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A frequently sought-after investment expert, commentator, and educator, Tom Gardner co-founded The Motley Fool in 1993 with his brother, David, and now serves as Chief Executive Officer. Tom is the chairman of the market-beating Motley Fool Hidden Gems small-cap investment service and co-advisor with his brother of the market-thumping general equity service, Motley Fool Stock Advisor. He and David have co-authored several New York Times best-selling books, including The Motley Fool Investment Guide, You Have More Than You Think: The Motley Fool Guide to Investing What You Have, The Motley Fool Investment Workbook, and most recently, Million Dollar Portfolio: How to Build and Grow a Panic-Proof Investment Portfolio. Tom has testified on behalf of individual investors before the U.S. Senate, calling for greater transparency in the financial services industry. Tom graduated with an honor's degree in English from Brown University in 1990.

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;