

Amisha is head of influencer marketing at SAP and previously led mobile product marketing. In her current role, she is leading the charge at SAP for the global influencer marketing program to help drive demand gen and global marketing campaigns. She’s worked in public relations firms and marketing roles in Silicon Valley for the past 15 years, working for everyone from startups to large enterprises such as HP, Google, Accenture, and Time-Warner.

Chief Strategy Officer | Skyword
@allen

Allen was the founder of TrackMaven, a marketing analytics platform whose clients included Microsoft, Marriott, and GE. In 2018 it merged with Skyword, the leading content marketing platform, where he now serves as chief strategy officer. He has been on the “30 Under 30” lists for both Inc. and Forbes. He is a contributor for FastCompany.com and his book The Creative Curve, came out June 2018. The book has been featured on CNBC, Forbes, numerous top podcasts, and has been picked up to be translated into seven other languages in 2019.

CEO, Owner| Well Planned Web, LLC
@goldasich

Deana is CEO of Well Planned Web — an agency that strategically plans, develops and distributes content for “trailblazer” B2Bs and companies with complex sales cycles. Her agency was a finalist for the Content Marketing Institute’s (CMI) Content Marketing Agency of the year. Well Planned Web’s client list includes technical service providers, financial services, professional services, healthcare services, and B2B e-commerce.

Chief Creative Officer | HBT, Inc.
@nharhut

A Top 50 B2B Marketing Influencer, Online Marketing Institute Top 40 Digital Strategist, and Social Top 50 email marketing leader, Nancy's creative-directed integrated campaigns for B2B clients large and small. She currently serves as chief creative officer at HBT Marketing, a boutique digital and direct firm that specializes in the impact of behavioral science on marketing. A top-ranked speaker, she's wowed audiences from the US Department of Defense to Moscow marketers to SXSW attendees.

Global Lead for Market Development | LinkedIn
@tyrona

Ty is the global lead for market development at LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, the former president of LinkedIn's Black Inclusion Group (BIG), and co-founder of TransformHER. Ty is passionate about connecting people to the information needed to make intelligent decisions, delivering educational content to help marketers stay on top of the latest in digital marketing strategy with a bit of humor. She is also author of "Marketers of Tomorrow: A Step by Step Toolkit for Inbound Marketing".

President and Founder | Heinz Marketing Inc
@HeinzMarketing

Prolific author and award-winning blogger, Matt is president and founder of Heinz Marketing, bringing 20+ years of marketing, business development, and sales experience from a variety of organizations and industries. He consistently delivers measurable results with greater sales, revenue growth, product success and customer loyalty. He is repeat winner of the Top 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management as well as the Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers.

Founder and CEO | VisumCx
@cahidalgo

Carlos is a 25-year business veteran. Over the span of the last two plus decades, he has held corporate roles, started his own entrepreneurial ventures, and served in non-profits. After leading his first agency to three consecutive Inc 5000 awards, Carlos made the decision to leave and start his second company, VisumCx, which works with clients from the Fortune 50 to start-ups on developing and implementing customer experience strategies. He also serves as a managing partner in a health care platform start-up and serves on the board on a tech start-up. Carlos is the author of Driving Demand, one of the Top 5 Marketing Books of all time according to Book Authority. Additionally, he has followed his wife’s lead in volunteering for Beauty For Ashes Uganda, an organization dedicated to the long-term sustainability and healing for single moms and widows in Uganda.

President & Chief Strategist | Media Volery
@Zonteehou

Zontee is the founder of Brooklyn-based agency Media Volery and a part of the Convince & Convert Consulting team. Her 12+ years of work in the marketing industry has garnered multiple awards including a Forrester Groundswell Award. She was also one of TopRank’s top 50 most influential content marketers in 2018 and a 4-time judge for the Content Marketing Awards.

Chief Creative Officer | McMillan
@Robert_Hyams

With nearly three decades leading marketing and creative teams, Rob has helped transform the brand experience of global enterprises, mid-sized companies start-ups and early-stage businesses. As chief creative officer at McMillan, Rob ensures that all creative work experienced by the end customer — be they a prospect, current customer, influencer, or current or future employee — is on strategy, perfectly crafted and delivers a frictionless brand experience.

Vice President, Community Impact & Corporate Marketing | Jackson Healthcare
@keithjennings

Keith is on a mission to activate the hearts and minds of business and nonprofit professionals. He serves as vice president of Community Impact for Jackson Healthcare. In this role, he leads the company's LoveLifts initiatives, which include associate volunteerism and community partnerships, as well as business mobilization and philanthropic efforts. He also helps the company’s 1,300+ associates discover their purpose and values through serving others.

Co-founder, Creative Director | Velocity
@dougkessler

Doug is co-founder and creative director for Velocity, the B2B agency you’ve heard so much about. Velocity creates and executes content programs for the likes of Sprint, Xerox, Informatica, and other soon-to-be household names. Doug also writes a lot about content marketing, including slideshares like ‘Crap’, ’The Search for Meaning in B2B’,  ‘Insane Honesty,’ and ‘The BIg, Fat, B2B Content Marketing Strategy Checklist’.

Marketing Project Manager | Red Hat
@emkreer

Emily is a marketing communication specialist and project manager who understands how to put all the puzzle pieces together for multi-channel digital campaigns. She has built her career at digital creative agencies and is currently at the in-house marketing agency at the open source software company, Red Hat.

Chief Content Officer | commonsku
@bobbylehew

Bobby is a passionate storyteller and creative writer who loves to feature real-world success from entrepreneurs who thrive at building distinct brands with unique voices. He is the chief content officer for commonsku, a cloud-based CRM, order management platform, and creative community that empowers entrepreneurs. Bobby crafted the MarketingProfs workshop, “Storytelling: Using the Power of Story to Drive Action” and is a frequent speaker on the topics of marketing and storytelling.

President | Aha Media Group
@ahaval

Ahava has 20+ years of experience in content and has consulted with some of the world’s largest firms to attract and grow their audiences. She is the president and owner of Aha Media Group, LLC, a copywriting, content strategy, and content marketing consultancy. She is also he author of The Digital Crown: Winning at Content on the Web and loves a great logic puzzle, a long game of Apples to Apples, and anything that has chocolate.

Head of Strategy | Mantis Research
@michelelinn

Michele is the co-founder and head of strategy at Mantis Research, a consultancy focused on helping brands create and amplify original research they can use in their marketing. Before starting Mantis, Michele was head of editorial at Content Marketing Institute, where she led the company's strategic editorial direction, co-developed its annual research studies, and wrote hundreds of articles. She is regularly cited at a content marketing influencer and was named one of Folio's Top Women in Media (Corporate Visionary) in 2015.

CEO & Founder | Portent
@portentint

Ian is founder and CEO of Portent, a Clearlink Digital Agency. Portent has helped clients like Princess, Patagonia, Hitachi, and Microsoft grow online since 1995. Ian is a whole-brained digital marketer who's worked in everything from copywriting and messaging to analytics and SEO. Ian teaches his team, consults with clients, and writes and speaks on an array of marketing topics.

On-Demand Marketer | Katie-Martell.com
@KatieMartell

Katie is an unapologetic marketing truth-teller. Named “one of the most interesting people in B2B marketing,” a "marketing expert to follow" and a top marketing writer on LinkedIn, Martell has been a millennial CMO, in-house rabble rouser, and the world’s first “Director of Buzz." She now advises high-growth brands as an on-demand marketer. Martell serves as the executive director of Boston Content, the city's largest nonprofit community of content professionals, and is the author of the book Rabble Rousers: How Transformative Voices Change Apathy into Action. With a distinct opinion about the world of marketing, Katie is a frequent speaker and emcee at conferences including TEDx, INBOUND, and MarketingProfs.

CEO | Engagio
@jonmiller

Jon is a marketing entrepreneur and thought leader. He is the CEO and co-founder of Engagio, an account-based platform.. Previously, Jon was a co-founder at Marketo. He is a speaker and writer about marketing best practices, and is the author of multiple marketing books including Engagio's Clear and Complete Guide to Account Based Marketing, and Marketo’s Definitive Guide to Marketing Automation. In 2016, B2B Marketing named Jon one of the 10 Most Influential Tech Marketers in the world.

CEO/Senior Strategist | Revenate Marketing LLC
@RevenateMKT

Tish started Revenate to help marketing teams shine by unleashing their revenue generating potential. She’s a results-oriented marketer who has helped dozens of fast-growing companies implement and sustain effective and measurable demand-gen and revenue-boosting solutions. Prior to Revenate, her marketing career included working in several demand gen leadership roles at both large and small companies.

CEO | TopRank Marketing
@leeodden

Lee is a B2B marketing strategist, author, international speaker, and CEO of TopRank Marketing. His work integrating search, social, content, and influencer marketing for B2B brands has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal, The Economist and Forbes, as well as CMO.com. By combining a "best answer marketing strategy" together with "do well by doing good" values, he's attracted top industry talent and clients including LinkedIn, SAP, 3M, Dell, Oracle, and Slack.

Co-Founder | Trust Insights, Inc.
@cspenn

Christopher is an authority on analytics, digital marketing, and marketing technology. A recognized thought leader, best-selling author, and keynote speaker, he has shaped four key fields in the marketing industry: Google Analytics adoption, data-driven marketing, modern email marketing, and artificial intelligence/machine learning in marketing. As chief innovator of Trust Insights, he is responsible for the creation of products and services, creation and maintenance of all code and intellectual property, technology and marketing strategy, brand awareness, and research & development. Mr. Penn is a 2019 IBM Champion in IBM Business Analytics, co-founder of the groundbreaking PodCamp Conference, and co-host of the Marketing Over Coffee marketing podcast. Prior to cofounding Trust Insights, he built the marketing for a series of startups n the financial services, SaaS software, and public relations industries. He is the author of over two dozen marketing books including bestsellers such as AI for Marketers: A Primer and Introduction and Marketing White Belt: Basics for the Digital Marketer.

Co-founder | Pacific Content
@steveprattca

Steve is the co-founder of Pacific Content, one of the weirdest companies you'll find. The ONLY focus of our business is making Original Podcasts with brands. Our shows have won Webby Awards, Digiday Branded Content Awards, and Shorty Awards. Our client list includes Facebook, NYT T Brand Studio, BMW, Dell Technologies, Charles Schwab, Slack, Mozilla, and many more.

Managing Editor | Managing Editor Magazine
@leevprice

Lee is managing editor of Managing Editor (meta, right?) and a content marketing consultant at Rep Cap. Lee always thought she’d be writing novels, but after graduating with a degree in English, she accidentally became a marketer. These days, she helps B2B clients solve business problems using content and manages the growing Managing Editor community.

CEO | Bredin
@BredinInc

Stu is CEO of Bredin, a B2B marketing consultancy that helps marketers develop profitable, long-term relationships with small and medium businesses (SMBs) through original market research to provide insight into SMB needs, attitudes, and preferences and outreach programs. Stu is primarily responsible for the acquisition and satisfactory execution of strategic and communications programs for clients such as American Express, AT&T, Bank of America, Capital One, Cisco, Dell, Google, Kabbage, LinkedIn, MailChimp, Microsoft, Salesforce, Verizon Wireless and Wells Fargo, and more.

Director of Marketing | Curbell Plastics
@charlieriley

As director of marketing for Curbell Plastics, Charlie oversees all marketing and e-commerce for this national performance plastics distributor. he was director of marketing and communications for Top 100 independent insurance broker, Lawley, and chief marketing officer at PLS 3rd Learning, where he led marketing, business development, customer engagement, along with several rebrands. A Forbes contributor and Buffalo Business First 40 Under 40 honoree, Charlie also served as AAF Buffalo president.

CEO | PR 20/20
@paulroetzer

Paul is founder and CEO of PR 20/20, a Cleveland-based content marketing agency and HubSpot’s first agency partner. He is author of The Marketing Performance Blueprint and The Marketing Agency Blueprint, and founder of the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute. Paul has consulted for hundreds of organizations, from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Founder and Chief Strategy Officer | The Content Advisory
@Robert_Rose

Robert is the author of three best-selling books, and the founder and chief strategy officer of The Content Advisory – the consulting and advisory group of The Content Marketing Institute. Robert has been helping marketers tell their story more effectively through digital media for more than 20 years. He’s provided strategic marketing advice and counsel for global brands such as Capital One, Dell, Ernst & Young, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and UPS.

COO | Marketing Advisory Network
@MaribethRoss

Maribeth is a veteran B2B marketer fascinated with cracking the code of what makes customers engage, buy from, and champion a brand. After 15 years of award-winning experience driving marketing strategy and execution for high-growth companies such as Ford Credit, Iron Mountain, NetProspex, and Monetate, Maribeth joined Marketing Advisory Network. In 2018 she was named among the 50 Women You Need to Know in MarTechBy martechexec.com. She is a frequent speaker on marketing best practices and is a self-professed connoisseur of brick oven pizza.

Integrated Marketing Strategist | Yesler
@berrakbiz

As a strategic consultant with 10 years of B2B and B2C marketing experience, Berrak brings her passion for customers’ stories to developing and executing integrated strategies that work towards their business goals. Motivated by a firm belief in owning who you are instead of trying to fit the mold, she forged her career path by finding a way to bring all of her passions together as a writer, community builder, and content strategist.

Author, Speaker, Podcaster, Consultant
@markwschaefer

Mark is a globally-recognized author, speaker, podcaster, and business consultant who blogs at {grow} — one of the top five marketing blogs in the world. He teaches graduate marketing classes at Rutgers University and has written six best-selling books including The Tao of Twitter, The Content Code, KNOWN: The handbook for building and unleashing your personal brand in the digital age. His newest book, called Marketing Rebellion: The Most Human Company Wins, challenges people to think differently about marketing and customer experiences. It brings the humanity back to marketing. His many global clients include Pfizer, Cisco, Dell, Adidas, Johnson & Johnson, and the US Air Force.

CEO | Rep Cap
@meslayter

Mary Ellen is founder of Managing Editor, and CEO of the content agency Rep Cap. Before creating her own content marketing firm, she served as director of content development and a senior general business and finance editor at SmartBrief, a leading publisher of e-mail newsletters. Before joining SmartBrief, she spent eight years at The Washington Post, where she authored the Career Track column and worked as an editor in the business news department.

Founder | The Marketing Advisory Network
@samanthastone

Samantha is the founder of The Marketing Advisory Network and author of Unleash Possible: A Marketing Playbook that Drives Sales. Throughout her career, she has launched go-to-market initiatives and lead award-winning marketing strategies for technology companies including Netezza, SAP, and Powersoft. Her book is a how-to guide for high growth marketing in complex selling environments. Through case studies and actionable advice, Samantha doesn't just tell you what to do, she shows you how to do it, and how to partner with sales to get the right results.

CEO | 60SecondMarketer.com
@AskJamieTurner

Jamie is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and TV news contributor who has helped The Coca-Cola Company, AT&T, CNN, and other global brands solve complex business problems. He is the founder of 60SecondMarketer.com, a marketing blog that has been visited nearly 2 million times since its launch. He has been featured in Huffington Post, Inc., Business Insider, Mashable, Entrepreneur, and CNBC. He can also be seen on CNN and HLN where he provides insights on business, digital media, and leadership.

Co-Founder & CEO | CaliberMind
@ravivturner

Raviv is a former military intelligence officer turned marketing technologist. He is the CEO of CaliberMind, a revenue marketing platform, and a personal advisor to Fortune 500 CMOs. He is known as an industry thought leader and speaker on the topics of marketing data, analytics, and team flow science. Raviv was selected as Inc Magazine's 'Top Tech Leaders to Watch' and quoted by Forbes, Inc., Huffington Post, and other publications.

PowerPoint Comedian | Ridiculous Media
@timwasher

Tim spent 20 years at IBM, Cisco, and Accenture mostly feigning interest on conference calls. Moonlighting as a comedy writer/actor on SNL, Conan, and The Late Show established him as a Subject Matter Expert in nonsense, and he applied humor to humanize some of the world’s most boring brands. Tim studied improv under Amy Poehler, comedy writing with The Colbert Report executive producer Tom Purcell, and has appeared on the Onion Sports Network, Conan, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Tim has written and performed custom PowerPoint Comedy at corporate events for Deloitte, CDC, Google, and The White House. His award-winning corporate work has been featured in The New York Times, WSJ, Ad Age, ADWEEK, and Fast Company.

Founder and Chief Message Strategist | Find the Red Thread
@tamadear

As a professional "Idea Whisperer," Tamsen helps people find, build, and tell the stories of their ideas. She combined 20 years in brand and message strategy with four years as a TEDx Executive Producer to create The Red Thread™, a simple way to change how people see... and what they do as a result. (Though as she'll tell you, everything she knows about people, speaking, and change, she learned at Weight Watchers.) Today, Tamsen is a globe-hopping keynote speaker who consults with enterprise companies like Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, and State Street Bank on how to get their big ideas to have the impact they deserve.

Senior Vice President | Edison Research
@webby2001

Tom is SVP for Edison Research, a custom market research company best known as the sole providers of exit polling data during US elections for all the major news networks. He has more than 20 years of experience researching consumer usage of technology, new media, and social networking. He is the principal author of a number of widely-cited studies, including The Social Habit and The Podcast Consumer. Tom is also co-author of The Infinite Dial, America’s longest running research series on digital media consumption, and the Smart Audio Report with NPR.

Founder | The Flow Group, LLC.

Jared is the founder of The Flow Group, LLC. an organizational and business development firm that works with individuals and companies to create and maintain happy, healthy, and productive workplaces. Also a senior professional of human resources, he has worked with start-ups and organizations across various industries, providing internal and external consulting, coaching, and managing marketing and sales teams. He is also an instructor at Hofstra University, where he is researching Flow Theory — how, when, and why individuals, teams, and organizations can get into “the Zone.”

CEO | MarketingProfs
@allenweiss

Allen founded MarketingProfs in 2000 and continues to provide strategic direction for the company. He currently serves as both a professor of marketing and the director of mindful at the University of Southern California. Prior to MarketingProfs, he served as a professor at Stanford University and a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs. His research and consulting expertise is in the marketing of high technology products and internet marketing. He has consulted with leading technology companies, including Texas Instruments, Intel, IBM, and Hughes Space and Communications. He also teaches mindfulness in companies at InsightLA.

Strategist, Speaker, Author, Educator | Brand Driven Digital
@nickwestergaard

Nick is chief brand strategist at Brand Driven Digital, where he helps build better brands at organizations of all sizes — from small businesses and Fortune 500 companies to the President Obama’s Jobs Council. He’s also the author of Brand Now: How to Stand Out in a Crowded, Distracted World and Get Scrappy: Smarter Digital Marketing for Businesses Big and Small. An in-demand speaker at conferences throughout the world, he also teaches branding and marketing at the University of Iowa and hosts the popular On Brand podcast.

Chief Marketing Officer | DFIN

Ange is a high-energy, self-starting marketing executive who brings sharp insight and strong strategic, digital and creative skills to every challenge. She has driven marketing and brand transformations for global companies including D&B, Intuit, LexisNexis, HUB International, and DFIN.

Senior Director of Digital Strategy | TopRank Marketing
@azeckman

Ashley is the digital strategy director for TopRank Marketing, a fully integrated digital marketing agency. In addition to finding innovative ways to showcase the exceptional work of her team, she is also responsible for developing program architecture that drives customer acquisition and growth. Her background includes expertise in content strategy, influencer marketing, branding and social media.

Founder | Product Marketing Advisory Firm and Product Marketing Masters

Shyna has built and led product marketing teams in Seattle, Singapore, and San Francisco at companies like Microsoft and Marketo. She runs a product marketing consulting company for Silicon Valley's fastest growing companies. Her passion in developing talent in product marketing has led her to create Real World Product Marketing, an online case-based Academy that consists of self paced learning, 1x1 coaching, and group based discussions.