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Michael is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded five high growth businesses over his twenty year career. Currently, Michael is the CEO, co-founder, board director of UrbanBound and is a co-founder and board director at Hireology. Michael's first business, Versity.com, grew rapidly over a 3 year period and was successfully sold in 2000. During his time with Versity, Michael held several roles which included CFO, VP of Product Development and Board Member. Prior to these ventures, Michael was a financial analyst at the investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette in New York (acquired by Credit Suisse). He graduated with High Honors from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business with a Bachelor of Business Administration. Michael is an active member and past President of the Entrepreneurs Organization of Chicago, a global organization with over 14,000 members worldwide. In his spare time, Michael enjoys listening to music, playing piano, cooking, watching Michigan football and spending quality time with his family and friends. He lives in Chicago with his wife, two children, and Brandy (our dog).

Rick Allen has run successful companies in nearly every form of media, and helped to develop or extend some of the country’s most prestigious brands. Rick is the CEO of SnagFilms which he helped to found with Ted Leonsis. The two produced Kicking It, which screened at Sundance, Tribeca and other film festivals and was aired globally by ESPN; for the film and their work on homelessness, Leonsis, Allen and colleagues received the 2009 Stewart B. McKinney Award from the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. The two are producing a new documentary, A Fighting Chance, which will be released in the fall of 2010. Allen previously was President and CEO of Sporting News, the country’s oldest sports media company, leading a revitalization that saw it named twice to Adweek’s annual “Hot List” as a top-10 media property. Earlier, he served as President and CEO of the for-profit arm of the National Geographic Society, responsible for television and film; interactive products, websites and e-commerce; maps; travel; retail; catalog; and consumer products. Under his leadership, the National Geographic Channel was launched and became one of the fastest growing cable channels in recent history. Before coming to National Geographic, Rick was a senior executive at Discovery Communications, parent of the Discovery Channel, where he extended the company’s brand into filmed entertainment, education, technology and retail. He also served in the White House as a Deputy Assistant to President Clinton, helping to establish AmeriCorps (the domestic Peace Corps). Before his White House service, Allen was CEO of a privately-held group of 35 companies based in Los Angeles. He has written and lectured widely, and been active in civic affairs particularly dealing with education, including service with the advisory boards to the California State Board of Education and the Southern California Association of Governments, and as Vice Chairman of Project Exploration, a nonprofit science organization that makes science accessible to the public – especially minority youth and girls – through personalized experiences with scientists and science. He is a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, serving on its Enrollment and Admissions Committee, and as an elected member of the Nominating and Alumni Trustee Search Committee. Rick lives in Potomac, Maryland with his wife and three sons.

Founder and CEO of fitDEGREE. Graduating Fall 2015 with BS in Math and Stats with a minor in Business Administration. Strong background in logic and fitness.

Zack Dugow is Founder and CEO of Insticator. Under Zack's leadership, Insticator has grown to be the 675th fastest growing company in the country by the Inc 5000 in 2017 and the 680th fastest growing in 2019. Zack is listed as the youngest CEO to win the Red Herring Top 100 Companies in North America award and the Top 100 Companies in the World Award. Zack made the DMN40under40 list in 2019. Insticator has over 60 team members, over 600 publishers and over 15,000 different advertisers utilizing the content embed that has reached over 2 billion global visitors. Early on, Zack helped ensure Insticator established partnerships with Fortune 500 companies like Washington Post, Tribune Media and Ancestry.com. Zack is considered a thought leader in the Content Enablement and Ad Tech communities. In addition to running Insticator, Zack is a mentor at the NYU Incubator and advises and invests in different tech startups. Zack is a member of YPO and a contributor to Forbes.com.

David Shadpour, CEO of Social Native, has diverse experience in all aspects of digital. Shadpour entered the digital ecosystem when he built GroopBuy, an overseas digital agency, from concept. Within six months, he signed 450+ new accounts, creating strategic dominance of market share in the region. In the U.S., Shadpour became the first executive to join TripleLift, pioneering sales efforts during the venture's infancy. TripleLift uses proprietary technology to leverage brands' visual assets to dynamically populate native ad units. At TripleLift, Shadpour represented such prestigious clients as Walgreens, Oakley, Caché, Adidas, and Amex, and worked with OMD, Carat, Horizon, Initiative, Starcom, and other top agencies. Shadpour is an advisor for Channel Factory, an online video distribution and data company. He is an advisor for Klickly, a unique mobile technology that facilitates transactions within social platforms, and the co-founder of AmplifyBuzz, an emerging media agency.