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Janine Popick is a CEO/Founder at VerticalResponse and VP:Electronic Commerce at NBCi. She has worked as VP:Electronic Commerce at Xoom. Janine studied at ASME Student Section.

Pearl Collings is a Chief Executive Officer at Contently and Chairman at Contently.

Thomas Sanchez is CEO and co-founder of Social Driver, a digital agency that uses groundbreaking strategies for social media, websites, digital marketing, and advocacy. The firm’s client experience includes leading corporate and nonprofit brands such as Honda, Target, Cigna, and the American Hospital Association.Social Driver's mantra captures its mission and values: “We believe the future is bright, all progress is social, and the drivers make history.” Under Thomas’s leadership, the agency’s collaborative culture and cutting-edge strategies have received wide acclaim, including the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce’s Supplier of the Year award, Minority Business 100 awards, and a Best and Brightest Company award.Thomas has completed two Harvard Business School Executive Education programs, and another at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Thomas was recently selected by the Financial Times as one of the top LGBT executives in the world, alongside Jim Fitterling, CEO, The Dow Chemical Company, and Peter Arvai, CEO and co-founder, Prezi. Thomas has been credited as one of the “most innovative people in Washington, DC” (DCInno) and a top “minority business leader” (Washington Business Journal), but his passion for entrepreneurship began humbly, growing up on a farm in Missouri, where he learned valuable lessons that helped him launch a successful technology career and grow as an entrepreneur. Thomas’s passion for social impact led him to launch The Driver Foundation, a philanthropic fund focused on youth and diversity. He serves on the Board of The Trevor Project, the national nonprofit providing suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth. The Mayor of the District of Columbia appointed him as Chair of The Innovation Technology and Inclusion Council where he advises the Mayor and the public on ways in which to grow the District's innovation and tech-economy. He also serves on the Foundation Board of his alma mater Northwest Missouri State University.

Joe is the CEO of Issuu, the world's leading omni-channel content tools and publishing platform, that through the Issuu Story Cloud, enables millions of marketers, brands and creators and publishers globally to digitally share and monetize their longer form quality content and create content marketing materials. Joe has more than 25 years of experience in start up and growth technology leadership globally covering stints in Asia, Europe and the US, from early stage through to IPO. Joe is a frequent thought and industry leadership contributor to the likes of Inc., Entrepreneur Magazine, Recode, Techcrunch, CNBC, FoxBusiness, Bloomberg and has spoken at conferences and events globally including Web Summit, Founders Forum, Horasis Summit, The Wrap's Grill Summit, The Issuu Generator's Summit among others.He has been the CEO, led sales, BD and Product for some of the leading and most innovative companies in Silicon Valley, backed by the likes of Benchmark, Redpoint, Trinity, Floodgate, True, Baseline, MDV, DAG, Sony, Time Warner among others.Prior to Issuu he served as CEO of Wordnik/Reverb. While at Wordnik, Joe led the creation and execution of a recommendation product plan and strategy and raised over $11.5 million in 2 rounds of funding for from top tier VCs, including MDV, Floodgate, Baseline among others. He also reorganized the company, recruiting top tier back-end, front-end and NLP engineering, product, design/UI, BD, and marketing management from some of the best companies in Silicon Valley.He has spearheaded business models that have created some of the best brand and consumer engagement on the web.Prior to Wordnik, Joe served as interim CEO of SingleFeed, a profitable leading e-commerce feed optimization service with over 400 paying e-tailers as clients. SingleFeed was funded by True Ventures, and under Joe's direction, was successfully sold to Ali Baba.In 2010, Joe completed a role as EIR with Trinity Ventures. Joe spent six months focused on next generation social commerce, community, crowdsourcing and social media.Before Trinity, Joe held roles that included: SVP of Sales and BD at Gaia Online, heading up BD for Multimedia Search and Flickr at Yahoo!, VP, Strategic Accounts and Asia Pacific at publicly listed company, Virage Inc, a provider of video search and publishing services and software.Specialties: Start Up CEO;Board and Advisory roles;Fundraising;Early stage team formation;Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales, BD Hiring and management;

Scott Shamberg is a President & Chief Executive Officer at Performics and Advisor at Giftbar and is based in Chicago, Illinois. He has worked as SVP & Managing Director at TPN Holdings; VP, Marketing at Marqeta; and SVP, Marketing & Media at Critical Mass. Scott studied at Loyola University Chicago between 1999 and 2002 and University of Iowa between 1989 and 1993.