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Dan Rosensweig is an American business executive who is chairman, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of student services company Chegg. Previously, Rosensweig served as president and CEO of Guitar Hero; COO at Yahoo!; president of CNET, and president and CEO of ZDNet.

As founder, chairman, and CEO of Forrester Research, George is one of the most influential thought leaders in the world of business and technology. He is a trusted advisor to executives around the globe, providing context and clarity around the digital disruptions that change the way we live and work. George founded Forrester in his basement 30 years ago. He, along with many talented and passionate colleagues, has built the company into one of the world’s most successful independent research and advisory firms with locations in more than 30 countries. George personifies the Forrester experience and the company’s values with direct, honest advice. “When I meet with a client, I have one mission,” George has said. “To tell them something they don’t know.” Throughout his career, George has made provocative, tenacious, and groundbreaking calls about business and technology. These include the birth of client/server computing, the dot-com implosion, the rise of social computing, the transition from IT to BT (business technology), and the extended Internet connecting the physical world of things to the digital world of information. Most recently, he has described the business opportunities presented by the App Internet, the new computing model combining the power of local devices with the scale of the cloud. “As the Web becomes the AM radio of digital, the mobile App Internet will rise,” George has written. “This market will be dominated by two or three ecosystems - semiclosed worlds built on a closely fitting set of apps, phones, tablets, computers, operating systems, and partners.” George has addressed international audiences in a number of prestigious settings including the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, Switzerland and Dalian, China; the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference; the SBS Seoul Digital Forum; the United Nations’ “The Net World Order: Bridging the Global Digital Divide” conference; the ICT World Forum @CeBIT; Le Web; Cambridge University; The Commonwealth Club of California, and the Churchill Club. He has also lectured at the MIT Sloan School of Management. George’s analysis has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, the Financial Times, MIT Sloan Management Review, and numerous other media outlets. You can read George’s latest thinking on his blog, The Counterintuitive CEO, or on Twitter at @gcolony. George is a graduate of Harvard University.

Brian Joseph Chesky (born August 29, 1981) is an American billionaire businessman and industrial designer. He is the co-founder and CEO of the peer-to-peer lodging service Airbnb. Chesky was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People of 2015".

Equal parts entrepreneur, product leader, and technologist, Movoto’s Chief Executive Officer, Imtiyaz Haque, has an unwavering passion for building and nurturing high-growth products and teams. He is leading Movoto to make it the most trusted platform for selling and buying real estate with confidence. Before his role as CEO, Imtiyaz served as Vice President of Engineering where he led Movoto’s Global Engineering. Before joining Movoto, Imtiyaz was the Head of Global Research & Development for Philips's Enterprise Imaging & Informatics, where he focused on Lean Startup principles and Agile Development Methodology to deliver innovations to the company. He honed his skills in entrepreneurship when he founded and served as CEO of a Java technology company, growing it to over 100 clients in less than two years and acquiring profitability, which led to a successful company acquisition. With a strong commitment to entrepreneurship & leadership, Imtiyaz passed on his experience and knowledge to up-and-coming entrepreneurs by mentoring teams at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He has a master’s in Computer Science from the State University of New York and worked many years architecting, designing and developing software in a variety of domains. Over the last 20+ years, he has bought and sold many homes giving him a unique insight on how the real estate industry has evolved during this time and knows what the pain points for consumers and agents alike are. He cares deeply for providing the best experience for consumers and agents with the Movoto platform. His culinary talents are the stuff of legend, and his epicurean tastes are unmatched. He is also a master Ping-Pong player and loves challenges. Although he was never a runner, he recently took up the challenge to run a half-marathon and accomplished it!

Bastian Lehmann is co-founder and has served as a member of the board of directors and as chief executive officer since our inception in 2011. Bastian previously served as the co-founder of Curated.by Inc. from September 2009 to December 2010. Prior to that, he served as the vice president of product development at Zensify Ltd.

Experienced Chief Executive Officer in the computer software industry. Skilled in Marketing Strategy, Digital Marketing, Management and Social Media. Strong business development professional with a MBA focused in Marketing, Entrepreneurship from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management.

Christopher Webb is a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur and investor. He is currently co-founder and CEO of ChowNow, a technology lab devoted to building fun, innovative products for the restaurant industry. Prior to founding ChowNow, Chris spent ten years on Wall Street where he held various trading positions at Bear Stearns, RBC, and Lehman Brothers. Webb is a founding investor in Tender Greens, a LA-based restaurant chain, and a few early stage technology startups including Soma Water, OnFleet, ZestFinance and SHIFT (acquired). Chris occasionally writes on Medium, covering the cross section of restaurants and technology.